Mmmm...

Where have you been all my life?!

Maybe for when it gets crowded?

I saw this sign posted in a Cincinnati mall kids play area...

My First Habitat Build

Today I got to sweep the garage out; help cut, bend, & install
flashing around the porch beams; trim Tyvek; and install aluminum
columns on the front porch.

Ezekiel 22:30

"So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. "

See it at YouVersion.com:

http://read.ly/Ezek22.30.NKJV

Welcome to the Family!

Any suggestions for a name for this little guy?

Goodbye Old Friend

After 130,000 miles and countless roadtrips together, I'm saying a sad
goodbye to Black Beauty today. The Honda dealer is writing up the
trade paperwork as I type this...

She took great care of me, getting me back and forth to West Lafayette
for years and now countless trips to Louisville. She never
complained, even after I brought her from her garage-kept life in
Cincy to the icy cold of UK's parking lots. When an 18-year-old ran a
red light in 2001, she kept me safe at considerable cost to her health
and ego.

Here's to you, Beauty... I hope your next owners appreciate you as
much as I do.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Morning Baseball at Fort Lupton

Go Vandals!

More Breckenridge...

Breckenridge Slopes

Ski rentals are CHEAP today for some reason...

Marketing Genius

A Lamborghini in Lexington?

Wish I'd been faster on the draw with my camera phone...

Farewell, Mildred's B&B

Thanks for being home base for a few days.

Volunteer Park

This park was right across from the B&B I stayed at. There was a water
tower observation deck that had a view of the downtown area.

Do you know who Frederick Law Olmstead is? He was a 19th century
landscape architect who designed Central Park, The Biltmore Estate
grounds, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair fairgrounds, ... and this
little park here.

Argosy Harbor Cruise

Well worth the $22... Our guide Christopher was informative and
entertaining.

Did you know that Seattle actually gets less rain than New York? It
lives in a Rainforest Somethingorother. (I forgot what it's called,
but it basically is the Olympia mountains wringing all the water out
of clouds before they hit Seattle.)

Ivar's Fish Bar

Waterfront Park

Pikes Place Market Bookstore

I'm intrigued...

Public Market Center

This public market was created in the early 1910s in protest of the
huge mark-ups wholesalers were charging for food and other goods.
Think fish market meets flea market...

Pike Place Chowder

I'm not a huge chowder fan, but this was pretty good....

Space Needle: Night

There were lots of better pictures on my real camera, but these are
the best from what the phone would take.

You might be able to make out Mt. Ranier in the background of the
third/skyline picture.

Mmmm...

I was craving pizza all day, so thankfully we were able to find
Pagliacci Pizza not far from the Space Needle. We enjoyed a leisurely
dinner while we waited for the sun to go down...

Space Needle: Day

For a few bucks more, you could get a two-visit pass that would let
you go both during the day and at night. Here are the pics from my
first visit.

The Space Needle was constructed as part of Seattle's successful
World's Fair bid in the early 1960s....

Mildred's B&B: The Lace Room

I feel pretty...oh, so pretty...