Category Archives: Outdoors

Storm smacks Louisville today

That’s the George Rogers Clark Memorial bridge in the foreground.  It opened in 1929 as the Louisville Municipal Bridge, and renamed in honor of Gen. Geo. R. Clark in 1949. The bridge is featured in the Bill Murray movie “Stripes” … Continue reading

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Bernheim Fall Festival

Each year, the Bernheim Forest has a Fall Festival called “ColorFest”, and CVH dragged me down there this year.  Once I got there, I had a wonderful time.  When you live here in the Midwest, and the cold grey spectre … Continue reading

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Jug Band Jubileee

Today Louisville hosted the 10th Annual Jug Band Jubilee.  A good time was had by all. Jug Band music refers primarily to pre-WW II white people music, although I heard a lot of Mississippi blues this year.  I caught three … Continue reading

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Tour de Pork 2014

A rainy day for a bike ride, but any ride you can walk away from is a good ride.  I’d guess that at least two hundred riders showed up, but there may have been more registered, because they were very, … Continue reading

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Road trip to Indiana

The weather is warming, the sun is shining, and after a long winter, CVH was itching to take a “road trip”.  Since we couldn’t leave until after nine a.m., and had to be home by dark, it was going to … Continue reading

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Saturday in the Park with Dinosaurs

Salt Lake City is an example of typical American flat sprawl, but today we went to Ogden, which looks a little more like the old-timey western town that you might expect to find out here. We visited Dinosaur Park, which … Continue reading

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The Train to Salvation

Today we took the commuter train downtown.  I think the grandchildren had been on trains before, but this may be the first train ride that they will be old enough to remember.  Indeed, at times they even appeared astounded. We … Continue reading

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Trick or Treating

Being Halloween, we took the kids trick or treating that evening around the neighborhood. CVH dressed as a black cat. GC1 was a Snow Angel. GC2 (shown here with good friend) was Dr. McStuffins. Justin was Very Scary. I was … Continue reading

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The Island of the Antelope

This morning Justin cooked breakfast.  It’s in the large skillet behind him in this photo. Through the kitchen window to his right you might be able to make out the knobs of Antelope Park, which is where we headed after … Continue reading

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Zoo story

One of the local health care conglomerates threw a health fair at the zoo this morning.  Why the zoo?  I have no idea.  But it included free parking and admission to the zoo, which is quite a deal these days, … Continue reading

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