St. Thomas USVI Pics... Part 1

Here are some of them.

Vacation...

We got back in from St Thomas last night. We were there for 7 wonderful days and i have lots to talk about and lots of pics to put up so stay tuned!!! It sucked to come home...

This week and today...

Well, I have worked for the last 11 days straight and today was the last day of the high work as seen in the last Blog entry.  I just have to go to the JPJ arena for several days and finish up some loose ends on the electrical.  I hope to finish up by Thursday and be off Friday  to get a few things done in preparation for St Thomas on Saturday!!!  I cant wait and I will have some great pics of the Blog when we get back!!  Today was my daughters Birthday Party.  She was born on July 8, 1993 but chose to have her party today for all her friend to be able to come over. She asked me to grill shrimp as she and all of her friends like my cooking, so I did and I cooked 3 pounds!!  IT is all gone! We all kept eating it…Yum Yum. Well more l8ter.

 

Ciao…

 

RMStringer

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What have I done

What lies I have told

I've played games with the ones that

rescued my soul

Oh, have I come to the point where I'm losing the grip

Or is it still time to get into

The swing of things  - A - Ha   1986

 

WORK @ UVA JPJ Arena this week...

These are pictures of me working nearly 100 feet above the ground at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA Where i have been working for the last 2 months. I was pulling wire for the window treatments on the upper tier of the arena. The picture does not do justice to the lenght of the span of windows. it is over 100 feet long across them. I was tied off to a life-line and crawling around on a 4 foot wide window ledge made of sheetrock!! The photo of me and the other person is my boss that i work with. I was just glad that it was cloudy weather as it would be hotter than all get out on those East facing windows. We are just about through with this job and i will be working in Culpepper Virginia for the next several weeks. I am tired and need to get some sleep tonight as i am working all weekend.

CAIO...

July 3, 2006...

Well, it was my 35th birthday yesterday. We had some friends over from the neighborhood and several other people. I think that we made soem new friends with a couple as their daughter and ours are good friends and the girls father is a big music freak. So, we hit it off very well. Today, there is going to be a Block Party here at our neighborhood and lots of people are going to cook and drink and have fun then walk over to the lake and watch for fireworks tonight!!!

I hope that everyone has a Great 4th and rest fo the week.

Caio...

Family Visiting Vacation...

Well, my Mother and Grandmother came out from Texas to visit us for 8 days. They got here on the 15th of June and stayed till the 22nd of June. I came home from Culpeper on Friday the 16th.

That Saturday, we got up and went to Virginia Beach. We had a wonderful time. we got there around 10am and left near 4pm. It was very nice and sunny with dolphins and crabs everywhere. A lady told me that there are over 800 dolphins that live in the waters off Virginia Beach!!! I got to see a few of them jump out fo the water!!!


There were also SOOO many Ghost Crabs living on that beach! I have NEVER seen so many in one place. I got some good shots of them:

They were VERY FAST. I chased then along the shores and they could keep up with me running. It was very funny.





On Sunday, we got up and went to Mt Vernon, George Washington's Home. It was Incredible. We toured his estate and it was awe inspiring!! We were so close to DC, that we had to take them to see some of the sights. My grandmother had been and we have been there 3 times. We will go back again as you cannot due it justice in a few hours.



Just a note people, IF you see text that is a different color, click it, it is a hyperlink to more information about the stuff that I am babbling about.





On Monday, I went to work in Charlottesville and that afternoon, I met them and we went to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's house.
He was an incredible man and was our 3rd President as well as an inventor.
He had many modifications to his house.
From his house, you can see the college, UVA, which he helped start and design.






I took Wednesday off and we went to Brown's Island in Richmond. It was a Fort during the civil war and it is not a park with a music venue on it.

They left on Thursday morning to return to Texas...

We all had a good time and miss them.

The Devil's Highway...

About 4 miles out of Culpeper Virginia and running through the East end of the town is Route 666. Nuff said!! It reminds me of the Movie Natural Brone Killers...

Culpeper Va....

Well kiddies, i was supposed to be in Culpeper this whole week, but my working partner got hurt and was not able to go on Monday. We will be there from Wednesday till Friday. On Wednesday, my Mother and Grandmother start their drive out here to visit us for a week!!! I cant wait to see them and we are going to the beach and do some sight seeing. More l8ter...

Faith Hill & Tim McGraw

We saw them last night at the Richmond Coliseum on their Soul to Soul 2006 Tour.  IT was a good show. I really did not know what to expect! They played for over 3 hours and had very good musicianship. Faith came on 1^st and Then Tim closed the show down.  I enjoyed the show. IT seems that they are the only Star couple that can stay together…Time will tell.

 

RMStringer

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You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Max Ehrmann, "Desiderata"

 

Kayle Garkut's Blog - Why not? - Everyone else is!: Scenemusic Podcast #6

Kayle Garkut's Blog - Why not? - Everyone else is!: Scenemusic Podcast #6

Very interesting....I likes.

Memorial Day Weekend

Well, we decided to surprise my parent's in Texas and made a mad-dash and drove to Texas. It ended up being a 1228.3 mile trip from our house to there!!! IT took us 18 hours!!! We left at 630pm EST and arrived at 130pm CST. They were SHOCKED!!!!! My mother called me at 530am CST and i acted like i was asleep, little did she know that we were between Birmingham Alabama and meridian Mississippi!! So, when we arrived at the Lake, we drove up in my Grandparents driveway and They were SHOCKED!!!!! We then had my Grandmother call my Mother at work and ask here how her lunhc went, then i got on the phone and said HELLO!!! She was Freaking OUT!!! We had a very good time and saw a few friends that we don't get to see very often. We started back at 430am CST on Monday morning and made really good time till we got to Birmingham AL and there was a wreck on Interstate 20 East. It turned out to be a death and we were stopped in traffic for 2 hours!!


Traffic accident victim identified:

Authorities on Tuesday identified a woman killed in a Memorial Day traffic accident in Birmingham as Mary Frances Miller. Miller, 57, of Midfield, died in a three-car wreck Monday afternoon in the northbound lanes of Interstate 20/59 near Arkadelphia Road. An Alabama state trooper was injured in the wreck. The accident shut down interstate lanes for more than three hours and traffic was rerouted off the interstate at the Arkadelphia Road exit. The Birmingham Police Department is investigating the accident, but spokesmen for the police and state troopers on Tuesday declined to release details on the wreck. Trooper Lt. Keith Kelley was reportedly responding to a DUI call when the accident happened. He was treated and released from an area hospital, but isn’t expected to return to duty for at least several days. Carol Robinson


Well, that blew our schedule and we did not get to Our house till 430am EST today. I am very tired, but wanted to say hello...