Shotgun Golf

What better way is there to spend quality family time together than shooting clay pigeons? We thought so to. So we loaded up the family van and headed down to Coyote Valley Sporting Clays in Morgan Hill.


"Pull!"


The Bradshaw Gang
(l to r) Andy, Bryan, Steve and me

Sunday Stroll

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon so the family decided to go for a nice Sunday afternoon stroll and enjoy some bird watching. We all loaded in the van, headed to Sunnyvale and parked along Carl Road. Christofer and Devan helped me load Radley into a front carrier before heading out on a levee toward the bay. We saw common egrets, a great blue heron and about a dozen black crowned night herons, including several juveniles, all perched along the levee opposite us. We watched a white tailed kite hover before diving into the grass, but he came up empty. After finishing an out and back loop we headed a little ways north along the San Francisco Bay Trail and saw coots, grebes and a little green heron that had found a prime spot for it to fish and us to watch it fish.

VAN HALEN!!!

VAN HALEN STILL ROCKS!!!
I admit I was a little skeptical about this tour. Eddie has had so much drama with so many singers for so many years that I did not have complete faith the band would not implode before tonight's stop at Oracle Arena in Oakland. I also had serious doubts about David Lee Roth's abilities as a singer and front man after so many years.

But that all disappeared very quickly after the show started! From Eddie's blistering Eruption opening, Diamond Dave's I'm On Fire! vocals and amazing high kicks, Wolfgang's backing harmonies, Alex's ever steady drumming all the way to the band's final Jump this band still kicks some serious Atomic Punk!

"Here she comes, full blast and top down!"

Singing In Memorial Church

Tonight I had the privilege of singing inside Stanford's Memorial Church for the first time! Jeremy put together a men's a capella group to sing a beautiful arrangement of Noel.

Smugmug Party

Smugmug turned five this year.
They threw a big party which I attended.
They took a sweet picture of me with big hair.