Celebrating 125 years of O'Giglio e Paradiso!

Irene.



She hasn't hit us yet, at least 6 hours away, but we are hanging in a cloudy wet purgatory. The rain has picked up and the wind whips but nothing like what is expected. Currently it looks like any other rain storm with 8am being our "eye" time, I'm betting by 4am it will get messy. We've laughed at the rain today and tomorrow i'm guessing we'll be glad we did. Here she comes! Irene.

Party on. NOT!

Slightly blown away, mostly soaked. After it all we laughed and reminisced over the previous 5 minutes of our life. See the entire drama play out on Flickr.

$11 on #11 in the 11th race on the 11th day of June 2011.













Elevens. I like the number eleven. A real long shot at 30-1 but it sounded so good. He wasn't the big payout I hoped for but I actually only threw him a buck, why not. The last time I chose horse #11 he won, I just hadn't bet. My big winning horse I chose by a song I couldn't get out of my head "It's Tricky to rock-a-rhyme, to rock-a-rhyme that's right on time" It's Tricky paid off! In the misty rain we chose our horses by likes and names, laughing when one paid out over well thought out bets coming in via text messages. The Belmont Stakes is pretty much a frat party full of expensive beer, bad bets and boys in seersucker suits that I couldn't pass up no matter how bad the weather was.

puddles.

Today



Another dreary day with soft rain falling. I'll take it.

at least the sun was out...


It's been a three rainbow day. That sounds wonderful
but also means it's been raining... again. ugh.
10" of rain in June. at least another inch today.

I was going to post the images of rain from yesterday, but I was feeling this one more.
Oh ok, here's one from ICP last night trying to convince myself to go out in the rain...