Dinner in the Savannah Cafe

Wow – when you're on US-20 heading towards Galena and have the time, get off near Woodbine, IL and go south on Brown Road and tour around the countryside.  There are just some amazing views.  Here's just one! Jim

While in MN for the weekend for Nathan’s high school graduation, I was also able to spend time with my two oldest boys, Tony (middle pic) and Mike (top pic). After seeing Mission Impossible: III, we decided to hit Famous Daves for some ribs. We hit it alright!  

Months ago, I committed to smoking ribs for an early arrivals dinner at the TN rally.  Yesterday, I made good on that promise.  I smoked 6 racks of ribs and a 10# Boston butt for pulled pork.  Both turned out great.

Last weekend, Nancy and I traveled to the Knoxville area to take a closer look at our land north of Sevierville on West Dumplin Valley Road. We put up some No Trespassing signs and I walked most of the lot. It’s about 300′ wide at the front, 200′ across the back, 900′ on the east…

Nancy will be getting a new car in the spring. She’s want’s a convertible. We’ve been looking at them. The Lexus SC430 is very nice. A hard-top convertible but it’s uber expensive. A friend told me to check out the Volkswagen EOS. We drive one today. Nice car. Small, but nice. And this hard-top convertible…

Well we made it back from Illini State Park. Weather was just great and we really had fun camping with the Hartleys. Today we biked another 8 miles or so. We biked to Ottawa. When we stopped at a park, Cody (the Hartleys’ dog) got to swim in the Fox River. She loves to fetch…