Ice Fishing ...I still don't get it

What a great weekend! Russ and Nancy invited us to their lake home in Wisconsin to do some ice fishing. The morning started off at -5 below, bright sunshine, ice thick enough to drive on and no wind! Wonderful conditions. Fishing was tough but we did catch a couple. Dan and Roger cooked the fish along with other fillets that Roger brought with him and we had a real "shore lunch" style dinner.

Check out #27, 27 years ago.

Denise & Eddie E-Session

By chance we scheduled Denise and Eddie's E-session on the first day of the Grundy county corn festival. What a fun time to be in Morris.

Fireworks in the park

Steve and Josie brought little Stephanie to the carnival in Shorewood last week. You just gotta love them pork chops on a stick.

They put on a pretty good fireworks show.

Chicago air and water show

One of the highlights of my summer the past few years has been the Air and Water show at North Ave. beach in Chicago. It's awesome when an F-16 roars by at 650 mph then it blows your mind when you realize that he's running at half throttle. I'm thinking about renting a super telephoto lens next year for the show.

Noreen on the edge... I mean on the Ledge

What a great day to go to Willis Tower to see the "ledge" and then have brunch at the Taste. This is the first and last time you will hear me call the Sears Tower by any other name.

The ledge creeped me out but Noreen was fine. Noreen got ink done and I almost bought a statue of a crazy man holding a knife. They were handing out samples of rock star energy drink, I typically don't like energy drinks but I did go back for seconds.We were home in time to watch the last four innings of the Cub game. One of these days we won't act like old farts and stay for the fireworks... maybe next year.

I've got some expired boat flares that I can fire up in the yard.

CUBS WIN !!!