Somedays I wake up and wonder what mountain I should climb, or where should I bike to, or if I’m really bored I’ll swim laps around the globe and wrestle sharks.
Today however I woke up and decided to upgrade my fire pit in the backyard.
See I had this fire ring for years and it did fine, but I always wanted more. Wanted it to look a lot better.
I went to Lowes and Home Depot and found some stones that were suitable for the project at only $1.88 each.
I got 45 and ended up only using 40.
The most important part is to get your base ring nice and level then the rest just falls right into place.
A little late getting this one out here but not long ago, we took a cruise to Belize, Isle of Roatan, and Cozumel Mexico.
We had a blast aboard the Carnival Triumph. This ship was HUGE! For starters this ship costs a whopping $420 Million to create and it showed. Let me tell ya this thing was 893 feet long, 143 feet tall, has 13 decks, huge show lounge for their awesome shows that can hold up to 1400 people, 6 dance/sing/nightclubs, 4 dining rooms, oh man the list goes on. They have 1100 crew members and it can whisk away 2758 passengers of on the vacation of a lifetime. You can seriously get lost on this massive vessel.
We embarked on our 7 day cruise from the port of New Orleans on a Saturday. We slowly cruised down the Mississippi river all night until we reached the mouth where it empties into the ocean. From there we sailed for 2 days or 936 miles to our first stop, Belize.
For the two days we were at see, we spent time lounging on the lido deck soaking in the sun, ate food, explored the ship, ate food, took in some shows, ate food, worked out in the gym, ate food, and so on.
First stop Belize.
While at Belize we did a Land rover and Cave Expedition. When we got to Belize we left the dock in a smaller boat that held about 20 people and we cruised at a moderate pace down the Sibun river. Videos and more after the jump.
Wow your deck is huge!(that’s what she said) but no seriously it is. We decided to make it like we wanted it now rather than add on to it later.
The pool is a 24′ round Sand Dollar II with a 7 foot deep end. The deck is hard to give dimensions on but its just friggin large as you will see in the pictures and videos in this post.
The backyard is a never ending project and it seems that there is always something to do, but I love it. Its like my own backyard oasis. I love staying busy doing things out there.
For years I have pushmowed the yard and thought “man it sure would be nice to cut and go right into a pool for a swim”. Well now I can and have done so!
Next on my list of things to do is to get some night time lighting on the deck. After that I need to work on some tunes for the deck. I am thinking marine speakers and some place to plug in mp3 players and iphones.
Oh and just so you all know, I did not build this deck….so you cannot book me for work haha. Kevin Craig at KevinsCustomDecks built this awesome deck. He is local to North Central Mississippi. I am not going to publish his contact information here on the web, but if you are serious about having a deck built contact me and I will release and email address where he can be reached.
Wow I have not posted anything since April 9th. Time flies when you’re busy…where to begin…not sure where to start so let me just let it flow and dive right on in to try and get this blog caught up.
I don’t even remember much of April other than the swimming pool was completed and at the end of the month the deck project began.
May is always a busy busy month for us somehow every year, partly due to Visions. Starting off in May was the Grenada High School Visions Spring Show called One Moment More where it was about music from the past decade in movies. Here is a video of Justin performing Folsom Prison Blues.
After that it was time to move forward trying to get the deck complete before Graduation so that we could have a Birthday/Graduation pool party.
This didn’t quite go as planned with bad weather popping up often. We did manage to have a party at the end of the month, but I will get to that later. Continue reading →
