SNOW DAY!!! SNOW DAY!!!

January 20th, 2009...the MOST snow I've seen in Greenville, NC in MANY years! It was a wonderful two days off...got to play with the wife & kids, had the neighbors over for a "SNOW PARTY"...

I took SO many pictures, just to document the occasion. This is the backyard(from the deck). We got 4-6 inches, they said. It hardly EVER snows like this here.



Gotta LOVE the snow-suit! Daddy got to take his boy out in his very first snow! He was bewildered by all the goings on. Mitch especially liked watching Tyler sled down the driveway & hit a jump he made at the bottom.




I couldn't get Emily to sit in our rocking chairs on the deck as we normally do...I wonder why?



We LOVE our new house & neighborhood! Great neighbors (who like to "have fun" as we do), kids running around & playing (in the snow, too)...I am TRUELY a blessed man!




The ONLY thing that could have made these days/pictures better is if The TRINDERS could have been here & in these pictures!

Love & Cold-Beer....AND MORE SNOW!!!

What a kick in the balls.....

A swift kick in the ass...getting punched in the gut...getting kicked in the balls...ANY of those sayings apply to the way I felt yesterday. While talking about some business/work issues with my Dad, he tells me that he's going to sell our River Cottage. Now I put my "big-boy-pants" on & backed his decision..."You have to do what you have to do", "it's not my place & I realize I don't have a vote", and stuff such as that.... All I have to say is, and forgive the language, IT FUCKING SUCKS!!!!

I'll have more thoughts later.......

I don't know what to call this one....

MAAAAANNNNNN oh MAN! Will someone....ANYONE....PLEASE tell me how a person can become an "Inspektor" (omage to N & E) and not know what the Regulation, Standard, and/or Practice they are working with ACTUALLY says!!! I'm half-way through my THIRD day brushing up on things with alphabet-soup names: API-1631...NLPA Standard 631...NACE RP0285, and things such as those. Going round & round with the "INSPEKTORS" who for some reason cannot understand the regs. One would THINK that if someone can TELL you that the answer is in Section 170.430-Subsection (a)-Paragraph (2)-Subparagraphs (A) and (B), they just MIGHT have done some F'N RESEARCH!!!

But ENOUGH venting...

Thank GOD I have my good Ol' Delta Blues Music (Mississippi Delta, Home of the Blues Crossroads) to pull me through the day! If you want to hear some WONDERFUL music, find, "The Memphis Barbeque Sessions" by Big Jack Johnson with Kim Wilson. Big Jack is my Uncle Whitt's Mechanic/runnin' buddy down in Clarksdale, Mississippi. I met him in 1991 at the Sunflower River Blues Festival @ the old train depot in Clarksdale. Had a BLAST hanging out backstage & then he pulled me out on stage to play guitar with him...well, all I did was hit a simple blues riff & he did the rest, but for Lil' 18 year old Ready to be drinking FREE Coors Light Tallboys and playing music, words cannot describe!

Well, back to the headache of dealing with the state!

Love & COLD-BEERS for all!