We went to the Snow Sculpting Championships today, as we do every year. This time Sandy went with us for the first time–and it was Kevin’s birthday. This year’s contest seemed to be a little lacking in content though. Probably because we heard that a few of the teams didn’t make it to the competition because of the blizzard. Their planes didn’t make it in time. There were still some really good ones though. Unfortunately, most of them weren’t named and described very well, as they were most other years we’ve attended. So I have named them by their team states and block numbers. Once the official winners are published and the names of the actual sculptures are given on the official site, I’ll update this posting to let you know exactly who won 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. For now, see if you can pick the winners. Click here or on the thumbnail to view all of the photos.
Update: Winners Announced: I have renamed and re-sorted the photo set, so the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners are first in the set. Here are the winners:
I added a few new photos to my “Kenosha Art” set today. These include seven paintings found on the sides of the storage/restroom building between the Velodrome and the Pool in Washington Park, and a photo of the Forest Park sign. All were taken on from my Android during our walks.
During another recent walk around Lake Andrea, I took close to 200 photos just playing with my new phone. I uploaded the “Top 100” photos out of those. Take a look. I think a few of them will make nice wallpapers, both on my phone and on my desktop.
Jay is in town this weekend, up from Arizona for the weekend! We had a pretty busy day today, starting with Ty’s football game this morning (which got rained out after 3 quarters just before they were going to put Ty in!) so Jay didn’t get to actually see him play. No one told Ty that his dad was coming this weekend (on purpose), so it would be a surprise. I did get one photo of Ty running…back from the porta-potty! We grabbed lunch from Hungry Head, then Jay fixed a little plumbing problem we had at the house (saving us a bundle we would have had to pay a plumber). After that we went out to Wells Brothers in Racine for their awesome, world famous, paper-thin-crusted pizza. We’re all stuffed! Click here for the photo highlights. And here’s a quick video taken after the game was rained out:
Here’s the photos from the Waukegan Air Show from last Saturday. It was pretty much rained out. I got soaked and Kevin stayed under his Bears umbrella most of the time. There were even a few classic cars there for some reason–and a jet-powered school bus. The free flights for kids were cancelled, so we got bored quickly, and left after a couple hours of waiting around with nothing happening.
Beth & Tom held their annual Fish Fry yesterday. Kevin, Matt, Sandy and I attended. The food was awesome! I took a few photos, so click on the thumbnail to take a look. For yesterday’s walk I was going to have Sandy drop me off about a 1/2 mile from their house, then I figured “what the heck, I’ll just walk all the way there”, so I left about an hour before everyone else left the house and met them there. It took me just over an hour and it was my longest walk yet, at just over 2 miles. It was fun though–I listened to the Slacker Radio Comedy Channel the whole way there, so I was laughing most of the time.
I scanned another of my dad’s old photo albums this weekend. This one includes a few more “mystery” people, so if anyone out there can give me a clue about who the people might be in those photos, I’d really appreciate the help. Most of these had no writing on the backs and nothing written in the album itself, so all descriptions were written from memory–and these sure do bring back a lot of old memories! Click on the thumbnail to view the photos in Old Photo Album #8.
I just realized, looking back on our summer this morning, that I haven’t posted any swimming photos this summer, except the tiny one of Ty diving in on opening day. So I went back and dug up the only few I took this summer–from July 4th. There’s seven of them, so I uploaded them to the “Swimming at Rosemary’s” set. They’re the first seven photos there. Now it’s off to George’s for our Labor Day cookout! L8r!
Yes, we’ve had our fill of car shows this weekend! We went to the Southern Wisconsin 82nd Airborne Division Association Car Show today on Simmons Island. There were many of the same vehicles there that we saw yesterday, so whenever we recognized one of them, I skipped the photo op and moved on. So I took far fewer pictures today, but don’t get the wrong impression. It was a nice show with a lot of great cars in it, though it was a bit smaller than yesterday’s show overall. The military vehicles and equipment was all new and we enjoyed the scary hat rods with all the eye candy on and in them. Kevin even got a chance to sit in an army Jeep and feed some farm animals (Socks wanted to rip them a new one though, so we had to hold him back quite a distance–He got the zebra pretty nervous as we approached.) As usual, click on the thumbnail to view the photos.
We went to the Snow Sculpting Championships today, as we do every year. This time Sandy went with us for the first time–and it was Kevin’s birthday. This year’s contest seemed to be a little lacking in content though. Probably because we heard that a few of the teams didn’t make it to the competition because of the blizzard. Their planes didn’t make it in time. There were still some really good ones though. Unfortunately, most of them weren’t named and described very well, as they were most other years we’ve attended. So I have named them by their team states and block numbers. Once the official winners are published and the names of the actual sculptures are given on the official site, I’ll update this posting to let you know exactly who won 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. For now, see if you can pick the winners. Click here or on the thumbnail to view all of the photos.
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