Category: Sports

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Fundraising, again

When school first started, they asked us parents to sign up to volunteer for some things throughout the year, and I signed up to assist with the fundraising programs. I hadn’t heard anything all year, so I thought that I had been forgotten (boo hoo), until the phone rang the other evening and I ended up talking with the Volunteer Coordinator, and she talked me into coming to the meeting to see what could be done.

At the meeting, I was asked (as were a few other moms also) to check around and come up with some ideas and suggestions for their end of the year fundraiser. The proceeds will help with the end of the year graduation celebrations.

I have been involved with fundraising events before, I guess anyone with children that go to public schools and/or participates in any kind of sport activity is all too familiar with it, for that matter.

So I spent some time on the Internet, taking advantage of quickly and easily finding the information that I was seeking right there at home, on my PC, not even having to pick up the phone and deal with voice mails, or pagers, or people not returning phone calls, playing phone tag or anything else that is irritating like that.

I found during my researching that it appears that the two most popular items that are out there used for fundraising are the custom car magnets and silicone bracelets. So I found a great web-site, www.arcmktg.com that has those two items for sale, and I think I will recommend these at the upcoming meeting that is scheduled for next week.

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Everybody’s Talking II

Scary flight: Nicky Moss was training for a paragliding competition in Canberra, Australia, when two eagles attacked her parachute. She was soaring 8,200 feet in the air when the birds started swooping at the nylon, tearing it with their talons. “They launched a sustained attack on my glider,” says Moss, 38. Things got more terrifying when one of the birds crashed into the back of her head and then got tangled in the lines and the canopy collapsed. She fell about 1,500 feet before she was able to regain control and the bird escaped and flew away. Amazingly, Moss landed unharmed.

Taken from Coffee News – “News to be enjoyed over Coffee”

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Kerr Lake

Some of the guys in our Harley Club want to go on a weekend ride to Kerr Lake next month. Although it is only a couple of hours south from here, I don’t think I’ve ever been there. We always seem to go east to the Atlantic beaches or we used to go north to my parent’s house on the river.

We are thinking about taking over the campgrounds at Cripple Creek. They have cabins and facilities for cookouts. They are also close to boat ramps and can make arrangement for boat rentals. It’s a little rustic but it’s only for one weekend.

We would like to stay at the state park, but they don’t allow any alcohol, so we have to find a different campground. I guess that’s my research project for the afternoon.

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Monday Night Wrestling for him & A Bubble Bath for me!

Monday nights are my night off because Hubby and our youngest are normally glued to the television watching their favorite wrestlers beat on each other.  I’m glad our son watches it with Hubby because if he didn’t that would mean that I would have to sit and try and watch it.  I’d rather be doing something else, thank you.

I am still trying to get in as much reading as I can, taking a nice hot buble bath late in the evening with a good book I have found, is a nice way to end the day, plus it makes it easier for me to ease off to sleep.  So on Monday evenings I can count on being able to do just that while the guys, in the living room keep up with all the drama going on with America’s newest wrestling pro’s.

And off I go…….

blwaterbeaut

 

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Whitewater rafting in the Poconos

Premier whitewater rafting on the Lehigh River in the Poconos, Pennsylvania.  Wow, sounds good to me.  I haven’t gone rafting in such a very long time, probably since my teenager was little.  I remember going to a place in West Virginia with my sister and her kids and having a blast rafting down the whitewaters.

I really am tired of winter and am thinking of things that we can do come summer time.  The Poconos is PA is a great place any time of the year and I’m sure that there is tons of  FUN for all abilities and ages.

Guess we will be busy this summer watching Cher in Las Vegas and Lehigh River rafting in the Poconos in PA, sounds like a good start in my planning calendar.

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Who would have thought that the Giants would win?

This years Super Bowl, in my opinion of course, was not the most exciting game I’ve ever witnessed.  The commercials weren’t all that “awesome”, but there were a few that got hubby and myself to laughing, but the game couldn’t keep my attention so I nodded out at middle of the end of the 4th quarter, which of course ended up being the only “exciting” part of the game!

I’m surprised that the Patriots didn’t kick butt, I am glad the Giants won though.  I guess I have a soft spot in my heart now a days for New York, since 911 and all.  I ran across a nice coffee table book with a great collection of wonderful photos taken on that day.  I pulled it out of one of our book cases the other day and put it where it belongs, on my all ready overly crowded coffee table, for all to enjoy.   

I have finished reading the Civil War book and need to choose another out of the stack of books that I brought upstairs last week.  There is a huge selection to choose from, I will take a look later.  For right now it is all about figuring out what am I going to cook for dinner tonight.