Vincent's 1st B'day Bash Elizabeth Park July 17th 2010

Ted & Nail's Big Adventure II

Was a breezy day indeed but zero rain.

Tour de Ted

Roller blade speeder

Defacing Metro park Property

Blader in pain

Ted use to jog

Mosquito eaters

I need a gobo

Y did the mole cross the rd?

Biker in training

Huffing &

Puffing

It's all downhill from here

Wud boilermaker's work

Ted & Nail's big Adventure Minus Ted

Well it was the 1st day in quite a few that the wheaxperts were calling for no rain. Figured it would be a good day to hit the bike path. Called my pal Ted but he was bizzy shuttling pals into metro airport and was tied up. In the meantime I had a big tyme wrassling problem with the downstairs shower drain leakage. A 2 day battle that me and my partner Arial finally solved on day two. A bloody drain fgs (not even under water pressure) We won and decided at 2pm there was still plenty of warm sunshine left for a quick tool out to the park.
The place is a bird watchers paradise. The mayflies were out in force and the birds were hungry w/chicks to feed. When you go during the week the place is normally less crowded. A guid time was had by all............
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God Bless Peter J McGuire! Happy Labour Day to all!

The reason we have a holiday. Half the founder of AFL- and the top guy who started the United Brotherhood & ( sisterhood) of Carpenters and Joiners of America. He was as big as S. Gompers and all the rest of them. A real life working class hero!

Also today I had the NYT opened and noticed Louis Rosen 91 who worked on the nuclear bomb had passed on. Well last summer I met Lloyd Liljequist in the UP of Michigan who had worked on the Manhattan Project. I guess my mom and her friends would go to dances with some of the Tech students back then. She brought us up to meet him last yr around the time of the strawberry fest. He was kind enough to stop by a service we held this yr just after the 4th of July for our mother. He brought some old pics of the gang and somehow these phots were misplaced. Anyway he is living proof that not all lose their mental abilities as he is quite the character. He lives in the hi-rise with a view of portage canal and every single nurse/nurses aids, patients and the entire staff seem to be on good joking terms with him. We were very pleased to meet him and listened to a few of his stories about WWII.

Well we decided to head out to Lk Erie Metropark to view the birds and whatnot. We counted 100 white swans and also spotted our 2nd ever osprey (both this year) aka sea eagle. Several species of ducks geese and shore birds were also seen. Several woodchucks and a few bunnies.
But once the sun started to set the invasion of the gnats started. I'm talking a white-out. We tried to film them and if you look closely around 17 seconds into the view on the far left (that is not fog) there were googol's X googol's of them. They did not bite but we were breathing them in and they got into our eyes, ears noses and what little hair I have left. We made a dash for the vehicle for protection.
We also louped Elizabeth Park and saw the Muscovy ducks, a strange looking white and black with red wattles that I can only assume the prior owners tried to domesticate them there before donating the land to the county.
As we headed into Riverview we saw a dozen deer headed to the Wyandotte golf course for a night of browsing. Two nice bucks and one 4 pointer and the rest were does and fawns. The herd grows larger every year as does the gnat infestation.

Fore

Well it looks as tho Matt & Alicia have to armour up their golf cart as they ventured out to the woman's tee so she could hit from there when the rest of the group decided to hit a 2nd shot from the mens tee when the whizzing of little white balls could be heard.
But not before one scored a direct hit to the ulna bone of Matt's left arm. He is scheduled to go have pins installed in the morn.
I'm sure the guy feels bad enough about the incident and lessons were learned by all.

Emerald Ash Borer

Well as we headed north to a memorial service for my mother the wife and I noticed these purple coloured what looked to be chime type thingies hanging about.
Also b4 we crossed the Big Mac there were several signs instructing others to drop off fire wood b4 crossing into the UP or Yooperland as some may call it.
Well they turned out to be traps for study. One site I visited has a biz for treating the trees and it looks like he is quite successful at it.
At any rate Wanda took the pic of the trap and the other one was taken by David Cappaert.