Seltzer / Sparkling Water / Homemade Soda Pop

Save money, and the environment, by making your own carbonated water at home. After the initial investment (less than the cost of a Soda Stream), you can make your own carbonated beverages for less than $0.05 (5 cents) a bottle.

Do-it-yourself Home Carbonator

Parts

(You can get these all from Amazon and/or various local and on-line brewing supply places ):

• Aluminum CO2 tank (Any size will do, I use a 5 pound tank because that is what I had on hand)
• Single gauge CO2 regulator with check valve (You can use a double gauge if that is what you have)
• 3 feet of thick plastic hose or beverage tubing: 1/4″ interior diameter X 1/2″ outside diameter
• 2 hose clamps
• Carbonator Cap by Liquid Bread
• Disconnect, IN (gas) Ball Lock, 1/4″ MFL
• Teflon tape
• Empty 2 liter pop bottle

The BOSB is held each year at The Dragon and is sponsored by the Deals Gap Motorcycle Resort and the East TN Riders. It is a big party and the evening is concluded by the infamous Big Wheel races.

The BW race is held late at night in the pitch dark and are run on The Dragon from the State line to the Store parking lot. The race is one mile down a 13% grade with a couple of switchbacks. Some Big Wheels have been known to reached 40 mph during these races.

There are two divisions for the Big Wheel: Stock and Modified. To compete in the stock class, you must have plastic wheels (no rubber). You are allow to beef up the suspension if you wish and still compete in the stock class. Modified BWs may have rubber wheels.

Our next door neighbor, Adam engineered some suspension upgrades to Paul’s stock class racing Big Wheel.

Intense concentration and dueling soul patches…

First test of the Big Wheel.

I think we may need a wheelie bar

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A man and his Big Wheel.

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And here she is, a real racing Big Wheel with a seat borrowed from Paul’s John Deere lawn tractor. It’s a perfect color match

Note the Wheelie bar.

One final touch (ala Seinfeld)

I tape two LCD flashlights to the handlebars. That will be the only light he has for the race.

So we headed down the TN/NC for the BOSB and the race.

Test trials on the Dragon. This is not the part of the road where the race will be. This area is not as steep.

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Watch out for that edge… it’s 80 feet down to the bottom

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Killboy on his modified class BW.

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Paul with is MINI in background. He was having some front end issues with his BW that needed modified.

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Luckily master mechanic Wheeler was available to help with some find tuning..

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It’s now about 11 pm and time for the race to commence. Time to start loading up and head to the top of the hill.

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Paul before the race having a bit of liquid courage.

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Kelly ready to rock his little pink Big Wheel

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How many Big Wheels and crazy men can you fit in a truck?

Now, I was quite worried for Paul because this was his first BW race and I was sure he would wreck.; everybody wrecks. This is why you must wear full head to foot riding gear for protection. The only thing that differs is you can wear another kind of boot, because the your feet are your brakes and the race eats up your footwear.

I fixed myself near the finish line with a good view up the road as well as the finish line. To my complete surprise the WB I saw coming out of the dark in second was Paul! I knew it was him because I taped the headlights on his BW in a distinctive staggered manner

Out of the dark…. here comes Paul!

Here I got so excited, like a little school girl, that I start clapping and yelling, “It’s Paul! It’s Paul!” and totally forgot to take photos of Paul’s second place finish. As Paul crossed the finish line he leaned back on his wheel bar and spread a 5 foot long line of sparks. At first people though he was having a problem but then quickly realized what he was doing and a whoop of approval spread though the crowd.

Paul exiting the track

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Second & first place winners

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Paul right after coming in second. Pumped up and wanting to go again. I was so very proud of him. It just goes to show me- I though for sure he would crash and instead he came in second.

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Paul’s boots atfer the race= Flintstone brakes

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The first thing he said to me was “That was fun I want to do it again.” Sadly he had wheel issues. He picked up the BW to load it in the truck and a rear wheel feel off because the axle hole melted!

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The original axle hole was 3/8?; now the hole is over 2 1/2? wide!

Talkin’ Big Wheel racin’ with Darryl “Killboy” and last year’s winner.

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Brave Big Wheel Warriors basking in their well deserved glory in the parking lot at The Store.

We hung around for awhile talking with my friends. Since most of my friends work on The Dragon as photographers or running The Store it is very hard to actually get them together in one place at the same time. Also for me it is normal to see Lori “Killgurl” with a camera, so I never though anything about seeing her holding one. Well, Paul called all my friends over and I though we were going to take a group photo with all of us. I turned to say something to Paul and .. WHA? … I have to look down because there he is on one knee. He then took my hand and proposed!

Paul was carrying my engagement ring (which was also my grandmother’s engagement ring, but that is another story) in his riding leather during the race! I sure am glad he didn’t crash. LOL

To my surprise, in front of all my friends, Paul proposed. How many people are lucky enough to capture this moment on camera?

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Of course I said yes

11 days, 10 states, 9 hotels, 3351 miles

MINI Takes the States is a National MINI Cooper event that occurs every two years.  100s MINIs from all across the country participate.  The nature of the event differs each time and this year MINIs from all over converged on Denver as their eventual final destination place. Part of the adventure/event was traveling there along with many other MINIs

Our MTTS route took us from Okemos, MI, to Grand Rapids, Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Dodge City, to the main event in Denver.

Our return trip took us north through Wyoming and South Dakota to see Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse monuments as well as the Badlands, Wall Drugs and the Corn Palace.

It was a wonderful adventure, if not a tad bit exhausting
I’d do it again in a heartbeat and look forward to many more MINI adventures now.

I had three cameras for this trip (as well as a GoPro HD video camera):

1. The 8 mp camera on my HTC Droid Incredible mobile phone
2. Our 8 mp Sealife “point and shoot” (it’s very much like a Nikon Coolpix except you can also use it under water)
3. My 6 mp DSLR Nikon D50

Below are some photos and a brief summation of our trip.  All along the way we kept meeting new people and making new friends.  The MINI USA Staff were wonderful and we befriended quite a few of them as we kept meeting up at each leg of the trip.  We also as made new lifelong freinds with other drivers.

For the first leg of our trip we we met up with other Michigan MINIacs at the Dealership of MINI of Grand Rapids, on Sunday to head out at 7am for Chicago.

Lined up at MOGR   (HTC Incredible)
There were 43 MINIs in the convoy to Chi-town.  MOGR really put on a welcome spread with coffee, doughnuts and muffins before the drive commenced.  They presented each car a swag bag with shirts and stuff, and even included $5 to cover the tolls on the way to Chicago!  Talk about going the extra nine yards.  It was a blast driving in line with 43 MINIs led by a van with a life sized MINI painted on the side all the way to Chicago.

When we all got to Chicago, MOGR fed us grilled burgers & hotdogs with all the fixins with sides as well delicious custom cookies.  They even had MOGR water bottles.  They really pulled out all the stops and did an amazing  job kicking off the MTTS event for us Michigan MINI folk.  Sadly it rained while the food was being prepared and eaten, but we didn’t let that dampen our spirits, and when the sun came back out we hung with the MOGR staff and watched the MINIcross (autocross with MINI).

COOKIES!  They were delicious   (HTC Incredible)

Paul, the travel agent of the family, scored an amazing room in for us Chi-town.  It was in the heart of the area we wanted to be.  This was the view out our window and we could walk less than 15 minutes to the big MINI event that evening.

Our view in Chi-town   (HTC Incredible)

The room had a set of corner windows , living & dining areas, a kitchen, TWO bathrooms and a huge bedroom, and yes, Paul somehow managed to get this suite for $139 a night!  It was a great way to start the long trip and actually we ended up with pretty nice hotels the entire time, though I don’t think I will ever stay in a hotel suite quite as nice as this again.  I don’t often take photos of our hotel rooms, but I not only took photos, but even filmed a video tour so we could share how cool the room really was

Our hotel room in Chicago   (HTC Incredible)

MINI of Chicago put on a wonderful Countryman release party (introducing the new four door MINI) with a multitude of miniature food as well as free beer and wine.  The description of the event said there would be “light food” so we ate dinner before hand.  I wish we hadn’t because I was too stuffed to eat any of the wonderful looking tid-bits at the party.  We could easy have made the appetizers at the party our dinner.  Oh well, live and learn.  We did consume quite a few free beers though  

The next day we drove to Indy to meet up with hundreds of MINI lining up to drive on the track.

Lining up at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway   (Sealife)

We met up with some MI MINI peeps as well as few more of our MINI friends from other parts of the country and hung out in the sweltering heat until we got to get out on the track.

MINIs on the race track at Indy   (Nikon D50)

MINIs on the race track at Indy   (Nikon D50)

Paul on the Brickyard:  ”The Greatest Race in the World”   (Nikon D50)

Here is a video of the MINIs driving on the track at Indy.
YOUTUBE: SQUIRLZ at Indy

After driving on the track the Indianapolis MINI dealer threw a big spread with BBQ pulled pork and chicken sandwiches with sides.  The  baked beans we’re honestly the best we have ever had.  They even had a DJ spinning tunes from the roof of the dealership building.

The next day we headed to St. Louis, and again had a wonderful view from our room.  Paul is quite the good travel agent.   Believe it or not I took the photo below with my Droid Incredible phone.  The picture quality on my new Droid is amazing, but it still doesn’t have the speed in snapping a photo like the Nikon DSLR does .

The view from our room in St. Louis   (HTC Incredible)

We found that when participating in a MTTS event it not necessary at all to stay in the “host” hotel.  You don’t miss anything if you stay elsewhere that might be more convenient or cheaper.  In St. Louis we did stay at the host hotel because it worked out to be a good deal for us.

The St. Louis MINI event was the only event actually held at the host hotel.  I have to admit is was a bit disappointing compared to all the other MINI events we attended during MTTS.  Their “Taste of St. Louis” consisted of local root-beer, pretzels and cookies.  They were supposed to have local ice cream as well, but didn’t.  Paul was disappointed because he loves ice cream and was looking forward to it.  They didn’t really  do any decorating of the room and ran out of everything.  Thought they may have, it really felt to me like they didn’t really care and/or try.  Even though, we still had a good time hanging our in the bar with some or our new friends and then going out to dinner.

The day and next stop was Kansas City.  The dealer there threw a very nice party at their Dealership and did a great job.  We were a bit worried when the description on the sheet said  “gourmet snow cones” and that was all, because we envisioned the St. Louis letdown.  Well, not to worry.  They had tons of all sorts of really good and different types of food, drink, sweets and fellowship.  They had decorated the place up with balloons and it was a great party.  Why they felt they needed to order all those pizzas on top of everything else I will never know. LOL   We all made our way back to our hotels happy and stuffed.

The next day we headed for Dodge City in the sweltering heat.
I snapped the photo below, but it did actually get up to 104.

Three days of our trip the temperature got up into the 100s   (HTC Incredible)

We somehow got off the official recommended driving route and received a driving award just outside of Wichita, even though we weren’t really going that much over the recommended speed.  Later we met at least 6 other people who got awards it the exact same area.  It seemed like every MINI that took that off course route received a memento of  Wichita.

Dodge City was fun  It was quite touristy, but being tourists, we kinda enjoyed it.  The spread MINI threw at Boot Hill included a  corny shoot-out with real guns (shooting blanks) and BBQed brisket that totally knocked the socks of of the “best BBQ in KS City” we had at a highly recommended restaurant the previous night in KS City.

Boot Hill    (HTC Incredible)

After dinner, and after most people left Boot Hill, a bunch of us ambushed Jim McDowell, VP of MINI USA (the man in charge of MINI in the US), with squirt guns.  I had a tiny little gat but it had excellent aim and I nailed Jim repeatedly in the noggin.  LOL  We were all laughing so hard and he got totally drenched.  Paul caught it all on video and I will posted a link here as soon as I get it up on YouTube (I asked Jim if it was OK to post and he said yes)

After dinner we headed to the host hotel bar and hung with the hard working MINI USA staffers we had befriended on this trip as well as the previous MTTS.  The bar was very cowboyie with lots of wood and brands and it even had a swinging door. After the worn out MINI USA peeps headed to bed we hung with some old friends we’d made from past MOTDs (MINIS on the Dragon is huge MINI event held annually NC/TN)

We were excited to get to Denver because that meant two nights in the same hotel.  That evening MINI threw a swell soiree’ with food and drink and dancing and a wedding… you know, your standard party fare.

There next day there was a big drive into the mountains to Red Rock but we really needed a day off from driving so just enjoyed hanging out the MINI area with all our new and old friends as well as meeting even more people.

Xiek and Paul   (HTC Incredible)

There was a great autocross setup on the roads around the big area where the main MINI event was held.  It was really cool watching people put the MINIs through their paces.  Paul run the autocross in an electric MINI mostly because he was curios to see how the electric MINI felt like.  He said the weirdest thing about it was the lack of engine sound.  He said the only sound he could hear as he drove the autocross was the squealing of tires

Paul drove the electric MINI   (Sealife)

That evening there was a concert with Blues Traveler.   You have to admit MINI really throws a great party.

Blues Traveler concert in Denver   (Sealife)

Over the course of MTTS I really hit it off with Barbara McDowell she invited me and Paul to watch the concert from their lawn blanket.  Of course the blanket was MINI black.  LOL.  It was a great place to see the concert from and we really had a great time with great people!

Paul, Me, Barbara and Jim McDowell    (Sealife)

I love Jim’s shirt in this photo.  It reads:  MINI > PORSCHE

All in all, MTTS really could not have been any more fun. We met so many wonderful people, both MINI drivers and MINI USA staffers.  MINI USA did an amazing job putting it all together.  Of course not everything worked totally smoothly or perfectly, but in the scope of such a huge, long distance event, it was a pretty darn wonderful time.  What really made it great is the journey that we all went through to get to the final destination.  By the time you got to Denver you really felt like everyone was family.

Sunday morning we met one last time as part of MTTS to say a teary farewell to all our new freinds.   We then headed north for more adventures.  I have never been out West so really enjoyed seeing such different landscape. That afternoon we saw the Crazy Horse monument and Mt. Rushmore.

Crazy horse is HUGE!  Can you spot the bulldozer?

Crazy Horse   (Nikon D50)Crazy Horse   (Nikon D50)

Paul and I at Mt. Rushmore

The next morning we explored a tourist “must”: Wall Drug.

Paul’s new ride   (HTC incredible)

After Wall Drug we headed over to the Badlands. Wow, the Badlands are awesome! (Use of word in proper context)  I have never seen anything like them before and I totally dug it!  If you ever get a chance to go there, DO IT.  The landscape is amazing and we saw a huge prairie dog town as well as antelope.  We didn’t see any live jackalopes but did did buy a stuffed one at Wall Drug.

The Badlands   (Nikon D50)

Prairie Dog    (Nikon D50)

Tuesday we visited the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota then and drove, drove,and  drove.

Paul at the Corn Palace (Nikon d50)

We got home Wednesday evening after 11 days on the road.  Wow, what a trip!
I hope you enjoyed this write-up and I helped you experience some of what was MTTS

Sparky/Alfie hybrid in the Badlands    (Nikon D50)

You can view more photos of our trip, and full sized copies on the photos shown in this article, here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/minimol/sets/72157624645547681/

If you enjoyed this little article please know that positive feedback motivates me to write and shoot.
I’ll do this kind of article more often if I think people enjoy it.

Molly with her wagon "Bessie" at the National Falcon Convention

This year is the 50th anniversary of Falcon and the National convention was held in Dearborn, MI (birthplace of the Falcon) last weekend.  It was the largest Falcon convention ever.  People brought their cars from all over the country and there were over 375 Falcons in attendance.

1st place in my class!

I broke into tears when my Bessie beat out the “hot rodded up” and pristine competition in the Lightly Modified Utility Vehicle class.  She is not perfect but people really seem to like her.  She has great character.  I feel it’s an true honor to win since my car was voted 1# by my peers… other Falcon owners.

Friday, Paul got to drive Bessie on the Ford Test Track, aka DDC (Dearborn Development Center) and Edsel Ford gave a talk.  How cool is that?

Paul driving Bessie on the DDC Ford test track

My new kitten (still unyet named) was totally fascinated by my fish tank screen saver last night. It was hilarious to watch him stare at the screen and stalk the fish.

Photo taken just a couple hours after we brought his home from the shelter.

I just got back from a week in Jamaica. I got to do many adventureful things, including riding a camel. I am not sure why they had camels in Jamaica, but it was fun anyway.

Here’s the The Store
and here’s The The Overlook

I love this: m’peep Darryl “Killboy” Cannon at work

If you look at this link, make sure to spin and look all the way around.

Michigan. Dec. 23, 2008
I don’t think it is ever going to stop snowing here.

Here’s a couple a hooligans:

Squirlz & Tuls

This was taken on the Michigan MINI Fall Color Blurrr

I have moved myself and my Molly’s Herbals business to Michigan.
I wanted to post up here and let you know that I DO intend to keep up with the Fias Co Farm as well as Molly’s Herbals

Also, there are still goats available for at the Fias Co Farm in TN.
For goats, contact: larry@fiascofarm.com

ALL BUCKS HAVE BEEN SOLD

Currently available:

WETHERS:

• Kafka and Kaboom
• Gilbert and Sullivan
• C.C. and D.D.
• Bigsby

MOTHER/DAUGHTER COMBOS:

• Enya and Bebe (both adults)
• Candace and either Brunhilda (doeling) or Constance (dry yearling)
• Maxine and Nightspot (doeling) and wether son Maxwell
• Chi-Chi (dry yearling)

Miss Chief and Maxine both kidded on Thuesday the 6th.

Maxine gave birth to a boy (Maxwell House) and girl (Nite Spot) at 11am and Miss Chief had one big girl (Lo Key) at 10 pm. Everyone is doing great.

The most amazing thing is that Miss Chief’s mother, Trouble, assisted in Miss Chief’s delivery by comforting her daughter and helped clean the baby off. We had retired Trouble from kidding last year (at age 10) after the birth of Miss Chief. She has continues to nurse her daughter and Miss Chief even took a couple sucks from her mom when she, herself was in labor. Now Trouble, has started coming back into milk and I am milking her. We have not seen her nurse her granddaughter, but she love her and watches out for her. It’s wonderful to see such a close three generation family.

Maxwell House: minutes old

Maxwell House: minutes old

Nite Spot: minutes old

Maxwell House: minutes old

Nite Spot

Nite Spot: minutes old

Lo Key: newly born

Lo Key, just born, with her mother and grandmother

Me driving on the Dragon.
Photo by Mark Scheuern

Bigsby & Carruthers

Bigsby – one hour old

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Carruthers- one hour old

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Carruthers- one hour old

Please note…. some people may find this a bit “intense”. To me it is just a wonderful part of life…. a part of my life…

If you want to see the reality and joy of birth…. please to enjoy…

Self Portrait: Me & Kaboom

Begining Of The Season Bash 2008 GALLERY
April 12, 2008
Hosted by the East TN Riders, at Deals Gap

I have tried to compile together as many photos of the Bash as I could. I’ve captioned them with the original captions from the forum and credited the photographer as best I could. I have also tried to put the pics in chronological order, as best I could. In the first video you can see me putting around on a fifty, I have on a light green t-shirt.

I hope you enjoy …

Click here for the BOSB 2008 GALLERY

Self Portrait: Me & Livingstone

Sorry for the extra emails you received.  Hopefully everything is workng correctly now.

Ah… I see Justin, aka “SVTLightning” is out for a ride on the Gap and has a passenger.
(By the way, I love the reflection of the road in the face shield.)

I wonder who the lucky rider might be?

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Why… what do you know… it’s me

w00t!

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Hanging on tight and having a blast…

A tip for riding two-up enthusiastically on a sport bike is to hold onto the gas tank and brace yourself.

Thanks Dave for the pics, thanks Ben & Zee for the pants and boots (I love them), and especially thank you Justin for a great time. I hope you enjoyed the ride I gave you in Alfie just as much.

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Hosted by the East TN Riders, at Deals Gap

April 12, 2008

It was a beautiful day on the Hill to hang out with old freinds and meet new ones. I gave rides in Alfie, my MINI, for over 4 hours and I hope all my passengers enjoyed their adventures After rides came chilling out around the Store parking lot. Then the “official” Bash began with Ben’s speech. We had a delightful pasta dinner and headed out for the fiddy races. There was a freeforall warm up, then two different races for the different classes of “fiddy”. Wow, were the races exciting! After the fiddies there was a raffle, and after the raffle Lori was presented with a new set of riding leathers… and she looks great in them. Then were the Big Wheel races and finally camaraderie and cocktails around the roaring campfire. What a great time with great people!

These particular photos were taken by attendees and members of the ETR Forum.
Contributors: Dave, Doc279, s2tbolt, Dragonrider1, JulieA201, Killboy & Killgurl, MEDIC, MINIMOL, MRM, Sperho, xring04, Zee

Click on the thumbnails to view the full photo.
There are 80 thumbnails per page and currently a total 297 photos (with more to come).

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This video was taken by Tony “Mountain Road Madness” as he rode around the Store parking lot on his “fiddy” (50 cc motorcycle… but his is actually 80cc). I love this vid cause it really give yo a good “feel” of the event. I am the rider of the “fiddy” in the light green t-shirt.

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Stock Big Wheel Races:
shot by Trip. Trip also won the races for his class of Big Wheel.

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Fiddy Races filmed by Doug “s2tbolt”

Spring is sprunging….

What is a gravatar?

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?

… check it out….

Now I can get back to the business of posting and sharing my photos

Mothers get walked all over sometimes….

Mom, Ovaltinaweena, puts of with her daughter, Zinnia, walking all over her.

I have also been extremely busy, as usual. But I have fianlly found a bit of time to post up that Bee Bee kidded on Tuesday morning the 25th at 11am. She had to extremely good looking boys who we are calling: CC Rider and Derrik Domino (DD for short).  These boys would definitely make someone a wonderful herd sire!

Derrik Domino, one hour old

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CC Rider, one hour old

BTW- we should have more goatbabies very soon

The kids were both presented head first, but we got them our without much problem. Sunbeam is a first time mother and adored her new babies, twin boys: Kafka and Kamoo.

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Kamoo, 24 hours old.

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Kafka, 24 hours old

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Sunbeam’s new twins

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Amandapanda playing with Kamoo.

The Manning family came to pick up a couple goats today and I could not resist taking photos of their daughter as she enjoyed the goatbabies.  Amandapanda was extremely patient about being picked up and carried all about.

She was quite comfortable on my neck and relaxed there for at least 15 minutes even as I moved around.  In the back is Maxine, and to the right, Zinnia is looking up at me.

Me with a passel of goat babies: Amazonia, Amandapanda & Martha

Now the story continues ….

At three years old, Candace is the size of our yearling does. She weights under 100 pounds, but is one tough cookie and stands by her somewhat dim mom and is a very good, and caring mother to her kids.

Candace was the smallest goat baby we have ever had born here.
Which is why is it amazing that yesterday morning, at about 11:00 am, Candace the Tiny gave birth to the largest doe kid ever born at Fias Co Farm.

Amazonia weighed at birth, 9.5 pounds. “Average” birth weight here is 6-7 pounds; Candace weighed 2 pounds.

Amazonia: 30 minutes old

The birth went very well. Candace acted like a real pro and with a bit of intense pulling assistance the baby girl was delivered with incident. Candace’s udder is huge and it’s good thing too since she has a huge kid to care for. She loves her new baby dearly.

Candace & Amazonia, 30 minutes old.

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New mom and baby…. “Did this really just come out of me?”

Amazonia, at birth, was as big as Ovaltinweena’s kids who were a week old. She was almost twice as big as Tiny Dancer’s kids, who were born the day before and weighed 5.5 pounds each.

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Comparing Amazonia’s size (at one day old) with Amanda & Martha’s size (two days old)

Two doelings (little girls):  Amandapanda & Martha were born yesterday at about 11 am.

Tiny Dancer is a first time mother and is doing really well.  She appreciated our assistance with the kidding and is very happy with her new babies.

Martha, 6 hours old

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Amandapanda – 6 hours old, right side

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Amandapanda – 6 hours old, left side

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Amandapanda
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Candace is going to kid today, so stay tuned for more goatbaby photos….

From my trip to Europe in Sept, 2007

Here it is, 40 pages of travel diary and images from the Mojave desert. It’s good stuff, in .pdf format. Seriously, it’s some of my best photography lately. And it tells the story of how I almost died (or at least almost spent the night curled up under a cactus). Please read it and feel free to repost, link, or pass it around. This place is something everyone should see.

Click here to download

Zinnia – 24 hours old

A happy new family:
Ovaltinweena and her twins, 24 hours old.

We are calling the girl Zinnia and the boy Zachary. They are both sweeties.

Zinnia – 1/2 hour old

Zinnia – being born is tiring

Zinna, 1/2 hour old (and my hand)

Zachary, 3 hours old

Ovaltinaweena and her daughter Zinnia – three hours old

Zachary – happy to be here

I spent one of the best days in my life in Camden Town.

I was very concerned to hear that yesterday there was a horrible fire that swept through Camden Market.

I was looking through my photos for a totally unrelated pic, and ran across this photo from last year of young Sunbeam and her brother having a great time playing.   So, with Goatbaby season almost upon us, here’s a taste of what we have to look forward to

I can never resist taking photographs of photographers… it’s just a thing about me.

This was taken at the Bridge from Michigan to Canada in Port Huron, MI on a trip I made up there to join the Michigan MINI Club in an event called “MINIs Run for the Border 07″  I have not gotten a gallery of all the photos I took during that trip, but hope to soon.

“Rob McQueen”

My freind Rob is about the best motorcycle rider you will ever know, but last week, he brought his car up to the Gap. I hardly recognized him not all dressed in leathers. LOL I snapped a pic of him with his car and later on, my freind Warren did I little photchop of the pic that I thought was ammusing.