New Year 2023 on Jimmy Buffet Memorial Highway South
Fort Stevens Washington on our 2023 Excellent Adventure
Panama City Fall 2023 with Theo and ‘Beezy’
50th High School Reunion 2023
November 2023 – The walking wounded celebrated 50 years of life at our High School Reunion. Big fun for all!
50th High School Reunion – I started first grade with many of these fine folks!
Winter Solstice 2023
2024
Twin Sons of Different Mothers – 2024
Theo playing the drums at Valhalla – 2024
10 Years Home
July 2014: I returned home after 39 years. Samwise & I lived for a year and a half in Satellite Beach before buying Valhalla in early 2016. I was glad (and fucking relieved) to be back home.
The Dude returns ~ Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Free at Last, Free at Last!
Gateway Arch ~ St. Louis, MO ~ Excellent Adventure 2024
Two Dudes at Rest ~ North Carolina Mountains ~ October 2024
Pizza in Big Stone Gap on the Dead Hortons Tour in June 2025
Clan Tubridy at the Highland Motoring Festival parade near Lisa and Dave’s Ranch in North Carolina.
70
The Dude at 70
Mother Ocean 2025
M Coupe 2025 ~ Major work done this year: Suspension, brakes, tires, fixed valve cover and power sterring leaks, new radiator. After the new clutch 5 years ago the car finally drives like new!
Flattening sled: I made this as a cheaper alternstive to a metal sled. I flattened the hickory slab I got from Myhr’s broither Richard on Excellent Adventure 2024. Worked like a charm!
Tree of Life inlay on finished live edge slab.
My incredibly photogenic grand niece Georgie and nephew Theo! Clan Tubridy Treasures!
Not-So-Sweet Melisa clobbers Jamaica. Here one day, gone the next, major damage, but hey, what climate change? Despite this, there were no direct hits on the mainland USA this year. Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster in all its Noodly Goodness!
Second New Glenn launch from Pad 46 at the Cape. This is where Dad worked in the 1950s on the first Atlas launches. The roar of this large rocket comes close to what I remember from the Saturn V days.
Jake & Eddie ~ Winter Solstice 2025
Festivus ~ For the Rest of Us!
2026
Panama City New Years
The Big Chill
Cold February Sunrise 2026 ~ The Polar Vortex made a unwelcome visit plummeting temperatures into the low 30s.
Aftermath of the freeze. Over the next couple of months, most of the plants died back significantly, if not dead as a doornail! My failed mango project from 2020 mercifully was one of those. I have a lot of work ahead to turn all the dead bamboo into walls for the patio!
February Boat Ride on the Indian River at Cocoa
Clan Tubridy and Bringe meet up in New Smyrna Beach for fun with the grandniblings Theo and Georgie and Dad Carl in Rockledge.
Clan Bringe-Tubridy March 2026Theo and Gramopy at the playground in downtown Cocoa
Georgie at 15 months – walking lie a pro and babbling away!
Jake turns 10
Jake came to me 10 years ago this summer. He’s been my constant companion – the sone I never had! My Little Dude!
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Cocoa ‘Death‘ Beach
Ad in Georgia on I-95
By May 2026, five people had tragically lost their lives to drowning in our beach town so far this year. This alarming increase in fatalities happens at a time of a unprecedented influx of tourists seeking to escape the weight of their cumbersome wads of cash.
Tragically, two of these victims were at our slice of paradise a block away, where I once watched the rockets launch as a child. The growing number of people, who seem indifferent to the power of Mother Ocean, has exacerbated the situation. Moreover, the serious impact of coastline restoration has resulted in an unnatural coastline that amplifies the effects of rip tides—the primary cause of these tragic incidents.
These used to be at every beach cross over until people started drowning and some idiots egos got bruised.
To ensure that this unfortunate event occurred in perfect harmony with the ever-increasing tide of absurdity, a lawsuit was filed against beach safety devices. These devices, which were promptly removed due to bruised egos, were the intended solution to prevent such tragedies.
