I was visiting Dad in the hospital and noticed some dark smoke rising from a construction site across the highway. About 30 seconds later that smoked looked like this:

I took the picture on my iPaq through a rain soaked window, so the quality is obviously pretty bad. To give you an idea of the scale, that’s a bus on the highway directly in front of the fire.

Update (1/25/06): I never found out what was on fire, and it was never mentioned on the news, but someone has placed an American Flag at the scene.

With the Christmas season fast approaching, I find that I am once again being asked that dreadful question:

“What do you want for Christmas?”

I always have a hard time answering this question. Either I have absolutely no idea what I want (which is usually the case), the item that I want costs too much, or I end up buying it myself (see the two P&W engines listed at the bottom of my Wish List).

I was determined to have an answer to that question this year. So with a little thought, and a lot of nagging from my wife (thanks Honey!), I was actually able to come up with a Wish List this year. I try to tell myself that I’ll keep this up to date so she or anyone else has a place to get ideas from, but we both know that won’t happen, at least not without more continuous nagging.

Read on to view the list…

Our little trouble-bun, Jessi.

(Wow! A picture where she doesn’t look fat! )

What a day for a parade! Clear skies, temperature in the high 80’s, and a sports bottle filled with your favorite liq… uh drink.

That’s right people; the Annual Gaspee Days Parade is back in town! Kimberly and I spent the morning in a couple of lounge chairs watching it go by. The parade attracts thousands of people each year. Lucky for us though, we live just four houses in from the parade route. This means that we don’t have to drive around for an hour looking for a place to park, just like the person who parked on our lawn a couple of years ago probably had to do.

Like last year, I was able to get a photo of just about every group that was in the parade (ok, so I missed a couple…). You can check them out in the gallery.
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Don’t you just hate sitting behind the screen at a ball park?!