Friends visit for the weekend

Most of the guys I lived with in college came up this weekend for a visit.

We kicked Saturday morning off with a foggy walk at Boulevard Park on the water. We even took the football with us to toss around.


The park has two stretches of boardwalk over the water. Bet you can't guess what happened to the football?


Wait, is that the football in the water? Yes; yes it is.


Can you guess how it ended up there? Well, let me lay it out for you. Matt had the football and Peter went out for a pass on the boardwalk. Matt tossed a 20-yarder to Peter... it sailed over Peter's head and took once bounce off the boardwalk and plopped directly into the ocean. (Now, if you know Matt, then you know that this is the exact thing that would happen with him around.) Matt immediately said to Peter, "It was a perfect pass, how did you not catch it?" Peter responded, "just because it's a spiral doesn't mean it is a good pass." We howled with laughter at Peter's response.

We spent the next 20 minutes laughing as we watched the wind blow the football towards the shoreline. A whole bunch of people were walking by laughing as they saw us staring at the football in the water and trying to figure out how to get it back. Not to worry though, our fearless Corey ran along the shoreline tossing rocks at it trying to retrieve it. Eventually, and I might add, miraculously, he got it. Needless to say, we didn't throw the ball on the boardwalk again.

The rest of the weekend was a blast, but it wasn't nearly as funny as when Matt threw the ball in the water. Ah, memories!

Check out the goods

After an evening of cleaning and clearing several rooms in the house, I have a few things I'd like to part with, but before I do, I figured I'd put them up for grabs on the blog first. First to comment; first to receive.

- 14-inch TV/VCR

- 20-inch TV

- Computer chair

- Stack of VHS tapes

I'm betting that none of you want the TVs or VHS tapes because, well, they're outdated. The TVs aren't flat panel/screens and don't have digital tuners built in. They are color though.

I'm also getting rid of my first computer. Sad.

I can't tell you how good it feels, for me, to purge the house of unused/old stuff.

Getting amped

I'm hunting for at least a 200-watt car stereo amp. Anyone have one or know somebody who has one that wants to get rid of it? I'm trying to fulfill a silly high school dream of mine before I turn 30. : )

Dustin

It's SNOWING!!!

We went to church this morning and when we walked out, it was snowing! By the time we got home, this is what it looked like at our house. It's slowed down a bit, but it is still snowing.

Thankfully, it's Sunday and we've already done our grocery shopping for the week. We're going to sit inside, watch football, and enjoy the snow from the warmth and comfort of our home.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Tree makes the news

You'll find us and our tree on the KING 5 TV Web site if you know where to look.

Tree lighting ceremony

Tadaaaaaa!

This year's Christmas tree

After months of questioning and debating whether we were going to get another monster of a tree again this year, we finally made up our minds.

Here we are hunting for the perfect tree. The sun was out and there was no snow on the ground. We couldn't have asked for better weather.


After closely scrutinizing every tree in half the forest, we settled on this one. Unlike last year, we didn't get that chorus-of-angels-singing effect when we saw it.


We bought the 12- to 20-foot tree permit. Notice it's longer than our truck. That's a big tree - 22 feet long to be exact. I snipped off the top and it was 20 feet.

Here it is loaded up in the bed of the truck... hanging WAY out.


While this tree is probably one of the tallest ones we've brought home, it was quite a bit easier to set up than some of the others. I don't know if it's because we're becoming pros at it or because this one was lighter than the others. Probably a combination of the two.


I'll get some more pictures posted when we get it decorated with lights. We were too tired to put lights on it today after driving out to the forest, hunting, cutting and raising the tree.