Trina and her relatives talked about the Miami Country Fair so gingerly I had great trepidation. I was ready to see pigs and shit and all their attendant aroma.  We laid around then set out for the fair about noonish after they raised the flag.  There weren't many people there and the weather even cooled off a bit.  It cost $5 to get in and I ( Read more... )

I was so blech (read: caffeine headache) this morning, I took a taxi to Midway. This gave me enough time to feed my brain a double hazelnut soy latte and it piped down. The flight to Columbus was uneventful which was good and trinalin picked me up. We made the hour and a half trip back following a circuitous route to the ex-evil puppy mall, Best Buy and ( Read more... )

SO the sky was again blue this morning.

We headed to Aunty Catifish's for some down home brunch.  It was all about the catfish baby plus lots of good stuff like sweet potata casserole and pineapple stuffing.  Apparently everybody in town comes for Sunday brunch.  In fact Jen's parents were there.  Her stepdad is 77 and rides his bike 40 miles each ( Read more... )

Better living through chemistry.  That is all.

Sadly there was no boat trip.  Mother Nature conspired with a storm that had the nerve to come inland.  So what to do when you get rained out?  Go to the movies of course.  Jen, the little one and I saw Ratatouille while the others took in Transformers.  It was enjoyable and entertaining and poor Remy the rat was cute despite my squick about rats ( Read more... )

I am the second one up. It's a miracle folks. The sky is blue, looks like another Florida day. To catch up:

( Fun in the sun )

The following was written yesterday at the airport ( Read more... )

Since this will be a long post, I put it behind a cut.

( More travels )

Right now I'm at an internet cafe in the city centre of Florence. First for those in suspense, my luggage arrive the day before yesterday. In other words, the night before we left for the villa. I hugged the luggage. We are happy together again ( Read more... )

Erm, what elsaf said. Hee.