Easter week 2015

 Easter week was a busy week.

First we started with our schools Tech Fest!

The kids worked in teams and showed us parents all the modern tech. that they were learning to us.

 This way mom and dad!

 Next was Friday Easter Egg dyeing.

 Pretty colors.

 Saturday found us heading to first of the month building project at Home Depot.
And you just have to pose with a pretty truck.

 Finished project.

Teaching grandma how to use the IPAD while waiting for breakfast.

 Another pretty truck on the way out to the cabin.

 Getting dirt ready to do some planting.

 Elbow deep in dirt.

 Look how dirty I got mom!

 Grandma helping out.

 A little of this, a little of that.

 Finished project with plants.

 Time for a selfie.

 Time to do some sketching.

 Grandma enjoying the sun.

 How do I get back across!

Learning to tend the fire.

 Stylin' high time.

 and again.

 Wild flowers are starting to come up.

 Good form.

 Tending the smoke.

Waiting for the tube steaks.

 You can eat on the trampoline also.

 Photo bombing grandma.

 Easter morn.

 What can I say?

 Fun with cousins.

 Go-cart driving with ears . . .

 . . . without.

Even a little time left for a zip-line run.

My Sepia Saturday Contribution for this week.

My Sepia Sat. contribution for this week.

Sepia Saturday blog

 This one would be from the late 1950's and is a picture of my brother pulling me around on an unusual 'trip'.

This one is from the early 1960's and is my brother again on a bigger bike and a different location. This would have been near our house on Circle Drive which we had left by 1963.
The houses are still there.

I do remember he took flight over those handle bars once when he had no shirt on resulting, I believe, in the reason he has very little hair on his chest to this day.

Boy I wish we still had both these bikes.

A few from the inside, same night.

Playing with my camera settings out at the cabin this weekend.

six-thirty Sunday morning. 35 degrees outside, 60 inside.

North east view.

North west view.

Hydrodynamics, beach time with friends and kicking up a storm.

 Working on the kayak race course.

Narrowing the channel so the water goes faster.

 Beach time with friends.

Outdoor soccer season has started.
Two games this past weekend.

Wow!

Back on the bombing run: One of the last two flying Lancasters pays tribute to the 55,000 Bomber Boys who never returned with flight on the route thousands of sorties took to target the Nazis

Story here;

Update on the log blog page for Ft Zumwalt

Log Blog

Girl Scout cookie delivery day!

 Started with a wall of cookies. . . .

"Where'd they all go!" . . .only a few left after delivery.

Thanks O'Fallon Post Office and friends.

My wife said, "This show is porn for guys like you." - I love her.

Just discovered this show this weekend (after a tip-off from a buddy) and I loved it.

Really shows the down and dirty of the dirty business of taking down old buildings and moving them and then putting them back up.

Although not only dealing with log cabin type buildings, they have been the main focus of the episodes I have watched. (They took down an old corn crib last night.)

Lots of memories came back watching the show. The dirt, the smells, a reminder of how heavy the logs can be. And even some of the dangers involved.

The lead builder, Mark Bowe, really knows his stuff and loves what he does.

Most of the episodes I have watched so far deal mostly with the process of taking down the buildings and not the putting back up and finishing.

But it sure is fun to watch.

It only slightly suffers from the pit falls of reality TV, and that being the need to show drama where none really exists.

If ya love old log buildings, you will love this show.

Milestones - 3/15/15 - No Training Wheels!

Yea! Freedom to ride where ever I want!
















Look, Ma! No training wheels!

Luke's first carrier landing. . .

Brian Williams will report all the details.

Which one are you?

Some I am not sure are things you would brag about.
Some are a good thing, some like lowest rate of syphilis is rather less so.

And even worse!