who's been busy?

So, here's the deal. YOU couldn't keep up this schedule. The weekend of Sept. 16, I drove my mom to Kentucky. Pictures below. Then I got up Monday and flew to New Jack City where I attended high-level meetings with other folks that work for Disney. We were variously addressed by Bob Iger and Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson and those weather and news guys from Good Morning America but I don't have pictures of them. So let's get to the pix.

Anne and I went to the Museum of Natural History and saw a T. Rex skellilngton.


Here's a typical NY street scene.


Here's the statue in front of the Musuem.


Here's a dog park outside the Museum. Dogs in Ohio don't know how good they have it.


Here's a deer skellington from the Museum.


We ate at San Luigi on 75th and Amsterdam one day. I had that tomato red onion fresh mozzarella swabbed with olive oil. And stuffed mushrooms. Anne had some chicken pasta. She loves chicken.


Here's Anne sitting across from me at lunch.



Across the street was Citrus where we had eaten Wednesday night.



A brownstone porch on like 72nd St. Upper West Side. Yeah, I'd wanna live there, she says sarcasmically.


Here's an exterior view of the Museum.


So the weekend I took my mom to Kentucky we saw these vistas from the front yard of my cousin Sharon's house in Bledsoe, KY. We stopped in Hazard to call her and get better directions. Hazard. Dukes of Hazard. OMG.



My cousin Sharon parks herself on her front porch, of the house she and her husband Lonnie built 30 years ago. Their son's name is Lonnie Ray although Lonnie's REAL name is Tinsley. How many other people do you know named Tinsley? And then Lonnie Ray's 5-year-old son's name is Lonnie IV. I don't get it. Man, these people said things like 'thowed' as in 'I thowed that ball into the holler.'


This house up behind Sharon's is where her son Lonnie IV lives with his wife Lisa and Lonnie IV and his unborn sister.


So I have one week back in town (after my flight getting whacked in NY on Saturday and I have to stay over in an aiport hotel and fly out of a different aiport on Sunday and then Jenks and I have tickets to see Dave Alvin at the Ark that night, sheesh) and then I go to Put-in-Bay for the weekend. So here are some wimmen at a table in the party area.


Mixed up photos: View from the ferry when we left on Sunday.


Sal on the porch of the party house with some mens.


Sal and Melissa's stepmom Dee.


Sailboats seemed to be racing on the way home.


The Perry Monument from the ferry coming home.


Man it was windy up on the top deck of the Jet Express Sunday morning.


Here's the little house Sal and Terry and I stayed in. Across the 'street' from the party house.


Krista, Jeff's sister, and her boyfriend Logan who played hockey with my son in years gone by. Small world. And Krista's nephew Dylan who is Jeff and Melissa, our hosts, son.



Terry and Sal on the ferry. I'm telling you it was BREEZY.


Jeff had made a fish shaped cake for Dylan whose b-day is Oct. 2. Logan's was Oct. 1 and Terry Gonyer's was Sept. 30.


This fire got MASSIVE later and I hope Sal will send me some pix of it. OMG i drank a lot of beer.


Dylan at the table, amusing the wimmen with his firearm skills. As we practice our firewater skills.


Caspar the white one is Bill DeWitt's dog and the black one is Whitey's Curley. Oh man they were so cute playing with each other.


Judy, Trisha, DeWyre. There was always something cooking. Trisha took a taxi into town about 9 p.m. and the next morning at 7:30, another taxi dropped her off. Hmmmmmmmmmmm


On the ferry, the bridge went up.


And this boat came through.


The Boardwalk where we had delightful lobster bisque upon debarking from the ferry over.