Thing of the month club
In January 2006, Tina and I made the decision to try semi-retirement. We wouldn’t join a bridge club and play Bingo, but we would give up the security of a full time job and paycheck. We joined AARP, canceled many of our monthly expenses, bought a decent camera and...
New landscaping begins
With the removal of buckthorn on both our property and that of our corporate neighbor, we needed to start growing some new trees and brush for the wildlife and to help block the view of the parking lot at Country Insurance. Rather than wait till spring, we decided to...
Family together at Thanksgiving
My folks and Jeff were able to visit us for Thanksgiving weekend. Jeff flew in from Orlando and the folks came from KC for a couple of days. Highlights of the weekend were the gathering of 4 generations of Wilson men, dinner at Nicollet Inn with a piano performance by...
Who needs legs?
FROM LAKE GENEVA TO THE DEAD SEA: ARMIN KÖHLI'S NEW CYCLING CHALLENGE Swiss cyclist Armin Koehli arrives at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea near Amman November 17, 2007. Koehli lost his legs when he stepped on a landmine 26 years ago. He cycled some...
A new look in the woods
Our world took a bit of a shift this week, when our neighbors, Country Insurance decided that it was time to deal with their buckthorn problem. We woke up one morning to the grounds crew and a small bulldozer stripping out any brush less than 4 inches in diameter....
When we were young(er)
Tina and I are approaching our 30th anniversary together. As part of the celebration, we have started to digitize our 35mm slide collection from 1981 thru 1991. Oh, how time flies. We should have quite a collection of memories as the process unfolds and we'll post...
Interbike 2007
Tina and I made a quick trip to Vegas for the Interbike show last week. Some of the highlights besides making new friends, included the bike races held evenings after the show. Wednesday was a Cross race held in a Vegas Soccer complex and Thursday, the USA Crit...
Discovery says Goodbye
After 9 years of winning bike races, the Discovery Team has decided to call it quits at the end of 2007. Tina and I were fortunate to follow the Tour of Missouri (their last race in the US) last week and took a whole lot of photos. Many are posted at...
George Hincapie's leg
George Hincapie's legs. A friend of mine identified the blood vessels on the back of his leg as "a cluster of abnormally formed blood vessels called Arteriovenous Malformation or AVM for short." Wikipedia defines this as "a congenital disorder of the connections...
Upfront & Personal
Alberto Contador in St. Louis Tina and I had a wonderful week watching the Discovery Team at the Tour of Missouri in their last race on American soil. I have sorted through most of the 800+ shots and posted some of the best. If anyone wants a high res version of any...