Easter Egg Hunt

This is 5,000 Easter Eggs put out at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds. This is just one of five areas set up for kids. this is for the disabled ones.

April 1st

Outside my door April edition

Just to be a bit different this is the back yard on the 1st of April

I May Have Found the Answer To the Problem

For about the last 10 years I've been trying to teach myself to speak Irish. I found a widget that shows me a different work and how to pronounce it. Today's word is for Cel Phone...An Guthan Soghluaiste. It for once is pronounced that way it looks. I'm thinking if I just say Cel,they may know what I mean.


I'm never going to learn this.

Flying a Kite

Go fly a kite
this is one of those big kites that has a company name on it.
I saw it on the way to my sister's house at the corner of 53rd and Eastern.
Had a strong wind and it was taking two guys to keep control.

What You Looking at Fool

Was out for a walk with my sister on Credit Island Park when we saw this goose. I got as close as I felt comfortable to take its picture. I watched me all the time and when we came back around to it it honked and
made sure I saw it again. Other people came and went but he kept his eye on me

Trip Down River to Muscatine

What started out as a drive down to a winery in Coal Valley ended up as a trip to Muscatine and a walk along their beautiful river front. Really windy but at 81F who cared.

A duck on the docks on the Muscatine river front

The hotel now called The Pearl. It used to be the Muscatine but since they are calling everything Pearl this or that...

The paddle wheeler the Pearl Button in dry dock. You can rent it out for parties

Barge traffic

A statue in honor of the red men that used to live here....

Looking south down to the Pearl Button

Statue in honor of the clam diggers that made Muscatine the Pearl button capital of the world.

The Ides of March and its 80F

Old Lady Gimm checking the river level. For middle of March it isn't that high. No melting snow

Look River Dr and no flooding.

A big rock with a plaque on it.

A rock with a plaque about Antonie LeClaire

Another rock with plaque in LeClaire park

Ducks playing on the beach off the levee in Downtown

guess were we are?

Savannah and Savanna

Constance in Savanna

Savannah in Savanna. Now we need to do a road trip to Constance MN

Sure You Are

Don't bother asking if you can join

Notes from the Cookie

It's been a while since I put up the great words of wisdom that I pulled from the fortune cookies I got while eating at my favorite Asian restaurant.
You would make a good lawyer. Feel Free to ask for assistance friends are willing to help. Never thought of a career in law. You have a friendly heart and are well admired....I knew that. You create your own stage and your audience is waiting.

Good news will be received in a letter. Got this one just before I got my first unemployment check..

You will soon change your present line of work...and this was before Borders closed One should not forget the language of gratitude....this was when I was taken out to dinner while waiting for my unemployment to kick in and was broke broke broke...thank you sister. Wealth is in your future......I'm still waiting

So all this great wisdom from one little cookie

Back Pain

I hurt my back at work. The Doc just said that the best I could do was pain killers and rest. Well the stuff I had at home just didn't do anything. So I looked at Hy Vee and they still make Doan's pills. I didn't get any of those I got the cheaper knock off. It hurt to sit,walk,bend,laugh,cough or breath. It could take 4-6 weeks to be better...yeah!!!

This stuff took the edge off but was still in pain

This stuff just burns for a while and then it smelled like a bad incense.

This seems to work the best.

View From the Door

Its overcast today but it supposed to get up into the 50s. Not bad for the first of February.

New Scarf

One of the young ladies from work knitted me a scarf. Constance had to try it out.

Ikea Run

Jacqueline V. Henesseey and her mother Rita Vargas wearing rabbit hats at Ikea

Jane Avenue outside of the Ikea in Bolingbrook

View from the restaurant at the Ikea in Bolingbrook

One Life To Live

It hit me today when I got home from work that One Life To Live wasn't on anymore. Out of habit for over five years I'd come home find the remote and hit the rewind and watch the show. I still feel like I've forgotten to do something I've watched the show since 1977. There was a couple years while at college and when I lived in the wilds of Montana that I wasn't able to watch it and had to keep up with the updates in the paper. When I tell people I'm a soap watcher they would ask which one? Well One Life to Live. When is that on? Oh its that wild one between All My Children and General Hospital. Yes they have gone to heaven three times, Hell,into the past and a secret underground city of Eterna. They were also the first to do inner racial dating.Hooker Housewives,D.A.D,they talked about AIDs and had active normal (for a soap) gay characters. I would say to people that it was the funniest hour on TV to me. They were a part of my family. No matter what was going on in my life I could always go to Llanview PA for a bit of Viki and Dorian. I'm not going to start watching any of the other few left. One Life was my soap and I will miss it. Below are the words to the theme song of the show from the early 90s. Some times when I'm bored and will break into singing this. People will know that they heard it somewhere but not know quite from where.





 Here's what you do When you don't find the rainbow's end This time. Here's where you go When it looks like the rain won't end Don't cry There's always tommorrow Where you can have a second chance And after tommorrow All that you have to remember. Here's what you do When you think nobody cares For you. Look in my eyes And see there's an answer there It's true We'll find tommorrows A place for us I know because Time only knows How long forever's gonna last and we don't even need to ask Let's live today And find someone to share it with Cause we only have one life to live (intrumental) Don't cry I'll give you tommorrow Let me the be to share it with And each day that follows Cause you only have one life to live!

First Snow Of The Year

First snow of the year. Haven't heard if any schools are closing. I'm glad I don't have to go out in this. I know that people will be driving like nuts. Always get a craving for pizza when it snows.

View From My Door 2012 Edition

Didn't get around to doing it on the first. It's been really nice and warm here. Mid 40s high of 57 one day. I know it can't continue much longer until we have the flying snow and bitter cold. But for now...nice

Hold on Tight

Just an amazing picture I found on the net of a different view from the Golden Gate Bridge

Happy New Year 2012

I raise a toast to you all. May 2012 be uneventful