Ubuntu is here!

The easiest OS install I ever did! I love it!

Prints are done

Cold finally over right after Christmas.

I picked up some prints of an ink wash Katie did right before Christmas. Here's one:

Merry Christmas!

and Happy New Year.

Got another cold; let's hope it goes away by Christmas day.

Our hard drive has been recovered and the websites are almost all rebuilt. Norton Ghost arrived and will be put to good use to avoid this happening again.

The Christmas marathon begins

Just getting over a bug, and now it's Christmas. Shopping started, work peaking, ice balls falling from heaven. Happy Horrordays, indeed.

Visiting Portland, ME for MECAH for Katie. Will keep you posted.

New PC is working fine, now just have to recover what I can from the old Hard drive and pray.

Homecoming 2007

It's official: Williams beat Amherst 20-0. Go Ephs!
Had good time at a house party afterwards - thanks Kristen!
Check out the photos below:
A walk up Spring Street after homecoming win
Girls gone wild

My dorm senior year
The church in the center of campus
New library

Holy Cardinal, It's Art Spiegelman

Went to the Wesleyan - Williams FB game today in a N'oreaster. Left at halftime where the Ephs had a sizeable lead (we won, 33-13, go Ephs!) to see Art Spiegelman in the chapel. Wow, what a great lecture. He raced through the history of comix, with lots of educated comments about his and others' work. Borat Cohen on satire was the next lecturer in another building, but most of stayed well past Art's scheduled ending and missed Borat.

Art won the Pulitzer prize for his comic Maus.

Art Spiegelman

And here is a link to the Wesleyan student blog:
LINK

Maus

Ride tonight!

If the weather permits, we'll ride in costume at NoHo. Pics later.

In the meantime, here is a self-portrait of Katie:

Katie at the Appy show

Here's Katie and her horse at the local Appy show.

Buffett!

Had a great time at the concert!

Labor Day Boating

Jack and Jimmy were kind enough to invite family and friends down to their house on Niantic Bay. The band played and fun was had by all.
Jimmy's antique boat was launched the next day. It held water, but had a bit of trouble later in the bay and needed a tow back from brother John.

Fanboat with classic styling

This was a cool fan boat we saw parked at our local American Legion hall.

Greenwhich cemetery grave shots

Visited family graves late last month in preparation for Crouse reunion next month.

Photos:

Bike show and swap meet

Enjoyed the Great bike show and swap this year. Thanks to all who came out from all over the Northeast. The Clams and Melon Farmers played all day. Daren even came across the pond to visit all. It didn't even rain for once!


The show

The clams



The bike museum. Katie was chief of security this year.

The melon farmers classic rock

Scot on a vintage Harley Sportster

The award winning British Velocette police bike from the 1940's. Won last week at British bike show.

Rob's birthday

Traveled to Main Line PA for Rob's 50th birthday. Had lots of fun.

Managed only a few photos as the light or weather was never right.

Downtime

Back from the beach cottage and relaxing.
Took Musclebikes in Old Home Days parade in East Hampton with band party after.
Working on Grid Girl story.

Some work from Katie

An impressionist style horse


















And a portrait

Fox 61 video link

Hey, they put our video from May 15 up on google video! Check it out!

Retro bikes

A Hole in the Ground

Link to article in Palm Beach Post about folding of company that was developing condos on site of the old Rutledge Inn, our family's hotel.
Here is a shot of the old sixties style place:

Now it's a hole!
Here is the link:
Link

And some text:
RIVIERA BEACH — The pink walls of the 1960s-era Rutledge Inn, for years the only hotel on Singer Island, fell to bulldozers last year. Owned by three generations of the Crouse family, the hotel was razed to make room for Mirasol Beach of Singer Island.
Mirasol Beach was to be an 18-story condo resplendent with spa, fitness center, library, theater, lounge and billiards. No more. Last week developer Taylor Woodrow Plc pulled the plug on the project.
"I wish we had never sold it," 77-year-old Doris Crouse said after being told of the developer's decision. "It's just like I lost my best friend."
Among the regulars during the Rutledge Inn's happier hours was Jupe Hash. She was disappointed when the hotel was demolished and is disappointed again that it has been shoveled under for nothing.
"It's just dirt now," she said.

Fox 61 ride

Last weekend we were interviewed by Fox 61 for a feature on collecting.
Jimmy and Wanda are the big bike collectors around Hartford. Here are a few shots of the ride around the capital.
The camera dude mounted a small video camera on Katie's bike and got some cool action footage.
Special will be 3 minutes long and will air sometime on the 10 o'clock news in May, with teaser ad footage during lead-in shows, perhaps American Idol. More details to come.

Cinco de Mayo was great!

We had four bands and a great party at our house.

Here is a shot of Wanda's new band, Hey Steve and The Melon Farmers.