Starting the day by taking Bela for her walkies we spotted this….

It was only maybe an inch long, but still. I had no idea that there were lizards in Ohio. Let alone this late in the year. It is a nice day. About 67 out right now. Jacki got her giant quilt basted on the deck today. It looked like a major pain in the ass.

Here is the other reptile….

It’s a foam snake! Ok so it’s starsan (a sanitizer) foam coming out of the keg as the beer goes in. It just amused me that it followed the tubing up to the top of the carboy. Oh and that is a Rye Pale Ale going into keg there :)

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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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.

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 :)

Toby having a good time killing a stick. Some cuteness for everyone’s holidays.

Ellie loves this laptop! This laptop belongs to a guy I work with. I was trying to fix it for him to no avail. Ellie loves it tho. There is a bit of a dead spot on the audio that I clipped out myself swearing. :)

Still hanging out at the same campsite. We’ve been going a lot of places and having a lot of fun. Fiber and beer and hiking and swimming the dogs. Good times. I’m going to post a couple pictures and just give a running narrative that way since I’m no where near as verbose as Jacki. Oh and I’ve geotagged almost all my pictures. So if you click on one and go to it’s flickr page then you can click the map button from there and it will put it on a map for you. :) Actually click here for a map with the pictures on it.

This is the cool bunch of signs as you come out of the campground.

This is Parnell Tower. It’s about 60 feet tall and has an amazing view. I took a couple pictures of the Sheboygan Power Plant from up there. It’s 22 miles away and one picture is with the 10x optical zoom and the other is with that and the digital zoom maxed out. Neat that you can see that far.

With 10X…

With 10X plus bunch of digital…

Click here for more tower pictures and a quick video from the top.

More under the fold (Toby swims!)….

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Hops Update! They are all coming up really nice. Even the transplants are all coming up. EEEEEeeee. I’m really happy about the hops. So check it out.

Dogs had a good time hanging out in the yard also. Both shots are HDR.

So not much with the words. Just some fun pictures. Oh and Jacki predicted the Pennsylvania primary result pretty damn well. Better than any of the fuckheads on TV. Of course I might be a little bias…. Check it out on her post here.

How much more awesome can something get? Not much!

I also have real stuff that happened over the weekend to write about, but I’ll get to that later. This just couldn’t wait…

Jacki took a bunch of pictures out in the yard with her nifty trick of shotting through the view finder of the old camera. This was a series of pictures that she got of Toby. I cut them out and made a little video out of them. Mostly just to see if I could. This could defiantly have gotten cleaned up and lined up better. I just didn’t care enough to spend the time to get it perfect.

Here it is as a animated gif….

For some reason this only works on Flickr is you got to the all sizes/original page.

Here it is as an actual video….

And here are the source pictures that I used.