cool storm

very cool lightening storm pictures from the patio! 

my brother might kill me ...

my mom has been converting her plethora of slides into .jpg format so that we can actually look at them (the slide projector died years ago!). found these two ... i don't know if either my brother or I are happy about wearing the "mouse costume". all i remember is that i made steve walk around the block in that thing. i know i will pay later for this post ... sorry, steve!!  

opening soon ....

it's coming along ... drywall is up, we are interviewing our first potential employee tomorrow morning!!!! 

relaxing on the patio

my evenings have been spent either with a glass of wine or a very cold vodka tonic on the patio. relaxing from my days. not that christine is working my fingers to the bone (yet). but recovering from some strange "firsts". in the middle of the first night at the condo, a vase fell off a shelf (scared the crap out of tracie & i - i kept "sleeping" trying to play it off as a dream, until tracie came in my room). sunday afternoon, after taking tracie to the airport, i found a small bird flitting around the condo - it took almost 4 hours to get the bird out, i think ... it still may be in there. monday night as i was getting the garbage can to take out from the garage - i saw a big ass spider (the body was at least 3 inches in diameter) -brown recluse, hobo spider, black widow? and last night on my way home from christine's i almost hit a coyote!!! the day will come when a scorpion will be crawling on my car and i will scream almost as loud as little miss taylor bowers when she misses her mommy!

my view from the patio

 
  

this time to phoenix ...

 


on the road again, this time with a travel companion and my own car! i was so lucky to have tracie with me on the 2nd leg of the trip from colorado to phoenix. she drove the whole 6.5 hours!


  why phoenix? my plan is to be here for about 3 months to help my friends christine & jeff bowers open a new franchise store called "super suppers". and jeff's parents - out of the kindess of their hearts - are letting me stay in their awesome condo at "troon north".

rocky mountain high

so good to be back. i got into denver last night and headed right to the la quinta to freshen up and head out to see my friends at cafe cero and listen to the byron shaw projex. so happy to see mel and chad again - i really did miss them and denver!

headed back to the springs today!!!

on the road again ....

i am waiting for my flight to leave good ol' erie, pa. my HEAVY bags are checked and i am waiting to board - i forget how easy it is to fly in/out of here. there is no line at check-in and i could have showed up 30 minutes before my flight and all would have been good. it's a shame i am leaving on the nicest day this week. let's hope denver is just as nice!!! until later erie!

the four princesses

sophia (age 18months), gabby (4), zoe (4), and mia (2) enjoyed a girls night swimming in the pool with dinner on the patio. 

hittin' the beach

mom, gram h, and i visited our friend sandy's cottage (see left) on lake erie to go to a 'beach glass party'. i was so inspired by sitting on the beach enjoying the sunset at the cottage to make some jewelry myself.  

too early in the am for brogan!

i spent the weekend with my best friend from pre-school this weekend in brecksville, ohio. jen, her husband (brent) and son (brogan) were so gracious to have me over for the weekend. brent the consummate bartender introduced me to his menu of drinks - pomagrante martini's, jolly ranchers, and his not-so-traditional vodka tonic.

brogan & i played lots of xbox and we went swimming at their neighbor's house. fun was had by all!

 

wasting time at the "dock"

'dobbins landing' - known to those over the age of 30 as the 'public dock' was a place for cruising on friday and saturday night. just ask my girlfriends about riding my first truck (the jungle gym) and then later in the 'cara-van' around the dock.now they have built an observation tower, and are in the process of building both a convention center and hotel right on the bay. the hope that it will draw more people to the waterfront.

 

going to "camp"

i was lucky enough to be invited to "camp" this past weekend by friends of my aunt & uncle (ray, toni and sydney sherman). little did i know that "camp" looked like this. i was part of the group the christened the new 1500 sq.ft. house with a slumber party, vodka tonics, sun, and fun boating on the clarion river.

i like this version of camping! 

an evening enjoying the blues and a great sunset

thousands of people enjoyed the sounds of jake's blues at liberty park on the bay.

blair elizabeth

auntie cara went on a road trip to philly and on this trip she got to visit blair henninger (vicki glembocki's daughter). and on our adventure, we went swimming, ate cheesesteaks at BOTH pat's and geno's, enjoyed sushi, shopped at king of prussia mall and enjoyed downtown collingswood, nj. 

another erie sunset

i can never get sick of an erie sunset. they are amazing. this one was taken from a cottage on the beach (long time friends, the goring's, live down there in the summer). a cold beer, bonfire, lightening bugs, and the sound of waves crashing on the shore make this scene a true vacation. 

a great erie sunset

presque Isle Beach 1

the family

dad, steve, me and mom 

visit back to erie

i was very happy to come back to erie and work for my parents for a couple of weeks. i could attend a couple of weddings, enjoy the humidity, and make some money. on the 2nd day here, my dad asks me to stay for an entire month ... what could i say, but OK. so i am here until the 22nd of july and i am going to make the most of it. last night we went to beach 1 and saw One World Tribe play- every wednesday some band plays - it was packed.

batwoman and quailman

aka: cousin tina & boyfriend jeff