Ben how'd ya get so fly?

My nephew drew this beautiful picture of Ben. My sister and I requested the moustache but the giant eyebrows and Fred Flinestone feet, oh he picked that up all by himself. Lovely.

Wowzaas I can't believe it is the 4th already. The cynics of my family will say that the 4th is the halfway point of summer but in reality summer has just begun, come on people. We have a nice slew of fireworks brought in by Dad from SoDak, with the highlight piece being a large firework called Salvation with a crucifix and John 3:16 printed on the side. Hmm I didn't know there were Chinese Christians? In any case good find Dad, controversy is good, then we forget how many bottles of mustard we had, who parked where and what drank all the beer.

We caught the Tom Petty - Pearl Jam concert on Tuesday night in St. Paul. Tom was pretty rocking, I mean he still wears the same duds from 30 years ago (purple shirt with vest?) but he also rocks and sings like he is 30 years younger. It was great entertainment with the crazies in front of us dancing and carrying on we had plenty to look at. In general the people watching rivaled that of the airport..........

But doesn't hold a candle to the folks at the DMV. Wow I have never seen such a hodge podge of people as I ran into at the Columbia Heights DMV. Some of the oddest ones were employees to boot. Gov't offices = scary, don't go unless you HAVE to.