May 23, 2009

Beautiful Saturday morning and I'm sitting in the office; what's wrong with this picture?
First off a shot from Gettysburg last week; this picture looks to the South over the North Carolina monument towards the Bloody Angle. Magnificent morning on hallowed grounds.

Next up is another favorite old haunt from many years ago; a picture of the landing at Weldon. I didn't recognize it in the spring without trailer drivers fighting, cursing, and drawing pistols on one another...........ahhhhhhhhh, good times.
And last of all, a shot from the past, look who is playing Sunday night. A neat prize to the first person who remembers more than one of their songs. I'll start you out "nuts, hot nuts, you get them at the peanut stand................."

One more note HEY DINGBATTERS; IT'S MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, OUR COPS ARE ON ARENDALE STREET WAITING TO CATCH YOU SPEEDING! WE NEED THE REVENUE. YOU WILL GET A TICKET, SLOW DOWN!
Guess you can tell I saw more than a couple of idiots on my bike ride last night; be careful

May 19, 2009

OK, one more post; another fun new toy from Milton Bradley (if you got that you're old); or was it from the Fishin Optishin? You decide. Probably the closest I'll get to a red Mini-Cooper until I hit the lottery, which is made even harder since I never buy any tickets. Perhaps I should incorporate that into my retirement plans; win the lottery! Got it...

And remember there are some other new posts below this one.
I won't blog again until next week, I promise......unless I get some good stuff on the way home or this weekend

May 19, 2009
Further greetings from Hershey PA
More pictures from last week
Pop and Cooper

Cooper..............with cherry sno-cones lipstick; he had 20 of them on Saturday; isn't being a grandparent the best?

We missed Terri for a while Friday night but when she came home she had a free t-shirt; and lest I forget her commentary on this sign "look at how they spelled parties"

Cooper saving an old man from running into the sea, or into traffic, or something
Cooper in the wash
Nice shot of Cooper and Nana
Cooper building something
Cooper's GQ pic

May 18, 2009
Greetings from the sweetest place on earth; give up? Hershey, PA; up here for a trade show, be back home Thursday night.
I have a lot of shots and videos to share so there are several posts lined up
Fortunately there were better photographers around during Jackson's prom night, here Staci pins his boutonniere on while Arrington enjoys the show.
And here Jackson gives Arrington her corsage

Really nice shots of the evening; thanks to the Weinholds for sharing their's
We had Cooper for the weekend as Holly and Jay took off to go somewhere to get away from it all......................take a guess where?
Cooper was a lot of fun; we went to Jackson's Academic Awards Ceremony Thursday night, to the beach briefly on Friday, to the Fun Day at Pop's Skilled Care Center and back to the beach on Saturday, and then to the aquarium Sunday. He wore us out.
I'll post some more videos and pictures later, but this is the funniest one. Saturday afternoon we went to the Fort Macon beach, he walked into the backwash fearlessly, and then developed a work pattern wherein he would get a bucket of water and take it onto the beach and put it into a hole. He did this for 30+ minutes, and started out moving briskly, by the time this video was shot he was slowing quite a bit; enjoy

And now for your listening entertainment is Cooper's version of Twinkle Twinkle......

More later

May 8, 2009
Fun new toy for the computer, take a look

Thanks to the Fishin Optishin for the neat gift.

Those of you with the sharp eyes will notice the 8th grade English vocabulary cards on which the device sits; a leftover from Miss Moseley's 8th grade class; didn't use them then, don't use them now; probably doesn't come as a big surprise to any of you who know me

Next week another toy video and a week off, might try to fish a little.................

May 5, 2009
Lots going on over the past week; Jackson celebrated his 18th birthday with his friend Ian Cader

On Saturday we went over to Oriental to see Jay and some of his youth group from Sanford. Those of you who have been to the Stallings House might remember this room from the third floor. The smell is the same...........wonder if it is George

The peace and serenity of the Neuse River, which unfortunately was blowing at 25+ that day
Saturday night was Jackson's prom; here Mr. Bond gets ready to leave stately Riley manor; sorry, mixed the stories up quite a bit there
This group met at a neighbor's house for dinner, then off to the beach for the prom

Jackson's date was Miss Arrington Moore, a lovely young lady from Nashville; sorry this picture doesn't do her beauty justice

Everyone had a great time and a great weekend. Pop had a good week; Dink is having a lot of trouble walking and getting around right now
Off to OH in the morning, home for Mother's Day this weekend

Birthday weekend

April 26. 2009
Time for our annual birthday fishing weekend. On Friday we fished offshore and caught plenty of blues for dinner. We had a relatively short day (7-2) because we had lots to do and knew Saturday would be a long one. We cleaned fish, the boat, went to see Pop, and had a nice dinner.
On Saturday we left early on an exploratory expedition and went up Core Creek to Adams Creek to the Neuse River (the Inter Coastal Waterway). Once in the Neuse we drove west to Hancock Creek; lots of shallow water, very pretty, and fishing in this area comes with a private air show!

We were fishing near the end of one of the landing strips at Cherry Point MAS. The water was pretty, the fishing lousy, the food was great, and the show was wonderful.

And another jet, and you can hear the wind blowing in this small creek

We had three clear days of fishing; a little too much wind all along, fish for Friday night dinner and some for FO to take home; explored some new territories, all in all a pretty good weekend
And Jackson was elected elder, and turns 18 this week; hard to believe!
In town through Wednesday, then off to Charlotte and the Wachovia on Friday