Davenport Halloween Parade 2008

The Davenport Halloween Parade. the theme this year was Never Never Land. Lots of Peter Pans and Tinker bells or like the people below...Crocs.


Savannah bored with it all...Let color
Capt Hooks Pirate ship
and the Fantastic Four
treasure map on the side of a garbage truck
I got candy and you don't

some ones castle



The two little princesses waiting for the parade to start...

Trivia Night for the Library

We're ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmed

One Last Perfect Rose

I thought this looked just so perfect. Won't last much longer fall chill is in the air.

Election poll

So what do you think of the up coming election?

Jamie and Mikey's New Digs

I think this is looking South down the lake...Loyla is in there somewhere and you can see the Hancock in the distance.

Jamie said this is what is outside her front door...I have a word for her...

Go East

My Sister went on vacation...Can you guess where?

Waiting for Supper.

This is a picture of the girls sitting nice and quiet on the couch. Why are they there...did they do something to Tick me off....oh never...notice the blondes lack of shoes. they sat there for 20 minutes just quietly talking to each other and no tv on.

Autumn Time Blues

Here it is almost mid October and I haven't posted anything...Not even a picture of the twins.
It could be that I'm to busy with work to post anything...naaa. with the economy it seems like I'm spending less and less time there. Thank you Washington.
I could be my social calendar is full....who am I kidding. I haven't had a funeral in two weeks.
No I think it all comes down to me not really liking the month of October. July is number two on the months I don't like....Bad stuff seems to happen to me in this month so I just try to lay back and hope it passes without any problems.
Its not all bad. There are family and friends who have birthdays and anniversary this month. It Breast Cancer Awareness month,Halloween is this month,its almost election time....Oh there's that bad stuff again.
I may come to hate November.

Remember to Vote in November or don't come crying to me.

Punk Rocker Chicks

Another Day Another Park

We hit Vanderveer Park in Central Davenport. We did the swings and slides til the girls saw the pond with the ducks.


the lady with the stroller had cookies


we made the mistake of feeding the ducks...they wanted to follow us home

The carved duck at the corner of Central Park and Brady street.

Riley Reunion 2008

It's that time of year again. The Riley Family reunion. This year I didn't take many pictures of the family they really haven't changed that much since last year so find that if you want to see what the group looks like.
We went for a walk down to the canel that runs next to the park. It took us to the river and it looks like the park district here came up with a great idea. They have built a foot bridge over the rock river between the two cities. It uses the old hydro dam as part of it. It nice and take you into a footpath area in Sterling by the historic Dillon home. Wonder how long before its gang land.


Savannah and the slide, her favorite
The power of the river
the locks for the old canel.
the merry band. Mary,Savannah,Chevla,Constance,Dianne,Zion and off to the side Lena
Lena not wanting to get involved with those people
Constance making sure that we don't go where we aren't supposed to. A new bridge over Dixon Ave
Looking west off the foot bridge to Rock Falls on the left and Sterling on the right.


the little rest area on the Sterling side.

or...if you can read this its to late...






A nice picture of Jennifer ,What's his name, and Danny

Fine Art At the Figge.

Miss Leanne is looking for a garden gnome for her mother so we went to the Beaux Arts fest they have every fall and spring. Most of the time it rains and rains...This year the Figge Art Museum let them hold it in their court yard. The Figge also had free day. Well they let you into the main gallery but not the traveling galleys. That was ok. I begin to take pictures didn't use a flash and did it right in front of one of the guards...15 minutes later he comes up and tells me that I can't do that..Did you not see me taking pictures back there...I got you in one of the frames...It was ok...It doesn't make me want to go back and see what they have with the travel exhibits.

Brogue paintings.

A Grant Wood Stain Glass

Mr Wood himself

The Figge it self.

A Day Out Shopping

Miss Leanne and I did a shopping run to Coral Ridge Mall and the Tanger outlet in Williamsburg.
This was the day after the Iowa vs Iowa State football game. Iowa won. We went to eat at the Hu Hot a make your own grill place...You'd have to see it to understand..Lot of very quiet Iowa State fans there and some loud Iowa fans...and a lot of hungover people...
Any way Miss Leanne got herself some jeans and I just got stuff. The only dumb clerk we ran into was at Barnes and Noble. No not picking on her...That's a bargain book don't charge me the full price...already did...and you can't fix it. got to call someone else...ok
So it was a cloudy day with the tale end of hurrican Ike leaving us with rain.
The walk around Tanger was brisk. Got some more stuff out there and the exciting pictures.



We figure its been 8-10 years since I was last there and the gate is something new.

The other big places to hit while in Iowa. Really

Day With the Girls Pt 2