Out and about...

Luke and Nana came by the store for a visit. Actually, Luke was here to see Mindy. She was out on delivery and missed them.

She will be mad.

Having fun around town!

He's Baaack!

I'm having a ball with Nana.

Playing with his new toy from Gammy.

Listen, Papa. I have to tell you something!

Luke is here for a short stay while Mom and Dad attend a conference. First, he visited Gammy (Melissa's Mom) for a few days and had a great time. She left him with us Tuesday morning and he played with Nicklas for a while and they were happy to see each other. We've been playing, napping, eating & having fun. We will post pictures often.

Paul

Sue and Paul went apartment hunting this afternoon and found a place near his new job. Paul has been living with us for several weeks since moving back to Georgia. Job hunting finally paid off with his recent hire at Fry's Electronics. (Yes, he's working for the competition.) He is finishing up his second week working in the wireless department selling wireless phones and accessories. Today he found out he is being moved to the appliances department which is where he wanted to be in the first place. So that is excellent news for him.

Since he is currently without a car, he will be walking to work each day. There is a bus stop at his new apartment but it does not run after 7:30pm so he may be walking if he works late. The plans are for him to move in to the new apartment the weekend of our beach trip.

He's pretty excited about the new job and seems to like the apartment complex. So this is a real plus for him.

Boring Wednesday!

Business has been a little off lately and today is one of the slowest we've had in a while. Vacation is only a few days away and I'm looking forward to spending time with the family. I'm not much for the beach but I am in to spending time with my wife, kids & their spouses, grandsons and NOT WORKING. So it will be a great week anywhere we go.

Since it is slow I've been looking for more interesting music videos. Again, I found another one that you need to watch. This was recorded 32 years ago. What a great song. I was only 14 when the song first came out in 1970 and it has always been one of my favorites. Yes, that really is Elton John!

Let it rain........

Lake Hartwell all but dried up for us over the last part of 2008 and I have to admit that I was pretty negative about having enough water for lake use this summer. Hartwell reached a low of 24 feet below full pool around the first week of December, 2008. Due to the corp attemps to help the lake recover and good rainfall we are now just under 4 feet of full pool. Look a the difference 6 months of normal rain makes:

I will eventually post something else other than stuff about music. But since it's my blog.....well, you know. Of all the oldies music I like, I have to say that the Beach Boys never made the grade. All the songs about surfing and driving groovy cars and racing just never did it for me. They were America's answer to the Beatles but I felt they failed miserably. Their best surfing song was 'California Girls' which is okay but, again, is about surfing. Not much of that goes on in Georgia. There IS one song that really stands out and honestly is their best. I did a little research and found out that this was one of the first pop songs to have God in the title and Brian Wilson struggled with the idea. I think it is a really nice love song and was way ahead of it's time. I was 10 when this song came out in the summer of 1966. Let me know what you think.

Video of the Day!