Landed at Midway. On time some how despite 10 minutes lost on the runway and another 10 at thegate in Philadelphia.

SlipnSlide

Rain may come, but that makes more fun.

Saying bye to an old friend

This is likely the last picture of Papa with the apple tree in front
of his house. It will be cut down later this week.

This is what it came to

Brett Favre has signed with the vikings, in case you have not heard. I am pissed. I am a Packers fan. I was a Favre apologizer last year. Not now. This is betrayal.

Car Trouble Update

I want to send out a giant thanks to Joe and his kids over at Joe & Sons Auto Repair in Gwinn. Good, hard work at a very reasonable price. The Nissan, which can be seen in an earlier post, had some serious muffler issues. It had been at our home dealership in the past month where a significant amount of money had been spent on a variety of repairs, some having to do with the muffler.

Mind you, I am no car expert, but here is how I understand it.

For 1/3 the price charged by the dealer (only the muffler work) Joe & Sons replaced the hanger at the end of the exhaust pipes (new work completely), replaced a hose with new parts that the dealer said would be exorbitantly expensive and not practical (the dealer basically put a piece of tape over the hole on the old hose, which was about to fall apart), and replaced some sort of special spring loaded bolts (I have no idea their function, but they seem important) that the dealer PUT ON! (the tech told us that the bolts we had were crappy and put on poorly to begin with) In summation, Joe & Sons fixed a new problem, and repaired the crappy job done by the dealer on two other problems for 1/3 of the price. Bravo.

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Car issue

Last night on our way back from the concert in Marquette, we noticed a
scraping noise. We stopped, and our muffler had sort of fallen off.

Our solution--a bungee cord and an irate call to our dealer back home in the morning. (On a sidenote, this car had been into the dealer for muffler work less than a month ago) Will update.

Major Sports News

I lost in a best of three cut throat cricket match to my dad. Tiger
fails to make the cut at The Open. It had only been 38 times since
Tiger last missed the cut. At least twice as long for me.

RwC

Markswoman taking aim

This a short clip of Kristy's full shooting routine.

Erik Wake boarding