Post Yosemite 2007

We've been back home for a little over 2 weeks now and I thought I'd catch up on what's been happening at home. The Monday after we got back, I made a call to the dermatologist office as soon as they opened in the morning to let them know I was still miserable despite getting a shot of steroids earlier and I offered to see any of the doctors who had office time that day. I must have sounded desperate enough because an hour & a half later I was in their office. The doc confirmed it was a bad case of poison ivy that had gotten into my blood stream and was spreading all over. They gave me a shot of a different type of steroid, gave me a RX for a steroid cream, a booklet showing pictures of the offending plants and said kill anything in the yard with 3 leaves on it. He said be patient as the worst case he had saw lasted 5 weeks (I'm now in my 4th week, but the original spots are better and the newer ones are healing too, so most of the time I'm itch free.






Joey & Boomer and I patrolled the garden and yard looking for the offending plants with leaves of three.




Some common weeds.






LEAVES OF THREE - LET IT BE, NO - GET THE ROUND UP!


Here is a rare sight at our house - three cars in the garage. We picked up the van on the Monday after we got home and by Friday, the transmission had busted again. We have had three rebuilt ones put into it so far. Currently, this last one has made it a full week so far. Maybe three is the charm.


We also celebrated two anniversaries: Bob 25 years at ITT (they surprised him with a huge cake and also this smaller one he brought home) and our 27th wedding anniversary (Becky bought us a cake).




We celebrated Father's Day. Bob shows he can pour two beers at once. We had surf & turf for dinner (grilled rib steak & red snapper).




Last Sunday, Bob rescued this old bumblebee from the deck and our curious dogs.


And last but not least... We might get grapes this year! We've never had any get this far along before.

Yosemite 2007 June 9 - Going Home

Bob got off a few morning pictures in San Francisco before we left for the airport.






At the airport, Becky recommended we stop by the See's Candy shop. It was good.


Here we are in the plane to Dallas.






Can you see Half Dome?






There was some weather the pilot was trying to avoid so we did some zig-zagging on the way to Dallas. We had pretty tight connections as it was and as we pulled into the gate, our plane to Indy was in the boarding process. Bob's experience with the Dallas airport came into play as he mapped out the best way to get to our next gate -we ended up needing to run with our backpacks on. Quite entertaining I'm sure to the folks in Dallas. We made our next plane and even more amazing, so did our bags.

After we landed in Indy we got a lift to Becky's SUV back at the airport and we all settled in for a two hour drive back to Fort Wayne. I guess our car troubles are transferable to other peoples vehicles as Bob was driving on 69 near Anderson and all of a sudden Becky's car died and we coasted to the side of the road. We waited a bit and then restarted it and everything seemed to boot back up again. We made it home with no further troubles about midnight 30.

Yosemite 2007 June 8 - San Francisco Here We Come

We woke up to a very smokey campground. The good side of this, is that Bob was able to take some interesting pictures in the morning.








Our last stellar blue jay.


Our cooler is prepared for it's last ride. Although Bob had it strapped shut well for the airline trip, TSA opened it up for inspection and didn't pack it as well and the hinges broke apart. We left it in San Francisco.


When we arrived in San Francisco we drove straight to the Golden Gate Bridge. It was foggy. We also drove up the bluffs across from the bridge but the fog was definitely too thick there for us to get a good view.








We crossed back into San Francisco and checked into the hotel and had a traditional lunch of soup in a bread bowl at the wharf.
















Then we walked down to Pier 39 to see the sea lions.












We drove over to Golden Gate Park hoping to see the Japanese Tea Garden, but it was closed for the day when we got there. All was not lost as Jenny found the Shakespeare Garden and fell in love with it.












We went back to the city and rode the cable car until the end, and then walked back to the hotel. We then called it a night.