Mystery Pic

I should probably clear the pics off my phone more often. I wonder where I took this? Probably in the alley behind my house, or some other exotic locale.

Garage Sale Time - July 11

JD and I are hosting a happy little garage sale this Saturday morning. I'm sure it will burn me out on being sociable for the rest of the weekend. Maybe if I'm ambitious I'll get up early Sunday morning and visit the new City Garden downtown, but I'm not holding my breath. So far the only activity I'm sure of for this weekend is sitting around outside, trying to sell off some desks, a sofa, some spare computer parts, a bunch of dishes, and a friend's kids clothes.







This will be my second and last garage sale of the year (possibly decade).

Dubuque

Julie and I continued on past Staunton, past Peoria, past Davenport, all the way to Dubuque.

What do you do when you've spent all afternoon eating junkfood in a car? You get to your hotel and eat a dinner of appetizers and margaritas, of course.

This is what it looks like when we're not acting like adults.

The next morning, after everyone else headed off to the ski slopes, I went for a walk in downtown Dubuque. It's pretty active and accessible, but it had a few slow spots.


They're only open Wednesday, 1-4.


A closed candy counter on Main Street. Oh well, it matches the closed shoe store and the other empty storefronts. I can't complain. I couldn't make an interesting photo of the modern & active Opera House or Five Flags Theater.

Parks!

Julie & stopped for a stroll around Lafayette Square Park on our way home last night. I thought St. Louis had something like 15 or 16 parks in the city limits, not counting the little plazas downtown. I just checked the Parks Division Website. The list of all 105 city parks was pretty impressive.

After we left Lafayette Square we visited the brand new Noodles & Co in Hampton Village. As part of their grand opening, they were running a fund raiser for Francis Park, another city favorite, and one of the four parks we can walk to from our house. The noodles were good, and the crowd was non-stop. Here's hoping they raised some serious cash for Francis.

P.S.: The torn rotator cuff is mending. The head cold is fading with every annoying cough.