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The Weekend In Pictures.
Melba and I started off the weekend Friday night by heading out to see "Invincible", the new Wahlberg true story flick about Vincent Papale, an unemployed Philadelphia teacher who tries out for the Eagles and earns a spot on the team.
Chicago Tribune reviewer Michael Phillips pretty much sums up my thoughts about the movie perfectly: "There's a sugarcoating to the way Papale's story unfolds, but not so much that you'll spoil your dinner."
Despite the gloomy weather and crusty forecast Saturday morning, Melba and I decided to join in the local BMW Club's St. Croix River Tour. The weather must have scared most everyone away, because the "group" consisted of three cars, including ours. Halfway into the drive we stopped at a cool little German restaurant in Stillwater called The Gasthaus Bavarian Hunter. Neither Melba or I were terribly hungry, so we split a BLT that was heavy on the B and included a small slab of fried pork - good stuff. The restaurant featured a back yard with farm animals and an angry goose:
Check the goat, too.
I thought that my 17 year old BMW was old, but the Gasthaus parking lot featured a handful of cars that were a little older:
That's a Pierce Arrow. Pretty cool.
The drive continued down to the river valley, and even though it was raining softly, we stopped for a few pictures:
The Wisconsin shore is on the left, Minnesota shore on the right. Surprisingly, the trees on the WI side were turning color more than on the MN side. Our little group of cars:
Two sharp M3s made for fast company compared to Der Wigglewagon.
Friday evening I joined my friend Mellar for some shootin'. When he originally invited me to go shootin' last week, I didn't think he was serious. But he was, and we did. We drove up to Robbinsdale to visit Bill's Gun Shop and Range, which surprisingly wasn't nearly as redneck as it sounds. I was pleasantly surprised to find no confederate flags, no NRA recruiters, and the customers that I saw seemed to be sporting 32 teeth. The only questionable thing I spotted was an Osama Bin Laden paper target for $2.
Melba and I started off the weekend Friday night by heading out to see "Invincible", the new Wahlberg true story flick about Vincent Papale, an unemployed Philadelphia teacher who tries out for the Eagles and earns a spot on the team.
Chicago Tribune reviewer Michael Phillips pretty much sums up my thoughts about the movie perfectly: "There's a sugarcoating to the way Papale's story unfolds, but not so much that you'll spoil your dinner."Despite the gloomy weather and crusty forecast Saturday morning, Melba and I decided to join in the local BMW Club's St. Croix River Tour. The weather must have scared most everyone away, because the "group" consisted of three cars, including ours. Halfway into the drive we stopped at a cool little German restaurant in Stillwater called The Gasthaus Bavarian Hunter. Neither Melba or I were terribly hungry, so we split a BLT that was heavy on the B and included a small slab of fried pork - good stuff. The restaurant featured a back yard with farm animals and an angry goose:
Check the goat, too.I thought that my 17 year old BMW was old, but the Gasthaus parking lot featured a handful of cars that were a little older:
That's a Pierce Arrow. Pretty cool.The drive continued down to the river valley, and even though it was raining softly, we stopped for a few pictures:
The Wisconsin shore is on the left, Minnesota shore on the right. Surprisingly, the trees on the WI side were turning color more than on the MN side. Our little group of cars:
Two sharp M3s made for fast company compared to Der Wigglewagon.Friday evening I joined my friend Mellar for some shootin'. When he originally invited me to go shootin' last week, I didn't think he was serious. But he was, and we did. We drove up to Robbinsdale to visit Bill's Gun Shop and Range, which surprisingly wasn't nearly as redneck as it sounds. I was pleasantly surprised to find no confederate flags, no NRA recruiters, and the customers that I saw seemed to be sporting 32 teeth. The only questionable thing I spotted was an Osama Bin Laden paper target for $2.
Mellar getting pumped up to do some shootin':
The first and last time I'd done any target shootin' was 11 years ago, so I was expecting to suck. My first couple of shots were pretty far off, but then I figured out that I wasn't using the sights correctly and after that I did pretty well, shootin' straighter than Mellar on a few tries. Here's a little clip I shot of Mellar blazing away:
The first and last time I'd done any target shootin' was 11 years ago, so I was expecting to suck. My first couple of shots were pretty far off, but then I figured out that I wasn't using the sights correctly and after that I did pretty well, shootin' straighter than Mellar on a few tries. Here's a little clip I shot of Mellar blazing away:
posted by steve at 6:48 PM
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Classic Steve Lyon "Weekend Update". Nice work.
Now - what the fans really want - we need a Machinery Inc. update. How have things progressed in the last six months? Inquiring minds want to know! And laugh. And cry.
Too many of my Machinery, Inc. cow-orkers have found my blog.
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