Happy 9th Birthday, Travis

Happy 9th Birthday Travis

Happy 11th Birthday, Dylan

Happy 25th Dustin

Happy 44th LORI

Happy 39th Cindy

October 19: Happy Anniversary Stan & Lois!

 

Stan & Lois celebrate their anniversary on October 19!

Enjoy your special day!

They are off

Omar says the meter is ticking.
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Taxi ride

Sam and Beth head for the city.
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Birthday at home

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Carlos bakery

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Central park carriage ride

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Bubbas birthday cake

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Morocco desserts

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Bellydancer

Moving pretty darn fast.
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Sam and Beth at the marakesh restaurant

Belly dancing is next.
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Happy Birthday , Guys

Scarecrow

My sentinel. The dogs think he is family.
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Kathy in KC

I've been helping in Lee's Summit, suburb of Kansas City. This, of course, is a 'set-up' shot of me and Rosa, a shift manager. I am there to help with some new software/hardware in this store. It's a Wingstreet/MainPath which means nothing to you but is a concept that I am not familar with selling 139 different types of wings and other fried foods plus your normal pizza. I will be down there this week also and Rosa has promised to make me some sushi so I'm sort of excited.

Birthday boy

Hope you had a good birthday, Norm

Dustin in drag

Spotted at the golf course. Guess he got a stroke taken off for dressing up.
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Happy 24th Birthday, Megan

Happy Birthday, NOLA

Hoover Dam Bridge

The bridge won't be done for another year. We are down by the dam taking this picture. This bridge is quite an example of modern large construction and I think will be more of a site than the dam itself. It will be the bypass for traffic so there isn't so much congestion over the dam as they still check every vehicle that goes over it.

Lake Mead

I'd say the lake is a little low. See the water line on the rocks? Picture take from Hoover Dam.

Morning in Vegas

It's already 100 degrees...This is our view of western Vegas and mountains from the hotel room. The day we left, you couldn't see the mountains because of all the smoke from the California fires.

Las Vegas

Made it to our hotel, Treasure Island. I know you can't tell but this is a pirate ship outside the hotel.
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Happy Anniversary

Lori and Mark in Las Vegas

PFL

Peewee Football League

Yes, that's 'Bubba' Bouabidi carrying the ball in Giants Stadium during halftime of the Giants game last Monday night. He got to play quarterback.

Cousins

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Happy 2nd Birthday Lily, on Wed. the 19th

Grub at the mall

I took my crew up there cause they had an exceptional year. This is some of us after eating. We may look haggard but we had been to the zoo also
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Trip to the mall

If you have been to the mall of America you may recognize this amusement park.
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Happy 3rd Birthday, Katelyn

Lori and Mark in Alaska

sooooo jealous!

Not bad for a day off

Too bad it wasn't a dollar machine
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Happy 39th wedding anniversay, Roger and Wendy

Two people who are "FAMILY" to me.

I wish them the very best.

Happy 17th Birthday Logan

Skating Babies

This is great!!

Betty speaks on RAGBRAI

I spoke with Betty at the Miller/Moody/Copley Reunion on Sunday.

She said everything went perfectly as RAGBRAI overnighted in Chariton.

Nola's Bar did more in sales than they had all year...

Betty may have made a few sales...

and everyone is accounted for...

like it or not.

RAGBRAI overnighted in GC back in '83 when there was only about 7,000 riders. I cannot imagine triple that amount today. It takes a tough infra-structure to accommodate 20,000+ riders and crew. As a matter of fact, Betty said the court house in Chariton shut off all electricity for a while to help with the influx of electrical usage during the day.

About ten years ago when RAGBRAI went through Cedar Falls, we got some fallout in GC. Enough that our sewage system couldn't keep up with the 'traffic'. I doubt if we will host this event in the near future. I think the county fair is as big as we are going to get...

RAGBRAI heading to Chariton

Wednesday -

Needing fog lights, the bikers head to Chariton.

We are waiting for an on scene account of the madness...if anyone survived...

See ragbrai.com for more pictures. Also a cool map of past overnight towns since the ride began - 1973.

Happy 47th Birthday, Nancy

Happy 47th Birthday, Nancy

Hope you have a wonderful day.

Don't celebrate tooooo much.

Chinese Heat Wave

Thousands of people pack swimming pools and beaches in China to escape heatwave.

Look at these crowds! This is what Chariton will look like when RAGBRAI goes through town...

Happy 30th Birthday, Tana

Happy 7th Birthday, Jacque on July 17th

Ah, Paradise!

On the beaches of Big Major Spot Island, the Bahamas, a family of brown and pink boars and piglets live freely on the sandy white beaches and swim in the tropical surf--for real!

Floating Arctic Blob

Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow, Alaska.

Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters.
A North Slope team in a borough helicopter spotted a long strand of the stuff and followed it for about 15 miles, shooting video from the air.
The next day the floating substance arrived offshore from Barrow, about 90 miles east of Wainwright.

The stuff is "gooey" and looks dark against the bright white ice floating in the Arctic Ocean.

"From the air it looks brownish with some sheen, but when you get close and put it up on the ice and in the bucket, it's kind of blackish stuff ... (and) has hairy strands on it."

No more Sears Tower?

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Sears Tower is history. As of Thursday, the iconic Chicago, Illinois, skyscraper is now named Willis Tower.

At least that's what the owners of the 110-story skyscraper now call it after its new main tenant, the London, England-based insurance broker Willis Group Holdings. However, there are plenty of people who refuse to call it that.
More than 90,000 people have joined the group "People Against the Sears Tower Name Change," on the social networking Web site Facebook.

Sure enough, I went to www.searstower.com and up came

"Willis Tower."

I think I will just use "the Old Sears Tower" because at some point, it will probably be the WalMart Tower anyway--as will be Mt Walden (Mt. Rushmore), Sam's River (the Mississippi), and Wally's Dam (Hoover Dam), etc.

A rose is a rose. By any other name, a rose would still be a rose.

-Gertrude Stein or Shakespeare or both

Farm boys

My calves came running when they heard my voice. Made me have visions of Pamplona. They have been out at the farm for a week now and are enjoying romping around.
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Origami City

This ain't no 'snowflake'

Mr Ito, 25, started building his 'Castle on the Ocean' when he became bored during his university entrance exams.
Using just a knife and glue, the art student built up an entire cityscape over four years by cutting and folding hundreds of pages of craft paper.
The finished piece is now being displayed for the first time at an exhibition on the artificial island of Umihotaru, near Tokyo.