Pirate for Halloween

I was a pirate for Halloween, Capt. Jack Sparrow to be precise. It was amazing how many people did not know who I was !!

Chaska Triathlon - Mary

Mary likes to do the Chaska Tri each year. Here she is in '09 after the 1/3 Mile swim, 16 Mile bike ride, and 5K Run... She took over 5 minutes off of last year's time. Wow, you go girl!

At the Finish Line............................................................................

Family Photos

We are all together for a short moment; here is our moment...

Funny thing with cell phones…

I’m cooking outside when I get a text message from a number I don’t recognize.

The message string goes like this:

Text “Hey”

I don’t know who it is so I text a “?”

Text “Whats wrong?”

I still don’t know this person “Who r u?”

Text “Miriam”

I know a Miriam but don’t text with her, so I send “Are you trying to reach Mark?”

Text “Whos mark?”

I text “I am.”

They text “Oh, how old are you?”

Oh brother, I text “Older than dirt”

They text “Haha”

Encampment 2009

• The sun cooked 'em (heat index of over 104)
• And burned 'em (everyone had some lobster spots)
• The bugs ate 'em (average bug bites per leg over 20)
• Mother Nature soaked 'em (rain on Wednesday and Saturday)
  

On Saturday we brought our burnt, bug eaten, soaked, hungry, tired carcasses home!

Encampment 2009 was "Fantastic"! (as Jack would say).

As the saying goes. "Leave only footprints, and take nothing but memories". We left footprints:

• On the Disc Golf courses ["Dude, good times"]
  
• At the range (way to go Robinhood Chris and Tristin)
• At the Merit Badge classes [the Deacons each worked on 3-4 MBs, my favorite was watching Matt D. dance his fly fishing rod like a pro],
  
• At the beach watching the cardboard and duct tape boats sink with their passengers
• At the climbing tower [but don't touch the black ones, they burn your hands - Daniel]
• Footprints in the night to help a neighbor take down his tent while he's a sleep - Matt C.
• To the shower that was stuck on the coldest setting - can you say "refreshing"?
• At the secret lodge where we snuck in for some air conditioned games of Perudo [you gotta' get out of the heat] and wood carving - Tristin

Wind Power

Okay, call me crazy but I've been interested in this "going green" thing. So I did some research and looked at ideas on the net for wind power. I didn't want to put the time into making propellers, and I didn't want a sky scraper over my roof. Here is my first attempt. Next I need to connect a DC motor and see if I can charge a battery. Stay tuned. Oh, by the by so far it has cost me $4.00 and 8 hours of time.

The 23 Years

The 23 Years!

Mary and I will soon celebrate 23 years of marriage.

I love you dear!