Morning coffee with Ruby [and donuts!]

the world renown, YelloW Dog Cafe

The view walking to the Cafe, after production tour and meetings were over. Harris has its facility right off hwy 1 in Malabar. And about a mile up 1, was the Yellow Dog, right on the water. Great way to catch lunch right before the run back to Orlando Airort.

Even the bun has the logo stamped on it! and it was very yummy! An off course the obligatory spix of the Raider Crocs at the Orlando airport, waiting to come home.

Love Muffin to the rescue

sometimes...when you feel you need some love, the Love Muffin will be there for you.
My love muffin is my little Thrash man, and I will be back seeing him tomorrow nite!

Happiness and Sorrow in rainy Florida

So once again, I am on travel. This time for 3 day meeting in Melbourne , florida again, down the road from Cape Canaveral and the 'space coast' as it is known. And instead of eating out, we have been going to the gym twice a day - Pilates, Yoga [i could get into Yoga!] Aerobics with weights, along with some cardio and my normal lifting. Kicking my butt for sure, but what a hell of a way to jump start my workout routine.


But yesterday and this morning was mixed with happiness and sorrow - my nephew, Matt, called me to let me know he got engaged to his girl, Angie. She is a real down to earth person, real and genuine and they are a great couple. Congrats Matt and Angie - I am truely happy for you both.

This morning, the sorrow. One of my guys that works for me had a stroke in the office. Fortuneately the EMTs got there quickly, and although the meds he got in the hospital have helped we still don't know how much damage was done. At this point, and where i am at, all i can do is keep him in my prayers.


But i did figure out how to post my doodles while on the road - since I always take my camera with me, I can take pix of my doodles and sketches and post them! So, here is some strangeness I doodled to keep me focused during the highly technical parts of the meetings.

Light that sharp stick on fire....

Morning Coffee with Ruby is ALWAYS a philosophical revelation...and introspective analysis.

You can smell fall in the air....

One of the last few weekends were going in or on the water at the lake will be possible without a wet suit [although it was very close to that temp]...Thrash has a big weekeng being a boat dog and being dotted on by friends kids, who were with us at the lake.



Tom Buonforte is a work mate of Tim's and the fella who graciously helped Tim load the U Haul trailer all day, last year, with our crap for our 'new' lake house. Promised him a invite to come down- and it's sad that it took a whole year to sync schedules up. This is 4 of his 6 kids , the two older boys able to get up on my wake board. Glad someone can make that damn thing work ....

Tribute

I didn't get a chance to color this in, but while I was sitting thru yet more contentious meetings yesterday, I thought back on the day and those who lost their lives, and those who didn't, in that tragedy. The survivors still struggle. We should never forget.

bugs from Strangeland...

think it was time to take a trip, however brief, into the dark recesses of my mind, called Strangeland...see what happens when you struggle to stay away !

Ever have one of those mornings...

Where ya just don't want to get off the dime and go into work? Yeah, today was one of those days....bah.

Quality Control ?

Awhile ago Vickie J had an interesting post on her blog with regard to "made in China". I have to agree with her, seems everythin i pick up these days is not made here, for sure.

So here is your Morning Coffee with Ruby -

Nothing says Labor Day like....

Friends, family, LKG, water and birthdays. Mike and Kel, our neighbors, helped us bring an end [premature to me] to the summer during the Labor Day weekend. Much too short a time, and it was kinda sad and quiet come Monday, as the days get shorter and shorter and the inevitable cold will creep back into our lives.



And Thrash is talking to Rusty , while Toni is talking to me! Wonder what Thrash was thinking? [he was thinking how far a swim it was to the yellow jetski]

We also celebrated Tim's b-day at the lake, with Toni and Robin and Mike and Vickie and Nick and Andrew...Notice the knife in the Carvel cake?


This next shot below, is of the little boat dog who had had enough of cruising on the boat and came and bagged out under the boat steering wheel and in between my feet. I had to include the wheel in pix to prove where his little doggyness plopped down.