I have been getting so much grief from people concerning the fact that I have not signed up and participated with the well known Face Book community. Face Book seems to be every where you turn these days. So this week end I’ll take a look around and see if it is anything that I can get a handle one.
Myrtle Beach has always been a great place to get-a-way to. It was one of our favorites back in the day for the whole family to take our vacation to, something for everybody could be found at Myrtle Beach. I haven’t been able to visit Myrtle Beach in several years and I look forward to seeing the changes that have taken place since I’ve been there last.
I reserved a bit of my tax refund money for a nice summer vacation this year, it has been a long year and a vacation is way over due. I found a great Myrtle Beach hotel online at http://avistaresort.com. The Avista Resort is one of the many oceanfront resorts located in the North Myrtle Beach area and it has been designated as America’s “Number One Family Beach” I like that it is only two walkable blocks away from the famous Main Street that has such a wide variety of things to see and to do.
There are tons of resorts in Myrtle Beach that can be checked out on the Internet, what a great way to find the best one to suite my needs and wants. I look forward to playing a few rounds of golf while I’m there. I come from a family of golfers and we used to always make time to play a game or two during the family vacations back in the 70′s, it’s a good sport for the whole family to enjoy all year round.
I’ll make sure and take plenty of pictures and will post a few here shortly after my return.
I took my boat out of winter storage yesterday and put it in the lake for the first time this summer. I was some angry when the engine started making some horrible noises when I tried to start it up. My wife suggested that maybe the folks that were supposed to winterize it for us neglected to winterize it properly. Upon further investigation, that seems to be the exact diagnosis. The engine block is cracked.
So now I have to deal with a cracked block on the boat just at the precise time when I want to be playing on the water, not working on the engine! What a pain that is going to be!
I understand why kids want to learn how to ride a skateboard, I really do. When I was a kid I wanted a skateboard as a gift and my parents insisted that I couldn’t have one (as a gift) so I raided my piggy bank and bought one with my own money. Boy were my parents angry! The told me that I couldn’t ride it in the street or on the sidewalks. Well, we had a nice long paved driveway so it really didn’t bother me much. Back then, though, helmets weren’t even available to buy for someone riding a bike or a skateboard!
I never even saw anyone doing any kinds of tricks on television, so I never had any inspiration or guidance on how to ride one. Obviously, I never developed any real skill, I just enjoyed it. And although my parents were so worried that I’d fall and skin my knee, or crack my head, they preferred that I ride my bike in the street (again with no helmet or padding) than skateboard anywhere. Where’s the sense in that? I think riding a bike is just as risky! Oh well……
I enjoy going to the various flea markets that we have around here. Over the weekend I stopped at a few, found a few good deals and some treasures to take back home. It was a great weather weekend, so a lot of people were out and about taking advantage of it all.
Now that December is officially here, my thoughts are turning to snow. I’ve put the garden and boat to bed, finished up hunting season and the fall cleanups and am getting all of the work and fun equipment for winter ready for the long cold months ahead. I understand that the Farmer’s Almanac is calling for record snowfalls this year! I bought a new 9′ plow and a new sander, so I am ready for it! In the meantime I’m tinkering with the snowmobile, and making sure that is ready for action too! I hope to have the time to go ice fishing with Joe sometime this winter. It’s always fun to take the snowmobiles out on the lake to his ice shack and spend the day fishing and relaxing!
I remember when I was a teenager, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar. My parents bought me an inexpensive acoustic guitar for a Christmas present, along with music lessons at a neaby music academy. I was thrilled to no end! My enthusiasm for learning how to play the guitar waned quickly though, when the first six lessons were all about learning how to Read Music. They said that you had to learn how to read music before you could do anything else. I think perhaps the worst part is that I already knew how to read music because I had played the piano for years, yet they held me back and made me take classes to learn things that I already knew.
I was impatient and dropped out of those classes after only about eight weeks. When they finally let me actually put my hands on my guitar they were making me play songs that I had no interest in learning. What fun is that? I wanted to learn how to play fun songs, not be a serious concert artist! I think that is one of the problems with a lot of educational programs. They don’t pique any interest in pursuing the goal. Very dry and boring and tedious.
Almost every morning I head out to the local Mom & Pop deli, where I meet up with my friends. We have been friends since elementary school, and although we have different jobs, we like to take a morning break and sit with each other for about an hour or so and drink coffee, have a pastry and talk. My wife calls it “gossip” but I keep telling her that men don’t gossip! We talk about a wide variety of things, not just who has done what to who!
Joe was telling me that he was looking at some car pictures on the Internet the other day. He just got himself a new laptop computer, and has been spending a lot of time browsing around the Internet. His latest toy! He was checking out the thecarconnection.com website that I had told him about a few days ago when he mentioned that his son was thinking about buying a ferrari down the road. We all laughed at him when he said that because his son doesn’t even have a job right now!
My wife and I have a floor lamp that she bought a long time ago that she dearly loves. Personally, I don’t care for it at all, but my wife loves it. It has a 3-way socket that has finally quit working so I bought a new 3-way socket and some new wiring so that I could rewire the entire lamp. I like working with my hands, and even though electricity intimidates a lot of people that I know, I took a few courses a long time ago and I know how to work with it.
It took a few minutes to take the lamp apart and re-wire it, but it was well worth it. The lamp works again, and my wife is a very happy camper! If you have a lamp that you (or your wife) dearly love(s) and the socket dies, just re-wire it! It is a money saving and environment saving thing to do!
Yesterday I stopped over to see my buddy Tom. When I walked in the house I asked her where Tom was. She says “oh, you mean the big game hunter?” I said “yeah, whatever.” He came out around the corner, wearing a big fancy hunting hat and a carrying a new elephant gun. I about fell over backwards, laughing! As soon as I gained my composure, I asked him “what the heck are you doing?” He said “I bought a new gun!” I said “I guess you did!”
Matt loves to play golf. Whenever he comes into town to “visit” family, he spends about 98% of his time on the local golf courses. I think he just says he’s coming up to visit Mom, but he really only joins her for supper, then sleeps at her place, eats breakfast and then hits the golf courses with his best friend Tom. I think that Mom’s place is simply a free place for him to eat and sleep in between his Tee times.
So it is no suprise to hear that he has been looking at some Myrtle Beach Golf Vacations. He’s been talking about arranging for a Myrtle Beach Golf Package for him, his wife, Tom, and Tom’s wife to go spend a week at Myrtle Beach. They’re thinking that the men will take advantage of the several Golf Packages Myrtle Beach while the wives relax on the beach or go shopping together.
My wife came home from a Red Hatter party and was telling me that they are thinking about taking a belly dancing class. She said that they watched a couple of belly-dancing videos and voted to sign up for a class. She told me that one of the videos featured a man belly dancing! I had never heard of a man belly dancing before! I thought it was strictly a woman’s dance! She said that the man’s name is Tito, and that he danced with canes, and on top of a drum. It sounded interesting, so we spent some time looking him up on Google and found quite a few videos and articles about him. Well, you learn something new every day, don’t you!
I’ve been restoring an old pickup truck, and have started to paint the exterior. I went down to the auto parts store and bought a couple of gallons of hot rod orange paint. A couple of days ago I gave it the sixth coat of paint, and it was looking good! Today I opened the second gallon of paint and started spraying the hood. I was so upset because it was NOT the same color as the first gallon of paint! So now I have to sand the whole thing down and start over. NOT HAPPY! When I go to the auto parts store next week I am going to have a few choice words to say to them over how their paint was NOT matching, even though the cans said they were!
Managed to sneak in a few hours of ice fishing in Jarod’s ice shack earlier today. Didn’t catch many fish, but that’s ok. Had a good time hanging out and having a couple of beers. There’s nothing like the great feeling of driving your truck out onto the ice to the ice shack! You always have a little bit of doubt in the back of your head whether the truck will make it or fall through.
Well, the weekend is over, spent most of it ice fishing with my friends out on Great Pond. We didn’t catch very many fish, but we drank a lot of beer! And we grilled some steak from my buddy’s deer that he shot last fall – boy was it good! I got several flags, but it didn’t seem like the fish was on the end of it when we got there! Oh well, back to work tomorrow!
My friends and are tested the lake yesterday to see if it was frozen enough to put our ice fishing shack out on the ice. We’re looking forward to snowmobiling and ice fishing! The lake isn’t quite frozen enough yet; we don’t dare drive our trucks out on the ice to place the shack in its customary spot. Oh well. The camp roads are good enough for some snowmobiling though, so we’ll have to keep ourselves happy with snowmobiling for the time being. This is actually a good time for that – the temperatures aren’t too bitter cold yet, so we can have a good time without getting too cold.
I spent a couple of hours last night carving pumpkins to give to my customers today. It was so much fun to see their faces when I gave them their own custom carved jack-o-lanterns! I’ve always enjoyed carving pumpkins; that’s something I used to do with my father when I was a little kid. My mother used to always roast the pumpkin seeds, too, which I’ve always enjoyed eating later!