Germany
Photos from Dusseldorf and Cologne
This week’s Spam Special comes to us from Shadya Brewer, and seems to be a exceprt from The Hobbit… specially greedy, strong and wicked worm called Smaug. One day he flew up into the air and came south. The first we heard of it was a noise like a hurricane coming from the North, and…
Amanda and I are back from our camping trip down to Buttermilk Falls State Park. Luckily for us, while we did get a bit of rain, there was no sign of hail or tornados down Ithaca way. We hit up five wineries, four state parks, three gorge trails, two trips to Taste of Thai, and…
Autoblog posted pictures of the Volkswagen Tiguan Concept – the evolution of the Concept A that I wrote about before. Unfortunately, I think VW lost the cool aspects of the Concept A. The “car on steroids” look is what attracted me to it. I’m really not a fan of SUVs in general. I appreciate the…
Now that I’ve returned from my trip, it’s back to tackling the new house to-do list. We had our large, woodburning masonry fireplace inspected and it passed with flying colors, so I have 3 cords of wood being delivered on Sunday. We’ve had some new furniture delivered. I’ve gotten half the garage cleared out so…
This is an odd situation… everyone is blogging about the latest round of county budget disasters, and I agree with all of them. At least, I agree in part with what everyone is saying. This is why I find it so difficult to pick a side, or a party, or even a basic political philosophy….