I haven’t seen a SOHIO sign since the early 80’s!!

I think it’s being held up by the same kind of sign pole that my dad had saved among his treasures for most of our childhood too. 🤪

Interesting infrastructure

I enjoyed seeing the infrastructure along the river just as much as the beautiful scenery. 

Sights along the Ohio river last week

I liked watched the tug boats putting in the work on the barges. We saw them pushing barges as big as five wide and seven long all lashed together.  

Our ride for the day last week :)

Some interesting Ohio river history…

Have you ever heard about the Nightmare? (Middle pic).  It broke free on the Mississippi and caused a lot of damage and even loss of life. Now it’s a spooky attraction this time of year.  The bottom one is supposedly WWI era or earlier…? The top one has been a supper club, casino, besides its first life as a tug boat. 🤪

A brisk, misty morning as we pulled out onto the Ohio River

It was a beautiful and perfect day for a boat ride!

Hemptations, really?  To each his own I guess…? 🤪

We got to patrol with the coast guard this past Tuesday

We spent all day Tuesday on the Ohio river with a friend from the US Coast Guard Auxiliary.  What an interesting and different day we had going up and down the Ohio from the eastern side of Cincy all the way to Indiana. 

My dad would be proud!

He used to do the same things and now Andy is carrying that torch❣️

Booty board delivered! 🤪

I was granted free reign to Susan and Larry’s garage to deliver the bootie board.  I HAD to have some fun with that.  Andy, John, Julie and I all had a hand in the shenanigans hahahaha.

All wrapped up and ready for delivery

I gift-wrapped the booty wall in a tarp to make sure the wind wouldn’t hurt any of the little leaves. 

The end result

This was the rig I saw while I was getting work done at my local shop.  It’s not back out in Hurricane, Utah where it lives.  Fun to see it come to fruition.  

Julie finished her short ribs in the oven

When she pulled them out, she found thy were ready.  The meat had spontaneously fallen off the bones.  It was sooooo yummy!

I got the booty board all ready to ship

I set it up then tested the bootie density and a couple mounting methods.  

I realized it was gonna need some kind of carrier so we didn’t crush the greenery when storing or transporting it.  So I made a couple frames to stack it with some space between each portion.

Zoe trying to figure out how she’s supposed to get away…

…when shes attached to a boat anchor…?! 🤪