Saturday with the wife in Sarasota.

It was my birthday weekend and decided to travel to the Amish Country in Sarasota.

We decided to see the Para Surfers by the skyway as we headed south first.

Nice View from side of road

Went to the Pumpkin Festival next and enjoyed some old town farm fun and a little craft fair. Got to help reset a tent that the wind blew over as soon as we got there, so hopefully wasn't a sign of things to come.

  

Time to go get some fuel for our bodies and have a nice sit down at Yoders Amish Restaurant.

Got Denise to try some Fried Okra.

Thats a where is the napkin to spit it out look!

Great fun with the wife and some great god sightings while we were out and about the Tampa Bay area. 

Ohio's version of Big Brother

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio third-grader who weighs more than 200 pounds has been taken from his family and placed into foster care after county social workers said his mother wasn't doing enough to control his weight.

The Plain Dealer reports (http://bit.ly/t68M7D ) that theCleveland 8-year-old is considered severely obese and at risk for such diseases as diabetes and hypertension.

The case is the first state officials can recall of a child being put in foster care strictly for a weight-related issue.

Lawyers for the mother say the county overreached when authorities took the boy last week. They say the medical problems he is at risk for do not yet pose an imminent danger.

A spokeswoman says the county removed the child because caseworkers saw his mother's inability to reduce his weight as medical neglect.

Steve says this is total crap, put the family in counseling or something.  Next maybe fat spouses will be removed and taken to a veggie only land.

My whole family is overweight, guess we can visit each other on the treadmills during the forced exercise period at work or community exercise yards that all residents have to report to at a specified time.

This is stressing me out, glad I have some pumpkin pie to help me calm down....

Spring is upon us

Spring has sprung and Baseball has blossomed and opening day saw the Red Sox beat the Skankees.

Space shuttle lifted off this morning and its contrails left a lovely site this morning for my wife Denise to snap a pic of while I was sleeping. No I do not know why they make spirals, neat though.


 California gets its earthquake yesterday with minimal life loss.


 Does that mean Mexico has better building standards than Haiti?

Went to Tarpon Springs Thursday for Denise's Birthday.  Living here since 1974  and I have never been there besides for work.


People handing things out is almost bad as around Disney. 


 Cheyenne and I found a harmless shark to have fun with.


Vacation is over and back to work tomorrow, and as karma goes I am working in Tarpon Springs all week.


God Bless and have a great week.