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back from the naty

we made it to and from the naty this weekend for our first turkey day. my sister-in-law had strep throat so we had to move some things around, but all and all it was a good trip. the kids did really well. the baby would have slept the whole way back except we got caught […]

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red light district

here’s the location of the red light camera’s around cleveland: EAST SIDE: Chester at Euclid Chester at 71st Street E. 55th at Carnegie Carnegie at E. 30th E. 131st at Harvard E. 116th at Union Carnegie at E. 100th (Cleveland Clinic) Carnegie at MLK Lakeshore Blvd. at E. 159th St. St. Clair at London Chester

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cracker jack timing

school mornings have become a nice routine. most mornings i will get up with the boy, or he will get up by himself since his internal clock seems to be on school time now. when he packs his lunch the wife gets up with him to make his lunch, but that is usually only once

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parties

the baby’s baptism was last weekend. then we had a party for her and for the boy’s birthday. never have there been so many little feet running around my house. at one point i considered getting out the baby gate to lock them all upstairs. pictures at the other website.

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putt putt

we were having some issues with bedtime since the boy and girl moved into the same room, so the boy came up with a solution. when everything is done (books, hugs, teeth brushed, etc) and it is time for them to go to bed we set a timer for five or ten or fifteen minutes,

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back to school

yesterday was “special persons day” at the boy’s school. all the kids were allowed to bring in one adult to see the classroom, school, etc. so he picked me and i was back to school for a couple of hours in the morning. it was pretty cool, i got to see all the various rooms;

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hazy c-town

i had to go get my oil changed over lunch so i took a few pictures of hazy cleveland on the way back downtown from the west side from cliff drive from the top of edgewater park from the bottom of edgewater park from the end of wendy park on whiskey island cleveland browns stadium

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return

we made it back pretty much unscathed from our trip to the country. the only highway excitement was on the way home when the wife was driving, a big rig had a tire blow out about a hundred feet in front of us. pretty loud but the truck driver was unfazed and just kept going

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south

we’ll be loading up the family truckster and heading south again this weekend, in a couple of hours in fact. stopping in cinnci tonight and then on to the annual fall festival in kentucky on saturday. activities promised include fishing, horse rides, the fall hay ride, the big bonfire and camping out. the big kids

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kenernet

here is a look at the current basement setup: picture one, you can see shelves with some of my gaming stuff, my fencing helmet, the monitor for my firewall on top of two old ups’s and the top of the firewall itself sliding to the right you can see the bright light, one of the

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