take a little road trip up north...

Hey,

Just wanted to shout out to y'all to gather your cars together and take a little road trip up to our place. It's summer. We're here. Lots of tomfoolery, joefoolery, dadfoolery.

Still Panting

Though admittedly he is a bit cooler. Probably 40 pounds lighter too. But I still prefer the furry monster to the fussy monster...

Still Learning

Sorry about that last post. I spent a TON of time on it and it's still all screwed up. So it's kinda crooked, but I think you can figure out which words go to which pictures.

Here's some more pictures that have built-in comments:

and some of those pictures that need no comment...

Dad's Day

So...we went to the Illinois Railway Museum for Father's Day and got a lot of sun and had a lot of fun. Heh, that rhymed. Wasn't my intention, but I won't erase it.

Check these out:

















This one reminds me of those molds you can get made at the zoo:
















Some sight-seeing pics:































































Mike revisits his bartender days on the Santa Fe dining car. It was fun because it was the only car that was air conditioned... well, when we went. I don't know if it was air conditioned when it was up and running. I didn't ask.













And now for the fart contest: Who has the best "what the heck is that smell?" face?

Joe...

...Katie...

Or Mike?

The Great Genevieve Experiment

New glasses, no teeth? GREAT disguise girl!

Yep, we've had visitors

buggy in bugland

A newly "hatched" cicada drying its wings on the lilac bushes behind the house.

Mother Nature in full force this week; nice to know that some of her offspring are still able to function properly.

They're dive bombing us here now. Humming like a huge current traveling across very lively wires. The sound is like a rock and roll concert from my youth--when you come inside from the yard, your ears are swathed in cotton and everything sounds distant and muffled for a while. The trees are coated with their bodies and mounds of dried carapaces are strewn on the ground beneath. Eddie and I have fished dozens of struggling buggy swimmers out of the kiddie pool in an attempt to slow the rate of suicides.

I think our kids will not forget this summer.

say you're an onion

OK you're an onion minding your own business on somebody's window ledge. Say you're bored and want some excitement. You want to become part of something larger than yourself. Say you want to join a soup. What might be the necessary steps to participate in joining other like-minded items to become a soup...maybe even a french onion soup.

Anyone?

Post This

Mamba,

You sign in first. If you are not leaving a comment on someone else's posting, then go to the top of the page and click on "Blogger" or where it says "sign in". I've seen it both ways.

Then when you're in you should be on your Blogger:dashboard. If you're not automatically sent there, click on the link that says Dashboard.

You will see all kinds of crappy links then. You want to click on "New Post". Make sure you don't click "Create a Blog" unless you really do want to create something entirely separate from Club852.

You will get to a page that offers you a box for text and a long thin box at the top to add a title. You will also see some editing buttons just below the Title bar that allows you to put words in Bold (b),
italic,(i),
to insert a link

to highlight a quotation from someone else

,
to spell check, and to add a photo, respectively.

You can preview what it will look like before publishing --- by hitting the link that says preview...or you can post it by hitting Publish Post button at the bottom.

Signed,
underpants

Oh I think I know.

It appears that I can post something. But I have no pictures nor videos. So anyhow. thanks

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