Dave Decker had his baby, it’s in the post before this one…..Congratulations Dave!!!

Friday night Austin’s All-star team got schooled; the 10 run rule came into play. Austin played fine batted once and was on base. Same thing happened Saturday morning….10-0, Austin batted .500...he had a fly-out. Glad I wasn’t coaching the team. They team looked like zombies, no enthusiasm at all…..we took it easy in the afternoon.

Saturday night/ afternoon I met Sedi and Nicole at Gene’s and then we went to the Good Guys Car show at the fairgrounds….. I knew this was going to happen, I was going to start looking at these cars and get the bug……Many fine pieces of American culture lined-up at the fairgrounds….Of course I was drooling and I checked out the swap meet, another mistake. I saw a few cars that I actually am/was considering. I spent over an hour at a guys house yesterday looking at a 71’ Mustang convertible, only problem I saw there was not one piece of metal that could be reused on that car. But he also had a 73’ Mach 1 that I am very interested in, but I’m not driving in on gravel. So…if I get my place sold and another one bought, and he still has that car….That car was actually restored…..I’m sure I could add my own touch to it.

Later we headed down to Buzzard Billy’s and The Liars Club….interesting to say the least…….another time. Laura and her group were kicked out of the High-Life????

Sunday I went to the guys house and checked out those cars, finally went home…..then was talked into going to Saylorville in the afternoon with Ron, Linda, Kailey, Laura, Brad, and Cory….that was a blast!!!!! Tubing and some water skiing on ski’s… circa 1954…just wanted to see if I could get up on them…no problem….the problem was too much slack when I would take a wake……the tubing was an awesome workout on my shoulders!!!! It did do a number on my forearm/elbow.... I'm going to see another specialist after RAGBRAI...
Song of the day is Little of Your Time by Maroon 5 it’s in the player.

Hopefully some biking tonight………

....and what were you doing at 07:07:07 on 07/07/07? I know what I was doing....


Deep Thought for the Day: If you go through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance.

Rowan Elizabeth Decker was born July 8th!
Weight: 8 lbs
Height: 20 1/4 Inches
Time: 12:20 pm (afternoon)

Both Rowan and Brenda are doing great.
The proud parents and daughter....

There at Mercy Hospital - Room 2021, until Tuesday.

15 days until RAGBRAI XXXV!!!
Training miles: unspeakable...hopefully knock some off this weekend..

Useless Information for the day: Aglets - those plastic sleeves at the ends of shoelaces, which stop the ends unravelling and assist with lacing.

The I-Cubs won last night 9-2…nice win, I was more surprised we scored 3 runs in the first…two of those homers. Ron, Linda, Kailey, Mark, Laura, Julie, Shelly, Jamie, Scott, Sara, & Sedi were there last night. Of course Scott & Sara were wearing there ever so fashinable Croc sandles. It was National Guard night…there was no fly-over….disappointing….but we won….and the weather was very nice! Most went to the High-Life afterwards and several before.

Ron and Linda did not look bad at all for the motorcycle accident they had a month ago…Linda gets her cast off in 5 days….Instead of buying another bike they bought a boat…so I got to hear all about that from Ron.

That Dodge Avenger Laura has until her Libby is fixed is a fun little car to drive, even for a 4 popper with 4 doors....

Austin has his first All-Star game tonight at Raccoon..

Austin has a couple games this weekend during the day. Maybe the Good Guys Car Show this weekend. I was suppose to take my 61 GMC pickup up to the swap meet, so I could get rid of it. Looks like I ran out of time. Other than that no plans as of yet for weekend. Maybe hang out with Sedi Sat…..of course that bike thing is looming over my head....

River Phest Saturday, July 7th: This year we will start at Van Meter & float to Booneville. The Booneville Bar is planning on having a band on their patio -- camping will be available. River Phest is an annual river float on the Raccoon River started by Van Meter, Iowa locals in 1996. The first float started with under 30 people and last year we grew to over 200. River Phest is the first Saturday after the 4th of July. Take off from the Wildwood boat ramp in Van Meter @ 1pm and end at the Van Meter two rivers access. There is no charge for floating the river, BYOB and BYOTube. Everyone is welcome except stupid people (you know who you are). We are trying to break 300 people this year so invite all your friends.
Sounds like Sedi may be helping FLOAT the team this year on RAGBRAI

Girl, 11, charged with DUI after high-speed chase

COMING UP: Ankeny Summerfest , SPAMALOT, RAGBRAI, JIMMY BUFFETT......
August: Blaster Ride, Chicago Cubs rooftop,State Fair Pub Crawl, State Fair, Softball......

Deep Thought for the Day: After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, "Hey, old buddy, how's it going?"

IT TAKES 5 MILES TO STOP AT FULL SPEED.

The ship is named Emma Maersk .
The command bridge is higher than a 10 store building and has 11 rigs that can operate simultaneously.
Additional info:
Country of origin - Denmark
Length - 1,302 ft
Width - 207 ft
Net cargo - 123,200 tons
Engine - 14 in-line cylinders diesel engine (110,000 BHP)
Cruise Speed - 31 mi/h Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 ft3 container)
Crew - 13 people First Trip - Sept. 08, 2006
Construction cost - US $145,000,000+
Silicone painting applied to the ship bottom reduces water resistance and saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year.

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Life goes by pretty fast.
If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

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We ate at Battles BBQ before we saw The Transformers Tuesday night…..Great place to eat, I had the Turkey....Wow it was AWESOME! The movie was good, great action! My only complaint which still holds up from the trailers, it was kind of hard to tell who was who for the Transformers….seeing it several times would alleviate this problem….Coloring the Autobots helped some….. I would see it again….and of course a sequel is inevitable…..

Had a nice 4th!!!

Slept in till 9….very nice!!!!!

Got the Mustang started…it started right up (drove it a couple times last fall)...and we went to the Milo parade. A lot of people from Indianola and DSM area there… lasted a little less than a 1 ½ hours.

The mustang did run rough any time we were starting out going…bad gas…some of that gas has been in that tank for 3-5 years….and I haven’t got it burned out, I keep topping it off, I’m afraid to run out of gas…gas gauge or the sending unit quit working on me when I restored it…..I plan of driving it several more times this summer, most likely after RAGBRAI



Went and watched mud volleyball at Raccoon River….Blaise enjoyed the mud and water…Austin just wanted to go….looked like there was a lot of talent out there…..and of course Joe made sure I got some mud….

Later we went to Cindi’s in Ankeny and hung out with her family for a few hours and headed home….and we watched the Milo fireworks from home…..and saw the Pleasantville fireworks too……

I-Cubs tonight... looks like Andy is wussing out tonight...nothing new there....hopefully the temp is decent!