Anyway, I had a nice drive up. Great weather and books on CD are a good way to go. In Kentucky I saw the following:
Imagine the $4/mile that that was costing!
I had a great time catching up with my family and some old friends.
My sister Karen and I took her 3 kids and went to visit my youngest sister Becca. Becca and her husband Alex were in the process of buying a house that they were already living in. It is a very funky cool old house. It is over a hundred years old and had some oddities but plenty of charm. I’m looking forward to seeing pictures of the various renovation projects that they will do! On the way home, Karen and I plotted a garage sale to help the ongoing “cleaning out the old house project”.
I had a lovely birthday dinner with my folks and youngest brother Pete at the family’s perennial favorite Real Seafood Company. Any excuse for seafood! I get the opportunity all the time now due to my proximity to the ocean, but I never turn down good fish!
Quite a bit of hauling things out of the basement, some bedrooms, and closets went on throughout the week. Karen and I had quite a successful garage sale on Saturday morning. We made about $300 on the stuff, but better than that, we got to get rid of many space hogging and never used items. Tim showed up with the kids and Karen’s whole clan had a picnic in the yard and the kids played around. They sure do love a garage sale!
After the sale was over Karen dropped some things at the PTO Thrift shop and put up an E-cycle Notice for the free pile that we left in the yard. Pete and I took some unsold sporting equipment to Play it Again Sports. They took more than half of it, adding another $35 to our total. The only casualty being Dad’s golf shoes that Play it Again took, but that he didn’t realize were on the way out. Bummer, but then again when’s the last time he went golfing? A further stop at the ReUse center netted Pete a turntable and me an emptier car.
Over the weekend some work happened at the new house in the basement. Mom got started on the front door staining and Dad and I chalked out the walls for the unbuilt rooms in the basement. We put up some shelves and shrank the pile of STUFF in the basement.
There were also varied attempts to find some old fashioned cinnamon donuts like you get at the apple orchards or pumpkin patches. Unsuccessful, I might add. So we had to settle for Fragels. For those of you uninitiated, a fragel is a cinnamon raisin bagel that is fried like a donut and then rolled in cinnamon sugar. Tasty!
The folks and I had dinner with Karen, Tim and the kids the night before I headed home. They were hilarious, as usual.
On the way home I got a picture of the most entertaining thing along 75. In between Cincinnati and Dayton there is a church that has really gone the extra mile. This picture isn't very good, but it really is an enormous concrete Jesus rising out of a lake! 
Home again home again, I have been busy with the markets and a union call this past Sunday. Disney Live is the heaviest kids’ show I’ve ever put together and taken apart. I’m a little sore today, but the payout will be worth it. The lowest rate all day was time and a half, and at times it got up to triple time! Sweet!
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Oh yes, Touch Down Jesus! Fun note: Under the concrete skin is a pink foam structure.
When near your parents, I think you can find those old fashioned donuts at the Dexter Cider Mill. If willing to drive a little further, there is an awesome apple orchard that makes them by Lansing. Yeah, now I will be on the quest for some of those donuts myself! But even tougher to find down by Savannah.
We drive past the giant Jesus often. It raises all kinds of questions like:
- Is Jesus rising out of the lake or sinking? (Quicksand?)
- Where, exactly, in the gospels is this event described?
- What was the thought process when the church approved the statue? "How about a giant Jesus submerged up to his chest in a lake with his arms raised?" "Sounds great, let's go with that idea. I like it better than the levitating spinning Jesus or the neon flashing Jesus"!!
Sherry has another theory, that they didn't really want the statue actually coming out of the lake, but rather the lake serves as a moat to keep the kids from spray painting the statue.
In defense of the statue, it sure catches your attention. Talking to a fellow guest at a wedding in Cincy I said, hey did you notice the giant Jesus, to which she replied "How could I not !"
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