Yard sale treasures.

My new tube receiver from 1960. Fisher 800, best receiver you could buy for years.


Since it sort of half-way works, I have to operate on it and perform some standard mods to keep me rocking and to keep it from burning the house down. I have new internet friends that told me what to do to it. Those brown things are bad, and there's a silver thing that needs replaced, and that big black can is leaking. After those are fixed it will sound great, providing I am not electrocuted.

My new bad-ass basement chandelier. $5 and a "swag" light kit with gold chain.

WE BOUGHT A GRILL!

That's right. Own a house and now we have to fill it with toys. We had a tiny one (see S'mores pic from the very first blog) that Nick had to bend over to use, but it broke. So, we went through half the summer with no grill - a huge problem. Here are the pics I managed to take of Nick figuring out the drill and instructions before I pitched in for the assembly. Yeah... by the time it was complete and cleaned up, we just wanted to go inside (away from mosquitos). So, hopefully there will be a "finished" grill picture to come.

Yard Blog

WTF?!?

5" slug

1 sunflower, next year we'll try for 2

total hoser

WTF?!? ...our bunnies are of course, evil. We thought we would starve out the evil bunnies by letting all the grass die. It didn't work, they just got smaller and eviler, and now the yard looks like crap.

Cafe DaVinci (Florida Cont.)

TJ & PBR


Nick, Alaina & Rose


Cook Trio on Break

Florida

We went to FLA to visit the famfam. We both had a really great time relaxing, seeing family and friends. I even got to see my family before we left to come back to B-more. Miss everyone!
Enjoy the photos. :)



Eric's 30th B-day cake



Gavin & Logan



Nick & TJ eating some flan



Gary & TJ



Nick and TJ flew some kites. TJ had his kite on a fishing pole, which actually works!



Shooting cans in the back yard.





The koi pond in Susan & Gary's beautiful Florida garden



Photos of us at Cafe Da Vinci (at The Cook Trio show) to come.

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Camping!

Nick and I went camping at Deep Creek Lake
last weekend. It is way up in the most north-western triangle of Maryland. We got there Thursday night with just enough daylight to set up our tents. As soon as nightfall came, and we were attempting to start a campfire, along came the fattest raccoon we've ever seen. Luckily, all of our food was stored away in the car, so as to not attract any black bears. The weather was pretty nice. It never got over 85 during the day and it was in the high 50s to low 60s at night. We had a great and relaxing time. On Friday we went hiking up Meadow Mountain. On Saturday we went fishing and floating around in the lake. We also got in a lot of reading time. It rained on Sunday as we were packing our stuff up, but it wasn't too terrible. We stopped for lunch at Cracker Barrel on Sunday and it was delicious!

Our campsite.

Us chilling in front of the fire.

N: be glad you can't hear the screaming kids/parents. Or the idiot with the BMW that kept worrying about the "power-to-weight ratio" as they were loading their crap in to it. He was serious.

Nick enjoying a camping cigar.

Me woman. Me climb rock.

A flower we found while hiking. I think it's called a Jewelweed or something along those lines...

Deep Creek Lake in all of its mountainous glory.

Scenic overlook.

This was the welcome sign for a tiny town we drove through. Accident, Maryland. Priceless.

Here we are driving home with the car loaded up.

Nightime photography from our porch by Nick.

So, we seem to have started collecting vintage Florida souveniers. We found this wall scroll at a yard sale. Here it is hung in our red breakfast nook/pantry.

N: Please send me thriftshop/garage sale Florida souvenirs, thank you.