Tagged (again)

1: I have an incredible tolerance to pain. I think I developed this when I was in my 20s and started to do bicycling trips that were about 350 miles each way. I would spend 10 hours or so on the bike a day going up and down hills. I would have to ride through pain a lot of the time at first until my body got used to it. Recently I have gone through 4 major surguries and have had to deal with much pain.

2: I'm a very good cook. I started cooking when I was about 12 or so with making pancakes, then I graduated to burgers. I lived alone for a number of years so I cooked. I don't make super fancy dishes but I can whip up a good healthy meal in about 30 minutes. I do 99% of the cooking in our house. My wife is not a good cook. She has actually melted saucepans.

3: I snore in French (le snore)

4: I have a very hard time not seeing something funny in just about every situation that I am in. I know it annoys people at times so I try to censor myself as much as I can. But I can't stop thinking things are funny.

5: I bite my nails, not horribly but enough. I was yelled at by the nuns in the catholic school I went to but I still bit my nails. Maybe the nuns were the cause?

6: I can play guitar pretty well. I can also play banjo and mandolin but not that well.

7: I can not sing at all. Some people say they can't but they really can. I really can't (honest)

8: I really am uncomfortable doing these type of things but I like Celeste so I am doing this.

I don't think I have 8 readers anymore so I'll leave it open to whoever wants to play

Batter Up?

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This cracked me up. This morning on my way into the city for my weekly visit, this company had a huge booth set up right outside the CitiCorp building on the East Side. They had a dummy with one of the masks on, they were handing out flyers and one woman was wearing the shirt and handing out flyers while sucking away on a cigarette. Lady, I think the smoking will kill you before the terrorists do but that's none of my business. I'm pretty used to seeing the cops with the machine guns outside of CitiCorp, but this shit was unreal. The great thing about New Yorkers is that most everyone couldn't give a shit about the display and most everyone politly took the flyers and then threw them in the garbage. I can just imagine an attack in the subway and someone pulls this thing out. Everyone on the subway will attack that person and steal their mask for their own use so what's the point?

My Little Garden

Here's two photos of my little garden. The first one has my 4 tomato plants (a grape tomato, two beefsteak and some other one) plus there are two pepper plants (one red and one green) and there is some lettuce and sugar snap peas. The next photo has my corn crop. I planted it as a lark to see if anything would grow. I did get some plants but it's looking like only one got polllinated. I know that you have to plant two rows in order for the pollination to happen but something went wrong. We do have a few ears growing on the one plant so we shall see what happens. If nothing else, we can use it for Halloween as a decoration. I also have (to the right of th ecorn) my strawberry plant which is startig to grow and spread. I have it covered from the birds and the deer.
A real exciting post, I know

Circumhorizon Arc

This past weekend was a great one. The weather was incredible for mid-July. It was around 80 with low humidity with incredible clouds and also we were privledged to see a Circumhorizon arc. It was like a light show for about an hour or so with all of the clouds that passed through this one area changing color. I also spent a ton of time in our pool with Grif swimming and just having fun. He is my swimming buddy for sure.

Let Me Get This Straight...

If Lemonnade is made from lemons, then...

Morning Glory

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Happy 88th Birthday Mom

Back at Work

I just got back to work today and look at the pile of stuff to due.
It's either due yesterday or tomorrow.

Vacation Time

So we took a vacation, it was great. We started off by going to Rehobeth Beach Delaware to visit with a childhood friend of Dana's, Harry and his wife Jenny and daughter Julie. Dana has not seen Harry since they were about 12. It was many years ago. We had plans to go to Ocean City NJ but we decided to make a stop in Delaware first so Dana made those arangements. In order to save a few bucks, Dana booked us in one motel one night and a differnet one the next night. I am a control freak so I decided to not butt in and let things go as they might. We pulled into the parking lot of the Budget Inn in Dover Delaware and I can swear I heard the music to COPS in the background (bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you...) We were in the wrong part of town for sure. So being the adults that we are, Dana called from the parking lot and told them we could not make it and to cancel our reservation. They had no problem with this. I got the feeling this happens often. So we drove 20 minutes further south and went to the place where we were going to spend the second night and just stayed there for both nights. It was a Super 8 motel, much nicer and only $20 more. Cheaper isn't always better.

So it was really great to meet Harry after hearing about him many times. I could see that Dana and Harry really enjoyed seeing each other too.
We stayed there Thursday and Friday then went to Ocean City NJ on Saturday morning for a week of R&R.

The house in the middle was the one we stayed in. Dana's Uncle rented it for us, her folks and her two sisters and famlies. It was so great to live in the lap of luxury for a week. He did this last year too but I was unable to make it then. We spent a lot of time on the beach and down at the boardwalk. They have a big amusement park on the boardwalk with a water park too. Grif and I spent two days down there. He was afraid to go on this big water slide at first, but after he did it he couldn't get enough of it. The ride had to be about 100 feet off the ground and you would go down it on an inner tube that sat two people and it felt like you were going about 40 mph. They had another ride that was even higher than this one and you went down it with no tube. I tried it once and it was like being in a washing machine on the rinse and spin cycle.
Here's a few photos from the vacation. My post is kind of disjointed but so am I
:-)