So we bid farewell to a month that had its good days, weather-wise, but which seems like more tiresome winter overall. Actually, I did a lot of yard work last weekend and was gone 2 other weekends. I have way too many seeds: Crimson Clover from Texas and some NW Ohio native wildflower packet and money plant and assorted annuals. Let me know if you want some.
Went to see Joe Bob Duda at Art on Central on Saturday. Ate at Abuelo's beforehand.
Getting a haircut tomorrow. I have only liked this one about one week out of the six since it's been cut.
Booked a flight to New Orleans, June 13-16. Staying at the Maison St. Charles which is about a block from Tom's place. Anne is going to be there. We stayed at this place about 5 years ago when we went there.
Have had the sinus dizziness since Saturday. Consequently, not exercising. Consequently, crabby. Sorry to leave you like this.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Dallas
First, let me say: DO NOT CLICK TO SEE THE COMMENTS TO MY BLOG. They are some kind of virus thing. Now, I've disabled all comments except by invitation so just email me your comments.
So here are the pictures in no particular order. These 40 bronze steers are in a park in downtown Dallas. We went there about 11:30 a night and so were the only people there. This was right after we saw the Book Depository and the Grassy Knoll and the X in the street where the fateful deed occurred.
At the Texas State Fair Grounds, Fair Park, there were a lot of statues, like this on the Women's Building.
The last day we ate at Sonny Bryan's, mmmm, brisket sandwich and onion rings and cole slaw and carrot cake. There are many Sonny Bryan's but this is the original. Or so I am told.
Mural at Fair Park.
Los Lonely Boys on the stage at the GreenAppleFestival which wins this week's Worst Website Ever award. Hardly anyone attended this although it was free after $8 to park.
At the Arboretum. Some topiari longhorns.
More Lonely Boys.
White Rock Lake which lies in the middle of Dallas and is formed by some dam, that we visited as we did the wild parakeets which live at a power plant near there.
Karen's living room.
Karen's house.
Junior Brown at the GreenAppleFest.
Cute girl in short dress, cowboy boots and hat.
House in the Arboretum.
The community garden in east Dallas.
Frog fountain at the Arboretum.
"Gulf Cloud," a statue at Fair Park by Miss Clyde Chandler, sculptress.
Mural on some building across the street from where we looked at cowboy boots in a consignment store.
Erykah Badu's house. By the lake.
A dad with four kids at the Fair Park fest.
Dave Rummel took some phone pix at the Granada but alas, they are too small to post.
Also, went to see "Young at Heart," a movie about an old folks' singing group, that was great.
And here's the Aldrege House where Karen and Wendell got married.
And we drank at the Libertine and the Balcony Club and Chuy's where we ate the first day before shopping around in Pottery Barn and Z Galerie and Crate & Barrel and Smith & Hawken and Froggy's and Restoration Hardware. It was a wonderful time. The weather was perfect and everything was lush and in bloom.
So here are the pictures in no particular order. These 40 bronze steers are in a park in downtown Dallas. We went there about 11:30 a night and so were the only people there. This was right after we saw the Book Depository and the Grassy Knoll and the X in the street where the fateful deed occurred.
At the Texas State Fair Grounds, Fair Park, there were a lot of statues, like this on the Women's Building.
The last day we ate at Sonny Bryan's, mmmm, brisket sandwich and onion rings and cole slaw and carrot cake. There are many Sonny Bryan's but this is the original. Or so I am told.
Mural at Fair Park.
Los Lonely Boys on the stage at the GreenAppleFestival which wins this week's Worst Website Ever award. Hardly anyone attended this although it was free after $8 to park.
At the Arboretum. Some topiari longhorns.
More Lonely Boys.
White Rock Lake which lies in the middle of Dallas and is formed by some dam, that we visited as we did the wild parakeets which live at a power plant near there.
Karen's living room.
Karen's house.
Junior Brown at the GreenAppleFest.
Cute girl in short dress, cowboy boots and hat.
House in the Arboretum.
The community garden in east Dallas.
Frog fountain at the Arboretum.
"Gulf Cloud," a statue at Fair Park by Miss Clyde Chandler, sculptress.
Mural on some building across the street from where we looked at cowboy boots in a consignment store.
Erykah Badu's house. By the lake.
A dad with four kids at the Fair Park fest.
Dave Rummel took some phone pix at the Granada but alas, they are too small to post.
Also, went to see "Young at Heart," a movie about an old folks' singing group, that was great.
And here's the Aldrege House where Karen and Wendell got married.
And we drank at the Libertine and the Balcony Club and Chuy's where we ate the first day before shopping around in Pottery Barn and Z Galerie and Crate & Barrel and Smith & Hawken and Froggy's and Restoration Hardware. It was a wonderful time. The weather was perfect and everything was lush and in bloom.
Monday, April 14, 2008
I can feel it
Spring is here. Maybe this year I won't lose the blooms on my magnolia or whatever tree out front.
I picked a new blog look in honor of spring.
Sunday, I was going to see my mom but alas I had to play the possible icy roads card and instead cleaned out my basement. So now I could have a giant card party. What about Sat. April 26? Let's discuss.
Tonight I went to the gym for Body Sculpt and went to the post office to buy stamps where some guy ahead of me was mailing a package and a variety of envelopes that he felt he had to weigh all separately and there was a guy before him. Big night at the post office. That's the kind of fun town we live in. Got a library book for my trip this weekend to Dallas. Took two bags and a box to the Goodwill from the massive basement cleaning. Have many fine items set aside for the May GNO swap meet.
Did my BG taxes. Just put a question mark on the line about what I owe them and wrote them a check for $175 which I hope covers something. They are so confusing. One instruction says "Net lines 7 and 8". What the hell does that mean?
Made chicken enchiladas tonight. And now it's time for bed.
I picked a new blog look in honor of spring.
Sunday, I was going to see my mom but alas I had to play the possible icy roads card and instead cleaned out my basement. So now I could have a giant card party. What about Sat. April 26? Let's discuss.
Tonight I went to the gym for Body Sculpt and went to the post office to buy stamps where some guy ahead of me was mailing a package and a variety of envelopes that he felt he had to weigh all separately and there was a guy before him. Big night at the post office. That's the kind of fun town we live in. Got a library book for my trip this weekend to Dallas. Took two bags and a box to the Goodwill from the massive basement cleaning. Have many fine items set aside for the May GNO swap meet.
Did my BG taxes. Just put a question mark on the line about what I owe them and wrote them a check for $175 which I hope covers something. They are so confusing. One instruction says "Net lines 7 and 8". What the hell does that mean?
Made chicken enchiladas tonight. And now it's time for bed.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
mid-April
And I have yet to blog this month. I guess that's just the kind of busy life I lead. OH, wait, if that were true, I'd have something exciting to blog here.
Last weekend, I went to see Annie. We ate some good food and some mediocre food and saw some live music and went to some open houses and toured her work spot and watched 3:10 to Yuma (don't waste your money. They should have shot Russell Crowe in the first 20 minutes and saved us a lot of time.) We also drove the Enchanted Highway. Some guy built these giant metal statue things along some road that runs south off I-94 down to Regent, where the road ends. Nothing was open in Regent the day we were there, so alas, nothing from the gift shop. Remember to click on the pictures to see a larger view.
Here's Teddy Roosevelt on a horse.
Some grasshoppers.
Fisherman's Dream, which is the most recently built one and not on the EH website.
The first one, Farm Family.
Some leaping deer.
Giant damn pheasants. While we drove this and other roads out there, these male pheasants, which there were about a zillion of alongside the road, were flying around.
After we did the Enchanted Highway, we stopped in Mott for a beer at George's Office where the bartendress, upon being asked if she thought that 5-7 inches of snow forecast was for real, said "Well, it's prom night in Mott, so something bad's bound to happen." Cue the creepy music.
The mediocre food was at Roby's steak house and The Walrus. While indeed the steak at Roby's was delicious in a kind of over-marinated way, the rest of the meal was straight out of Ponderosa and I don't mean where Pa and the boys lived and Hop Sing cooked. Iceberg with 5 croutons, baked potato, whitebread roll, steamed veg out of a bag. The Walrus was one of those places, as Annie said, has too many different kinds of food on the menu so you know they don't do any of them well. We split a big portabello chicken salad and some artichoke dip which of course did not hold a candle to the same at Conor O'Neil's in Ann Arbor. I gotta get their recipe for that.
However, at the Bistro, I had a giant burger and fries which were delicious although there were so many good things on the menu you'd think I woulda ordered something more exotic. Annnie had seared Ahi tuna on greens surrounded by myriad fruits.
Her duplex is spacious and modern. In a subdivision on the north side of town. They have a great system of walking trails there which we walked on near the Missouri river under wide blue skies. The scenery outside of town reminds me of a cowboy movie, all rolling arid spaciousness with hardly any residences, just some giant hay farms and cattle ranches.
We went to the Civic Center on Saturday night to see a couple of local blues bands, one of which, Zuzu, had a woman singer who was outstanding, belting out some Janis and some Susan Tedeschi. The headliner was Bryan Lee from New Orleans who was great and had this fabulous red-headed guitar player who could play the blues in many forms, slide, etc. Bryan Lee is credited with discovering Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
Tuesday I had to go to a dinner for work so I've been tuckered out and missing going to the gym. Went today for Turbo Kick. More later, time for a radio show.
Last weekend, I went to see Annie. We ate some good food and some mediocre food and saw some live music and went to some open houses and toured her work spot and watched 3:10 to Yuma (don't waste your money. They should have shot Russell Crowe in the first 20 minutes and saved us a lot of time.) We also drove the Enchanted Highway. Some guy built these giant metal statue things along some road that runs south off I-94 down to Regent, where the road ends. Nothing was open in Regent the day we were there, so alas, nothing from the gift shop. Remember to click on the pictures to see a larger view.
Here's Teddy Roosevelt on a horse.
Some grasshoppers.
Fisherman's Dream, which is the most recently built one and not on the EH website.
The first one, Farm Family.
Some leaping deer.
Giant damn pheasants. While we drove this and other roads out there, these male pheasants, which there were about a zillion of alongside the road, were flying around.
After we did the Enchanted Highway, we stopped in Mott for a beer at George's Office where the bartendress, upon being asked if she thought that 5-7 inches of snow forecast was for real, said "Well, it's prom night in Mott, so something bad's bound to happen." Cue the creepy music.
The mediocre food was at Roby's steak house and The Walrus. While indeed the steak at Roby's was delicious in a kind of over-marinated way, the rest of the meal was straight out of Ponderosa and I don't mean where Pa and the boys lived and Hop Sing cooked. Iceberg with 5 croutons, baked potato, whitebread roll, steamed veg out of a bag. The Walrus was one of those places, as Annie said, has too many different kinds of food on the menu so you know they don't do any of them well. We split a big portabello chicken salad and some artichoke dip which of course did not hold a candle to the same at Conor O'Neil's in Ann Arbor. I gotta get their recipe for that.
However, at the Bistro, I had a giant burger and fries which were delicious although there were so many good things on the menu you'd think I woulda ordered something more exotic. Annnie had seared Ahi tuna on greens surrounded by myriad fruits.
Her duplex is spacious and modern. In a subdivision on the north side of town. They have a great system of walking trails there which we walked on near the Missouri river under wide blue skies. The scenery outside of town reminds me of a cowboy movie, all rolling arid spaciousness with hardly any residences, just some giant hay farms and cattle ranches.
We went to the Civic Center on Saturday night to see a couple of local blues bands, one of which, Zuzu, had a woman singer who was outstanding, belting out some Janis and some Susan Tedeschi. The headliner was Bryan Lee from New Orleans who was great and had this fabulous red-headed guitar player who could play the blues in many forms, slide, etc. Bryan Lee is credited with discovering Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
Tuesday I had to go to a dinner for work so I've been tuckered out and missing going to the gym. Went today for Turbo Kick. More later, time for a radio show.
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