Summer is over :(

It has been quite a few weeks since I last posted. The golf league has ended and my partner and I won the scoring for the league. I don't really think I can call it a championship since there wasn't a play off. There hasn't been a lot of work on the railroad due to all of the good weather activities , and if that wasn't enough I installed a new laminate floor in our kitchen last week. I have included a picture of the floor and one of my garden, and a picture of the sunflowers I have surrounding our air-conditioning unit. I do have to be honest and admit part of the sunflowers are free gratis and part I planted from seed. So with gardening and outside maintenance, golf I have been very busy. To top it off Faye and I spent one Saturday traveling to southeastern Ohio to go to a "Chile Pepper Festival" . The drive was beautiful through the Hocking hills and Appalachian foothill area. I had prefaced out trip by telling Faye I had found this festival online on a something to do this weekend type of webpage and I wasn't sure what we were going to see at the festival. I had thought it could be pretty lame but I had no idea just how lame it could be. We arrived at this little town and followed the directions to the festival. We arrived and I really just wanted to turn around and leave but we got out and walked around. There were a lot of young ladies dressed in fancy "prom" type dresses milling about and there was one food concession trailer selling hot dogs and sausages, there was a fairly impressive stage that was very out of place and on the far side of the field there was 3 or 4 vendor type canopy tents with people selling there cast offs flea market style. Oh and I forgot to mention there was an ambulance just in case somebody over dosed on fun (read boredom). Notice I haven't said a word about chile peppers! Well the chile pepper festival did not have one single pepper on display there was no oversize fiberglass red chile pepper, there was no chile pepper roasting going on, there was no chile pepper largest grown contest going on, there was no chile pepper tasting tent, tasting line, or salsa tasting. THERE WAS NO CHILE PEPPER!!! We did have a good afternoon meal on the way home from the non-festival. In the Hocking hills there was an Amish style restaurant with a buffet going on that had some tasty vittles so all was not lost. Back to the subject at hand there was a weekend in there that we watched Abby and Lily so Carrie and Matt could paint their living room so there wasn't any railroad work that weekend either. It will probably be a while before I post again, Faye and I are going to vacation in Georgia and we will be preparing for that. I also forgot to mention that over the 4th of July my son in-law Matt and I constructed a playset for Miss Abby for her birthday and it took all of a 3 day weekend, life has been busy which is a good thing. All is not lost thought I have been able to sneak in a little workin on the railroad and I even snapped a couple of pictures to add to my written report, so with out further ado here are the latest pictures of the L&B Railroad.