Archive for December, 2025

30 Years of Blogging

By From https://blog.odonnellweb.com • Dec 31st, 2025 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

30 years of blogging. I don’t even know what to do with that. The word blog had not been invented in 1995 when I launched this site, but from the early days I recognized the utility of giving people a reason to come back. So I was posting regular es…



30 Years of Blogging

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 31st, 2025 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

You have to admire my dedication to this bit



30 Years of Blogging

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 31st, 2025 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

You have to admire my dedication to this bit



A Post-Christmas IDPA Match

By From http://www.musingsoverabarrel.com/ • Dec 30th, 2025 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I’m not getting to the range nearly as often as I’d like. Even so, deciding to shoot the Cavalier IDPA match just two days after Christmas wasn’t an easy call. With family visiting for the holidays, it would have been easy to stay home — but instead I …



A Post-Christmas IDPA Match

By From http://www.musingsoverabarrel.com/ • Dec 30th, 2025 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I’m not getting to the range nearly as often as I’d like. Even so, deciding to shoot the Cavalier IDPA match just two days after Christmas wasn’t an easy call. With family visiting for the holidays, it would have been easy to stay home — but instead I …



2025 in Selfies

By From https://blog.odonnellweb.com • Dec 28th, 2025 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

A silly thing that I do every year.
2025 in selfies
collage of selfies from 2023



2025 in Selfies

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 28th, 2025 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

A selfie is worth 1000 words



2025 in Selfies

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 28th, 2025 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

A selfie is worth 1000 words



Christmas Evening with a Padrón 1964 and Woodford Reserve

By From http://www.musingsoverabarrel.com/ • Dec 26th, 2025 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

We don’t often have a white Christmas in this part of Virginia, and that “tradition” held firm this year. In fact, the temperature soared to over 60 degrees by midday. After a late-afternoon dinner — highlighted by a standing rib roast cooked to perfec…



Christmas Evening with a Padrón 1964 and Woodford Reserve

By From http://www.musingsoverabarrel.com/ • Dec 26th, 2025 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

We don’t often have a white Christmas in this part of Virginia, and that “tradition” held firm this year. In fact, the temperature soared to over 60 degrees by midday. After a late-afternoon dinner — highlighted by a standing rib roast cooked to perfec…