My Travelling Kin

Niece Ellen is off to New Zealand for study this summer and fall. This
is where she will be staying, if you want to pop in and say hello.

Why are so many of my Rock and Roll heroes from Canadia?

And why do they perform so well on Saturday Night Live

Can't wait for Lucy to see the N.Young clip. She will go nuts over it. She is already a big Hip fan.

Balloon dancing techniques

It was early and I didn't feel like getting off the couch. Lucy wanted to show her balloon dance technique.

Learning to ride

Lucy learned how to ride last summer. But when I went into the hospital we stopped practicing. We are back at it after a long winter.

If you only watch one video today - watch this one

Nephew Marly is off to L.A. to make short movies for the Internets.
Here he is doing standup in Boston. He's good.

Joke Movie we are kind of proud of

Lucy wrote the joke about the mouse in my ear.

Why people don't sweep

My Friend Ash asked why people don't sweep anymore. You can see the answer above. It's because of those damn child labor laws. Let the kiddies work! We will all sweep better ... er ... sleep better.
The photo comes from the Shorpy blog of 100 year old photos: Boys with brooms in the packing room of S.W. Brown Manufacturing, Evansville, Indiana. October 1908. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Clever enough For Saturday Morning

My clever kin

Marly and Delia and some other dudes in a film about space.

Wienermobile!!

Our friend Ann fired off this snap of the Wienermobile when it stopped in Marion.

Dancing for Cancer

Lucy had a lemonade stand to benefit Relay for Life of Marion County. The neighbor kids came over and everyone decided they would make more money if there was some entertainment with the beverages.

I love drums

Our Stinky Flower

Hard to resist an opportunity like this.

Bad Disc Golf

I was hoping that having a goal in the backyard would improve my game. So far? Nothing.

More Lunch Notes

I did a newspaper for a lunch note so Lucy had to do her own. For those of you who can't read kindergarten, here are her headlines.
Upper right: Kids want to talk
Lower left: Teachers want quiet
Lower right: Milk not spilled

videos from my talented kin

Niece Ellen must be home from school. She has time to post to YouTube again! Hurray!
Now, if cousin Marly would only share.

Easter Bunny lives at a gas station in Germany

Old Joke: Pictures by Lucy, lettering by Daddy

latest Lunch Note

I haven't published a lunch note in a while. I am still creating them
in fits and starts. I need to create more because Lucy tells us she is
embarrassed when she gets a note that she has had before.

Thunder in Ohio

Mary caught this off the back porch. The big bolt comes at the end.

Giant Purple Ball

I am at a loss for words.

The Craziest Graser

OK, it is not summer yet, but that is not going to stop the kid they
call "The Craziest Graser." All she needs is a plastic sandbox filled
with water, an old plastic slide and a too tight bathing suit. Fun, fun

Baseball middleman

Anyone know who this is? Dad?
I got this off a wonderfull old photo site called Shorpy. You should check it out.

Haters

I don't understand these people. Anyone who has a blog or posts videos or does anything public has run into them. Haters tell you, you suck or you're stupid, or you have wasted their time, when all you have done is make your product available. No one forces anyone to watch or read anything.
This morning I ran into some good natured response to the haters. I don't spend enough time on Youtube to be on top of everything so this might be a little old but it is new to me so spare me your hateful comments.

Caution: there is some bad language in these vidoes. It is used in the cause of parody and is not meant to be offensive. Sometimes you have to use hyperbole to make a point.

Everybody gets old ...

Ashevega says she's the next big thing ...

... from Canada

Warren Zevon has a way with words

More European Hot Air Ballooning

Newspapers in Germany Got Hot Air Balloons

A girl and her deodorant

I am not sure why Lucy has underarm deodorant, but she does and she is very proud of it.

Bass fishing at Ohio State

This looks like the Olentangy River very close to where my operation took place. You can see the bridge across the river that we took to go to the OSU Hospital.

Ohio's biggest tourist attraction, aside from the Amish

I have another blog

This one is on my work Website. More stuff about central Ohio news and less stuff about me, Mary and Lucy.
You can find it by clicking on these here words.

Two guys meet

So, two guys meet and one says, "what do your friends call you?"
"Dirt bag," he replies.
"Dirt bag?" the first guy says. "Why do they call you that?"
"Oh, because I have a colostomy," he explains.
"Well, what did they call you before you had the colostomy?"
"Asshole."

insert rimshot wav here

I got nothin

Sunday Afternoon Video

Saturday night video