Poor Logan…

Andy and I suckered him into Milwaukee and PackOut…! Now he’s printing all his own organizers and boxes to go in them.  Pretty cool and fun!

Chloe is such a fine low rider basset example

Tiny little rose

Julie always saves a little sample of each bouquet I get her.  This tiny rose is a good example.  

They gave out playing cards at the Cyclone’s game.

We thought the treatment of the refs and the face cards were perfect.  🤪

Sports!

We were waiting for our hockey game to start while peeps were lining up for a Red’s game outside, hockey was on the TV, and the Bengal Mascot inflatable kept falling over.  Three sports in one day, hahaha.

Safely back in the earth’s grasp

I liked this NASA shot.

Just before splashdown after their journey around the moon! Pretty cool.

Another artist’s concept…

…It would be cool to visit the moon like this though! 🤪

Just a visualization, but still…

…not sure I’d want to sign up for this crazy ride back to earth…?! This is what the Artemis II re-entry looked like!

We got to see Jet play a pirate

We enjoyed the Dayton Christian play with Stef and Josh a couple weeks ago.  Jet is the pirate in the middle wearing a vest.  It’s always fun to see what they can pull together.  

Zoe needed a pillow

So she grabbed the baby hippo’s baby hippo 🤪

Fixing everything right up…

Nothing to see here, just a little welding going on to get me back home.  Turns out it welded up so nice that it was stronger than before it broke.  I made it all the way home without any issues.  I even made it by 11:30p so it was still the same day, haha.  That leaves me 20% of segment one to go back to before I hit segment two of the GOAT.

My grandpa and dad would have loved THIS

The guys worked at this family sawmill and that’s where the welder was.  They use that loader/snort grab these huge tree trunks for loading into the saw.

Well this is going to be interesting…

A random nice guy along the route offered to weld my track bar frame end steering bracket back onto my frame.  But, first we needed to pick up the welder (literally) and get it to his house where my jeep was.  I can’t believe the effort his dad and he went to in order to help me out.  I guess it pays to be a prepared and helpful person.  I’ve helped plenty of folks myself and this time I needed to be on the receiving end!  Quite the “forklift”!  

One of a couple creek crossings on the GOAT

Segment one, 80% complete.