BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day #511 09/01/06 Got home from Evansville today. Grabbed some lunch from Fortune house on the way back from the airport and when Allison came home we headed up to the Cape. On the ride up we saw a pretty crazy accident. There is a point on 495 where the road goes from 3 lanes to 2 lanes. The right lane drops off and many people who come off the highway from RT. 24 try and speed in and merge with traffic in a very aggressive manner. Apparently one of these drivers was going too fast and no one would let her in because we saw her minivan crashed through a chain link fence of the closed weight station. She was stuck there pretty good. People were stopping to help so we aren’t callous folks who just left her there. When we got to the Cape we had a very nice dinner with Mom and Dad. We’re going to take a walk as soon as I finish this post.

Photo-A-Day #510 08/31/06 Tonight I had dinner at the Cork and Cleaver in Evansville, IN. I have another cleaver picture from Fort Wayne’s Cork and Cleaver. We have fun there. They make tasty Lemon Drops. I just noticed that the last three photos were taken at restaurants. I need to get out some more.

Photo-A-Day #509 08/30/06 Today I went to Jasper, Indiana. Not my first time here either. In fact I was here in March of 2005. The German Place is called the Schintzelbank. It has a bunch of good food. I found my way here without much incident. I had two other guys following me on the road and I didn’t get us lost. I thought I was going to at first but things worked out. Last time I was here there was a big discrepancy in the time zones. I flew into Evansville, Indiana and then drove to Jasper, Indiana. Each was in a different time zone. Now they are in the same time zone. It really threw me off this trip. Well, I’m not sure how they do it but TSA was able to pinpoint a small tube of hair gel in my bag under my electric razor and deodorant. They were very nice about it and gave me the option of checking my bags. I had the guy just toss it out. I’m glad they found it, makes me feel like they have a clue. I started reading the next Kathy Reichs book: Fatal Voyage. The book begins with di...

I have found a program called Andrea Mosaic. It is pretty interesting. You can take a regular image and recreate it with a ton of small images. The program does this for you automatically and the program is free. I used it to make the image above and then used photoshop to animate it. So it goes from the multiimage to the original.

Photo-A-Day #508 08/29/06 Tonight Allison and I met Neil and Andrea for dinner at the Outlaw BBQ. This is a nice place for BBQ. We got our complimentary basket of Hush Puppies and then ordered another basket. These are the tastiest Hush Puppies around. We are spoiled when we go to other places because they just can’t match the goodness of these Hush Puppies. We had a good time. Andrea has lent Allison her old camera so we may be seeing photos from Allison in the future. Leave a message if you want Allison to post photos on the blog.

Happy Birthday Shelby! Here is a bonus picture from the weekend of Taylor, Tara and Erik’s dog. Keep watching. This was cracking us up this weekend. Update: Okay it cracked us up for 3 minutes because it was cute. Thought I’d share.

Photo-A-Day #507 08/28/06 Today I had an eye Dr. Appointment, a check up on the eye surgery and a new prescription for glasses. Then I ordered some glasses. I’m going to take my old glasses frames and get some new sunglasses made out of them. I still like them and they fit me well but it is time for a new look. So in 7 – 10 days when the new ones come in there will be a photo. Today’s photo is of some miniature foxglove that is in the front of the house. It is one of the weeds that in years past were pulled. That is until Tara let them grow and we realized that they were actually some pretty flowers. This past Saturday Dad and I did a clean up of the side yard and part of the back yard. It looks great now.