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…?! 🤪

On the way to dinner with Andy…

…I managed to grab this cool shot of the rising moon. Straight off the camera, no editing. 

Meanwhile, Julie’s been working on THESE!

She smoked short ribs for us last weekend! Watch for a bit and you may see some of the smoke :)

I contributed tools, advice and a little hauling service

John and I spend an hour or so last Saturday to trim the low hanging limbs off their big tree.  We cleaned up their view quite a lot.

Andy and I hanging out before dinner

I got to see some of the skills he’s practicing at the skatepark

Making progress on the bootie wall

Except now we started calling it the booty wall hahahaha.