Went to Carowinds yesterday. It’s a nice amusement part in Charlotte. It was great! There weren’t hardly any lines because the weather was forcast to rain all day, but it hardly even sprinkled.
The Hurler at Carowinds
Hunter has a car
April 21st, 2009Check out Hunter’s car. Its a Toyota Celica.
Hunter's Car
Back from Robot Regional
April 2nd, 2009Last weekend was the First Robotics Regional competition in Clemson, SC. This year we came in 30th place out of 44 teams. Didn’t get to play in the finals. This is a picture of the team lined up at the player station:
Ready to Play
Its Snowing!
March 1st, 2009Haven’t had snow like this in a while. Its probably snowed 3-4 inches by now. Here’s some pictures:
Tree in my front yard
Truck under snow
Ice Cave
January 20th, 2009It’s been good and cold the last couple of weeks, so we decided to climb the mountain behind our house to visit the “ice cave”. It’s not really a cave, just an indentation where some big rocks stick into the mountain. Water drips over the face of it and in the winter it freezes into icicles. I haven’t seen them reach all the way to the ground before:
Neighborhood BBQ
September 26th, 2008This year it was my turn to be in charge of the neighborhood picnic. I wanted to do something different for food and decided to make Texas Style Beef Brisket BBQ. I made a small practice brisket the weekend before and then cooked 25 lbs. for the picnic. We had over fifty people attended and I received many generous commnets about how good it was. The receipe is my brother Will’s and is posted on our homeowners association site: www.dellwoodhoa.org.
New Truck
July 27th, 2008Well, its been eighteen years, and I’m sure you’re wondering when the day would come. I broke down and bought another truck. I also crossed over to the other side and bought a Chevy. Its a 2004 Silverado with only 64K miles on it. Its a 4.8 V8, auto, crank windows and vinyl floor. 
The Many Faces Of Hillary
May 16th, 2008The Friday before the North Carolina primary, Hillary came to Hendersonville. Here are a couple of her best faces:
Update: Meet our next Secretary of State!
What do you mean “This is a Republican Town?”
The governor looks on as Hillary thinks “Pucker up America”.
High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace
May 1st, 2008Interesting story on the salvage operation of a car carrier containing $100 million worth of brand-new Mazdas. Mazda decided to destroy all the cars because they were at sea too long and they didn’t want to risk reliability problems. More interesting is the story of the guys that went onto the ship to save it. Click Here to go to the story.
2008 Robot Competition
April 23rd, 2008There’s an article in the Hendersonville newspaper about the robot team. This year we made it to the quarter-finals, where we played five matches. Each match is best three out of three. After a tie, a win, a loss, and another win, we were lined up on the field to play the semi finals. Howerver a scoring error had occurred and after much analyzing it was decided that the other alliance won. After we got off the field, they then announced that after reviewing the video, we would play the match again. We then lost due to to penanties. It was a pretty exciting roller coaster ride. Click here to read the newpaper article.
Note: I say “we” but only the kids play. Hunter was the robot driver for the finals.
