Yes, more promotion of local things I like. Hey, it's my blog!

Today's topic? One of my two favorite local bands - The Jellybricks.

I can't believe it's been more than 10 years since I first heard them, when they opened for Live in Hershey during my sophomore year of high school.

Somehow, I managed to get a signed drumstick from them after that concert. And I've been a fan ever since.

I don't know exactly how to describe their style - pop, I guess, but a little more into the rock side of things. It's actually some of the more laid-back music in my collection; I'm normally a hard-rock kinda girl.

Anyway, if you get a chance, check out their site, where you can hear some of their music.

Tomorrow, more on my second-favorite local band.

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Colorado potato beetle; image from Wikimedia

Daughter Sarah and I collected our third letterboxing stamp and read some facts about beetles today at Sunset Lane Park in West Manchester Township.

A nice walk around the park - which I found out has horseshoe pits, how cool is that?!

And, did you know there are more types of beetles than there are types of plant species total? Scary.

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I mentioned my daughter's work in the letterboxing challenge sponsored by the libraries, the local parks and Keystone Activity Zone.

Well, on Sunday, we were out at the Book Nook Bonanza at York Suburban Middle School - brought home four new boxes of books, yay! - but, after lunch at Perkins, we figured we'd check out some of the eastern York County parks, as we don't often get out to that end of town.

So, that's where Sarah got her first two letterboxing stamps - and learned some bug facts from her logbook - one at Springettsbury Township Park and the other at Rocky Ridge.

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Bill Styer and his reptiles are a big part of Repile Week at Nixon Park, but 4-year-old Jake Sampson of Salem, Va., wasn't quite sure he wanted to experience the 75-pound Burmese python in this photo by Bil Bowden.

What I forgot to say was that it was the beginning of "Reptile Week" there, which continues through Sunday.

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So, hubby and I had a fun (and free, and environmentally friendly, AND good exercise) date Saturday morning, courtesy of the York County Parks Department.

We've decided to take part in the parks' "Eight for Eight" hike series, which leads you through - you guessed it - eight of the county's parks in 2008.

Saturday's was a two-hour "ridge to ridge" hike in Nixon Park. It was the second in the series, though we'd missed the first one. I would HIGHLY recommend future hikes to you all, but first, let's look at some lessons learned.

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Rose and I went to check out the Blues Traveler concert at Sovereign Bank Stadium on Saturday night. I haven't even gone to bed yet, and it's 4 a.m., so you know it was awesomeness.

Check out the professional story with the professional photos here, then come back and read more of my blog to get my less-than-perfect but still fun take on the concert and some less-than-perfect but still great photos, too!

(First, though, here's photo proof that I made it to the show.)

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A reader on the Exchange is echoing this post I made last year about the former Zimmie's... I loved going when I was in school. That place was great!

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I'll be at the annual picnic for my church today.

It's about that time of year... summer picnics, cookouts, all that good stuff. I went to a Memorial Day cookout at my best friend's house; that was a lot of fun.

It's funny, how much my life doesn't change. I just realized that my third-ever post on this blog was about picnics - two of which I just mentioned. The third picnic event last year at this time was the SPCA adopt-a-thon, and since I'm emphatically not in the market for any more pets, I think I'll give that one a miss... though I'd be remiss not to ask you to consider adopting something from one of our local animal shelters.

Anyway, here's to some good covered-dish eats - including one from our family, which my husband made - wow!

All right, my few but proud readers - any favorite picnic/cookout foods? I'm going to today's picnic prepared to take lots of pictures of the good eats, so I'll give you the rundown afterward.

In some "YDR trivia" news... that silhouetted guy in the photo above is the husband of biz editor Kara - we set him up for a recent photo illustration on a story about rising costs for cookout foods.

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In what appears to be a rarity this season, the Revs won during a recent game that I went to with my daughter and husband. It was Buck-A-Book night, which meant that my junior voracious reader got to go on the field before the game for some festivities and even collect some of the Revs' autographs.

I was just thrilled with our great seats (field box) and the fact that my daughter also won a $50 savings bond in the home run drawing (that's when this photo was taken.) Plus, I love that you can see the YDR logo in the photo. Yeah, I'm that dorky.

Any other Revs fans out there?

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In honor of our third wedding anniversary this past Wednesday (yay!), my husband and I will be taking a short trip to the Delaware shore next week.

But, on anniversary day, I was working at my part-time job and he had to work in the late evening here at the paper, so we contented ourselves with a smaller excursion - a picnic lunch a la Subway and a hike around the lake at Pinchot Park.

It was a bit cold - and we got rained on a bit during the last third of our two-mile-or-so walk - but I did get one neat picture on my cameraphone... of a tree, carved up like crazy, with lots of other couples' initials. I'm a little too tree-friendly to have added to it, but I did think a photo was an appropriate anniversary commemorative!

(If you like this, you should check out our Carving Tree project that assistant features editor Sue Haller did a couple of years ago. It's an even more detailed look at one tree's graffiti.)

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