Cousin Mike writes from his travels in Italy, Venice, Rome, Switzerland, and Austria sending photos of food rather than scenery…  and blames me!  He doesn’t tell me what these photos are of but I think it is important to note the Imodium sitting next to the plate.  I vote for plate number three, I don’t think I would pick any of the others after looking at the photos here!  And he said he didn’t have his camera along for the worst..

Brother Bob sends these photos from the new Gopher Stadium where he is working right now.

My friend Jim sends this photo of son Drew who just loves to go 4–wheeling.  Don’t you just love those dimples???  He is the spitting image of his Dad!

Violet is enjoying her afternoon snack, a Mutt-zerella Cheese Stick.

Guess who is one of the featured Pugs on the Pug-a-Day site today?

Six years ago today Tom and Lisa opened their Subway in Cook, a very successful venture.  Thanks for all the subs you have donated to many causes and families in crisis over the years, and thanks too, for the subs you have donated to me!!

Fourteen tons of spilled Oreo cookies might be something to cry over.

There’s manna from heaven, and then there’s the case of 14 tons of Oreo cookies spilled onto an Illinois highway when the driver of the truck fell asleep and slammed into the median, 50 miles southwest of Chicago.

According to an Associated Press article, the cookies were “still in their plastic sleeves.”

Both lanes of traffic were closed while authorities removed the sweets (bulldozer? Backhoe? Eager elementary school kids?). Did we mention they were Double Stuff? That’d make for a lotta licking.

Best headline associated with this story: “Truck Tosses Its Cookies on Interstate Highway near Chicago.”

Co-worker Rod is celebrating his new job and position with the City at Sir Ben’s on Friday night with Joe and Dale.  Roger and Margaret were celebrating too.  Sorry Margaret, the photo of you was blurry.  I must have had one too many Diet Cokes!