Hurricane Tracker

Yeah.  I won the trip for work and will be headed out on September 11th to the Bahamas....

All I do is watch this map all day now. 

http://hurricane.stormreportmap.com/

RIP, Mate: Steve Irwin the "Crocodile Hunter" Killed by a stingray

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5311298.stm

View all my August photos

All August photos here.

Visit from an old friend

For those of you who haven't heard the story: Becky and the girls went outside about a month ago to play on the swings. Becky returned, quite disturbed and asked me to come outside. When I arrived, she pointed out the head of an opossum. And it was f-r-e-s-h meat. Yeah.

Well, our backyard is surrounded by a 6' fence - and I wanted to know how the head got here with no body! I searched for a while and looked on the street side of the fence, but couldn't find anything. On the way in the house, I saw it: The freshly killed and eaten body of this adult opossum. For the longest time, we were really freaked - how did this happen? Who did it?

Dad Storholt gave us a good idea - and when I searched the "crime scene" closer, I located the breast feather of a hawk. Since that day - we have identified two Coopers Hawks that seem to live across the street in a 100 year old pine.

Click here to see the rest of the pictures.

Kaitlyn just being a nut!

 

Barn Spider

A few weekends ago, Beck and I noticed a barn spider making a really big web just off the deck. Gramma Kaine, Becky and I sat on the deck for about 2 hours and watch her make her orb.

If you ever get the opportunity to watch a spider build a web from scratch, watch it! 

Li'l Ray's Birthday

You may also recall when we bought the daycare, that Anastasia decided to have Li'l Ray 2 days later. The best of all? He was a month early!

The next day, Boom and I showed up at the center to open!!! You should have seen the parent's faces and heard the kids cries. :-)

Happy birthday, little Ray - clearly you enjoyed it!!!! 

Happy Birthday Next Level Development!

August 17th was the first birthday of Next Level Development. In many ways it seems like it was 50 years ago and 5 minutes ago all at the same time.

Anastasia has turned the center into a true development based learning center - we are lucky to have her as our best friend and director! 

Kaitlyn on her new table and chairs

What you don't see here is that our little monkey LOVES to climb on top of these little chairs and table. Our little monkey likes to climb on top of just about anything. God, help us!

It was a loooong day for Miss Paige

I looked over after Paige was eerily quiet for about a minute, and here she was. Fast asleep. Say it with me: "Ahhhhhhh." 

Google Image Tagger

Google is genius!

Check out this tool:  http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

When you go there, you are teamed up with another person automatically and asked to tag an image.  When you match a tag, you get points.  Not only are you having fun, but you are making google images searches better.  Super genius!

It's strangely addictive, give it a try!

Pickle Light Bulb: You've always wanted to do this!

Take a look at this site that gives very simple instructions on how to turn an everyday deli pickle into a light bulb.

"Look, Ma - the pickle glows!"

A quote from my Mother

I swear this is the exact quote:

 

"I have to start drinking again so I can stop falling down."

 

 

5 of 9 Jiffy Lubes SCAMMED this undercover reporter

I have used Jiffy Lubes in the last few months.... this is unreal, especially at the end when the district manager lies about who he is.

Cool Optical Exercise

After watching this video, I felt like I had done acid. Again*.

To get it to play in full screen, double click the player when the video starts.




* I just said that to be cool, the closest I have come to acid was mailing a post card.

English Russia » ATM mistake lead to $700,000,000 credited to bank account

In Russia, the banks give you money! 

This stuff actually happens there?  Can't understand why they lost the cold war.



http://englishrussia.com/?p=249

Kansas teen perfect on SAT, ACT - Yahoo! News

What.ever.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060818/ap_on_re_us/pair_of_aces

A classy way to win a million dollars!

Maine Mystery Beast

It was charcoal gray, weighed between 40 and 50 pounds and had a bushy tail, a short snout, short ears and curled fangs hanging over its lips, he said. It looked like "something out of a Stephen King story."

Story here

Charlotte Observer | 08/18/2006 | Firing disputed

Whooaaaaa, check this quote out from the complaint that Mayfield filed against Ray Evernham:

"Instead, for significant periods of time he had been, at best, and absentee manager and owner largely because at some point in time Ray Evernham had entered into an (sic) close personal relationship with a female driver he engages to drive on NASCAR's ARCA, Truck and Busch Series. That relationship became a subject of considerable discussion and distraction in the Nextel Cup garage area during the 2006 season."

Erin Crocker is the only female driver employed by Evernham Motorsports.

Whhhooaaaa, that's sexual harrasment!  And Erin Crocker ain't no looker either.


http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/sports/motorsports/15301650.htm?source=rss&channel=charlotte_motorsports