game day pictures from my phone

It was too rainy to take my good camera into the Jets game today. Had they had a stadium with a closed roof I would have been able to take my camera to the game. But, nooooooo, the Jets are not one of those sissy teams that plays indoors when the weather is not perfect.

I never understood this though - they play outdoors on plastic grass.

There is a brand new state of the art stadium opening next season and it still does not have a roof. This is just nuts.

Speaking of nuts, we spent the day standing and sitting in the rain today. We had entertainment. Good entertainment even. Entertainment in the form of the J - E - T - S JETS JETS JETS winning their game today in spite of their U - G - L - Y "throwback" uniforms circa 1961. I would have photos of the game to share with you, but it was too wet to bring my camera into the stadium. Did I mention it should have a roof?!

Here are a two photos from my phone. This one is Mike in his fashionable black plastic trash bag that I lovingly cut holes for his head and two arms. This photo and others like it is being widely circulated on email to his family.

I was able to talk Mike out of his plastic bag and into something more acceptable. So here we both are in our $1.99 emergency rain ponchos. At the end of the day we drove back down to the beach and watched the sky get clearer and clearer. It ended up perfectly blue with fluffy white clouds - now that is the kind of day we expected to have. But who knows, maybe the rain helped the Jets win. I am glad for that.

Running the Flag

I always wondered who the kids were that got to run the big Texas flag onto the field before the UT football games. Little did I know that one day one of my children would be doing just that! Check this out:

here they are in the endzone in blue jeans and white button downs

Hey, I recognize you! What are you quaffing??

Gettin ready to run it out!

Here we go!

That there is a pretty big Texas flag!!

They rufflle it for a while while we singTo be fair to both sides of the stadium (and this week's trick) they flip it







More singing and holding our horns up
There's Steffi!

And then they rolled it all up and got the heck off the field so the game could begin!

The group is called APO -as in alpha phi omega. They are a co-ed service fraternity and Steffi has pledged there. Assuming she fulfills her service hour requirements and does all the silly things required of pledges, she will be inducted at the end of the semester. Big "attaboy" (or "attagirl?") to Meg for suggesting that Stef look into joining this group. It seems perfect.

I am pretty pleased with the zoom on my camera. Our seats are just about as far from Bevo and you can get and look what I was able to photograph like he was right in front of me:

The game went on until almost 11 p.m. And it took us an hour to get out of the stadium, walk to the car 15 blocks south and drive home. But it was worth it all - UT beat Tech 34 - 24!! Hook em'!!

New looks

Just a few updates this morning.

My deck is almost finished!!

And Duncan got a new look for his first day of work today (Thursday).

Blogger is being uncooperative and is refusing to let me move pictures around. Here is what he looked like before:

in case you didn't see the sports page on Monday

the Jets beat the Texans on Sunday. Mike and I traveled down, met up with Meg, Stephen, Pete and cousin Johnny on Saturday. We had a blast Saturday afternoon and evening watching the UT and ND and USC games in various bars and then ended up at the Wild West. If only I had had my camera to take pictures of Peter and Johnny line dancing....but we all have the memories!

Here are a few pix from the game

Red Flags and Evil Outlets

Something bizarre happened to our perfect weather here. Yesterday was gray and very very windy. A sandblast day on the beach where even Mike didn't last past 2:00. He was mostly the only one on the beach yesterday. I stayed at the house and read and took a great nap. Today was not as windy but the water was so wild they put up the red flags and ALL CAPS RED FLAG" WARNING I guess in case you are colorblind.

The nameless guards were so covered in orange sweats so we couldn't even see if they were male or female.

We set up our chairs and decided to make the best of it. That's me under the hoody and beachtowel. A lot of people flew kites. The day was really good for that! I gave up around 3:30 and Mike stayed another two hours. He saw them haul the chairs off for the winter around 4:30. Left the guards just sitting in the sand until their shift was over at 5. I guess the summer is officially over when they take the lifeguard chairs away. :(

I thought I would also update you on our "Evil Outlet" here. When we were here over the summer Mike noticed that his electric razor no longer worked. He wasn't fazed because he had a spare and we didn't think anything much of it until we came back this time and discovered our new Nano Tech with separate hot and cold dials and "cold air blast" hairdryer had gone kaput. Someone, we really don't know who, had left it plugged in after using it. Putting two and two together has led us to believe that the outlet is EVIL and ruined these two appliances. Oh well. Good thing I kept the old circa 1974 Sunbeam 840 "just in case."

It only takes about an hour to dry my hair with it.

Sunset and George Foreman

Perfect end to a perfect day on the beach.

Kyle was our lifeguard again even tho we were at the Guyer street beach to be with a crew of Clifford's & McKenna's. We lasted until just about 6 p.m. and then walked back to New Brunswich for a "sprite."

I think I mentioned that when we were here earlier in the summer we bought a George Foreman Grill? We broke it out again tonight to grill up burgers and dawgs before roaming up to the Crab's Claw for a drink later. Our band from the party "To The Limit" is playing there tonight.

Meanwhile we are keeping up with the UT score via text messages from our kids. As the sign said at the Waterloo Ice House last weekend "it is a paper view" game and not on network TV. "Paper" was scratched out and somone corrected it to say "pay-per." I'll be laughing about that whenever I hear a game is Pay-per View. hehehehe.

Hook'em Horns!!

It's like we never left

Look familiar?

The beach that is. And that guy in the chair with the funny hat reading a book should look a little familiar too :)

I was here on a bizness trip Weds and Thursday and just stayed in the regional office until it was time to pick up Mike from Newark airport around 8 p.m. I was proud of myself for getting to the airport without making any wrong turns. Score 1 driving point for me! Of course I was half an hour early and since there is no place to park and wait I had to circle, circle, circle about half a dozen times. If you take the "C" "Departures" level, it is a more interesting loop around than if you take the route to"C" "Arrivals." ....for future reference, should you find yourself picking someone up at Newark and you are early. We got down the the beach, I mean the shore, around 9:30 ish, checked out the house and headed to - where else? - The Crab's Claw!

We woke up to a beautiful day on Friday. I had to be on some phone calls so Mike did a little grocery shopping and then went up to the beach by himself. I didn't get to the beach until after lunchtime.

The yellow flag is pretty against the blue sky, don't you think? Kyle was our lifeguard today. He whistled a lot whenever people went in over their knees.

It was nice and warm with a good breeze all day. No bugs!

In Sock News, I have begun knitting a friend for my 1st sock. I think they will be sort of like cousins with similar features and coloring, but this friend will be a little more refined. As far as I know, I have not yet dropped or added any random stitches nor have I made up new ways to purl. But it's still early.

Continuing saga of decks and sox

All of the planks are off now

Mike helped me move the sunfish and two windsurfers out from underneath the deck. I hope to sell them on Craig's list. Oh, the fun I had with that Sunfish on the Wye River and in the bay behind Ocean City! It will be very hard to part with her.

The upstairs deck is completely done. New railings and everything! I love the view from up here. You can see over to St Stephens school and the 360 bridge. I am very happy that they removed the birds nest that had become the annual home for a family of poop-ful birds!

In other news....last night at knit night, I finished my first sock!!

It is way to warm to wear it now, but by the time I am done with the second maybe it will be cool enough to wear. I am so pleased!