This is a pretty random post. Usually I try to stick with one topic but I'm going to be all over the place on this one. I hope you find something interesting in this mess.
As some of you know "Bad Moon a Risin" by CCR is one of my favorite songs to play on the guitar. Well, here's the story behind the headline:
Last Saturday night we went out on the lake with some friends to see a sunset as well as a full moon. As expected, the sunset was a typical beautiful sunset on Lake Murray. According to scientists, not me, we were also about to witness the brightest moon of the year......a Super Moon.
Well, super it was! This picture (Thanks Leslie, I stole it from your facebook page) doesn't do the moon justice. It was extremely bright and it lit up the lake. After hanging out on the lake until about 9pm, and noticing lightning in the distance, It was time to drop our friends off at their docks. As we were about to head for home, away from the coming storm we heard a stranded boater honking his horn. We couldn't leave this boater and his family stranded in a lightning storm, so we tied his boat up to ours and began to haul him to a marina. About halfway to the marina, all hell broke loose. Lightning everywhere, wind and pouring rain. Important note: Pontoon boats don't go very fast and they really go slow when towing another boat. The temps dropped and we were getting REALLY cold. Thank God for Jim, who actually knew the general area where we were going and for Leslie who had a GPS on her phone that helped us navigate in the dark. (the bright moon was long gone at this point). Luckily we got the stranded boaters to the marina and the story ended on a good note.
Speaking of our good friends Jim and Leslie.....here they are visiting with Nick about 10 days before he left for Afghanistan
Big sister, little brother, kinda. Wish Tina and Megan could have been here!
And of course, proud mamma!
Speaking of proud mamma, this is a picture from yesterday morning. I got mad at Theresa and told her to swim home! Just kidding! Theresa is training for a mini triathalon. I am very proud of her efforts to run, bike and swim. I will be the official photographer during the actual event. ......future blog material, I'm sure!
This is another picture from yesterday morning. The floor of the back deck needed a new coat of sealant. The Olympic stain that I used before just wasn't doing the job. I washed the deck the night before (moved the couch and chairs into the back yard....."you know you're a redneck if you have a couch in your back yard")
The steps on the left have one coat of the new stain. The boards on the right are what the old stain looked like after 1 year. Faded, dry and cracking. I will add Olympic stain to the list of products I don't endorse.
I took this picture about 20 minutes ago. The deck is now stained and sealed. It came out a bit on the redish side, but the boards themselves have a red tint and the stain had a red tint. So guess what.....the deck looks red!
Anyway, the South Carolina sun will have that red faded into pink in no time.
Here's another angle on the deck. It's not so red from this viewpoint. The white tape is across the entry to keep my wonderful black lab, HUNTER, from getting paw prints all over the freshly finished deck. He's afraid of white flags and believe it or not, this little trick worked! .....so far.
Well friends, that's it for now.
As I mentioned on my last post, I will begin to share some political thoughts on this and future blogs. For today, I'm about blogged out so I will keep it simple. My new slogan is this; OMG! = Obama Must Go!
Feel free to share that thought with anyone. Please.
