If I were a Buddhist God what would I look like?
Christmas Dinner 2009 at Hoggy's BBQ
We had our family get together at a restaurant this year
Hoggy's BBQ in Valley View Ohio
We were lucky as the weather was sunny, and no snow, but it did snow like crazy a few days later
Big Marty in the back of the van on the way to Hoggy's
D & Daughter outside of Hoggy's
D & Daughter inside Hoggy's
Big Marty about to chow down on a big steak
The 14oz rib-eye
The chocolate cake we are about to split
Big Marty & D about to leave for the night
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The bird feeder back yard over looking the lake (video)
The bird feeder back yard over looking the lake in northeast Ohio Dec 26, 2009 (Too see it FULL SCREEN click the expand button lower right of the screen)
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Go Forth and Steal, Says English Priest
"Thou shalt not steal." But one British Anglican priest thinks that ancient command is now out-of-touch with our recession-hit world and has suggested it be changed to something more flexible, such as: "Thou shalt not steal, unless you're short of cash."
Dinner El Patron Mexican Restaurant Chardon, OH
Fajitas chicken and steak yummy.
Earlier in the day I was reading the Adventures of Tioga and George, and he had a pic of pollo asada that he bought from a roadside stand in Mexico. So, a few hours later after grocery shopping I was across the street from a Mexican restaurant, and thought, great, I will get the same thing there.
No such luck. I guess I had forgotten that Mexican restaurants in the USA are Americanized and like to appeal to the masses, so I did not get any pollo asada.
BUT, I did have some very tasty fajitas, so all was well, plentiful portion, could have easily served 2. 4 stars
1992 Geo Metro Convertible put away for 2009 season - Gas Totals
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The summer driving season is over, and I have put "Little" away for the winter, no salt from the roads will get on my car.
Here are the totals for cost and miles per gallon for 2009
9,258 Miles Driven
255.545 Total Quantity Purchased (Gallons)
$594.06 Total Cost ($)
$2.333 Average Price ($/G)
36 Total # Fill-ups
36.30 Average Fuel Economy (MPG)
Train Ride Show from The Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Doing my Jukebox oldie record show while riding the train thru the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Northeast Ohio. I talk a little about the trip and play a few records. 20 minutes.
Hits from my own real record player! Click Here to search for Todays Songs and other train records and DVD movies that I have.
Hits from my own real record player! Click Here to search for Todays Songs and other train records and DVD movies that I have.
Review: Jefferson Diner in Ashtabula County NE Ohio
Friday night I had the AYCE Fish Fry great w/ perfect cole slaw, choice of potato (I had baked) and a hush puppy, at $8.95 it was quite the bargain (I had 6 pieces of fish).
My wife had the homemade Lasagna with a great big salad and garlic bread it was $8.95 as well, then we split a huge strawberry shortcake that had a homemade bisquit in it and ice cream, very tasty.
So if you travel in Ashtabula County stop in the town of Jefferson for Great Food and Huge portions. The decor is straight out of the fifties, and the service is top notch.
Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad ready for winter season NE Ohio
The Cuyahoga Valley has had trains running through it since the 1880's, making it one of the oldest, longest, and most scenic railroads in the country.
The CVSR gives us a little bit of history and a lot of fun.
The Polar Express is running and they have Ghost Trains and Halloween rides. The trains run all winter long and make a perfect getaway for a weekend afternoon.
Bigfoot on display in downtown Portland Maine
NECN: Amy Sinclair, Portland, Maine) - It's been quite a while since the last good Bigfoot sighting. But a number of credible sources, including NECN's Amy Sinclair are absolutely certain they saw one today on a downtown street in Portland, Maine.
So, what was Sasquatch doing on Congress Street?
The neighbors are up to their usual Halloween tricks. But they pale in comparison to what's inside Loren Coleman’s house.
His home in Portland, Maine is filled with bizarre animals—snaggle-tooth monster heads, mermaids under glass, rabbits with antlers.
"These are important crypto-zoological artifacts."
Cryptozoology?
Loren: "Cryptozoology is the study of hidden or unknown animals as yet unverified by science."
This morning, Coleman's whole creepy collection is being herded out the door by a team of movers.
There goes the pterodactyl. Before you dismiss Coleman as a quack, he's authored 30 books about animal mysteries...he's the go to guy for TV shows like "Unsolved Mysteries.”
Coleman: "Everybody says I'm the greatest living cryptozoologist and I say well, at least I'm living ha ha gotta have a sense of humor."
Now, the whole world will be able to see what, until now, has been lurking in his living room. 50 years worth of artifacts will be on display in his new museum on Congress Street.
Assuming of course, the movers can get Bigfoot here through the front door.
As you might imagine the OAS_AD('Bottom3'); spectacle turned a few heads as four men muscled the horizontal hairy beast into his new habitat.
Coleman freely admits that about 80 percent of his investigations are dead ends. Mistaken identities or hoaxes.
Coleman: "But it's that 20 percent, that 20 percent of leftover unknowns that really interest me because it leads to the verification of new animals."
His museum will feature both the phony and the plausible, seeking to educate and entertain.
This Bigfoot for the record, is not real it was made by a taxidermist in Wisconsin who wanted to see what Bigfoot might have looked like. It's made of musk oxen and buffalo hair.
If the movers are any indication, his new museum will attract a following.
Mover: "I’ve actually always believed in Bigfoot. This is a cool opportunity.
An opportunity to get up close and personal with mysterious monsters, go ahead he won't bite.
Great Geauga County Fair, in Burton Ohio
We went on our annual trek to the Great Geauga County Fair, in Burton Ohio over the 5 day Labor Day weekend.
For a small town fair, it is huge, and well run.
We saw the animals 1st, horses, cows, sheep, goats, rabbits, alpacas, every kind of farm animal there is, all very cool.
So now is a review of the expenses and the food.
It was $7.00 just to get in. If you wanted to sit in the stands for the tractor/truck pulls, that is extra (not that I would want to see that)
The day got warmer and time for a cool drinks, a medium soft drink, $3.00 (My pet peeve for events is high drink prices)
We had corn dogs, $3.00. They were good and all, but even though to corn battered part was good, the dog does not get cooked, and I think some time in the oil 1st, then dip and cook would be better.
Found cheaper drinks, 20 oz for $2.00
Then, the main course, I think it was Dave's Carolina BBQ near the grandstand (I think that is the name, if not let me know)
We had great pulled pork sandwiches with cole slaw on them, big and tasty, $6.00 each, not too bad. I also had 2 chicken wings for $1.00 great taste, good sauce and price.
The last thing I got was at a booth where they were promoting hot sauce and salsa. It was from Mentor in Lake County, Chili's Fire Pit. Nice display, tries several sauces on little totillas. I bought a jar of "Mom's Original Recipe" salsa which was a medium heat, there were 4 degees of heat and this was said to be the mildest, althought is is pretty hot to me, it was $7.00 for a 16 oz jar, just about double of what your average store bought is. Well worth it as it is very good, www.chilisfirepit.com
The grand total spent was $50.00 for the 2 of us.
We were there 5 hours, and saw just about everything, so until next year, we will enjoy looking forward to next year.
www.geaugafair.com
For a small town fair, it is huge, and well run.
We saw the animals 1st, horses, cows, sheep, goats, rabbits, alpacas, every kind of farm animal there is, all very cool.
So now is a review of the expenses and the food.
It was $7.00 just to get in. If you wanted to sit in the stands for the tractor/truck pulls, that is extra (not that I would want to see that)
The day got warmer and time for a cool drinks, a medium soft drink, $3.00 (My pet peeve for events is high drink prices)
We had corn dogs, $3.00. They were good and all, but even though to corn battered part was good, the dog does not get cooked, and I think some time in the oil 1st, then dip and cook would be better.
Found cheaper drinks, 20 oz for $2.00
Then, the main course, I think it was Dave's Carolina BBQ near the grandstand (I think that is the name, if not let me know)
We had great pulled pork sandwiches with cole slaw on them, big and tasty, $6.00 each, not too bad. I also had 2 chicken wings for $1.00 great taste, good sauce and price.
The last thing I got was at a booth where they were promoting hot sauce and salsa. It was from Mentor in Lake County, Chili's Fire Pit. Nice display, tries several sauces on little totillas. I bought a jar of "Mom's Original Recipe" salsa which was a medium heat, there were 4 degees of heat and this was said to be the mildest, althought is is pretty hot to me, it was $7.00 for a 16 oz jar, just about double of what your average store bought is. Well worth it as it is very good, www.chilisfirepit.com
The grand total spent was $50.00 for the 2 of us.
We were there 5 hours, and saw just about everything, so until next year, we will enjoy looking forward to next year.
www.geaugafair.com
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS QUENTIN TARANTINO SOUNDTRACK
I just got in the albums INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS QUENTIN TARANTINO SOUNDTRACK LP Long Play 33 1/3 rpm vinyl phonograph record http://bit.ly/1N6XUb Hear Me a song from it (at eBay)
40 years ago 1969 Woodstock Music Festival
40 years ago 1969 Woodstock Music Festival hear some of the artists now on my 45 rpm vinyl record player cliK 2 heA it gr%vy c@s http://bit.ly/3inWpA
After Swimming Geneva on-the-Lake Park July 10 2009
Just a glimpse of the beach after a cool refreshing swim in Lake Erie.
Peninsula Ohio Bike Path Trail June 2009
There is also a scenic rail road that goes thru the little town too, the CVSR. We like to go the to relax.
May 22, 2009 Sat Morning Jukebox Oldies TV Show
5/23/09 New 45s From Big Marty Jukebox Oldies
Click Here to search for Todays Songs at my eBay store
Click Here to search for Todays Songs at my eBay store
My New Convertible Top for My Geo Metro
After almost a year of planning, I got the top put on, is is "Buckskin" in color, and a very nice canvas top.
No more leaks, and it is much more quiet inside while riding, and nice to see out the back window, as the old tops window had crazed some.
Road Trip Geo Metro Convertible Round Trip Ohio to Florida, and Back
Some would say this is impossible.
A few years ago, I would have wanted to do this with my scooter, or motorcycle. That would have been impossible because of the weather, so my 1992 Geo Metro Convertible is really my 4-wheeled scooter.
I used the trip planner on gasbuddy.com to plan the trip, as there you enter your make, year and model car and they show the gas stations along the way that have the best prices matched to the range of your car.
I have a 10.6 gal tank so they showed 3 stops along the way, and that saved me like $8.00.
I got approx 36 MPG pretty good seeing I was cruising at 70 mph most of the way, not in the mountains where I could only muster 57 mph on the long upgrades.
I had my little 12 v beverage cooler, the XM radio, and my GPS, and headed off.
My big plan was to go halfway, 575 miles, and sleep in the car a few hours, and finish up the next day.
The contorting needed to sleep in this car is not something to try if you are a big guy like me. I managed 3 hours the 1st time I tried, but could not sleep much at the rest stop due to my mind racing, and too many noises, not that there were that many. So I travel on down the road another 100 miles and tried again, this time I passed right out at the truck stop, 2 hours this time.
On the way back I did the motel for $42 as it seems the $6 Motel 6 rooms are no longer available.
I was comfortable driving, and did not see any other Geo Metros on the trip, of any kind, but I did see 5 Smart Cars, all in Florida.
It was great having my Tom Tom GPS, I programmed the 3 gas station stops in as 'legs' of the trip, like I did when I would fly the Cessna 172 for gas stops, instead of putting the entire trip in the GPS. That broke it up into sort of equal distances that were easier on me.
I had the GPS set to make a should if I exceeded 74 MPH and this happened a lot especially going down hills, so that was nice to keep an eye on my speed, it also was set to exceeding the speed limit, that did not go off quite as much. The take a break feature was good that every 2 hours it reminds you to take a break, so I did.
It was fun driving around Florida with the top down in March, but as soon as I got back to Ohio is snowed 8 inches, yikes.
The car now has 144,000 miles and only used 1/2 quart for the 2500 miles traveled.
So it was OK to take this trip. I was by myself and it would have been difficult with 2 people, as I had all my junk on the other seat like drinks, maps, snacks etc.. and the hills would have been harder with the weight of another person in the car.
That's it, please comment if you are a Metro Vert person, Marty
60's or Sixties on 6 Sirius XM new changes
When I finally broke down 2 years ago, vowing to never pay for radio, the main reason I did it was to listen to the 50's and 60's music I grew up with.
No static, crisp, clear sound, any time of day, always there on long trips in the car or camper.
I have been quite pleased.
I like surprises, unlike an ipod where you are limited to what you have saved on it, with the satellite radio I never know what will be next, I like that. I like the "Hey Man, turn it up!" when a great tune comes on, like "back in the day."
Since the merge of the 2 companies, Sirius and XM, there of course have changes that needed to be made. Many channels changed, but this is about the 60's on 6.
So many changes.
1st and foremost is the changing of the hours of the Terry "Motormouth" Young show. He used to be on eastern 4 - 10 PM. Now he is on 7 - 11 PM eastern. So now I don't hear him at all because of the time change. I know this is good news for the west coast so they get him now in drive time.
On Fridays here did a show dedicated to one various radio station from the 60's like KHJ Los Angeles, or WABC in New York, for 4 hours. Now it is 2 hours and being eastern time zone not in my time to listen anymore.
The Top 6 songs of this day from a chosen year right before the top of the hour is gone, there were snippets of songs 6 - 2, and then the #1 song of that year would play. I really miss that, but it was repetitious as there were weeks where the number one song was the same for many weeks in a row, and just how many times a day can you hear "Hey Jude" for 6 weeks in a row?
How about just doing it twice a day, like once on the Phlash Phelps show, and once on Terry's show, for old times sake.
The top of the hour used to have the "Beatle Bell" where the XM jungle played and was followed by a Beatles song.
This is OK with me, but one of the big things I like is a really geared up top of the hour 'station ID' jingle, followed with the DJ doing a voice over into, during the 1st few seconds of the song. The new Cousin Brucie top of the hour is close, but still needs the DJ voiceover for the next song.
Gone are the Saturday night 'all request CQ show.
The Cousin Brucie show replaced that, and that is good, I used to hear him in western NY as a kid, although in Mayville New York we could only get it at night when the signal would skip, fading in and out, no more with the satellite.
See, we who love the sixties channel are creatures of habit, we like the way the channel wants to be like the way radio was in the sixties, Cleveland Wheeler, who I listened to on the Q-105 Q-Zoo back in Tampa Bay, had this idea when this channel started. I hope they can keep it going, even through the bad economy, seeing that I heard somewhere that the 60's on 6 is the #1 music channel on the platform.
The Phlash Phelps Funny Farm morning show seems to be unchanged, I like that. Even though he is not a child of the 60's, he has a good knowledge of the songs and does a good job taking calls from all over the country, making the listeners feel like one big family.
I for one will still be glad to pay for this service, as I can listen not only in the car, but have a home dock for my receiver that is hooked up to wireless headphones, so I can listen while doing my computer work, always there, always my friend, thanks.
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