Lightnin and Thunder on the Radio

This past weekend one of the local radio stations broadcast live from one of our local hang-outs "The Dew Drop Inn" in Blue Jay, Ohio! Lightnin and I were there and ended up playing one of their games of asking embarrassing questions of the radio announcers. The questions were of course already prepared by one of the other announcers, but for playing along we each won a pair of tickets to the upcoming Aerosmith and ZZ Top concert!

Here we are posing with "Bob the Producer" one of the WEBN radio personalities present at "The Dew"



As it turns out this is also a wonderful birthday present to me as I have just today completed my 51st trip around the sun!

Summertime!

This year was a bit unusual here in the northeastern US river region of Cincinnati because we actually had a springtime! I've written before about the typical weekend going from winter to summer in one or two days, but this year we have actually had nearly 2 months of spring like weather. That's over now though and the temperatures are on the steady climb into the 90's F (that's 30's C for all my expat/non-American friends!).
So what do you do to stay cool in the summer heat?
Well the advice I call on comes from one of the fathers of the home brewing craze Charlie Papazian who said, and I quote: "Relax and have a home brew!"

So that's what I recommend!

This was a red ale that I brewed with friends and then shared with friends. I can't think of a much better way to spend a hot summer day!

Here's a couple of beers to come! I'm teaching my friends how to brew and these are a couple of theirs that we are planning to rack over this weekend!

They should be ready to serve in a couple of weeks, but of course we have to taste them when we rack 'em just to check their progress! ;-)

Father's Day! (Now with Photos!)

Yesterday was a beautiful day and Lightnin and I set out on the bike early in the morning, well OK about 8:30-9:00AM. We headed up to Lima, OH to visit some old friends and stopped at probably the best cheese burger place in Ohio, the Kewpie, and scarfed down a double cheese burger each. After that it was hop back on the bike and head for home! We put a little over 300 miles on the hog before we were done, and we're both feeling those miles today, but I'm smiling!

Visiting with my friends Harold (center) and Scott (Right), it was good to see them again!

A welcome sight after a long ride! This is Tina a bartender at one of our local hangouts. Lightnin and I stopped by to say "hey" as we got back home.

I hope all you fathers out there had a Happy Father's Day yesterday too!

This Is What Saturdays Are For!

I usually try to stay on top of the weather report, even though they are not very reliable, so that I can see if Saturday is going to be a good day to goof off or not.
If it turns out that luck is in our favor we will usually hop in the "rag top" or hop on the "hog" and cruise around the back roads taking in the scenery!

Of course you have to start off with a clean machine and it just so happens that one of our local hangouts has started up a new service that helps us out! Just take a look:

What better way to get your bike clean?



My buddy STEB had to work, but since he took such good care of my bike while I was in China of course I felt obligated to make sure his bike got cleaned too!

And after all the dirty work is done, and you've worked up a hunger, you have to take a ride to a favorite dive.

This is Lightnin posing next to our clean machine, and in front of the Old Brick, which serves some of the best fried chicken in the world.

This time however, frogs legs were the choice.

So if we get the laundry and yard work completed on Friday's we try to use Saturday's for their intended purpose: Having Fun!

The Little guy

Just thought I'd update our blog...partly because I'm getting tired of seeing the same pictures! This is our wonderful Grandson from Memorial weekend, complete with the poptart and chocolate milk mouth! He sure is a pleasure for us! His Grandpa is working this week in Iowa or at least that's what he tells me, he did mention something about watching the corn grow and making shampoo so maybe he really is working!