June 12, 2009

Still no pictures to post; had a good week working in VA with my good friend Burch Vickery, got a lot accomplished. Hopefully I'll see a new laptop next week and I'll get some pics up ASAP. Going to Rocky Mount to clean out the shop tomorrow, have church on the beach Sunday morning, maybe play on the boat a little after that. Might be in MD next week for a couple of days.

Guess who was in town today opening a tire store beside Jones Brothers?

Not going to give any hints, you either know him or you don't. I never cared much for him, but certainly one of the best ever, and definitely a diverse champion.
Pop and Dink had a good week, lots of company to keep them busy. It's summertime summertime, sum sum summertime........................................................
Come on down

June 6, 2009

Anniversary of D-Day, several good articles in the local paper about veterans. Pop had a good week; took him to the beach yesterday, I think he enjoyed getting out.

We went to the Keli Wagner tournament captain's party last night; the tournament is today so I guess since we are not fishing our team will come off the top of the leadeboard where it has been for a couple of months. Good time, good food and drink, great cause

Still a couple of weeks away from a new laptop; makes life a lot simpler not having it; however there are several projects I'm WAY behind on because it crashed. I'll get them done in a few weeks

Off to the Lloyd family reunion tomorrow; we'll see if I can squeeze into the roadster after that competitive eating event.

Might be in VA some next week, behave yourselves

May 31, 2009

Jackson was ordained as an elder at our church today! We fished yesterday and caught some pretty blues. Film later

Oh, laptop crashed, sorry, pictures will be posted in a couple of weeks

In town all next week

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