Easily amused

I don't know why, but I love these stupid things.
I have no idea what you call them - wind puppets, maybe?
The first one I ever saw was about eight years ago at the Long Beach (Wash.) International Kite Festival. It was yellow and I thought its floppy gyrations were funny as hell. I guess I'm easily amused.
I photographed this one today with my Treo smartphone camera while on a pre-holiday weekend beer run to Mr. T's, the always-open liquor-and-lottery store just over the state line in Missouri. It's the nearest place I've found that stocks Spaten Doppelbock beer. I also picked up a six-pack of strawberry ale for Morgan.
At last report, she and Lance were about a hour north of Cairo, Ill., and the Illinois-Missouri state line. That would put them about 3½ hours out, with an ETA of 4 p.m. CDT. That's assuming they don't get lost in the fireworks aisles at Boomland.
We'll see how accurate my estimate is.

A blogging anniversary

This blog begins its fifth year today.
Who knew when I jumped into the blogosphere on May 10, 2004, that I'd still be doing it today, 1,286 blog entries later.
I've blogged from all over the country - from motorcycle rallies in Spokane and Burlington, Vt., from my friends Tim and Linda's chalet in Alma, Colo., from my home office in Thorntown, Ind., where this thing began to our new home office between Goobertown and Buck Snort, Ark.
I've done a fair share of it with smartphones, composing surprisingly lengthy pieces typing with my thumbs on the tiny keyboards. My Treo 700p and the Treo 600 before it had built-in cameras that made photo blogging possible from the road.
I have no idea how long this thing will go. As long as I have stuff to share, I guess.