Here are the Labor Day travellers. We went to PNC Park in Pittsburgh. It was my 36th ballpark and T's 31st ballpark. I want to hit 40 before next summer is over. We have a fun time. We ate too much, but it was all good food.

Mogadore is 2-0 on the football season. They play on FSN tomorrow night.

We had our MNFFL draft over the weekend. T is going to be an owner this year. Good Luck to her. Chances are she will win the league.

I was in my second ever car wreck today. A guy bumped my rear bumper going about 3 mph. There was no damage to my Saturn or his car. It was just scary for a second.

Bayou out.

Recap from last week.

Monday. It was the first day of school for teachers. I woke up at 3:30am sick. I woke up at 4am, sick. I was sick before I got into the shower. I decided not to go to school, but changed my mind. When I got home I slept until Tuesday morning. I must have been real sick, I skipped golf.
B started 6th grade and K started 3rd. J was upset he did not go to school today.

Tuesday. Another teacher day, and another day not feeling 100%.

Wednesday. First day of school for students. It went fairly well. It is my 11th year teaching.

We made it down to the camper for the weekend. I was suppose to camp with my brother and his boys. But, bad weather cancelled their tent camping. We only got a 40 minute storm Friday night. Saturday was alright. We were able to go out on the boat for a nice cruise around the lake. The weather felt more like late September not late August. We will be back in a few weeks.

I golfed tonight. The league is over, but I can golf til the end of October on Mondays.

Tubing on Atwood

We would use dad's boat to tube because it moves faster than the pontoon. Also, we would anchor the pontoon at boater's beach while we tubed with others on dad's boat.

Fish of 2009

J caught this fish off the front of our boat while it was docked.

We did a pretty good job catching fish off our dock this year.

Fishing at Atwood.

This was the largest white bass K caught today.
T and J joined us in the afternoon for a swim and a little fishing before we called it a day.

This was my lone fish I caught. It was about a three pound channel catfish.

This was fish number 1 for Kent. He ended up catching 7 white bass and 1 saugeye. He had a pole in the water more than I did today. But, I still had a fun day. It was by far the best fishing day I had at Atwood in a long time. We were trolling off our pontoon boat just off the point to the beach when we caught our fish.

The end of summer vacation is fast approaching. We spent last weekend at the camper. I am sure that surprises you. We went down on Thursday and stayed through Monday. T had to drive back and forth a couple of times for work. We did a movie night on the boat. We hooked up my dvd player into the boat's speakers. We went out and anchored the boat and watched HSM3. It was almost like a drive in movie. I am sure we will do it again in the future. The rest of the weekend was swimming and tubing. Mike, Christy and their girls come down Sunday. Their boat is still in the shop. Mike brought down a different tube and the kids had fun on it. I will post some pictures soon.
Hopefully, tomorrow K and I will head down to the lake for a morning of fishing.

We went to Atwood again this weekend and summer finally showed up. We went out on a sunset cruise Friday. It was our first time out after sunset. It was fun to cruise at dark. We did some tubing and swimming on Saturday. T had to work to close. Sunday, Christy, Mike and their two kids, plus new friends Alissa and Mike and their three kids came down to Atwood in the afternoon. We had a fun day swimming and tubing. Mike N. tried to wake board but dad's boat didn't have enough juice to get him up. The weather was warm and breezy. The lake was choppy but made better tubing. This morning we did some quick tubing before leaving. Then the rain came and washed out my golf game.

Time for a week in review.

We went to Cedar Point last Wednesday with our friends Christy and Mike. It has been 13 years since our last trip to CP. Things have changed since that trip. We did ride all the major coasters. The Top Thrill Dragster was amazing. 120 mph in 4 seconds, then up 420 feet and then back down. The ride lasts 17 seconds but worth the hour wait.

We did not make it to the camper this past weekend. T had to work both at the hospital and Subway. B had the HOF Community Parade on Sunday. After the parade we went boating. We ate dinner on the boat and the kids swam.

I had a good round of golf last night. 41. I tied my best round of the year. The league ends in a few weeks but we can play golf until the end of Oct.

Oh, one last thing. I shaved off my goatee last Thursday. I gave it until to today and I am growing it back. I just don't look like me without it. As J said...."put it back on, because you aren't daddy like that."

Pictures from the past weekend.

J even got a turn in the tube. He loved it!

Is this our Christmas card picture this year?

A nice crappie from Atwood.


K was not to be out done, he could his on his first cast of the day.

B left for S. Carolina this morning. We just got word they arrived safely a little bit ago. She will have a fun time. She is returning on Saturday.

B had the Plain Twp parade on Saturday morning. It was a long parade in terms of distance. But, they were close to the front of the parade, which is always good for me. After the parade, we headed home. T took B and J back to Atwood, while K and me went to the Akron Aeros game. I remember why I am not a huge fan of minor league baseball. The game takes too long. Before the game Perry Baseball paraded around the field. We were back to Atwood by 10:15.
Sunday, T was called off work. It wasn't a big surprise. We had a fun day at the lake. We stayed Sunday night. It is always peaceful on Sunday nights when there are just a few campers on the point. In the morning, we finished packing up. T took the kids to Bible school, while I went golfing at Atwood with my Jostens representative. I had a good front nine and a tough back nine. Then I went on to golf in my league. I didn't play real well in the rain, but it wasn't my worse night.

We are home for one night from Atwood. I would explain why we are home, but it is too long.
Anyways, we went down to Atwood on Wednesday and enjoyed the quiet surroundings. We did all the normal stuff we do when we camp. It finally felt like summer with some warmer weather. My neighbor Jasen and his kids were down yesterday for some boating, swimming and campfire.
Tomorrow, B has a parade. After the parade, T, B and J will head back to the camper. K and I will join them after the baseball game tomorrow night.

Check out the San Angelo Colts at sanangelocolts.com. They are 25-10 and in first place. I might have to head to Texas for the playoffs.

I think the Indians are still playing baseball. They might be 20 games under .500 by now. It has been a long season and is only going to get longer. I am glad I did not renew my season tickets to see AAA baseball.

Bayou

I needed some help 'driving' the boat and J was there to help me out.

Boater's Beach on July 4, 2009

One stinking shot....My team lost the Kieb Golf Outing by one shot. If we would have made par on the first three par threes, we would have won by two strokes. But, I still had fun and help raise $1500 for the Kieb Scholarship.
The Kieb Outing is the golf trip to Michigan I do ever year. This year, I took K to play with Jared's son. They had a fun time playing together.
Friday night we had a small cookout. It was a beautiful night with friends. Everyone had a good time playing corn hole, ladder golf or just hanging out. All the kids played nicely together. Next year we are planning a big party for mine and T's b-day.
T started her new (old) job at Subway. She is returning to Subway after an 11 year absence. She is going to work part-time evenings for now. She is still hoping to get hired at a school this fall. If not, she will sub again this year.

The kids.

B blowing out her 'candles.

We went tubing for the first time of the year on June 24. We used papa's boat to tube, while the others were playing at boater's beach. We would use the pontoon boat to tube the following weekend.

Wow....I haven't posted in so long. I don't even know where to begin. We spent plenty of time at the camper. We spent plenty of time on the boat. The weather has not been 'summer' like yet. Well, we did have two 'hot' days towards the end of June.

B turned 11 on June 22. We spent the weekend at the camper. She wanted a friend to spend the weekend with us, but her friends could not stay on her birthday weekend. Her friend did spend the weekend with us the next weekend. They stayed in the tent and stayed there all night. She purchased a new bike with her birthday money.

Somewhere since my last post T was hired by Subway. She will be an Assistant Manager. They would have hired here as a store manager if she wanted, but she doesn't want to work 50 hours a weeks, and 3 out of four weekends a month. Actually, she started today. It has been 11 years since she left Subway. It is hard to believe it has been that long.

I will fast forward to this weekend. We went to the camper on July 1 and returned today. The weather was cool until yesterday. We did not go out on the lake to watch the fireworks. The fireworks were pretty good. We sat on the causeway and watched them. The campground was packed. It is fun when the place is busy.

My golf game has been improving each week. Last week I played my best all year. I shot a 41 and shot a 43 tonight.

Ok...hopefully I will not go 3 weeks to blog again.

These are all the great-grand children of my Grandma and Grandpa Carr, minus my son. He was at Boy Scout Day Camp.

These would be the grandchildren of Grandma and Grandpa Carr.

For the record, T took this picture of our friend Mike in his boat....'The Fish Eyed Fool" He is the one in the bright orange row boat.
T and I in front of our boat, 'The Grace Ann'

My cousin from Texas and his son enjoying a boat ride even though the weather was not that great.

My cousin's son waiting his turn at the helm of the boat.

K actually watching the ball into his glove and using two hands. He went on to throw the running out at first.

I am sorry it has been so long since my last post.

The last week of school flew by. This past year was my tenth year teaching at MHS.

I went to state track with my buddy Jerry. We have been going the last few years. The weather was sunny and not a cloud in the sky. It was bitter sweet going to the track meet. I found out the day before I would not be hired back as track coach in 2010. I was bummed out. But, things happen for a reason and now I will have more time with the family next spring.

We went hot tubbing with the Christy and Mike's on Sunday, June 7. As always it was fun. We played cornhole and the kids played in the bounce house.

June 8th, I turned in my grades and grade book. I was officially done with school.

June 9, Kent had a ball game. He team lost there last 6 games of the year. Kent's hitting has been down the last couple games, but when he does hits, it is doubles and triples. I think he leads the team with 3 triples.

June 10, my cousin from Texas spent the night at the camper. He brought his son and we had a good campfire. On Thursday, the weather was overcast, rainy, but we went out to boater's beach. We were the only ones there. It actually was kind of nice to have the place to ourselves. A teacher friend of mine and his two kids were camping as well, so they were on the boat as well,

Me, my cousin, his son, and K went to the Indians game on June 11. It was the seagull game. The Indians won the game in the bottom of the tenth inning.

We headed back to the camper for the rest of the weekend. The weather was better and we boated and swam. I love summer vacation.

I need to post some pictures. Hopefully, it wont be 2 weeks until I post again.

Another weekend and another weekend at the lake. It was a beautiful weekend, minus the 30 minutes of rain we had Friday night. Saturday our friends the Neckos came down and spent the night in a tent. We had a fun time on the boat, swimming, eating and fishing.

This is the final week of school. I will be heading to Columbus for state track this weekend and then I am free until the end of August.