Thursday, October 14, 2010

Would you believe it's National Chili Month....a whole month to celebrate eating Skyline Chili...in fact, papa/gump did exactly that tonight. I think he eats Skyline more than once a week, but he's not telling the exact number of times. What I do know is that tomorrow is Friday and we'll be sitting at our favorite Skyline in Newport enjoying our small three-way (for me) and regular three-way for him....don't you wish you lived closer so you could enjoy a little "Skyline time"?

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Can you guess what this is? The wind has been blowing pretty hard today, so out on our walk today, we decided to show you what was blowing out of the trees. The long snakey looking things are seed podsfrom the tall trees on 2nd Street and the little yellow leaves are from the same trees. The seed pods get very dry and when you step on them they crack. Inside are bunches of little seeds. I try to step on as many as possible...I think they're neat trees!

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

This is Lou the Flu. Today was flu shot day for both of us. We didn't use to get flu shots

but now that we're older (not old, just older) and the shots don't cost too much, we stick out our arm and let them stick us. Last year was the first time either of us had a flu shot, and neither of us got the flu...so this year we thought it would be a good idea to get the shot again. I don't think young people need to get a flu shot....hope Lou doesn't find you!

Monday, October 11, 2010

In 1945 after World War II, Berlin, Germany was divided into 4 sections: the American, British and French in the west and the Soviet Union (Russia) in the east. Because the Soviet Union was a very closed communist society, they put up a wall...either to keep the west out or maybe to keep the people in East Berlin in! Anyway, it was terrible and families were separated by the wall and lots of people risked their lives to get people from East Berlin to West Berlin and freedom. In 1987 President Ronald Reagan visited Berlin and urged the Soviets to tear down the Wall....and finally in November, 1989, the Wall was torn down. Now that's a bit before any of you were born, but it was quite an exciting time to see all the people move back and forth between the two Berlins without a Wall to stop them. The picture is of a piece of that Berlin Wall now at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley California....

Sunday, October 10, 2010

So much happened today, it was hard to know what to write about...some of it bad (Bengals and Reds wahhhhh) and some of it was good. So we decided to write about the date. 10/10/10. I love numbers and it's such fun to see dates that do things like be consecutive (8/9/10) and today 10/10/10. It really was a top 10 kind of day. The weather was perfect and although both our teams lost, we had 7 people over for supper this evening and that definately was a 10! It was so nice we were able to eat outside and then sit talking for a very long time. Hope your 10/10/10 was a 10 for you!

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Well is this pitiful or what. Poor Lucy, she's apparently had an allergic reaction to something and has been chewing at her bottom. So the doc gave her a shot and said she had to wear the cone thingy for 2 weeks....like that's going to happen. She's pretty embarassed and won't come out of her room....thought you would like to see what she looks like in her cone. OK, I can hear you laughing from here!

Friday, October 8, 2010

Friday evening with friends...this is Joe and Gail...we've been friends with them for a lot of years and always enjoy an evening at their house. Too bad they're not baseball fans. We had to keep looking up the score on papa/gumps phone. We were excited at 4-0, not so happy at 4-3 and at the end we really weren't happy! But the evening with friends was great!