MOON that spells kayak! Jacki seems to be having fun as I try to blag blog.

We went on our 4th trip in the kayak today. It’s an Advanced Elements AdvancedFrame Convertible Inflatable Kayak. iz fun

There is us in the kayak. Picture taken by my Dad.

Check under the fold for more kayak stuff….
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Update: I just thought I would give ya’ll a google earth view of some of the walking we have done over the past couple days. Some of it is Metro, but most of it’s walking. This is the GPS track from our new little GPS logger toy for geotagging photos. :) If you look close you can see that some of the track is paddleboat :0

Just hanging out at the hotel tonight. We’ve been here for a few days and have a couple days left. Fun vacation, but we are so sore we can’t move anymore. I can’t remember what it’s like for my feet not to throb. We have taken about 3 billion pictures. Too busy to mess with uploading right now. So here are the few we I have uploaded….

Random Bavarian (?) man was walking across the street and we were trying to get his picture when his son (or at least someone with him) told us to stand with him and he’d take our picture. So here you go….

Jacki and I by the FDR Memorial. That is the Tidal Basin behind us and then the Jefferson Memorial.

Just finishing things up with some creepy. At the FDR Memorial is a wall covered in this kind of stuff. I have no idea why. It’s defiantly creepy tho.

I’m sure Jacki will post a good accounting of our activities at some point….

I saw this basic idea a while ago on a homebrew site or forum or something. I can’t remember where. Anyway we have had this stuck up in the attic for a while. I think we used to grow plants in it. It’s not the prettiest job of cutting the holes, but it works great. Check it out….

I cut three holes in the side and that seems to be enough airflow.

Cute video of Ellie from a few days ago. Not sure why she likes this ball so much, but she plays with it a lot.

Jacki and I were outside playing with some cameras and I was all like OMG my hops are coming up. Ok so maybe it wasn’t quite that valley girl, but it was close. Anyway here they are….

That is the big Fuggles plant that I have.

Jacki has been doing a ton of film developing in the last couple days so keep on eye on her blog and flickr for lots of fun pictures.
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How does that not make the news? Check it out on Bangornews (Maine newspaper) and from Wikileaks. This guys wife did us all a favor and put a bullet in the fucking nut job. She’ll probably go to jail for it instead of getting the metal she deserves.

Image by What What.

Sock-a-holic Katie came down and played Keggle with Jacki and I yesterday. That’s always a lot of fun. We dyed up a ton of yarn and fiber. I spent this morning washing it all out. I wash and Jacki spins and hangs. A system, we has it.

We decided to do a big dinner today. Ok Jacki thought of it, but I agreed it was good idea. So the Irish St. Patty’s day dinner was organized. Beer bread from this recipe is really good. I used Brooklyn Brewery’s Black Chocolate Stout instead of Guinness. Mostly just because that’s what I had. Check it….

The rest of the meal is corned beef, cabbage, and baked potato. Really freaking good meal and really not all that hard to make.

We didn’t really have anything Irish to drink so we went with the New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red. It went really well with the meal.

Oh and the dogs had a good time in the yard while Katie was here. They chewed and chewed on their sticks.

Till next time. Hopefully it won’t be months before I’m motivated to post again :)

I picked up this totally awesome Civil Defense Shelter V-777-1Shelter Radiation Detection Kit at an antique mall while I was home over the holidays. Check it out!

I don’t think this stuff has ever been use. The batteries even still had tape over them. The box showed as being packed in 1971, but the books are all from the early to mid 60’s.

Drop below the fold for more pictures and PDFs of the books. :)
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Toby having a good time killing a stick. Some cuteness for everyone’s holidays.

Some pictures taken either of me wearing my Dr. Horrible goggles that Jacki got me for Christmas or taken with the Nikon through the goggles so that everyone can know what evil sees. :)

More pictures and stuff to come from the holiday family trip.