Monthly Archives: July 2010
Happy Anniversary to Us…
This is a 43rd anniversary for my beautiful wife Jan and myself.
No, not the regular one. That’s not until September.
Today, July 5th, is the 43rd anniversary of the day Jan and I first met in Titusville, FL. We were both working at an amusement park called Florida Wonderland. She lived nearby, and I was down in Florida bumming around for the summer. It took some work to get her to go out with me. She thought I was a stuck-up frat boy in a red sports car.. I thought she was gorgeous.
Here she is in 1975 with our two year-old daughter Brandi.
Of course, she always forgets this anniversary, and i have to remind her. I guess her first impression of me was even worse than I thought.
But it all worked out fine in the end.
Today we drove over to Gina’s about 12:30 so could finish up the deck project. And by about 4:30 pm everything was wired up and tested.. And it all worked perfectly.
A little later we headed back over to the Italian Garden restaurant, and, as usual, it was delicious. Jan had a pizza this time, Gina had the spaghetti with red clam sauce, and I had the Chicken & Shrimp in a bacon-dill cream sauce. All of this with their great fresh hot bread.
Heading back to Gina’s after supper I finished up some last minute repairs on some things, and then we headed back to the rig for the night.
Yesterday, I had a teaser about this sculpture on US 290 a couple of miles west of Johnson City, TX.
It turns out that the bull sculpture entitled “Marathon” is part of the Benini Galleries and Sculpture Ranch about 5 miles off the highway.
So here’s a sample of the diverse artwork.
“Marathon”
“The Blue Saint”
The next two are actually wind sculptures that rotate, whirl, and twirl in the breeze.
“Rancher Memories”
More tomorrow…
Quote of the day:
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Happy 4th of July…
Our friend Gina was under the weather this morning, so about 10:30 am we headed out for Fredericksburg by ourselves, promising to bring her back supper.
Our first stop after arriving in Fredericksburg was Der Lindenbaum, our favorite German restaurant. We’ve been eating there for a number of years with our family. Our daughter-in-law Linda’s mother was born in Germany, and Linda knows good German food. And she says this is some of the best she’s eaten.
Jan and I both had the Jager Schnitzel, which is a thin breaded pork cutlet in a wine sauce with fresh mushrooms, and comes with German potato salad and red cabbage. And it was delicious!
And we got the same thing to take home to Gina.
And along with the great food, our timing was perfect too. We left the restaurant just in time for the 4th of July parade.
Everybody needs their own tank.
A great looking SS396 Chevelle.
First time I’ve seen a real airplane as a float. Apparently, it’s flyable. They just took the wings off for the parade.
And what’s a Texas parade without horses?
And, as they say in Fredericksburg, TX, “Das ist Alles, Y’all!” ***
After the parade was over we headed back toward Canyon Lake, stopping off at the Walmart just outside of Fredericksburg to get the wire nuts I need to complete Gina’s deck project.
A few miles further out of Fredericksburg, we encountered camels. Why we don’t know. But there’s 6 of them, including a baby.
About 2 miles out of Johnson City, we saw this chrome sculpture of a bull along the side of the road. It’s been here for years, but today we decided to investigate further.
But you’ll have to come back here tomorrow to see what we found out.
How’s that for a cliffhanger?
We got back to Gina’s about 4 pm and dropped off her Jager Schnitzel, and then headed back to the rig.
More tomorrow…
*** German for “That’s All Folks!”
Quote of the day:
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
