hurricane Prep Pics

Joe's boat


Steve's boat


Our Movie theater, that came with the house. Christine thinks it's neat. She wasn't real happy about it until we watched You've got mail.


Brittan is ready for someone to throw the ball. hurricane or not the ball has to be retrieved! period!

Our boat without the motor; concrete blocks are in the bottom. I'm going to fill it with water so hopefully the surge will go right over it.
Finally! the hurricane steak prep.
And our Motor without the boat.

This is what I'm thinking

here is the "official" 1st edition of the "We might ride this thing out" action board. this could change in a moments notice.I also forgot to add we have a place for the vehicles that are about 15' above the sea level.

Fixed it!

As usual it is something simple and you just don't think about.

Some how?!?!?!? The settings in my web browser was set so that the pages I went to did not update from the last time I was there. Has anybody ever heard of the refresh button. It's the button that looks like you want to rotate the page. As soon as I pushed it I saw the changes, which I'm sure every body else in the whole world saw before me. Anyway, back to life, which is probably 2 days shorter after that little episode.

Hurricane update!

We will make a decision after we move everything into the new house, which isn't actually going to close until Wednesday. I didn't ask if we could go ahead and move everything in, we are just doing it. My wife doesn't feel good about it. I'm just not thinking about it. They can come tell me I can't do it. Probably the same attitude that keeps me in trouble.

Comments are welcome if you have an opinion about it. What would you do if you lived in a 1970's mobile home that is located on the water in the Keys with a Category 1, 2, 3, or 4 hurricane coming in on a "short and final". You don't have flood insurance on the mobile home, but you are fully covered in your "soon to own" 180 mph "wind proof" house built on a total of 18, 16" solid concrete pillars, that is 15.6' above sea level. The lines are now open.

Anyway we are keeping an eye on it. I would hate to drive to Orlando and get killed by a tornado, because the eye went right over the area. I know everybody is worried about us, but I promise everyone, that I am more concerned about my wife's safety than anybody. Well, maybe not more than her parents. I don't have a kid, so I'm not aware of that level of love. I know I don't like to think about life without her. I'm sure at this point she might feel a little different about me. Right now she is probably thinking about living a normal life in a normal place in a normal house.

I promised that I would always lover her, and her life will never be boring.

We will keep you updated.

blog problems

I'm trying to update the blog so you can select the archived writings. As of now still not successful. The frustration of ignorance in the computer programming area has taken a serious toll on the total years of my life.

I'm wondering what percentage of health problems is caused by these computers and our lack of understanding why the things just don't do what we think they should do. And how long is it going to be before we make it a part of the well rounded education package? Do we think it'll just get fixed?

I'm not going to rant about this because as of right now I can't even get my blog site to accept and show new blogs. so I could be talking into the great nothingness of the internet. Kinda like screaming in space.

So blah blah blah blah. I should write something really embaressing then it'll get posted to the desktop of every computer this side of the atlantic.

Wilma? or Won'tma?

Short and Sweet. We are closing on our house Tuesday. Everything we own is fully insured as long as it is in the new house. The insurance company thought we closed on the 15th. So we are going to try to move as much as we can into our new house before the red headed bombshell makes a visit.

We will make a call on our evacuation plans Friday. I'm hoping God just gave us two days off to move our stuff in to OUR NEW HOME!!!!! Hopefully we will have it for more than 3 days.

Besides all that boring situation stuff, I'm feeling a lot better about my job as a teacher. I'm realizing that God may be trying to correct a flaw in my thinking towards my work. I have always gotten my identity from the kind of work I do. I take a lot of pride in my work.

There is nothing wrong with doing the best you can at work. God honors that. But as a child of God my identity has to be through Him and Him only. Some of you who do not have a real close relationship with God probably won't understand. But if I identify myself as an Engineer instead of a child of God then my main job and purpose becomes making things better, instead of showing people the Glory of God through my life.

Since I have realized this truth about the kingdom of God, my attitude toward teaching has been great.

I started this blog to show people how the realization of God's love, wisdom, and power can bring peace into any situation. It has taken me 11 weeks of prayer to see what God is showing me, but now I see and the peace in my life is as He has always promised.

I believe that God designed Life to show us this 1 fact. That is why it's so hard. There is always something in our lives that is crap! A person can ignore it and try to make the best out of it, or learn to laugh about it, like I try to do. The problem with that is your missing the truth that will set you free.

A mentally strong person can be happy in a jail cell if that person simply entertains himself in his mind. But he is still not free. I am being set free from the identity of an Engineer. It does not sound like a bad thing to be set free from, but when your not working in an Engineering position it is just the worst feeling ever. Especially when you suffered through 7 years of school to be an Engineer.

Cancel the short and sweet, give me good and real.

just another weekend

We went out on the boat last sunday. We had planned to go to the coral heads which is about 5 miles around the south side of Big Pine. The wind was too bad and the chop made it a bumpy, bangy ride. So we just kinda snorkeled in the Atlantic. Its always nice to be on the water and in the water, but the snorkeling really depends on how clear the water is and if there are lots of fish to look at. The place we picked was cloudy and fishless.

Then to top it off the Sun went behind some clouds and judging the direction the clouds were blowing it was looking like it was going to be a sunless, windy, fishless, wavy day. Time to go home. But on the way lets stop by a few holes and see if we can scrownge up a few bugs.

Found a hole, which is really an old bomb crater from practice during WWII, jumped in and bingo! Lobster for an afternoon snack. I caught a bunch of them, but the heads have to be 3 inches long and most of them were too small. It's kinda embarrassing because when your underwater trying to pick out a big one, they appear 3 times larger. So you see one that gets you all excited, chase it down, dig it out of the rocks, come up for air 2 or 3 times trying to be dramatic like your fighting Orka, telling your wife your chasing a monster. You eventually get your loop around it and cinch it tight and surface with your prize, thinking we're going eat good today! Man provides food for Woman!

She looks at it and laughs while saying "your kidding??"

Its just plain embarrassing. Telling her they look bigger under water does not explain the roach size lobster your planning on feeding the family with.

I did manage to get four that were legal. We took them home and boiled 'em and ate 'em.

Also, that was our dogs last trip in the boat. Everytime she goes out she ends up puking in the boat, not the Quadrillion gallon toilet we're in, but the 14'x4' boat. Real messy. We've been patient while trying different techniques to solve the problem, but this last time she puked on our snorkel equipment. Wearing dog puke on your face is something you just can't wash off your mind. You can wash the mask clean, but the image is forever ingrained in the brain matter.