sobriety checkpoint ahead

There is a sign you do NOT want to see driving home from an outdoor drinking music festival. But we did and as we could see in the distance (by Burger King) the flashing lights of several police cars, Amy swung prudently onto Brim Rd., the last chance before WE would have been subjected to said checkpoint. Thanks for the warning. That's real neighborly of ya.

The Levis Commons Toledo Opera benefit was big fun Saturday night.

This woman was real tanky. We danced. She told me she was glad she had her teeth whitened that day.

Here are the Motown R&B Pioneers on stage. They were great. They played second after Voodoo Libido.

Here are some gambling fools. They apparently did real well although they never came out and heard the music.

Fashion don't. Oh pleease. And it wasn't any more pleasant from the front.

C. J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band. They had the crowd on their feet after they all had been sitting around like stuffed shirts, as Luci said.

Luci talks, Dan eats peanuts.

"Don't let me go shopping when I'm drunk," says Luci, displaying a wide variety of bling she had purchased while out searching for an ATM.

Art attended.
Art danced.
On Thursday night, I went to Amy's so we could down two bottles of Tierra del Fuego Argentinan cabernet and discuss what we would do to the patio on Saturday morning. These are before shots of the area.

This pile of rubble would be transformed into a decortive planter.

More rubble/old logs/empty pots.

Saturday morning I was there bright and early, well OK 10:30 and we hoisted and dug and trimmed and bought 30 more of those 20 pound paving blocks that were stacked and shaped into a landscape feature and filled with dirt and planted by Amy. Those last two verbs, filled and planted, were done today. I need to get over there and get a picture of the finished product.