On Thursday, I’ll bake on the stovetop my world famous Pillsbury Funfetti ® taiyaki!

Made with Pillsbury Funfetti ® cake mix, Starbucks ® Bottled Vanilla Frappuccino ®, and Nestle ® Premier White Morsels, my taiyaki tastes so good that it is already world famous, even before I’ve baked my very first batch!

Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration, Part Eleven

This is the first car that I saw to travel on the reopened Superior Street.

That driver needs a driving refresher course, as he or she needs to drive on the right side of the double yellow line, not over those lines.

That is the end of my Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration photographic essay.  Next year in 2019, I hope that I can post the second phase in the second year of the Superior Street Reconstruction project.

Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration, Part Ten

A worker is moving the street barriers to allow cars to travel on Superior Street.

I saw three construction workers moving the barriers and two journalists recording their work.  Now, is that not just typical of modern society?

This construction worker can move a barrier all by themselves.

Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration has ended, while Superior Street is almost ready for traffic.

Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration, Part Nine

This is the tent where event staff served up to the event guests coffee and cookies.

Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration, Part Eight

The red dog mascot needs a handler to guild them, as the fur suit wearer can’t see very well from inside the suit.

How the red suit appear from behind, with an adorable tail.

Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration, Part Seven

More photos of dancing on the new street that was made possible with choreography led by Harbor City International School students as the Harbor City String Band performed the song “Sandy Boys”.

Some people seemed to really love dancing on the new street.

I wonder how many other photographers, both professional and amateur were attending this event?

I’m surprised that so few people attended this important event to celebrate opening two blocks of Superior Street.

At least the music was good and easy to dance to.

I think that recent rainstorm and the cold may have kept many people away from this celebration that might have attended otherwise.

I wonder if new streetcar tracks will ever be built on Superior Street.  I would love to see streetcars, powered by hydrogen engines so there is no need for overhead wires, on Superior Street.

I don’t think that there will be a subway line built under Superior Street; as Second Street would be a better location for a subway line.

Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration, Part Six

The celebration concluded with dancing on the new street that was made possible with choreography led by Harbor City International School students as the Harbor City String Band performed the song “Sandy Boys”.

Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration, Part Five

The two blocks that opened on Tuesday have become the first phase of a three year project to rebuild Duluth’s Superior Street.  This reconstruction project, which took many weeks to complete, includes completely new underground utilities below new sidewalks and road surfaces.

Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration, Part Four

I saw a red dog mascot on Superior Street.  For someone who has little interest in the furry fandom community, I sure do have many photos of people dressed up in fur suits posted on my blog.

Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration, Part Three

Duluth Mayor Emily Larson arrived at the celebration in a fire truck.

Duluth Energy Systems workers listen to Mayor Emily Larson and other speakers at this event.

Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration, Part Two

Yesterday, Harbor City International School students attended this important milestone in Duluth’s history.

Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration, Part One

Despite today’s Superior Street Reconstruction Celebration, work continues on the separate Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Hwy 194 / Mesaba Avenue reconstruction project.

This photo was taken inside the Radisson hotel on Superior Street.

According to the MnDOT web article on this project:  “The project is expected to be completed the week of October 29.”  Therefore, if you want to take some photographs of this important construction project, you need to take these this week.

I ate Meat Lovers Breakfast Pizza for my breakfast.

For top-notch food for a low price, eat at the excellent Hearthstone Café.

I’m happy that King Manor residents can look forward to our Halloween party.

I might wear my Sailor Jupiter costume to this party.  Do you wear a costume to Halloween parties, or to animation and comic book conventions?

Age Well Arrowhead cancelled their Rainbow Center event.

I was looking forward to attending that event that was cancelled without an explanation.

The Buy a Basket Food Co-op - baskets for October 22, 2018

One fruit basket for five dollar, more food for much less money than you can purchase retail.

One vegetable basket for five dollar, more food for much less money than you can purchase retail.

My bathrobes repurposed as window curtains.

I didn’t have the money to purchase a new window curtain for my living room.  Therefore, I used my bathrobes as my window curtains.  Several visitors to my apartment have told me that they liked my creative solution to have window curtains in my living room.

I found an abandoned sleeping bag in Duluth’s Leif Erikson Park.

Why would anyone leave a useable sleeping bag in a public park?  I would love to know the story as to why someone abandoned their sleeping bag inside Leif Erikson Park.

The reconstruction of the Duluth Lakewalk continues!

This map, northeast of Lake Place Park, gives the route of the Lakewalk detour.

The city does not want people on the Lakewalk at this time.

I ate Ham Breakfast Pizza for my breakfast.

As far as I’m aware of, I’m the only fan photographer or Fantographer for Hearthstone Café food.  What’s more, my photography and blog gives the Hearthstone Café free, user-generated advertising.

I made my second batch of banana walnut taiyaki.

What I need to do next is to figure out how to turn my taiyaki hobby into a profitable and satisfying career while bringing this tasty food to millions of customers.

I made my first batch of banana walnut taiyaki.

Those who love banana walnut muffins love my banana walnut taiyaki!

My adventures in Canal Park - Duluth, Minnesota: Part Nine

More of what I found behind “Comfort Suites Canal Park”.  I found more sections of the boardwalk ripped from their foundations and an overturned park bench.

I don’t know about you, but those rocks came awfully close to smashing through in the windows and doors of the Comfort Suites Canal Park.  I wonder if the next storm will have sufficient power to toss rocks all the way through this hotel’s windows and doors.

My adventures in Canal Park - Duluth, Minnesota: Part Eight

Or, what I found behind “Comfort Suites Canal Park”.  I found it was easier for me to list my photos in subdivisions that I took behind each hotel.

I think that the Duluth Lakewalk need to be rebuilt to be stronger, as climate change is creating more powerful storms.  Two destructive storms in two years should be sufficient to any sane person that climate change is real.

An interesting row of rocks and a log are strewn across the boardwalk.

The lamppost has a notice describing upcoming repair work to be done to repair damage from last year’s destructive storm.  And now this year’s storm has made that repair work even more expensive.

I took one more photo of that unusual line of rocks and a log deposited by the storm.  I wonder how many other such structures were made by the storm.

My adventures in Canal Park - Duluth, Minnesota: Part Seven

Or, what I found behind “The Inn on Lake Superior”.  Someone needs to dig out this section of the boardwalk before it can be reattached to the boardwalk foundation.

Lake Superior ate concrete and reinforcing bar, like children eat candy canes.

There is a bicycle path below all that rock, gravel, and sand.

I’m surprised that a thief hasn’t taken this section of boardwalk away to build a home deck.

The powerful waves have shown that the bicycle path is three layers of asphalt paving.