Alfo is back

Alfo, the Payne family elf, is back for the holiday season, keeping an eye on our comings and goings. All part of Santa’s surveillance network…...

Medal Winners

So proud of Tristan and William for winning medals during the Camp Fatima Olympics. Tristan got gold and William brought home silver!...

Chillin’ on the Island

While the boys were at camp, Jen and Tom visited with Jeanette and Rob on Long Island and found a great new spot on the North Shore for cocktails....

Paynecentral is back up

As this site doesn’t get much traffic, you might not have noticed that is has been up and down the past couple of days. We has some electrical work done and afterwards the web server hosting this site didn’t come back up. I have been working to rebuild it...

Old Payne Family Photos

My sister Deborah has been collecting family pictures. I took pictures of some of them and just found them in my “incoming” folder (photos that need to be sorted). Trip to Arizona      My memory is that Uncle George piled up snow in our Brooklyn backyard and we made...

Saturn V

We had a snowday this week…and a number of sick days for William. With the “electronics” finally turned off, William needed something else to do, so he tackled one of dad’s Christmas gifts…the LEGO Ideas Saturn V. It’s an enormous kick and he did some impressive work. Inside the...

Pickle Rick

I had made a semi-serious promise to myself that I would try to only make “practical” 3D prints as the boys keep asking for silly cartoon and video game characters. When they recently requests prints of “Rick and Morty” characters, I insisted I would only do it if they...

New Years Racing

We were looking for something to do for the Richardt’s New Years visit. At the time, go-cart racing at an indoor track seemed like a good idea…until we found out there was no heat. The adults has their coats, but the boys (Tristan, William and Gavin) had to rely...

Locker Setup 2016

This is really a test of the “LR/Blog” plugin for Adobe Lightroom. It will allow me to post from my Photo Management plaform directly to my Blogger hosted blogs. It could be really helpful. Here, Jennifer and William are helping Tristan set up his locker at his new middle...

Birdhouse

William and Tristan made bluebird houses at the Kent Memorial Day picnic…...