2nd Chance Prom here we come!

So we are getting excited about this one. B and I are going to Second Chance Prom for a local radio station G105 (www.g105.com) I have my tux, she has her dress and the kids are being taken care of by Diddy for E and a old teacher for K. Needless to say we are planning on having fun. My lovely wife will enjoy the night I am sure by saying "spin me again" while wearing her very lovely dress and all getup stuff like jewelry and shoes and makeup and her hair did. Pictures will follow of course. So stay tuned.

One with Starky!

We decided this weekend to do a home improvement project. This one was to put a back splash up in the kitchen. I did not think that it was going to take this long or be that hard. I was wrong. There is a lot of waiting for stuff to cure for sure. Here are the before and after pictures of this project also. I had a lovely assistant while doing this also. While we were doing this DIY Sunday project I felt closer to Starky. I was cutting stone and was thinking about him and how he might have cut it before there was electricity to use wet saws. It must have taken a long time to do this kind of thing.

Hope you enjoy.

Duck, Duck, Squash!

So we are part of a co-op farm where we get weekly boxes of fresh stuff. (Very yummy and good for you.) This week, my first week back from vacation we got some squash. I saw one of them and well decided I needed to play some. I liked the way the squash looked that to me it needed some feathers.

Word to ya Mother!

This was just way to funny to not post. I took a picture of my daughter with her new thing. Her new thing is to cross her arms on ya if she was mad. Well I got her to do it by asking her and she just happened to throw in a little sideways action on it also. The big kicker is her bling, bling necklace that she loves wearing around the house. Way to cute!

The Clock Story.

This was pretty cool and also in the same town where I almost got my first international traffic ticket. It was hairy there for a while. First I was just following what instructions my co-pilot driver was telling me to do then the next thing I knew I was getting asked for my passport. We got out of it with just a warning though and all was good.




We did end up hearing a very great story about this town clock though and I wish that I could remember it all and could have understood it in Slovak but I could not. I am hoping that my father will write it down for me as the guy that was telling it was very cool to listen to and was there when it all happened. The history books I bet could not have told the story like this guy could.

Salas!

This is what my uncle told me of the sheep in the summer. they are known as Salas. That means that it is when the sheep are penned up in a open field and daily or a few days of the week they are led out to pasture somewhere else or herded up a hill some where. I think it is that they sheep herders are payed to have the sheep come and mow someones grass instead of get out there with a lawn mower. Here is a picture of them as well as a video. Notice in the video the sound of the bells. Every one of them had a bell around it's neck. It was so very cool to see and hear them.

Who said driving in Europe was not fun?

So I had the great pleasure of driving Ms. Daisy I mean my father around all over Europe. He I will say is a side seat driver. Has something to say on just about everything there is to know about the subject. If you noticed on the picture where the hands are at? My driving instructor in school would be proud. 10 and 2..... Seat belt fastened, sun glasses on, mirrors properly adjusted and following all the speed limits. Oh and if you have ever driven in Europe you know that there are tons upon tons of signs all in a row and you must obey all of them. WOW it can be over whelming some times. Any way I drove all over the place, from Austria, to Slovakia, to Poland, to Czech Republic and all of it was fun. I think that my father just liked having a personal driver more than anything else.

The better to get to get to know you my dear

The Wolf once said that to little red riding hood. I said it not too long ago to my father. I wanted to get to know him better. This trip allowed me to do that. I have seen that he is truly my father as there are many mannerisms that he does that I have seen myself do without even growing up with him. I would also venture to say that they are genetic fully. I fully enjoyed my trip to see my family from another country. I got to learn more about them and to let them know that family is very important to me. I am ecstatic to get to know them and them to get to know me. To meet them face to face to find out a little more about them and how they interact with each other was also key for me. I think that the highlight (for me anyway) of my trip was the last supper. The last full night that I was there we all did a little part to make dinner. My wing nut cousin and I made munchies and sides but no potatoes as Stryko said he wanted to do something special with them and we were not allowed to touch them. The other wing nut was worried about them for some reason and did not want to disobey her father’s wishes so we did not do anything with the potatoes. Needless to say we did not have potatoes that night. Instead we had sausages, fish, veggies, and drinks. The greatest part for me thought was that we all did it together. We all had a part in it. Even my father’s wife (not my biological mother, someone had to hold a baby while we were cooking.) Anyhow, I had fun. I loved the camaraderie that we all shared. The fun that we got to have by doing something together. Yes we could have gone out to dinner somewhere nice like I think was originally planned but cooking together was much more of a family affair that I believe was just right. If I had to do it all over again, I would want to do that every night, I would want to enjoy the talking, the laughing and maybe even some food throwing at each other. That is the one thing that we (my wife and I) love to do at home. We love to cook for guests at our house. We love to entertain. If we could make a business out of it and not worry about any stresses that come with it then we would love it. (as long as all the bills got paid and we did have to worry about it that is.) The getting together and having fun is the best to me instead of being scattered out and about.
I know that I am jumping around a bit here and there are some random thoughts going on with this but hey. Remember the main name of the site?

In Praha!

Well we are now here in Praha (Prague). That was a very fun drive! As the trip goes on and on I am learning more and more about my father. I know that this trip is mostly supposed to be about getting to know my father more and more but I am finding that I am learning more and more about the family as well.

While in Praha we went on walk about to see all the great things that there are to see. Statues, bridges, buildings, good luck charms that are part of the statues. I think that the most interesting thing of all is the fact that I am seeing them partially through the eyes of my father. I can see the excitement in his eyes as he walks down memory lane of when he was here growing up.

One of the best things that we saw or did yesterday was to sit down at a pub (an Irish one at that) and I had a nice cool CIDER! OMG was it good tasting. Not wine, not water but a good CIDER! It was a warm day, humid a bit but not to much and we had been walking around a good bit. Boy was that a good drink to have. I hope that we can find some more back home.

The one thing that I noticed about Praha (Prague) is that it is like most US cities also. The people are even the same. Good people, bad people and people in between. The biggest factor of course is the language. The people here so far are very friendly though and I have yet to come across one that has been mean or rude. The other thing about it is that in the US I have had a hard time finding churches that are like the one pictured above. The ones here are very beautiful and are architectural marvels for the time that they were built. How much detail has gone into these buildings is a wonder.

An adventure inside an adventure awaits!

OK, so here we go. Today we are going to be driving from our (or my uncles) weekend house to Praha (Prague). Actually we are going to go to a sub-burbs of Praha called Komorany. Last night we had a discussion where my father asked me to put in Komorany in the GPS part of my phone and I did but it was going to a different sub-burbs of a different city that just so happened to have the same name. Well in Europe (and I did not know this) this happens a lot so you have to append the sub-burbs name with the major city like Praha. WOW that was a discussion and both my uncle and my father thought that my phone was a piece of trash. Until I found out what it was that they were talking about fully I was dumbfounded as the same GPS map that I was looking at was the same thing that they were using on my uncles laptop to find directions. My phones map and the laptops map were off from each other by a few hundred km (kilometers). A bit of a surprising shock? Yes! That was a great conversation. Once I found out all the way what they were talking about and made the correction on my phone both my phone and what they had on the laptop was the same.

So for today we are set to drive the newly verified on the phone and on Google Maps route to Praha. We are not going to drive directly into Praha though as we do not want to worry about parking and securing the car all the time. So we are going to go to a burb of Praha and then take the Metro in to do our walking around and staying. We shall see what it is like and lets all hope for our sake that it is a wonderful, uneventful getaway. We have our papers (as if we were a certified pedigree and some might say that yes we are nearly certifiable), a car, phones, maps, camera's, Euro's, and our desire to see the world.

pohib. podme zazit nejake dobrodrustvo!

Dobre Dobre

The end of the day is good. You come home and relax after working out in the yard regardless if it is at your house or your other hose. You paint some, you move Bee honey around, you work on your car a bit. It is all ok no matter what. It is dobre!

I visited my grandfathers house today and there are many very interesting things there. Lots of stone pieces, lots of honey making equipment and other stuff. Lots of other stuff. I will say that I believe my grandfather lived a very simple life. He had two German Shepard dogs that want lots of attention (although I did not get to get near them for they knew me as a stranger)

The house pictured here is my uncles cabin in the mountains. It is a very wonderful place to come and relax. As he calls it his weekend house. It has a great kitchen, bedrooms, living room, balcony's and most important I think it has to offer are the surrounding views. They are beautiful! Near breath taking. Either early morning to sit out on the deck or early evening with a glass of wine or a good beer (I still don't drink beer but a cider will do just as good) and friends and family are what life calls for.

While I did not get the opportunity to pick my family or how I was raised, I do not think that I would want to have the option to pick. Life has dealt me a deck of cards that is mixture of all things good and bad. (if you are wondering what are the good and the bad then please go all the way back and start reading my blog from the beginning.) I am very proud of my family no matter what anyone else thinks. I do some times wonder if someone is a bit crazy but hey, life is only going to give you what you can handle.

Ciao.

Video of the salas (sheep grazing in Summer)

So here is the video of the sheep grazing or walking to graze as I have been told by my uncle that in the summer sheep are called Salas and in winter they are called something else as in ovčinec. Enjoy.

Sheep, Sheep, I see Sheep

Ok, my cousin showed me a picture of some sheep in the hills at my uncles house. Well I got to see the sheep for my self. I also got to get some video of them. There was music in the hills! This was soooooooo cool to see. Maybe tomorrow or the next day I can get some better pictures or better video of them as they climb the hill. Sitting out there with a nice cafe and watching the sheep go by. Ahhhhh what a vacation already. And if you are not sure of what hills I am talking about, look at this one below. I will also post a video of this in a separate post.