Charlie in Raleigh NC

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Jan 1st

A Child's View of Thunderstorms

A little girl walked to and from school daily. Though the weather that morning was questionable and...

Dec 31st

I was the ultimate:  a cowboy fireman! (I’m still...

Dec 31st

Every Day is a Gift

goldenmeg: Somehow we are lured into believing that happiness is being saved away for us… That...

Dec 31st

I will watch the Raleigh Acorn Drop from the comfort of my...

Dec 31st

My New Years Eve Plans

Men’s Basketball Loyola (Md) @ Duke 4:00 PM Durham, N.C. TV: ESPN2 Men’s...

Dec 31st

“Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it...”
— Oprah Winfrey

Dec 31st

What I got for Christmas … Yeah, right.  Actually I...

Dec 31st

as close as I get to getting goofy in public for New Years

Dec 31st

I am jealous.  I love old cameras! withoutmelissa: My new...

Dec 30th

Things I Have: Gift from Christmas Past:  Coca-Cola knife,...

Dec 30th

Things I Have: Coca-Cola things.  Stickers, cars,...

Dec 30th

Things I Have: Did I mention I have a LOT of these...

Dec 30th

Things I Have: Lots of refrigerator magnets.  Bunches are...

Dec 30th

Inspired by withoutmelissa’s People I Love photos...

Dec 30th

Rascal part II

Rascal just found the new catnip filled mouse I got him and had in the hallway waiting on his...

Dec 30th

Rascal has just returned from his biannual checkup at...

Dec 30th

Dec 30th

Dec 30th

“I am your constant companion. I am your greatest asset or...”
— author unknown

Dec 30th

Lovely photos of the skyline (and other...

Dec 30th

neat image: lightning strike with downtown Raleigh skyline

Dec 30th

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going...”
— Hal Borland

Dec 30th

“We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with...”
— ~ Bertrand Russell

Dec 30th

(via konrad)

Dec 29th

Watch

I watched Bill Cosby: Himself last night on TV.  It’s one of his stand up performances from...

Dec 29th

“A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the...”
— Bill Cosby

Dec 29th

Dec 28th

“Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it....”
— -Charles Swindoll

Dec 28th

I’m with my four year old friend Matthew Baldwin. ...

Dec 27th

I never get lovin’ like this from the Hooters Girls...

Dec 27th

Matthew’s visit at Hooters today. Click the photo to...

Dec 27th

“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality...”
— ~Washington Irving

Dec 27th

I am having lunch today with my favorite four year old,...

Dec 27th

I am learning how to tranfer slides into digital files via a...

Dec 27th

To those charging the stores today for the sales and returns...

Dec 26th

“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”
— Will Rogers

Dec 26th

hell has frozen over

My Duke fan Dad gave me a UNC tee shirt for Christmas.

Dec 26th

Dec 25th

“In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census...”
— Luke 2:1-14

Dec 25th

Dec 25th

Slightly edited image of my parent’s Christmas tree...

Dec 25th

The family Bible at my parent’s house

Dec 25th

12/24/08 the post-event report

I am very pleased to annouce that today’s activities went off very well.  Everyone arrived...

Dec 25th

Unique gift of the day A bottle of “Holiday...

Dec 25th

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care … I...

Dec 25th

“There has been only one Christmas - the rest are...”
— ~W.J. Cameron

Dec 24th

12/24/08

I hope this goes well.  We will attempt the entire family together in time for lunch today...

Dec 24th

A Christmas tradition:  Carolers from my parent’s...

Dec 23rd

Dec 23rd

Can't wrap this!

Dec 23rd

Christmas past: 2006 with Jen (aka Sunshine) at the VIP...

Dec 23rd

Dec 23rd

“Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep...”
—  Grace Noll Crowell

Dec 23rd

Dec 22nd

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,...”
— Dr. Seuss

Dec 22nd

Dec 21st

meanwhile at the Dollar Tree . . .

Yesterday I went to the local Dollar Tree to get a few stocking stuffers.  As you would expect,...

Dec 21st

“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It...”
— – Author Unknown

Dec 21st

Dear Melissa: Please update for us tumblrs!  We need to...

Dec 21st

Dec 21st

Christmas Cards - done!

I finally got most of my Christmas Cards addressed and sent yesterday.  Usually I’m pretty...

Dec 20th

Mr. Rascal’s bird watching perch

Dec 20th

“A cat will do what it wants when it wants, and there’s...”
—  Frank Perkins

Dec 20th

Watch

Jingle Bells - Brian Setzer Orchestra Oh What Fun It Is To Ride in a ‘57 Chevrolet …

Dec 20th

And so the madness begins...

Safe travels and I hope to see you here! withoutmelissa: Brent and I and the pups are boarding a...

Dec 19th

Melissa, this one is for your bad idea of the day file: The...

Dec 19th

You'll laugh: old family photos from Olan...

Dec 19th

“Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After...”
— unknown.  (This is day one of...

Dec 19th

Listen

Nice version of this classic song withoutmelissa: Stephen Jenkins  - Somewhere over the Rainbow ...

Dec 19th

really ?

First, I have to say that I don’t usually go to fast food places after 11 at night.  I was...

Dec 19th

Man crashes vehicle into Waffle House;...

Posted: Today at 6:11 a.m. Updated: Today at 9:39 a.m. Raleigh, N.C. — Not even a vehicle...

Dec 18th

Dear Target: This may not be the best pose for your dog. ...

Dec 18th

It SNOWED in Las Vegas!!!

Dec 18th

Need to play a holiday game with a Raleigh...

Dec 18th

“It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts,...”
— Sam Ewing

Dec 18th

the end

Today is my last day of work for 2008. I worked out of town six days a week for the last two weeks...

Dec 18th

Just to make a certain west coaster’s tummy growl...

Dec 18th

A Christmas Carol on TNT

I will be going to bed late tonight.  Just found one of my favorite movies on TV and I know...

Dec 18th

(via konrad)

Dec 17th

:)

Dec 17th

December 17, 1903.  The Wright Brothers and their flying...

Dec 17th

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of...”
— Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

Dec 17th

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Dec 16th

Hijinks in the sink at an Anderson (CA) fast-food restaurant...

Dec 16th

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Jordan: North Carolina awaits your...

Dec 16th

foggy morning

Weather is becoming something of a roller coaster ride here in North Carolina.  This morning I awake...

Dec 16th

“Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the...”
—  Elizabeth Aston, The True...

Dec 16th

update on my Monday list

post office - done holiday dinner order - done Christmas gifts for the Hooters Girls - sorta...

Dec 15th

the bedroom tv gets converted

While I was out of town, my official $40 certificate from the US Gov’t for the digital...

Dec 15th

Monday

on the list of things to do today: laundry.  As in two weeks on the road and about out of...

Dec 15th

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer...”
— Mark Twain

Dec 15th

Watch

Dec 15th

Watch

My favorite Christmas program.  I have to watch it at least once every season.  And yes, I do tear...

Dec 15th

this photo is one I did at the Outer Banks one morning a few...

Dec 14th

“Every morning I wake up saying, I’m still alive; a...”
— Jacques Cousteau

Dec 14th

In order to help provide a safe and pleasant experience, the...

Dec 14th

tonight

After six days on the road, I will return home tonight.  I’m off Sunday & Monday, then 3...

Dec 13th

Dec 13th

“God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires...”
— Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

Dec 13th

OBX>>>>>>VB

I spent three nights oceanfront in Virginia Beach, VA.  It was a nice experience with the boardwalk,...

Dec 13th

Tar Heels go shopping

Dec 12th

“If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on...”
— Noel Coward (English Actor,...

Dec 12th

I was driving from Virginia Beach to Grandy, NC on Hwy 158. ...

Dec 12th

meanwhile at the Outer Banks

The good news:  most of my drive tonight to the Outer Banks was wet but uneventful.  Then there were...

Dec 12th

Stained glass windows from one of the churches I was in this...

Dec 11th

Weather (or not)

Today I leave the oceanfront of Virginia Beach for a dot on the map across the border in North...

Dec 11th

“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more...”
— Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)

Dec 11th

up close with one of the seagulls

Dec 11th

On the Virginia Beach Boardwalk, a woman gives bread to...

Dec 11th

“Christian” tee shirts displayed together with...

Dec 10th

Well, the awning over the building did say Dollar Store. ...

Dec 10th

One of my cousins just sent me this photo of my Aunt Annie...

Dec 10th

Seagull + Ocean + Cloudy Day part II

Dec 10th

Seagull + ocean + cloudy day

Dec 10th

It’s the thought that counts? (via konrad)

Dec 10th

Colorful fish line the pathway towards the beach

Dec 10th

the sand and the ocean at Virginia Beach

Dec 10th

“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of...”
— Henry Beston

Dec 10th

a smaller alien at Planet Pizza.  The restaurant is...

Dec 10th

Planet Pizza had this huge alien figure.  Turns out it was...

Dec 10th

One of the light fixtures at Planet Pizza.  Looking at it...

Dec 10th

Planet Pizza in the Virginia Beach Oceanfront area

Dec 10th

Yes.  Really.  These signs are up all over the oceanfront in...

Dec 9th

Just in case you didn’t know …

Dec 9th

The morning view from my hotel room.  Those...

Dec 9th

From the Virginia Beach Holiday Lights Display last year.

Dec 9th

this should be interesting

The boardwalk by the ocean here in Virginia Beach has a display of the “dancing”...

Dec 9th

sleep

Nothing like a long pleasant sleep in a comfortable hotel room after a long day of driving and work.

Dec 9th

“O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the...”
— ~Thomas Hood, Miss Kilmansegg...

Dec 9th

Sign in a church in Virginia Beach VA

Dec 9th

oceanfront

Virginia Beach, VA The last time I was here, I stayed in this same oceanfront hotel.  I think it was...

Dec 9th

(via icanread)

Dec 9th

yawn

I’m up early.  Have to get on the road to Virginia Beach in a few hours. This week,...

Dec 8th

Let's go bowling!

NCSU plays in the PapaJohns.com Bowl in Burmingham UNC plays in the Mineke Car Care Bowl in...

Dec 8th

“If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?”
— Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)

Dec 8th

Rascal at night in his spot on the couch.

Dec 8th

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Zig Ziglar Inspirational Quotes

Dec 7th

“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent...”
—  Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD

Dec 7th

^ Why I don’t visit the Doctor!

Dec 6th

“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think...”
— Dale Carnegie  (American...

Dec 6th

bettybrowser: (via icanread)

Dec 6th

Downtown Greenville NC The old theatre awaits another use.

Dec 5th

Downtown Greenville NC The old hardware store houses the...

Dec 5th

Dec 5th

“A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a...”
— John Grogan, An Interview with...

Dec 5th

sometimes I'm not the brightest crayon...

I’ve always wondered about Baskin-Robbins “31 Flavors”.  Why the number 31?  I...

Dec 5th

The Jimmy V Basketball Tournament is this week.

Dec 4th

“To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We...”
— Jim Valvano

Dec 4th

UNC Tar Heels SMACKED Michigan State!

Dec 4th

Carolina Hurricanes fire Coach

Dec 3rd

Wings!

Dec 3rd

Speaking of lust . . . the Victoria's Secret...

Dec 3rd

“Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also...”
— Mohandas Gandhi

Dec 3rd

“~ We must always have old memories and young hopes. ~”
— Arsene Houssaye

Dec 2nd

Watch

The things one can find!  CBS came to Raleigh & WRAL-TV’s locally famous azalea gardens...

Dec 2nd

Watch

Doggone funny withoutmelissa: HOLY CRAP!!!! ahahahahahahahahahaha. I can’t breath. I can’t...

Dec 2nd

Eat That Frog

Dec 1st

One of Greenville’s treasures.  Dumpiest looking place...

Dec 1st

travel

I’ll be Down East this week, working in Greenville, NC.  The company has been very good to me...

Dec 1st

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes...”
—  Lin Yutang

Dec 1st