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[Brown Eyes]

Well, tonight is a beautiful night in Pittsburgh.  Clear skies (for now) and nice cool temperatures, which should make for good sleeping weather.  They say there may be strong storms later overnight.

I'm watching hockey... which, for me is totally crazy.  I'm not a fan of most sports and especially not sports like football and hockey.  LOL, bull riding (of course) is the major exception when it comes to sports for me.  But, here in Pittsburgh it's almost required by law to watch these Stanley Cup finals.  It's actually a really exciting game tonight.  I find hockey particularly stressful to watch sometimes because the pace is so fast.

[Meryl]

WELCOME TO THE CLUB, FRITZ!

[David In Indy]

Welcome Fritz!!

(It's about time you got here!)

[Brown Eyes]

Welcomd Fritz!!!

 

[Meryl]

Well, I got back that last roll of film from Mikaela's and my Southwest trip, so here are a few more photos:

Shiprock, holy ground for those of us who love Tony Hillerman's mystery novels:



Driving south toward Gallup, we took a lovely detour through the Chuska Mountains, coming out at Window Rock, Arizona, capital of the Navajo Nation.  Here's a shot of the landmark from the parking lot of the police station (more holy ground):



The lovely and attractive Window Rock police station (looks like stacked mobile homes or something):



Moving right along, to the landmark itself.  Yep, there's a window in that rock:



Here's the monument to the Navajo Code Talkers, heroes of World War II:



Opposite Window Rock is the Navajo Nation Council Chamber where the chapter delegates meet 4 times a year:

[Meryl]

After our overnight at the wildly overdecorated El Rancho Hotel in Gallup (see Mika's pictures), we breakfasted at Garcia's along Route 66 before getting about cleaned out at a nearby Native American jewelry outlet:



Then there was the big Norway Day celebration at Dairy Queen en route to Albuquerque:



Shopping in Old Town in Albuquerque:



Finally, a day trip up to Santa Fe, which was lovely, but the jewelry prices were way too rich for our pocketbooks!  We did much better in Gallup.



And finally, back East at last, an attempt to take a picture of the Manhattan skyline from Jersey in heavy traffic:

[Ellemeno]

Wonderful, Meryl!  But what is this "roll of film" you speak of?  No capisce.




And welcome, Fritz!

[CellarDweller]

Great pics, Meryl!

[Kelda]

brill photos!

[Jeff Wrangler]

So has anybody else seen the latest real-life Jack Twist?

His name is Neal Wanless, he's a 23-year-old ranch kid from a kind of hardscrabble ranch in South Dakota. And he won the Powerball drawing. I saw him on the evening news on Saturday: Big black cowboy hat (almost looked too big for him), great big belt buckle (couldn't tell if it's a rodeo buckle), big, slightly goofy grin. Between the hat and the buckle, the first thing I thought was, "Jack!"

Cute boy. Seems like a real nice kid.