ECLECTIC VISIONS

Out of the last six seasons, the Chiefs have won the Lamar Hunt Trophy for winning the American Football Conference Championship five times, including last season where they defeated the Buffalo Bills by the score of 32-29. That makes three straight AFC Championships. Unfortunately, however, they then lost in the Super Bowl to the Philadelphia Eagles by the score of 40-22 in a rather dismal game from the Chiefs' perspective. Their hoped for 3-peat just did not happen.

The Chiefs had been Super Bowl Champs in the two previous seasons, making them Super Bowl Champs three times in last six seasons! In the 2023-24 season Super Bowl they had beaten the San Francisco Forty-Niners 25-22 on February 11, 2024. Previously they had beaten the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 on February 12, 2023 and the San Francisco Forty-Niners 31-20 on February 2, 2020.

As a long time season ticket holder, winning the Super Bowl three times while I am still living is a big event. I have been going to Chiefs games since 1969 and had season tickets since 1974. While this year's Super Bowl loss is highly disappointing, the wins that we have had kinda make the many losing seasons I have been through all worthwhile. Even the winning seasons we did have, except for long ago, never got us to the Super Bowl. There is not much there yet, but if you want to see my Chiefs page, click here.

In addition to the Chiefs, I like to work outside - gardening and beekeeping mainly, though I have recently added chickens. I am, also, thinking about adding rescue pigs, but I have to do some things to get ready for them. I have lived on an acreage for nearly 35 years, but in late 2020, I was able to buy the house next to it which gives me a better quality house and a pole barn from which to work. I am retaining the old home, but it and the out buildings on the property will be torn down and I will use the property for gardening/agricultural projects, recreation and nature preservation. The properties are surrounded on three sides by forest and park land with a few rather distant neighbors on the fourth side. It is an environment that I much prefer to one in which neighbors are only a wall or a few feet way.

I try to plant a lot of white dutch clover and native flowers for the bees and butterflies, especially the magnificent Monarchs. Native plants, in particular, require less work and most tend to be more drought and deer tolerant than non-natives and most beneficial to bees and butterflies.

Additionally, I dream of eventually being totally off-grid by installing solar and possibly wind energy devices. I have a rainy weather creek that runs through my original property and there are a number of places where ponds might be built to supply water for plants and other needs around the property.

By 2024, all of my dogs and many of my cats had died. But, some new cats have come my way in the last few years and, then, in February of 2024 two dogs appeared to have been dumped off in my neighborhood and I have taken them in. I consider them my kids, so their stories are under the My Kids link. My genealogy is a fascinating subject for me since it ties me and my family into history - some significant, but most only of personal interest. Those pages can be seen beginning with My Genealogy page.

If all those things are not enough work to occupy me, I am very active at KKFI-FM, 90.1, in Kansas City, MO. We are a community radio station staffed almost entirely by volunteers. And in support of independent media, I am active in a group called Friends of Community Media.

I am an atheistic humanist and progressive politically and try to stay active in those activities. I continue to maintain websites that promote my beliefs and provide links to the free thought groups that remain in the Kansas City area. Of course, you can learn a lot about me by simply browsing through this website, but more direct information can be found on my genealogy page and on the my page About this website.

As with everything on this website, as I have time, events happen and I learn new things, I will be updating the site.