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Clay's Band

2010-05-02T09:41:00.003-04:00

Just had our camera, not camcorder, but you can tell why Trish and I were deaf at the end of the evening

SNOW!!!!

2010-01-10T21:06:00.003-05:00

1st time since 77. I could have done without it.

It was 27 last night and going to be bout the same tonight.

We are 25 degrees below normal

Uncovered

2010-01-07T15:52:00.001-05:00

After 5 days and nights under cover, finally uncovered the plants.
Albeit for 1 night.
More cold tomorrow night

Wrapped Up!

2010-01-03T21:07:00.001-05:00

Covered the flowers last night and probably won't uncover them for a week.
This doesn't happen down here.
Damn is it cold!

2010-01-03T12:21:00.000-05:00

Damn it's cold

We just planted some Annuals today

2009-12-19T18:35:00.001-05:00

Yes today, Dec. 19th!

Christmas Lights

2009-12-19T18:34:00.002-05:00

Just on board

2009-12-19T18:24:00.001-05:00

Our first Drink on board our Cruise a couple weeks ago

Austin's Wrestling Tournament

2009-12-19T18:20:00.001-05:00

This was just after Thanksgiving

Aaron's Homecoming

2009-12-19T18:19:00.001-05:00

Happy Birthday Nate

2009-09-15T06:51:00.001-04:00

Sunny in New Hampshire

2009-08-11T13:25:00.001-04:00

On the Road again

2009-08-11T09:15:00.001-04:00

2009-07-29T07:02:00.001-04:00

Heading to Puerto Rico

Happy Birthday to my Nephew

2009-07-12T19:29:00.001-04:00

She's.....He's 16.

His Dad is buying him a car today.

84 Degrees at 6:45 am

2009-06-23T06:55:00.001-04:00

It's gonna be a warm day

2009-06-22T08:05:00.001-04:00

Heading to Birmingham
Back tonight

2009-06-16T17:28:00.001-04:00

97 degrees here in Valdosta

Leaving Vegas

2009-06-11T09:14:00.001-04:00

Packing up
Home this evening

Show is open

2009-06-09T13:57:00.001-04:00

Drinks @ the Hilton Pool

2009-06-08T20:24:00.002-04:00

In Vegas

2009-06-07T13:28:00.000-04:00

Flying to Lauderdale

2009-06-04T09:58:00.000-04:00

RIP Matt

2009-06-03T20:32:00.001-04:00

You were a hustler

Two recipes for my Mommy

2009-06-03T20:26:00.003-04:00

The Blue Cheese ball is awesome, but we haven't tried the Blueberry thing yet

In Tallahassee

2009-06-02T16:43:00.003-04:00

Leaving for Home in the Morning

Valdosta Hooters

2009-05-31T20:22:00.003-04:00

In Valdosta for work tomorrow.

Having Dinner @ Hooters.

These kids won their tournament and got a picture with the Hooters Girls.

Storm Damage

2009-05-25T11:11:00.000-04:00

Less than a mile from the house

He's Back

2009-05-25T10:50:00.001-04:00

Back from college for the past 3 weeks

And he still hasn't unpacked his bags

Met our Friend in Orlando

2009-05-25T10:33:00.002-04:00

Met Brian Salamone at his sister Alicia's House in Orlando.

He was in town for business from Nashville.

Haven't seen him since High School.

Sunrise- Virginia Beach

2009-05-20T05:57:00.001-04:00

Getting up early.
Got a Long day
Gotta drive 300 miles or so.

Hotel View- Virginia Beach

2009-05-19T18:28:00.002-04:00

Another View

2009-05-19T11:58:00.002-04:00

2 Papers yesterday

2009-05-19T11:57:00.003-04:00

Got 2 papers yesterday. The regular one on the left, the the Delinquent Tax List on the right, which was about 5-6 times the regular paper

Landing in Norfolk

2009-05-19T11:57:00.001-04:00

The last Band Event

2009-05-18T19:50:00.000-04:00

At the Award Program for the Band

Aarons last band concert of the year

2009-05-15T19:41:00.002-04:00

2009-05-14T07:31:00.001-04:00

At the Airport
Flying Home

Melting Pot

2009-05-12T20:40:00.001-04:00

Dinner with Customers
2 White guys, One Black Guy,
One Iranian, One Brazilian and
7 Swedes

Downtown Boston from the Airport

2009-05-12T10:50:00.001-04:00

2009-05-11T16:22:00.001-04:00

In New Hampshire.
60 degrees today.
It was 92 @ home yesterday .

We need some Water

2009-05-11T06:50:00.003-04:00

Photo through the screen.

Pond is down about 8 feet.

No rain in the forecast and 90's

It's Love Bug Season

2009-05-07T14:46:00.002-04:00

I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance

2009-05-07T14:33:00.001-04:00

Austin's Academic Awards

2009-05-05T06:51:00.001-04:00

Went to Austins Awards Program Last Week

No more Bottle Brushes

2009-05-05T06:45:00.003-04:00

There used to be 4- 15 foot Bottle Brushes there.

They started pushing up the concrete, so they had to go.

You can see the stumps piled up off to the side, but you can't see the blisters on my hands.

In Winfield LA

2009-04-30T12:23:00.000-04:00

2009-04-29T07:53:00.001-04:00

At the airport heading to New Orleans

2009-04-28T06:06:00.001-04:00

In Atlanta, heading home this morning

Heading out

2009-04-27T06:02:00.001-04:00

Valdosta this morning and a meeting in Atlanta this afternoon.
Back tomorrow night.

Happy Birthday to my Sister

2009-04-26T10:57:00.002-04:00

2009-04-23T09:06:00.001-04:00

At the Doctors this morning, and Traffic Court this afternoon

Flags at Half Staff

2009-04-22T21:18:00.002-04:00

Hotel flags at half staff.

One of the Trade Show attendees was struck and killed crossing the street last night.

It was a very somber day.

2009-04-21T20:08:00.001-04:00

Savannah River

Dinner

2009-04-20T22:52:00.002-04:00

2 Mayors, 3 Ambassodors and me.

Hey, I can't help it, they invited me

View From My Hotel Room

2009-04-20T22:51:00.002-04:00

Right on the River with the big ships heading in to unload

2009-04-20T09:48:00.001-04:00

Heading to Savannah for a few days

STICHES!

2009-04-18T22:10:00.003-04:00

After 19 years of boys, we had our first emergency room run.

Aaron fell in the shower at 11pm, broke the ceramic soap dish on the way down, and landed on the broken part.

7 stiches in the stomach at 2 in the morning.

That was great.

Happy Birthday Josh

2009-04-11T21:02:00.002-04:00

Annoyed with my Favorite Magazine

2009-02-10T11:04:00.003-05:00

Here is a copy of most of the email I sent to customer service at my favorite magazine. I'll post any replies from them:

Your general business practices border on unethical.
I subscribed to ***'* ****** because I enjoy the magazine.
I do not want you calling me trying to sell me books. Which you did last year and I said thanks but no thanks.
I do not want you telling me I signed up for automatic renewal when there is not an Automatic renewal box when you sign up.
I do not like the fact that I cannot log onto my account and turn off the Automatic renewal that you turned on automatically. I must find a phone number to call you and turn off automatic renewal.
I do not want you sending me books and telling me because I automatically renewed I requested these books be sent automatically. I do not like the fact that when I try to send back the books there is not an address or any written documentation with the books that say how to send them back.
I do not like the fact you have sent me an invoice for 2 books you sent automatically that I didn't want. Then when I call you (2/06/09, 12:10pm est) to say, I did not automatically ask for these books or another subscription, nor did I even pay for another subscription, your Automated phones say, if you want to return these books, use the automated system and then says, we are sorry, we are busy right now, try calling later, thank you goodbye, I am automatically annoyed.
Since there was no documentation, I wrote RETURN TO SENDER and put the package back into the mailbox, in which, it should have already been returned to you, automatically.
Please remove me from all your Automatically stuff. Do not call me about your stuff. Send me an invoice at renewal time with your best price and I will think your magazine is worth that price and send you money, or I won’t think it’s worth the price and not send you any money. That is called business. Make a good product, people pay you for it. Try all these other ways to Automatically get money from your customers, they get annoyed.
Thank you for your time and your magazine,
Dave Whitelaw

AM I WRONG HERE?

At the Super Bowl

2009-02-01T18:02:00.002-05:00

The two boys and I joined some neighborhood guys at the Super Bowl Tailgating Party

COLD!

2009-01-22T06:52:00.004-05:00

Its 28 in Tampa and 22 in Cleveland right now.
All the roofs and grass are white with frost down here.
The flowers and plants have been covered for 48 hours now.

Here's the real knife job

2009-01-11T21:34:00.004-05:00

Click the arrow to play the video

This is what they want to do to me!

2009-01-09T22:20:00.002-05:00

Not exactly it, but close to what they want to schedule me for.

I'm not in a big hurry to get it done...........3 month recovery.

Ouch, that hurt!

2009-01-07T15:27:00.004-05:00

Had my discogram today.

4 needles into 4 discs.

That Hurt!

Finally!

2009-01-06T21:05:00.005-05:00

Christmas pictures finally posted.
We had a blast with everyone.
Thank you to all who came to visit, those who hosted and those who took care of us for the week.
Click on the photos on the left and they will open in another window.
Scroll through using the arrows.
If you want to save a photo, right click on it and select save picture as.

PS- You probably heard me crying yesterday. No more free beer at Busch Gardens

Quick Trip up the Mountains

2008-12-18T12:24:00.004-05:00

Was in Cheyenne, WY, so on the way back to Denver, ran up the mountains an hour or so.
Here's what it looked like-

Winter Concert

2008-12-12T19:54:00.000-05:00

At the winter band concert tonight.
Aaron made All County Band.

In Denver

2008-12-09T20:17:00.001-05:00

Awoke to 6" of snow atop my rental car
Not a pleasent experience at 5:30am.
So cold I forgot to take a picture.

Season's Greetings!

2008-11-29T22:54:00.002-05:00

The boys love getting on the roof and helping.

We are in the Christmas Spirit.

Tree goes up tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving

2008-11-27T07:44:00.000-05:00

Austin Make Over

2008-11-24T17:14:00.004-05:00

2 1/2 years with Braces

And too long with hair in his eyes

Got his Train Tracks off today, and a new Do!

Turkey Bowl 2008

2008-11-22T12:31:00.002-05:00

A Neighborhood Annual Event

Weekend before Turkey Day

Sometimes we have to call an ambulance

Sometimes we have to call the cops

But in general, alot of fun

We were injury free this year!

It's Cold Down here!

2008-11-19T20:12:00.003-05:00

I even had to put a blanket on the flowers.

Line it up!

2008-11-04T07:38:00.004-05:00

Dropped Trish off to vote before 7.

Told her to call me later and I'll pick her up.

The Baby Votes for the First Time

2008-10-23T21:22:00.005-04:00

We went to early voting today.

Stopped and picked up Clay so he could vote for the first time.

Took us an hour and 10 minutes,

but we voted.

Truck Photo

2008-10-15T22:36:00.003-04:00

Click the photo to enlarge

Traveled about 400 miles down the highway with this box in the back of the truck

Got alot of laughs, mostly from woman.

Early Morning

2008-09-22T06:19:00.003-04:00

Football Party lasted til 8 last night.
Played Cornhole til it got dark.
Had alot of cleanup to do.
Up at 3:30

Happy Birthday to my Favorite Nephew

2008-09-17T07:17:00.002-04:00

He paid me $20 to say that

Pay More Taxes!

2008-09-09T21:03:00.006-04:00

If you don't have 9 minutes, skip ahead to the 7 minute mark.

Click on the rate list to enlarge.
The rates are where he wants to roll back to before raising taxes more.

Heading Home

2008-09-07T09:24:00.000-04:00

Plane is late.
But will be home this afternoon.

Off to NH

2008-09-02T11:33:00.000-04:00

Trim that bush, err Tree!

2008-08-28T20:45:00.004-04:00

Finally!

1050 miles to home

2008-08-24T21:10:00.002-04:00

Trish worked her butt off on this.

Dad and I hung it out back today.

Happy Birthday Homer!

2008-08-24T20:22:00.002-04:00

Look what I got!

Aqua Globes, they are amazing!!

Clay's new pad

2008-08-21T22:07:00.004-04:00

Internet, Cable, HDTV, XM Radio, own room, kitchen, Living Room,

4 bedrooms, 2 baths
Life is good!

Look what we found

2008-08-21T10:14:00.002-04:00

Liann found all this under and behind Clay's nightstand when we packed him up for college

Fay on the way

2008-08-17T20:42:00.004-04:00

Mom yelled at me to update my blog.
Everyone is visiting and Tropical Storm Fay is on the way.
This should be an interesting week.
Take a look at the photos of the reunion.
Sorry about the blurry photos, these were the only ones that were not.
My Brother in law was manning the camera and was doing the bob-n-weave.
Thank you to to my old babysitter Peggy for inviting me to the party.
I thought she was hot when I was 6.

Happy Birthday to my Nephew!

2008-07-17T11:20:00.002-04:00

I forgot to Post this.

Wanted to make sure he got it in the mail first.

Happy B-Day Ty-Guy

Who's your favorite Uncle?

Uhh, where's my phone?

2008-06-15T21:48:00.005-04:00

He hasn't seen it in a couple days. But it's not his fault.

I lost count, is this 4 or 5?

Yeah, it's Clay again!

Graduation!

2008-06-14T22:01:00.005-04:00

664 students!

I swear! He has a 5.0+ GPA

2008-05-04T21:26:00.003-04:00

Clay: Mom! What should I do with the left over Pineapple?

Mom: Put whatever is left in a plastic container.

Clay: OK

He's Common sensibly challeged!

Flag at Half Staff

2008-04-21T20:01:00.004-04:00

Good bye M O K

M O K?

Mom's Old Knee!!!

She gets a new one tomorrow.

Posted on the Garage Door for all to See

2008-04-17T12:33:00.002-04:00

Happy Birthday to Clay

2008-04-17T08:22:00.002-04:00

I can't believe he made it to 18!

Today- Sunny and 87 Degrees

2008-04-12T07:20:00.001-04:00

Not Bad for April 12th

Back from Orlando

2008-04-09T18:57:00.001-04:00

3 days at the Parks and we are back.
Trish's sister arrive's tonight with the whole clan.

Clay gets his Bright Futures Award Confirmation

2008-03-30T21:43:00.002-04:00

We found out today that Clay will get a 75% scholarship toward tuition at any Florida School.
Between that and the Prepaid College Fund we bought, that should cover a lot of stuff, but definitely not all of it.

Bye Bye Tribe

2008-03-27T21:34:00.004-04:00

Today was the last day of the Tribe in the Grapefruit League.

They head to Arizona and the Cactus League next year.

Your Paradise Is On Sale!

2008-03-25T20:31:00.000-04:00

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