Southwest Unveils Illinois One

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Feeling Blue?

Rich wanted to know why Paul & Shelley's place looked so blue...now we know, blue icicle lights. Something about them makes you drink large amounts of beer,wine and vodka.

737-400

Landing @ Buffalo

Furry friends

Here is a few interesting Alpaca Facts:

Alpacas have soft padded feet, making them gentle on their pastures, and they have no top teeth in the front. The average height of an alpaca is 36" at the withers,(no clue what a wither is) and they weigh from 100 to 175 pounds. Alpacas are small and gentle enough to travel short distances in the family minivan and are easily handled by most people.

Some people actually think these gentle poodle like creatures are scary!

Fact: An alpaca's gestation period is 11 to 12 months, and they have single births (twins are extremely rare). A baby alpaca, called a cria, usually weighs between 15 and 20 pounds.

One more: Alpaca fiber comes in 22 colors that are recognized by the textile industry, and there are many blends in addition to that. Alpacas are shorn for their wonderful fleece each year, which will produce 5 to 10 pounds of soft, warm fiber that is turned into the most luxurious garments in the world, Like alpaca thongs.

Southbound

This in case you wondered what an E-190 looks like

Spencer and Angelfish flew over Washington today in an Embraer E190 while enroute to Florida. They wanted to wave to the Pope as they passed over the Nationals' new ballpark during his open air mass.

The Center for Disease Control

CDC Alert

The Center for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even electronically. This virus is called Weary Overload Recreational Killer (WORK).

If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues, or anyone else via any means whatsoever - DO NOT TOUCH IT. This virus will wipe out your private life completely. If you should come into contact with WORK, you should immediately leave the premises.

Take two good friends to the nearest grocery store and purchase one or both of the antidotes - Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter (BEER). Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system.

You should immediately forward this medical alert to five friends. If you do not have five friends, you have already been infected and WORK is controlling your life.

New underwater drive-thru @ the Cornerstone

Can anyone think of a caption for this picture, please post yours in the comments section of this Blog.

Late March Party

I hope this is the official kick off to the 2008 season of fun and buffoonery. It was not a Frat Party...but simply a late March party...can't wait for the warm weather to set in!

icy shoreline

Most of the ice has disappeared now but a few ice cycles make for some cool pictures along the shore on Saturday afternoon. Sunny and clear but only 30 degrees today.

Half way home

Spencer and AngelFish are almost back from the sunshine state. As you can see by the graphic they are on a Southwest B737 at flight level 390 doing 420 knots enroute from KFLL to KBUF.

Biker

Denise finally got to go for a quick bike ride today, someday the snow will melt and she can go with out gloves and a winter coat.

Birthday bash

Kate suprised Patrick with a birthday bash at O'briens pub in Medina. Everyone had a blast, the dude with the guitar played for hours and had the place rockin' Even the birthday boy, Kate and some of their pals joined in a sing-a-long.

Gulfstream

Thought this was a cool looking Gulfstream

Center Street

Went to the Center Street Smokehouse in Batavia for a fund raiser Friday night in memory of Brent . Proceeds from this fund raiser will go towards a high school weight room, a scholarship in Brent’s name, and an anorexia support group started by Pat & Roy. It was a really good turn out, lots of prizes and a few beers were tossed back as well!

Dumped on

It just kept coming! Thats why we have over 18" of snow on the deck. Its hard to walk in it when its almost up to your knees. Maybe I'll get some snow shoes. Lockport actually got over 2 feet of snow according to the WIVB weather blog. Here are some totals from the storm:
Perrysburg: 25.5
Lockport: 25.5
N. Tonawanda: 22.0
East Aurora: 17.0
Warsaw: 17.0
South Dayton: 14.0
I hope everyone remembered to SPRING ahead today!

Nor-Easter

Getting some rather impressive snow this weekend, my table on the deck gives you an idea of how much fell so far. We are going to get more this afternoon and tonight. Don Paul says its not a blizzard though, not windy enough.

Banyon Trees

This is the Banyon Tree tunnel just up the road from Sandsprit Park. Annette and I rode our bikes up there last week. I can't wait to get back! Zing dada bing!

A Winter Day on Lake Ontario

This is what the Bluemle/Herstek compound looks like in early March...since it is a pretty good bet that they won't be down there to see it!

"Where's that confounded bridge"

Denise knows a good action shot when she sees one. Thanks to the nice folks from the Northern Erie Sno-seekers snowmobile club we were able to cruise over this stream without getting our sleds wet.....they sure know how to make a bunch of nice trails

Trail break

Had some big snowflakes today while riding through the wooded area on the snowmobile trail.
Nice day for a ride....could have been a few degrees colder though.