If you really want to see ALL the crazy yo-yo...



You can follow the link below to see my shots of the contestants. There's 200, and once you seen one... well, if you're in to it, or just have some spare time, click away:
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Good times with the boys at breakfast.

Wow, I wouldn’t recognized our new Waynesville McDonald’s...

Just hanging out with a few of my “favorite” customers...

Andy put in 39.5 hours over the last week. It shows ;-)

The sun was hitting this steeple just right to light up the cross.

I shot this from across miamisburg with my zoom lens.

The ultimate collage...

The Awana fun fair kicked off another year of Awana last night! :)

Andy’s off to his first day of school (college class!) for his junior high school year.

Both of the boys are doing dual credit CCP this year.

Second place team got $14 each. Time to hit the candy shop! :)

Pop Rocks laced candy to share with everybody that joined in the spin top festival.

Andy discovered a whole new kind of spin top. Whip tops. You can hear it singing…

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Getting to enjoy some of our favorite things...

I managed to stretch my birthday celebration over almost a whole week... ;) We enjoyed a trip to Cleveland to see the 2019 World Championships.  It was good family time together and seeing some of our favorite players again.

Grab something to eat and drink and browse through all the pics if you dare.  There are more than 300 in this collection...  It was a four day competition plus my birthday highlights...

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Little Mexican style tops for all the participants of the spin top festival.

I’ve been slowly improving my Yo-yo skills. Johnny is helping me.

A big ole spin top!

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Many variety of spin tops. This one is a whole body workout.

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Here’s the 2019 second place team, counting their $14 in winnings. ;)

Andy's been 2, 3, 1, 2 in placement over the years.

Same guy, go figure.

This guy takes spin tops pretty seriously

He had this vent and decoration mounted on top of his hybrid for the competition. 

The fun and intensity of the spin top contest.

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And I get to do some sightseeing while they’re getting started

Andy got to participate in the yearly spin top competition again.

It's just a fun, relaxing afternoon.

Percy loves his boy!

He mopes around whenever Andy's off at work.

A nice country view on the way to breakfast with my boys

The cold front that came through gave us some great temperatures yesterday and today!

The swishing tail and rolling eyes...!

She was covered by the blankets while I was making the bed...  She stayed there, but I wasn’t 
completely sure she liked it...

A perfect shirt for Andy!

My nephew on the drums coordinating a night of worship at his church.

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John and I on the way to check out his downtown college classes earlier this week.

These steel targets were supposed to be my birthday present. Now pepper owns two and I own none... ;)

Cat stack :)

Shadow wins since she's higher. Haha

Zach coordinated a night of worship at his church. He was on the drums, Emily helped with the tech. Proud of them.

The boys getting to try whatever instrument they wanted!

I guess if you are a rock & roller you hang your car from the ceiling?

Rock ‘n’ roll pano

It was fun to see a little bit of the other end of Lake Erie.

Boats and birds

Sorry Navy guys I guess I should've said ships and seagulls… ;-)

I like this picture of Andy.

Plus we are enjoying the rest of the yo-yo competition with the second-place world finisher.

When you’re too tired to wait for the fly to come back...

He looks really interested in whatever that is on the bollard next to him...

Cool architecture and decor

I just liked the colors and costumes of this display.

I like this picture of the boys jamming together just outside of studio A in “The Garage”

Of course I enjoyed walking around and taking pictures ;-)

The boys enjoyed in the garage area we could jam on any instrument you could imagine.

After the yo-yo competition we enjoyed a visit to the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame.

I remember seeing School House Rock on Saturday mornings. I even remember that episode.

I enjoyed the pics I found to shoot all around the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The hotel and staff were pretty good sports about yo-yours being everywhere. I like the second rule...

Andy even found a spin top battle to join!

We all got to see our favorites win the World Yo-Yo Competition.

Gently Stein is one of Johnny's faves

Pepper fell asleep on Julie’s photo frame iPad. Then she proceeded to ooze down the front of it...

I had a chance to swing by my dad’s headstone this week. Had my devotions under the willow trees.

I miss him but am ever thankful for the life and family he gave me.

This resonates perfectly with my geeky family!

And Pop goes the washing machine...

Our washing machine suddenly stopped working recently. I debugged it down to a problem with the motor controller board. When I removed the board, I found multiple places where it had failed. The best one was where the IC had blown its top... It literally split right in half.

The good news is I had the board rebuilt and we are back in business.

A nice surprise to come home to!

Joslyn and her family finished up my birthday week with a nice treat!