That's Bill-ievable

If I keep going to Bills games, I'm going to run out of these kind of lame titles.  I guess I better pace myself or enjoy it while it lasts...

Bills vs. Titans.  I have a feeling we'll need a few bloody mary's to make this a good game.


Tailgating outside of Conklin's Bar & Grill




Just to make my sister jealous, an entire huge box full of Herr's potato chips

Megan enjoying her Buffalo Wing



Buffalo lost 35-34.  My philosophy about football doesn't focus on the QB being the cause of all that is good and bad with a team, but Fitzpatrick may be changing that...


Megan and I at Postcard Falls on Allen's Creek at Corbett's Glen looking for salmon.  They are there, but not quite ready to swim upstream.  We were late last year and are constantly checking this year.

October 2012 #27

Issue #27

Goodbye Chicago.  You’ve always had a place for me on your broad boulevards.  But, I’m married now and it’s time for me to move on.  To settle near family and have kids of my own.  Find a place to call “home” and live the clichés of Thanksgiving dinners and grilling in the backyard.  I love my simple life of taking the “el” to work and checking out the neighborhoods on the weekend; but I must go.

I remember the day I decided to move here.  After that misleading job interview, I wondered all around the Loop knowing there was nothing I could do back in Michigan.  Staring at the spitting faces of Crown Fountain.  Grabbing a hot dog and fries at Max’s Take Out.  I gave myself one year to sink or swim and moved into my Spartan Ravenswood apartment a few days later.

Now, the moving truck has all our junk in it and we’re starting a new life in Rochester, New York.  Will it be better than Chicago?  Apples and oranges.  But, I will miss the activity of a world-class city.  The adventure, amusement, and/or oddities I could find around every street corner.  The food.  All of my friends going to dive bars, the bartering of Maxwell Street Market, all kinds of concerts at a wide variety of venues, apartment parties for any reason, and just sitting on the porch people watching.  It’s been good.  

LEAPIN' LEMURS!!!

For my birthday, my beautiful wife brought me to the Seneca Park Zoo!  http://www.senecaparkzoo.org/


I should have known that we were going since there was a theme to my breakfast...


Spoonbill


Sloth!


This rhino is in lockdown.  Look at those bars






It's a good thing I can't get a Meerkat as a pet.


Bald Eagle just chillin' in the park


Who will win in snake vs. Hulk.  Also, I should note that it is an awesome time to go to the zoo because it is the Zoo Boo.  Kids get to trick or treat with the animals.


A hyena getting a pumpkin for a halloween treat


And now to hide it somewhere good


Tiger


His name is Justin Verlander and he will be taking the game tonight against the Yankees in game 3.

 
I <3 bugs="">


Totem poll from the old Midtown Plaza Mall.


PENGUINS!


Seal


These guys really ham it up for the camera





Most awkward Polar Bear ever...




The Step Into Africa just opened!  I've been wanting to go to the zoo since we moved to Rochester, but we've been waiting until this opened.  Then, we just got busy since it's been open for a while.  YEAH!


Masai huts.


LOOK AT ME GOAT!  LOOK!!!


I'll have to ask Dick and Marianne about these items in the Masai hut.  Especially the chair and digital screen in a weird wood frame...


The lions really liked watching all the kids in costumes.  










Mr. Baboon did not like his magazine




Elephant.  I really like the kid in yellow because he's The Man in the Yellow Hat from Curious George.  


For some reason, this elephant spent a lot of time eating a chain.


MORE AWKWARD POLAR BEAR!


Bird


Rachel's favorite animals at the zoo, which are Raccoons.  


This rhino did not like one of the zookeepers.  


Meerkat Me


Megan in her Wonder Woman pose showing off her fried chicken dinner at Trata Restaurant at the Armory http://www.tratarochester.com/


Mmmmmm...  Giant American Cheeseburger.  So good and so much that there was no birthday cake necessary afterwards.  Highly suggested


Mmmmmm...  Fries too!  The red pepper and artichoke dip was really good too.  Great place for people watching.  

First, thanks to all my friends and family for the birthday wishes.  I really appreciate it.  Especially to Megan for showering me with attention for a full day.  And, to Derek Jeter for breaking his leg so the Detroit Tigers can have a fair shot at going to the World Series...

Another Lollypop Construction Update

The walls are going up fast for the new training center




A lot of work to go as you can tell by the sheer amount of cinder blocks around


Crisp fall day with the trees changing color behind the new animal clinic.


And, the trees haven't quite changed color or the salmon start to swim up the falls at Corbett's Glen

The trees around Allen's Creek are about to change.  Hopefully, it will be better than last year when they were about to change and then a severe windstorm knocked all the leaves off.  It went from summer to instant winter.  Then, there was no snow.  Last year was weird.
That's it from here.