Monday, November 30, 2009

Look Who Came To Dinner

Hi Everyone!

I got a surprise e-mail while I was visiting my parents for the Thanksgiving holiday from the woman that owns Chester the Peacock. You may remember him, he was hatched with an injured leg back in the spring of this year.

He has grown up a lot since I first wrote about him (here near the bottom), and (here when he went crabbing), and here when modeled for a photo-shoot, and I said my goodbye's to him here at the end of the boating season.

chester eats from his own plate on the breakfast table
Guess who came by for Thanksgiving breakfast? His human mom even laid out a placesetting for him. I understand he likes just about anything people like and begs terribly while standing on the kitchen counter while Mom and/or Dad cooks.

chester eats from his moms plate on the breakfast table
Chester . o O (Do you think mommy will notice I sampled hers?)

:)

chester lies in front of a very inviting fireplace
Chester . o O (Eat, drink and then just lay back and relax by the fire... Ahhhhhh!)

Or should I have captioned this, "Chester's Nuts Roasting Over an Open Fire?"

I suspect I need to put his name on the Christmas card I send to his mom and dad!

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

all the muppets around a dining room table except for big bird who is laying in the turkey plate without his head but with his distinctive accordian like legs
I just crack up laughing looking at Ernie's face.

two turkeys laying at a beach one has the pop-out thermometer popped and the other one says, you better get out of the sun ralph, it looks like you are done
Enjoy! :)


Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Gone Fishing

On Saturday, I went to the western end of the Perkiomen trail and into Green Lane Park - As a young boy, my parents often took my brothers and I to this park to swim and then later to have a picnic diner.

Sometimes we would go to the Candlewick Restaurant (which burned down when I was in school and the grounds are now a housing development) and sometimes we went to the smorgasbord served at the Schwenksville firehouse (which now has a nice BBQ Chicken event but no smorgasbord dinners) instead of grilling burgers and hot dogs in the park. No matter where we ate, it was always tasted really good after hours of swimming in the lake.

I put the pictures I took on Saturday (here). I hope you will take a peek.

This park, the largest of the Montgomery County parks, consists of over 3400 acres and three beautiful lakes totaling 870 acres.

Just to illustrate - a typical block in Manhattan (New York City) is about 6.4 acres, meaning the lakes at Green Lane Park would cover about 135 city blocks!

It is miles from one end of the park to the other end and it is laced with walking (and horseback riding) trails. Unfortunately, you can no longer swim here so that is a now just a fond memory of the past.

a guy with his back to the camera sits beside a lake with an orange cone nearby
Could this be Cappy and I fishing in Deep Creek Lake?


The road from Green Lane goes to Red Hill and on to East Greenville. Colorful, huh?

I will be very busy over the next view days - so if I don't get the chance later - I want to wish you all, a very Happy (and safe) Thanksgiving holiday.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Weekend Wordle

It's that time of week again!

It's time for Shan's Weekend Wordles.

Here's what you do:

1) Go to Wordle.net to create your Wordle.

2) Post it on your blog with a link to Shan's Week~End Wordles or Last Shreds Of Sanity.

3) Once that's done, go back to Last Shreds Of Sanity and sign the Mr Linky that she'll have up - this will help direct those who play along to your blog.

From Cappy Got A Bath!

orange cone washed with his reattched
This post is dedicated to a truely wonderful person, Yaya.

word cloud showing words like cappy orange and yaya

When it hurts to look back
and
You're scared to look ahead...

You can look beside you
and
Your friends will be there.