Month: April 2007
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Bought a Morgan Out Island 33 Sailboat Called LAUGHALOT
There is a lot in a name. We found this boat about three weeks ago and it was exactly the make, model and condition we were looking for. The only problem was we had to wait two weeks to get free to go down to Florida to see her. Luckily, we put a contract on…
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We Now Have a House Filled With Nothing But Books
There is a history to that statement. You see, in any of our business enterprises we have undertaken my mother and dad have always been there to help as, jokingly, free labor. Mom has always learned how to do tasks associated with the business and dad has made many of the products we have sold.…
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Catalina 22 Restoration Project Moves To New Owner
Our work on the clean-up of the Catalina 22 is finished. We worked hard to get her clean and fixed up enough to sell and now she has gone to a new home in Georgia. She is going to have her renovation completed there by her new owner. Hopefully we will get pictures of her…
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Major Cleaning and the Catalina 22 Sailboat Looks Great :: Photos
Our work on the clean-up of the Catalina 22 is finished. We worked hard to get her clean and fixed up enough to sell and now she has gone to a new home in Georgia. She is going to have her renovation completed there by her new owner. Hopefully we will get pictures of her…
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My Honda Shadow VLX Sold This Week, My Last Ride
My bike sold this week and it was time to deliver it to the new owner today. Scott cleaned her up so nice it was hard to let her go. Below are some photos of my last ride. She was such a good bike and I will miss riding her, but it is time to…
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We Recieve a Huge Book Delivery Today for Inventory Sales
We had 8 of these pallets of books donated to us today. Man do we have our work cut out for us now. There are boxes of books all over the house. We are so grateful for our blessings. This is the start of a huge amount of work to catalog and index each of…
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Playing with video
I am playing with video plugins for the blog today. Here is a video of us approaching Hoover Dam on our recent trip to California. I took this video with my web cam attached to my laptop.
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Easter Fun with William Our Grandson
This is the latest video of my grandson William. He is such a happy baby. The woman squirting him with water is his other grandmother in Colorado. Don’t you just love his laugh?
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My Honda Nighthawk Sold Today, What a Great Bike
Sad to see it go, but ecstatic about the future… there are many things in life that I am glad I did, this is one of them. I have had so much fun riding with my wife on our motorcycles, and this one has nothing but great memories for me, especially getting to take a…
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John Deere Tractor is Cutting Grass in April Where’s Spring?
Spring weather was here at our house just long enough to make the dogwoods bloom and the grass start growing. Now it is dry and cold again. (35-40 degrees at night). The grass did get tall enough to cut though and Scott, trooper that he is, decided to test out his dad’s new John Deere…
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John Deere Tractor is Cutting Grass in April Where's Spring?
Spring weather was here at our house just long enough to make the dogwoods bloom and the grass start growing. Now it is dry and cold again. (35-40 degrees at night). The grass did get tall enough to cut though and Scott, trooper that he is, decided to test out his dad’s new John Deere…
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Cleaning Catalina Sailboat Sails with Mold and Algae
The power of water propelled at high velocity is truly amazing. This past weekend we purchased a power washer so that we would be able to continue our clean up of the boat here at home where we left off at the car wash. The results were astonishing. The boat is so much prettier than…
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From Alabama to California and Back, 4,901 Miles
Two weeks ago we left on our round trip journey and we are happy to be back home again. We left for California on March 16th with inventory in the car and motorcycles in tow. The trip to California would take us through Memphis, Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and finally Rosmond, CA…
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