Welcome to the Making of the Birdonnell Family Blog Blog

Here's Andrew at work on the new family blog! "It wasn't easy getting started" he says. Okay, I said. LOL. But it was easier than getting Landy to hold still long enough for our camera's shutter to open and close, though. I tell you. That little man's getting to be the Dickens himself. Not Charles, mind you, but Henry Dickens, the pirate King of Ishtambula. He's not particularly well known or spoken of, but he was one bad fellow; I assure you.

Blogging, I have already noticed, is a strenuous and trying activity. You have to balance the desire to be honest with the desire to be liked; I guess that's one of life's constant challenges. In any event, the picture that you see above is obviously intended to be more honest than likeable. Look at me. Bedraggled and unkempt. Deeply unshaven. It's disgusting. It makes me want to shove a pencil as far as I can into my right ear. But I don't, because I have a family to look after. That's just the kind of man I am. The kind of man I have become.

Or is it too passive to just say I have become that man; for if I did not make myself become this person, and surely, yes, I've had help, so please don't get me wrong on that count for I am grateful for all who've helped me bring to this point in my life, than who did?

Anyhow, it will be an interesting process, and I'll be glad to have you along for the ride. As Roy Rogers used to say: "Eat some more of my chicken."