Archive for the ‘Outdoors’ Category

Vacation home

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

With a lot of my wifes family in Southern Virgina we try to take a weeks vacation there every year. This year we will be staying at a very nice waterfront community.

The Coves at Smith Mountain Lake is a beautiful site that our whole family loves. Situated in the natural setting of southwestern Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, The Coves at Smith Mountain offers a carefully planned community designed to combine the best of waterfront living with the rare scenic beauty of Smith Mountain Lake.

We love the area and the waterfront community at the Coves is just what the doctor ordered for the family this year. The majestic beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains is one of my favorite locations to take the family and spend some quality time.

Pests

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Today we had our yearly pest check and found that we have termites in the basement. The pest guy found termite wings and I did not know any thing about termites wings and got to looking and I am infected. With termites that is. Check out the termite killer web site at http://www.killthetermites.com.

Fund raiser

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Every year our men’s softball team has a fund raiser to help make money to pay our expenses that we incur in going to softball tournaments. What we have decided to do this year is to sell custom car magnets to raise money.

We have found a great site to purchase our fund raising items from, ARC Marketing has a vast selection of custom car magnets and Silicone Bracelets for sale. We did the bracelets last year and are going to try the custom car magnets this year.

ARC Marketing has a great staff of designers to create the custom car magnets that your group wants and needs to get their fund raiser off the ground and running.

Grill

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

One of the things I love the most about spring time is that we use our grill more, we use it all year around but spring and summer get the most use. We have discovered a great cut of meat to throw on the grill, the flat iron steak is great put it in a good marinade for about 20 minutes and throw it on the grill for about 5 minutes on each side if like us you like a medium rare steak. We also have cooked the steak and made fajitas out of it very tasty indeed.

School is almost out

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Another school year is fast approaching the end, and kids everywhere are preparing to have fun this summer, my grandson David is counting the days and he is only in kindergarten I ask him last night how many days left in this school year and he blurted out 13 days. He is so ready to go swimming and fishing this summer he can barely contain himself, he just trembles with the thought of playing in the water this summer. It is a good thing to be a child and enjoy the simple things.