Fins Up!!!!!

Two years ago Jimmy almost bypassed Pittsburgh. Last year he didn't forget to schedule Pittsburgh, he did bypass it for the first time since he started touring. There were a lot of lonely Pittsburgh Parrot heads.

Well today he returns to the Burg for a Saturday Night Concert, this will be the first time I have seen him on a Saturday Night.

This years concert is going to be a special one as Michelle and I have a couple of friends who will see their first Jimmy Concert tonight. Smitty and Stephanie will be going up with some of their co-workers this evening and last night Michelle's best friend Holly bought a couple of tickets and her and Hannah will be going to their first Jimmy Concert.

A guy who I used to play Softball with has arranged for a 27 Passenger Limo for this years festivities and he had a couple extra seats so Michelle and I grabbed them up. He does this every year and invited us a few years ago, but we had other plans as we had our own big tailgate going on.

It's going to be a great day. Fins Up!!!!

Fins Up!!!!!

Alright Parrot Heads are you ready???? Today is the day that Jimmy returns to Burgettestown for his 20915 Concert. We will be there and ready to party.

I have listed the information that I have found about today's event below, the doors open at 7:00 PM, Show starts at 8:00 and they have moved the parking lot opening back to 3:00 (was 4:00 then 3:30) to let a;; of the Parrot Heads in to set up their tailgates.

You can bring in one bottle of water and a one gallon bag of snacks per person.

Let's Do This!!!!!

Big Ole Hairy Hump Day

Well for the rest of you it's hump day, that day of the week when you go up and over the hump looking at another weekend. For my wonderful wife Michelle and I it is the start of a four day weekend for us.

Yes my work week will be over this evening and it'll be time for us to start cleaning and organizing tomorrows Tailgate.

Jimmy Buffett will once again be coming to Pittsburgh, even though that we thought he was just going to completely bypass the city this year for the first time in I don't know when. To tell you the truth, I'm glad he waited as when he was going to schedule was the rainy season and tomorrows weather forecast for Burgettstown looks quite awesome with a high at a very manageable 84° and no rain.

Bobby and Val and a couple they went with last year as well as Trish and a couple of her friends as well as the group of people we are going with could make this a tailgate of potentially about 15 people, not including the people who tend to stop by as they pass by as we have met a number of great people in neighboring tailgates through the years.

Have yourselves a wonderful day.

Hi ho hi ho

Photo Flashback Thursday

Buffett 2010

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out of my schedule and look through all of the pictures that I have either taken, scanned or stolen off of the internet through the years. Little lost moments in time that were captured by a camera for all to share someday down the road. Sometimes it's pretty easy finding that picture and sometimes it's not so easy, one thing it always is is a whole lot of fun.

Since I was really busy yesterday with the concert and all, and I wanted to get this out at it's normal time, I actually wrote this blog on Tuesday as many things were still up in the air about the concert so I decided to do a Buffett Flashback.

This is a picture of me and my lovely wife at the 2010 Concert. This is the last year that we went up by ourselves and no one came with us, but boy did we have a great time that day. Partied it up with a bunch of college kids who tailgated beside us who just made the day.

Always a highlight of my summers. Now I've had two days off and I have to head back to the office so

Hi ho hi ho

Parrot Heads Unite

Today is the day, Jimmy Buffett visits Burgettstown this evening and we will once again be there. We have a couple we are meeting this afternoon, and Val and Bobby are coming up a little later. Gary and his date (who ever that may be) I am still trying to get in touch with Gary and learn his plans. Jean and Jerry will not be making the trip this year although they have a couple tickets they are trying to unload. Hopefully we will be able to resume our partying with them in 2015.

Jimmy Buffett Tickets

WOO HOO, I love this time of the year. This is the day that I battle the 30,000 other Pittsburgh Area Parrot Heads to get tickets to see Jimmy this year.

Today is the day that we buy tickets to go and once again see Jimmy Buffett this summer in Pittsburgh. This will be my 8th, Michelle's 7th, Jean's 3rd, Gary's 2nd (third really but he got lost last year) and Jerry's 2nd. Donnie and Wendy who went with us last year will also be going with us this year for the second year in a row.

The picture you see is of Jeanie who is an absolute blast to go with because she tends to make friends no matter where we go.

Whether it be her playing Beer Pong with the local frat guys in the parking lot, yes she played it the year before at her first concert.

She also manages to prepare a great feast and is a n absolute pleasure to watch at the concerts. I can honestly say that she always tends to have the time of her life when she goes. LOL

Tickets onsale at 10:00 this morning. Consider joining us.

JIMMY!!!!!!!

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Just announced Pittsburgh.

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look foreword to, when we can take time to cease the labors for the week and take a little bit of needed time out to enjoy the fruits of those labors. It is once again the dawn of another weekend, and a Big Ole Hairy Friday.

I'm actually off again today and so is Michelle. I'm writing this blog this morning, which is pretty rare for a week day blog for me because I usually author it the evening before. We were gone all day yesterday and with the long day, the heat and rain and mugginess, I was beat by the time we got home earlier this morning. I still have the Subaru packed with everything from the concert last night. I have all the pictures up on Facebook.

The only bad thing about yesterday was my brother Gary decided to come up later and somehow got lost on his Harley and could not make it to the show. I kept trying to call him, but to no avail and when I finally did get a hold of him he was lost somewhere. One time he tells me he's on 50 the other time he tells me he's on the Steubenville Pike, how do you get on both of those roads without passing the concert pavilion I don't know. I told him to use the GPS on his iPhone but that got him lost. He missed the show which kind of put a damper on it for us.

Today I've got a funeral to attend and a car to unpack. I probably drank more yesterday than I have in a lot of years, but it was hot and I drank responsibly enough to know when to slow down and start drinking water. We did have a great time however.

Have a great day.

Grand Turk Island

Disclaimer: This week I will be on a week long vacation with my beautiful wife. These blogs were pre-written to keep a flow of my blog going and to let people know where we are that today and what we plan to be doing.

Today we are landing on our first port Grand Turk Island. This will actually be the first time either Michelle or I ever set foot on land of a foreign country, or even outside of the United States.

One thing that we want to do today is make our first ever trip and visit to the Margaritaville Caribbean which is just outside of the port. Something tells me these two parrot heads actually will be having two cheeseburgers in paradise today. It's only appropriate since we manage to make the trip to Pittsburgh every year to go see Jimmy and the Coral Reefer Band. It was the one thing I mentioned about any of the ports that made Michelle's eyes light up.

We'll dock at 8:00 AM and are scheduled to be back on the boat at 2:00 PM. Obviously this is going to be a short day, but anytime white sandy beaches and blue oceans are involved I'm, all for it.

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out and look through the thousands of digital pictures that I have on my computer and find just one special image to blog about. Briefly reliving that lost moment in time forever captured in a digital image. Sometimes it's easy to find a picture and sometimes it's pretty difficult, it's always a whole lot of fun.

This weeks image takes me back a few years, a day that forever changed my life and my indoctrination into the world of being a parrothead. This was taken at the tailgate of my first Jimmy Buffett Concert (not my last) a few years ago.

Mark Devault had told me for years how much fun going to a Jimmy Buffett concert was, that year the concert was at PNC Park and it was HOT HOT HOT that day for sure. We went early in the day and Mark, Denise and a friend of Mark's tailgated all day right beside the stadium giving me my first experience to the parrothead nation.

Today in Burgettstown it will be 95° and scorching HOT HOT HOT. The parrothead nation will once again assemble and Michelle and I plan on being there once again. This will be my sixth concert and Michelle's fifth.

The pleasure today as a big thank you for doing so much for us last year for our wedding is the ability to partially repay Jean and Gary for the enormous amount of help they both gave us last year for the wedding. No one went away hungry and people still talk to me about all that food. Today I get to give them both a little thank you as we indoctrinate them into the world of parrotheads.


I hope you have a great day, we plan to.


FINS UP!!!!!