Sunday 8/24/14 leaving Rochester, Montezuma Wildlife Reserve, weasel & chester

Sunday 8/24/14

all packed up, on our way home from Rochester.
Michael’s last time……

We drove through a Wildlife Refuge on our way home

Montezuma Wildlife Reserve

http://www.fws.gov/refuge/montezuma/

This is a photo of WAZE,
do you use that App?? You should!

Eagle on her nest

Eagle

Blue Heron

highlight of our trip :

Spiede & Rib Pit

Chicken Spiede

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiedie

Weasel & Chester happy to have us home

friend Dean stopped over for a visit

Sunday afternoon Beer School

Weasel, tuckered out from the excitement

Michael driving Dean’s Moped

Deb, Sandy, Chester, Michael , Dean

Michael & his 42inch “monitor”
(which used to be a TV)

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We’d begun to long for the pitter patter of little feet,
so we bought a dog.
It’s cheaper, and you get more feet.
~ Rita Rudner

August 26, 2014

Saturday 8/23/14 Beach Volleyball in Rochester, NY

Saturday 8/23/14

Ontario Beach Park

Our tournament location for today

A park & a beach, what more could one want?

Partner Sue & Me ready for a day of volleyball!

We came in second on our net but had to forfeit during
playoffs because Sue got hurt.

We’ll come back stronger next year!

We saw a lady wearing a thong on the beach today.
She obviously has no friends bc it was NOT a good look!

It was great to get SUE out playing volleyball….
after a 15 year hiatus!

Dinner at La Casa

yummy guacamole

Me with Sue & her 2 daughters

We all collaborated on the server poem

Downtown Rochester

Books at a Fairport Brewing Company

Music Festival on the Canal in Fairport, NY

Fairport is a village located in the town of Perinton which is part of Monroe County, New York. Fairport is a suburb 9 miles east of Rochester. It is also known as the “Crown Jewel of the Erie Canal”.

dog biscuits & water for the pooches outside Kayak shop

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“People will forget what you say,
people will forget what you do,
but people will never forget
how you make them feel.”

August 25, 2014

Friday 8/22/14 dogs, fish, Syracue, Rochester NY, Michael’s Apartment

Friday 8/22/14

Pat needed instructions for the dogs food & meds.
They each get different stuff.

Weasel sad that we are going out of town

Chester helping me feed Roman’s fish before
we get on the road to Rochester.

I am playing in a beach volleyball tournament
with friend Sue who lives in Rochester.

Ominous skies driving to Rochester

Blue Dragon in Syracuse, our first pit stop

We went to PASATABILITIES home of the
best bread in the entire world!

Women’s Room

Loved the walls.
It was kind of crepe pappery with torn pieces of
a magazine glued on to the wall.

we stopped at Michael’s old job to
visit his co-workers.

sign on Michael’s desk

Michael’s apartment away from home

Pretty basic

the fridge.
I did not see any science projects in here.

Michael’s first stop, giving me a tour of the neighborhood.

It was much more than a beer store.
They had beer & wine making equipment/ingredients.

next place on the tour: MacGregor’s

134 Taps. We found a couple beers we liked…..

Combos for tomorrow’s tournament.

A necessity for game day.

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There are plenty of things to stop you.
Go ahead and do it anyway.

~Ralph Marston

August 21, 2014

8/21/14 gym, WATER MITIGATION, Iron Abbey, Carpet Shopping, Wine Dinner

8/21/14

training……

Rainbow Restoration to the rescue

http://www.rainbowintl.com/glenside

Rich from Rainbow using his meter to determine
where we have damage

the Pink is where it’s wet

Bringing in the Fans

They will run for the entire weekend.
Trying to dry out everything.

Tasting at Iron Abbey today for their
new restaurant opening in October

Carpet shopping…..

They have the same carpet we had in the basement.
This is good except it’s gone up in price (shocker).

The insurance company wants to give us $1200 for
the damage. To replace the carpet will be $2700.

Wine dinner tonight at Yardley Inn

See ALL the pictures from tonight’s
Greek Wine/Food pairing here:

http://wp.me/p3iSLc-90

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The place to start is where you are.
The way to start is by doing what you can,
with what you know, using what you have.

~Ralph Marston

August 21, 2014

8/20/14 The Girl who kicked the hornet’s nest, gym, FLOOD, wine

8/20/14

Finally finished the 3rd book in the Trilogy.

I really liked all the books. Have you read them?

Let me know if you want to borrow the series!

gym time. doing “donkey kicks” here….

sill drying out from the Flood we had.

The insurance guy came.
He’s sending in the water mitigation people.

Water mitigation is the process of reducing or preventing the amount of water damage that happens after a flood or a permeating leak. It prevents additional damage by taking fast, appropriate actions.

writing up tasting notes for wines from Portugal & Spain
for a new Mexican restaurant.
El Barrio

THERE. It’s fixed. Duct tape is a cure all……

sister Pat’s hot dog condiment bar.

Hot dogs for the Little League baseball game.

We were watching the Taney Dragons from Philadelphia.

their star player was Mo ‘Ne, a girl pitcher

(they lost but get another chance Thursday)

focus on what is holding you together….

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The book you don’t read won’t help.

~Jim Rohn

August 20, 2014

Tuesday 8/19/14 FLOOD, car detailer, Pour House

Tuesday 8/19/14

this is what I did instead of going to the gym today.

Pulled up rugs in the basement.

We had some kind of leak. Neighbor Ted came over
to help diagnose the problem.

We found the leak now it’s time for damage control

learn a lesson from your dog….

as you may recall, my car was hit in the parking lot
a couple weeks ago. The damage wasn’t too bad.
I used the money to get the LEOPARD mobile detailed.

It was like driving a new car off the lot!

If you need an AWESOME car detailer, Jon is your guy!

This Vanity plate was easy to figure out!

Tonight Michael wanted to get $5 Cheesesteaks
at the Jamison Pour House.

Here he is checking out the beer list

the flight I got….chocolate porter, great “dessert” beer

❤ Maddie ❤

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“I expect to pass through life but once.
If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it,
as I shall not pass this way again.”

~ William Penn

August 19, 2014