Sean LaFianza’s Neighborhood

Laura put a bunch of new pictures up on her blog! good stuff!!    :-)

in case you missed it....

 

http://www.lafianzoo.com/hennypenne/?p=955

 

http://www.lafianzoo.com/hennypenne/?p=953

i went out with Stefan and Judi Saturday night to see "the Machine plays the music of Pink Floyd" at the Weinberg Theater of the Arts in Frederick. it was fantastic.... i guess it's a touring show. and the lead vocalist/guitarist said that they'd been a band for 21 years. Pink Floyd music is not an easy thing to do, and could turn into something awful... but these guys pulled it off very well. the band was good, the light show was good, and the screen show behind the band was well done.... fun....  there's a band called "the Australian Pink Floyd" that i've seen on tv and dvd. they're a big outfit with lots of musicians and back up singers and the whole shabang. but i liked this four man band better because they were obviously fans of the music and played a more obscure set then the APF band does. these guys hit every record and i liked that. lots of big hits, but lots of lesser known b sides... (except i was disappointed that they did not play "See Emily Play," even though that was the one request being yelled from the audience...) good times....

 

so,... that night i sat in an aisle seat and right across the aisle from me was a middle aged biker sort of guy with some tattoos. he had a couple of tats on his arm. a snake or something... normal stuff, not that good. not that bad... but he also had tattoos on his head. bad tattoos on his head. on the back of his head he had a sun design, on the right side he had Tinkerbell in her famous pose, bending at the waiste and about to touch something with her magic wand... and on the left side of his head he had a dolphin. a bad dolphin.... wtf.... it's a bold statement to get tattoos on your head, but what does it say about you when you get bad little girl tattoos on your head? .... ?

and for your viewing pleasure, more bad tattoos... here

 

i know i haven't put up a prayer in a long time, and i know it's not Monday...

but i just came across this one, liked it, and decided i had to put it up...

Roy Rogers’ Prayer

Roy Rogers and his wife, Dale Evans, were devoted Christians. Below is a prayer written by Roy.

Lord, I reckon I'm not much just by myself,
I fail to do a lot of things I ought to do.
But Lord, when trails are steep and passes high,
Help me ride it straight the whole way through.

And when in the falling dusk I get that final call,
I do not care how many flowers they send,
Above all else, the happiest trail would be,
For YOU to say to me, "Let's ride, My Friend."

Roy Rogers

it was Colorfest week end in my town of Thurmont. sorry but i forgot my camera so i don't have any pictures this year.... check out last years post, and it looked just about the same (but cloudier and cool) ...  :-)

i drove up to Sarah's house and picked her up about 9 and we went to breakfast. then we hit the streets of Thurmont. as i drove into town there are lots of "parking lots," some of which are actual parking lots, some of which are lawns that people will let you use for a fee. the fee this year was 10 dollars. no way! i said. i live here, i'm not paying to park! so i drove on some side streets and pretty quickly found a parking space 1/2 block from Main St. ha.

Sarah and i walked around town for a few hours looking at all the vendor booths and tents. she was looking for fall decorations for her house, and she found a couple of things. she also got to see her mother there. she was there selling mirrors that she'd decorated. i didn't go up to her table, so i don't know what they really looked like.... but later we went back by that area and i was going to walk up, but she was gone. Sarah found out from someone else there that her mother was frustrated by the wind and that she hadn't sold any mirrors, so she packed up and left early. oh well.....

as ususal the town park and the streets were full of people. the food was good. i didn't buy anything. nothing really appeals to me there, plus i think the prices or what they have is too high. so i don't buy, i just window shop and walk around....

so Sarah got tired of looking at the vendors stuff and wanted to go to yard sales. Thurmont is full of yard sales too, on Colorfest week end. so we had lots to check out.... she picked up some more fall-ish decorations at the yard sales and then we headed back up the mountain to her place and Alex grilled some steaks for us. yum...... we were there for about 5 hours walking around, i'd say.... we ran into a couple people we knew. i saw a guy from work that drove out from Delaware with his wife. i got to catch up with Crystal Picazo, and Ruthann Shaw and Sherry. and i saw Steph and Mike from the old church. they have a pet grooming buisness and were set up with a vendor tent..... i think that's about all the folks i saw that i knew....

 

Sunday i went back up the mountain to get Sarah again and we went to church. and then lunch with Stefan and Judi. and then a ride on the motorcycle. we rode up to visit with Sean and Laura and the kids.... i was not sure about taking the bike but Sarah wanted to. she thought that it'd be one of the last rides we'd get in before the cold weather hit to stay.... however, it was already pretty chilly on Sunday...... we went by the house and got the bike and suited up with coats and sweat shirts and my leather vest, etc... , but even before i got out of Thurmont, i said that this may not be a good idea. we should go back and get the car.... Sarah wanted to ride up and said so... i said ok, we'd give it a shot. hopefully we wouldn't freeze.... so we hit the road... it was pretty cold on the bike, but not too bad. we got to Hershey and got to see the kids, hold Vencenzo for a bit (he's getting big), and visit, but we didn't stay long. i wanted to get back home before the sun went down because i knew it'd be really cold if we were out in the dark. so the ride home started out ok, but we didn't beat the sun. it went down behind the hills and trees and we were cold....  we laughed about it when we finally got home. it was an experience... fun ride, but cold....  i should get myself a full leather outfit for riding in the colder weather one day.... but i don't usually do that....

so Sarah and i had a pretty active week end together. fun. :-)

without even realizing it i watched four movies at home on Saturday. between cleaning bathrooms, doing laundry, and various other chores.... three of the four were violent and bloody...

"Pale Rider" with Clint Eastwood. an old western, really good. A

"Step Brothers" with Will Farrell and John C Reiley. some pretty funny parts. rude and crude though. C

"Hell Ride" a Quinton Tarentino film about two biker gangs in a violent conflict. pretty cool biker movie in the style of old grindhouse biker flicks. B ...(that B might be boosted because i liked all the Harleys and Indians in the movie)

"Wanted" with Angelina Jolie. about a fraternity of assassins. some good action at the end. C+

go look at some of THESE...

great stuff.

i heard on the new this morning that the funds for the official Flight 93 Memorial have been appropriated. that's good.

i have also heard that the design is controversial....

Linda and i rode up there on our motorcycle trip a couple weeks ago and thought the simple, make shift memorial was pretty moving as it is.... a place of much grieving, and thought, and appreciation, and prayer.... we were very happy we made the trip....

this is the view that we saw at the site. hey had a picture of this design hanging inside the guard booth there.

now from what we saw there, the design that i'd seen on the inter-web about a crescent is a distorted part of the whole. there is a part of the plan called "the bowl" that the controversy is taken out of.... now maybe some things were changed;... but from what we saw a crescent, especially a muslim crescent, is not what the memorial will look like.....

i'm sure we'll make another trip or two up there in the future to see what develops... in the mean time, here are a few pictures of what we saw that day....