First Day in Boston

Boston

We made it to Boston! We went to the aquarium Friday morning. It was pretty nice aquarium. After that we wandered around a for awhile then we went to the Red Sox vs Angels ball game at Fenway Park. It was a bit cool about 38 degrees with the wind blowing pretty good. The Red Sox won! When we left the game we were trying to hail a taxi when some guy sez hey I have a Towncar I will take ya. So there 7 of that pile into this Lincoln Town! I think we looked like on of those clown cars at the circus. Click on the Boston photo to go to a web gallery of pix

Owl House

Trevor has been wanting to build something, so on Saturday we built an owl house. Blake Rocke was here so he got in on the action also. I think they all had a great time. I put it on a tree not to far from the house hoping that we could get a glimpse of Mr and Mrs Owl when they move in. If they come back several years I may have to look into putting a web cam in it so we could have our own owl page. More pix here

Windpower

On the way home from Alysha's tourney in Pekin we drove by a windfarm East of Bloomington. The kids counted over 50 wind jennys and that was just one section of the farm. They are putting up more, I bet there was at least 15 to 20 jennys under construction. We stopped at one that was right by the road, it was huge. I wish I had one in my backyard.....

HOOOME RUUUN

We spent the weekend in Pekin at a softball tourney. Fortunately it was an indoor tourney, made it much more enjoyable. Alysha played 3 games and :( lost all 3. They did play pretty good for the first games of the season. Alysha pitched the end of one game and started the next game. Here is a pix of her on her way to 1st. She turned a single into a HOME RUN!!

Dad's 64th Birthday

We celebrated Dad's birthday at Smokey Bones. We had a good time and the food was good too! Here are the pix

The Great Wabbit Hunt

The kids were out of school this last week so I took vacation and we just stayed at home and worked and played. I took the kids rabbit hunting on Friday, Trevor had his BB gun, Drew had a .410 (Dwight's), Alysha had a .410 (Grandpa's). We jumped one rabbit behind the house (didn't have a shot), then we found him huddled under some weeds and Drew got a shot from about 8' away, I spent about 1 1/2 hrs digging the shot out! Alysha spotted a rabbit but it was in tall weeds and didn't get a shot, she was a bit disappointed. Drew helped skin the rabbit and Trevor played with the head and hide and would have kept it to take to school to show the rest of the kids if I would have let him. Here are the pix

Dominos....

Drew and Trevor were playing with the dominos tonite and did a cool little setup.