We are having some carpentry work done on the exterior of the house… trim, wood shingles, porch spindles. We visited Architectural Artifacts, housing remnants of homes past, to check out their collection of spindles.

The second floor (where we found a new “old” door a few weeks ago) reminds me of a scene in Logan’s Run. Remember when they found the old man? Yes, that one.

There are some severely expensive objects for sale in the huge expanse of a warehouse, but there are some very fine cats to pet while you are browsing. Not that the two cancel each other out…

Architectural Artifacts | 20 S Ontario St | Downtown | (419) 243-6916

The Tandoor… delish Indian food, “spicy, please”. Traditional parasols, hanging upside-down like bats, pepper the ceiling.

Tandoor Cuisine of India | 2247 S Reynolds Rd | (419) 385-7467

Weather.com warned of scattered showers but we tossed caution in the wind and drove to Maumee Bay State Park for the Lighthouse Festival. Greeting us was a ghastly sight…

Sharks or no sharks, we weren’t about to give up our quest to see the lighthouse. We bought tickets for the boat ride and walked over to the docks.

It was a bit overcast, which was fine with me. I wasn’t wearing sunscreen. The lighthouse was about 6 miles out.

How great is this lighthouse? I want to move in.

I mean, really. How can we make this happen?

After circling the lighthouse a few times it was over. Bye bye, lighthouse!

Toledo Harbor Lighthouse Preservation Society

We figured Friday would be as good a day as any to visit the Polish Festival on Lagrange Street.

If I understand this correctly, when we arrived there was a Polka band that played Pink Floyd covers entertaining the crowd. The scene was a little confusing. I am also pretty certain I saw a grown man riding a cooler… a beer cooler… that had wheels and an engine… grown man riding it…

There was also a gentleman on stilts making balloon sculptures for kids, who later juggled knives, and later on was tossing a large yo-yo about between two sticks, and later still was playing with sticks on fire. He had amassed a pretty large crowd by the end of the day.

The people watching was epic. So was the kielbasa on a rye roll (!!!) that D. picked up from The Stanley’s Market tent.

The Polish Festival of Toledo | LaGrange Street | Fri. 5-11pm; Sat. 12-11pm; Sun. 1-7pm

Remember that cherry tree in the yard? Well we picked a bunch of cherries this weekend, enough for two pies, and there are still more to be picked. I think I need to use a ladder.

Now I did ask for recipes, but for all my millions of readers I got none. No worries, Food Network to the rescue with a recipe for crust and another for the pie itself. You would think that with the best, fresh ingredients, good recipes and all the tools necessary, it would have been a success. And it was! It just didn’t look like one:

Such is life. The life of a first-time pie.