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Outdoor Fun with Kites

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:09:52 +0000

I like to go to the park and fly kites. It’s really fun to have something on the ground with you one moment and the next it’s hundreds of feet in the air that can be seen from miles away. Have you ever tried to make a kite? I have attempted this feat, but I failed miserably. I’m not a kite builder that’s for sure. My homemade kite might have not been too aerodynamic and the fact it probably weighed about 20 pounds didn’t help either.

I have lost kites before, because the string would run out. I would be getting a kite way up in the air and would just keep feeding it the kite string. The next thing I knew there was no more string to feed it and my kite was sailing further away and no telling where it landed. I hate when that happens and especially when you have a kite that you really like. The last one I lost had a golden eagle on it and it was one of the coolest kites I have ever seen. I still look for kites with that same design today.

Now the guys at the beach have fun with kites. It’s amazing to watch some of the contraptions they come up with. I have seen them attach like 30 kites together and get them up in the air all at the same time. It’s a pretty site to see. It’s a little easier at the beach, when you’re talking about the beach as in by the ocean. There is always a good breeze blowing on the beach by the ocean. So if you want to really have a kite take off with you, then just go to the ocean with it. The winds there would probably even be strong enough to get that 20 pound homemade kite I built up in the air.

Look out Texas and Baytown Bert

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:21:36 +0000

Rain started to fall along the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Dolly – upgraded in force from a tropical storm – closed in on towns straddling the Texas-Mexico border.
The Category 1 hurricane was expected to strengthen slightly before making landfall Wednesday and bringing with it up to 15 inches of rain.

Dolly was upgraded from a tropical storm Tuesday afternoon, and sustained winds later reached about 80 mph. At 2 a.m. EDT Wednesday, the storm’s center was about 85 miles east-southeast of Brownsville, moving northwest at about 9 mph.A hurricane warning was in effect for the coast of Texas from Brownsville to Corpus Christi and in Mexico from Rio San Fernando northward.

Cities and counties in the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley were preparing Tuesday night as officials feared heavy rains could cause massive flooding and levee breaks.Texas officials urged residents to move away from the Rio Grande levees because if Dolly continues to follow the same path as 1967′s Hurricane Beulah, “the levees are not going to hold that much water,” said Cameron County Emergency Management Coordinator Johnny Cavazos.

We don’t need another disaster like they had in New Orleans, and effect on the price of gas can be devastating if the refineries take a direct hit and make them inoperable.

Dig that Bikini

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:15:27 +0000

Here we are in the middle of summer and there is nothing any prettier than a beautiful lady in a bikini, especially the way the styles are today. With today’s swimwear, they are getting more attractive each year it seems. There are more than 600 styles and over 40 designers from which you can find the one thats perfect for you. A lady likes her man to look good in his swim wear as well, and the children always have the latest in fashion. You don’t have to stick one swim suite a year, you need several different ones in your wardrobe, and with the pricing you get from Instyleswimwear.com you can have a few extras to choose from. See you at the beach and the pool looking all beautiful.

Playing in the water

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:22:43 +0000

I have two Jack Russell dogs that love the water, I put them in the Rhino almost everyday and take them down to the creek and those girls love the water, watching them try to catch the small minnows is hilarious, they duck those heads in the water and snort and sneeze, then they start to roll in the water, it is a funny sight to see. They are like two little kids playing in the water. I guess they aren’t that much different from us as they enjoy the cool things in life on a hot day.

Hot and Humid

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:42:58 +0000

Well we have that good old Georgia heat wave going on, the low 90′s for the past couple of weeks. Factor in the humidity and it gets sweltering and dangerous for some of the people working outside and with health problems. I used to be a plumber and in this heat I would go to work at 6 in the morning and work till about 1, then I would knock off till about 7 in the evening and work till midnight or till the job was done. I still can’t stand the heat in the middle of the day, it takes its toll on me more now than it did when I was young.

Rhino riding

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:22:19 +0000

Today I went Rhino riding in an old place where I lost a New Chevy Silverado Truck with 7 thousand miles on it. I had traveled 5 miles in to the woods on an old logging road and went to cross a creek and the truck filled with water and we had to abandon ship. We went back the next morning and the truck was gone, it had washed about 200 yards down the creek and lodged on some rocks. We had to get 2 logging trucks and a wrecker to get the truck out. Well I didn’t loose the Rhino this time thank goodness. I drank a beer and told the creek that it had cost me 20 thousand dollars and I was gonna pan for gold and try to recoup some of the losses. I will let you know how that goes.

Going thru the woods

admin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:50:28 +0000

I have a Rhino that I took on a trip Friday and I am not sure of things limitations. I went through trails that were so rutted out that you could have hide a car in some of them and that rascal would go thru anything I put it on. I never had to put it in 4 wheel drive a single time. I fjord ed a creek that was about a foot deep and 50 ft long across no problem I went through washed out road beds that were terrible and this thing won’t stop. When Yamaha Designed this thing they had something in mind that the average consumer would not be able to complain about. After what I have put mine through I will never know its limitations.

Skeeter Biting

admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:10:47 +0000

I hate those dang skeeter bites in the summer, you have to spray yourself with all kinds of concoctions to keep them away. Is this stuff safe for you to use? I don’t know, what I do know is that I am willing to try the repellent as opposed to the bite. I know that all things are placed here to balance out the eco system, but what is a skeeter good for other than a food source for birds and other insects. I am sure that Malaria wasn’t a part of the big plan. All I know to do is to keep on spraying.

Going to the creek

admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:07:54 +0000

I have a creek close to my home and I like to load up my 2 Jack Russells and take them down to the creek to cool off and splash in the water. I was there with them yesterday when I flushed out a water moccasin on the bank. It swam down stream and I had to divert my dogs attention to the upper creek to keep them from getting snake bit. They would have surely went after it thinking it was trying to run from them. They already try to catch the minnows in the water and the snake would be easy prey. From now on I will have to walk the creek before I let them in so they don’t get snake bit.

Hot Lanta

admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:27:11 +0000

Yeah it’s hot in Atlanta again, with 2 weeks of weather in the low 90′s and high humidity make it those miserably hot and dangerous days, especially for those people who have to work outside. i used to be a plumber and in these hot conditions I would got to work at 6 AM and work till about 1:30 and knock off in the heat of the day and go back to work at around 7 and work till midnight. It was the only way you could do it in this kind of heat. I still practice this method today in the bad heat.