Philadelphia, Sunday May 20th

Sam at the 2nd Bank of the United States (what an incredible Portrait Gallery all originals!!!)

Tricia and Robert Morris looking towards the 2nd National Bank.

Sam at the 1st Bank of the United States. 

Carpenters' Hall

Tricia at the Merchants' Exchange Building

Sam and a few of his Admired Heroes.  

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of American Revolution

May 19th , Morristown and Washington's Crossing

Our 1st stop on our American Founding Father's trip was Morristown NJ.
A great little town with a Common "green" in the middle of town with a bunch of statues commemorating some eventful Happenings.

This is a picture of the Presbyterian church on the green.

 The Marquis de Lafayette,Colonel Alexander Hamilton, Sam Galzerano and George Washington

Here's a couple of statues on the Green.

Colonial Settlers and a trusty dog.

After lunch we went to the top of the hill that overlooks Morristown and there are remnants of the Fort named Fort Nonsense (i think the original Fort was called "The Hill")

After Morristown we went to Washington Crossing and this is where from all we learned is "where George washington and the troops crossed the Delaware on December 25-26 1776.

The following is s a picture of McConkey's Ferry Inn, the tavern that Washington and his crew visited prior to crossing the river

Memorial Day ; Fredericksburg National Cemetery

Summer Job ???

What a hot dog !!!

Bath, and Freeport Maine

 We took a drive up to Bath Maine yesterday. Tricia and i wanted to see the Michael Murphy a ship that was named for Medal of Honor recipient Michael Murphy (1976 - 2005) .  It was a beautiful and windy day . We took a walk up the bridge and got to look back at Bath Iron Works and the old Ship building town of Bath Maine. Stopped at a local tavern for a burger and lobster stew and then went to LLBean and home. 

April 24, 2012 Tricia's Birthday,

It was Tricia's Birthday yesterday and we took a drive up the coast to Nubble light and back down. Today we went to Hampton beach and took a walk up to NorthHamton. 

It was 59 years ago today in a "down river" Detroit hospital a child was born.

Very Warm Spring

It's been a very warm dry spring, hopefully it'll rain today and tomorrow. There's been fire warnings etc.
Here's a vibrant sunset.

We had a barbacue last night beer, banjo and steaks .........

new dishwasher and hot water heater

We finally got a new dishwasher; i've been hand washing the dishes for a long time at least a couple of years .

And a neighbot had a hot water heater rupture and ours was about 15 years old so we went with a tankless hot water heater.

Last Couple of days.

We have been pretty busy the last couple of days. The weather has been radically volitile. 67 on thursday and flurries predicted Friday night.  Here a few pictures of Saturday morning.