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 →
Also have been working on getting our swimming pool installed and coming up with some plans for a deck. The pool is an above ground pool, 24 feet across, eight foot deep.
The tree next to the pool is coming down asap, and I gotta get the dirt moved and get the deck built.
Hey! Its been a while! I have been meaning to write but I have been busy with lots of projects. Sorry about that.
I think maybe in the future I will write once a week like a digest of whats been going on… I dunno…maybe.
I guess to catch you up real fast starting with the latest while its fresh on my mind, I will start with a movie that I saw last night.
I went to the local theater here to see To Save A Life. I gotta say I was BLOWN away by this movie. It was simple film making at its best with several very powerful messages in for all ages.
I am gonna take a moment to rip off IMDB.com and show you the full synopsis of the movie and possibly spoiling some of it for you but trust me you need to see this movie.
The film tells the story of Jake Taylor, a young man who has it all: a basketball scholarship, the ideal girlfriend, and the right friends. But faced with the demands of the in-crowd, Jake has written off his childhood best-friend, Roger. Isolated and mistreated, Roger finally takes his anger to the extreme when he shows up one day on campus with a gun.
Jake’s last-ditch effort cant stop Roger, and the events which follow rock Jake’s world. He begins to question everything, but most of all, he cant stop asking: Could I have saved Roger?
In his search for answers, Jake finds himself looking for the next Roger. He reaches out to geeks, losers, and loners. But crossing the strict high school caste lines threatens everything Jake values. And pushes him to answer the most important question of all: What do I want my life to be about?
This film doesn’t shy away from the real struggles facing our teens.. It is rated PG-13 because it portrays some of these issues accurately: from teen sexuality, to abortion, to cutting, to drug and alcohol abuse, to suicide.
But because it does so, teens are praising this film for its realistic and relevant portrayal of their world and responding enthusiastically to its message. As teen author and speaker Zach Hunter comments: It conveys the raw emotions of life and the ups and downs of high school My friends who have seen the film are already talking about it and encouraging others to go see it.
A must see for all teenagers and parents.
See the trailer here
Ok…moving on. I have been BAD sick last week with the flu or a severe chest cold. I manage to pull through it and just have a minor weezing cough right now that fading day by day.
While I was sick I managed to start a few new top secret web projects, so you will to stay tuned for those.
I also managed to watch several good movies at home.
THE ROAD
FLASH OF GENIUS
PERFECT GETAWAY
The Road, I got to see an advanced copy of this. It was well…bleak. Very sad. Its about a boy and his father and their struggle to survive in a post apocalyptic world.
Flash of Genius was a very good movie based on the true story of Robert Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper and how FORD Motor Company stole his idea. He later battles FMC in court and wins, but don’t let these simple sentences stop you from checking this movie out, as you will never look at your wipers the same again. Good flick!
The Perfect Getaway was a movie that I expected to be very scary or suspenseful but it wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong it was a GREAT movie. This is one of those who dun it movies and you will never guess, not in a miiiillliiiooonnnn years. Watch it!
That’s all for now, I’m tired of writing and I am sure you are tired of reading.
The other day, and when I say the other day, it was sometime last week or month, I heard the dogs in the backyard along with Jack barking an awful lot. I peeked back there and saw that they had a Cat on top of the fence and Jack was trying hard to reach it.
I quickly grabbed a Nikon Camera (s230) with video capture capabilities and started to record. You just never know what might happen.
I then later edited it a little bit in Adobe Premiere Elements 8 and made it a little funnier.
