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One day on a lake in SC
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Focus, focus....
It's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and...
Go! Go! Go!
Cooling off after the races...
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Anonymous said…
A-hem, sir, I would like to take a moment to ask you to please visit Home Fires some time in the very near future. Yours and Vince's comments about my redneck husband have been spun off into a post of their own. So stop trying to get photos of boobies and go read damn it! ;) Lois Lane
I'll come right over and see, Lois, but I don't know about avoiding boobie pics. They're awful hard to resist.
Anonymous said…
looks like a great day. summer's quickly ending here it seems, I'm hoping I can get into the river a few more times before she leaves.
Anonymous said…
Haven't gotten a chance to say, but I like the new look of the blog!
Anonymous said…
Since you dropped by my blog I dropped in on yours :) you take great pics by the way. Better than school photographers for sure :D I was scrolling down and saw your reference to the falling woman bubble thingie is that not the most bizzare thing?! My kids love it but its at the same time disturbing. ;) ttyl melzie
I hear you Lisa. Summer is over far too quickly way up north. I hope you get a few more good days.
Thanks, Diane. You and Chris have such pretty blogs that y'all were part of the reason I got off my duff and did something.
Thanks, Melzie! (and I agree about the Flash! site being a touch disturbing--esp with her in a bikini)
Anonymous said…
That looks positively wonderful! Fun and invigorating and refreshing! John and I have talked more than once about getting into kayaking. Now if only they had place for children in them..... :)
Kayaking is great for kids. If you pick the right kayak, they're steadier than canoes. You do have to pick the right one tho--some kayaks are very tippy, mainly the ones built for speed!
Tandems, that are built for more than one person are ideal for really small kids. Though the blue one above has cargo hatches that can accomodate a child for a short paddle. The yellow one is designed for fishing and a kid can easily ride in front of an adult.
I mentioned a few days ago that I'd purchased off of Craig's List an exercise machine. A Nitroflex, to be more specific, for the grand sum of $75. The boxes you see to the left were bought by the seller as discontinued merchandise over a year ago and stored in his back yard storage shed. You might be able to see some of the bugs and such that had made their homes on these boxes. I left them out on my deck for a few days before opening them to allow the insects to leave gracefully or die in the sun. The picture to the left is the pieces from the box, unboxed, and up in one of my upstairs bedrooms. For the most part it wasn't difficult to move it around though two pieces were heavy and a number of them were kinda long and bulky to be wandering about the house with. Surprisingly, this kit didn't require any extra tools. There were two allen keys and one combo wrench included in the boxes and that was all it took to put it together. The whole thing only took about half an h
Yep, that's one of those damn blood suckers. Renee's revenge on my neglecting her feelings, no doubt. We guys just have it so tough! LOL This here is a picture of my ankle and while it's not very obvious, I guess, there's a bunch of flea bites on there. Itches a bit, dammit. The annoying part is that the damn fleas can't use my blood--fleas are mostly species specific and don't have the proper enzymes to make meals out of blood from other critters--so they're not getting anything out of biting me. It's just frustration and starvation driving their biting. Well, I guess the real annoying part is the bites themselves, but I wanted to seem a little sensitive there for a moment. But no more of that. Kill the fleas! While most of the bites are on my ankles and calves, there's an occasional bite up higher like these 4 on my thigh. They're kinda hard to see through the hair but I wasn't able to focus on the skin with all the hair in the way. Sorry.
I've heard rumors that one post about my sprained ankle wasn't enough so here's more pictures to satisfy a public hungry for swollen flesh... This was taken the morning after I sprained the ankle. There's starting to be a black and blue mark from the blood vessels leaking At this point the swelling is still very localized to the lateral side of the left ankle and presumably that's the tendon that was affected (very likely since I really screwed it up 15 years ago and it's got extra play in it) In this picture, taken on Sunday evening about 25 hours after the injury, you can see the edema, or swelling, has spread out over the top and entire lateral side of the foot. There's also more evidence of hematoma at the skin above the metatarsals. At the same time, there's still significant swelling at the original site to the point that it totally eclipses the left ankle. Here's a lateral view taken at the same time as the photo above to show the hematoma bet
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Lois Lane
Thanks, Diane. You and Chris have such pretty blogs that y'all were part of the reason I got off my duff and did something.
Thanks, Melzie! (and I agree about the Flash! site being a touch disturbing--esp with her in a bikini)
Tandems, that are built for more than one person are ideal for really small kids. Though the blue one above has cargo hatches that can accomodate a child for a short paddle. The yellow one is designed for fishing and a kid can easily ride in front of an adult.