“Irregardless” instead of “Regardless”

“We take it for Granite” instead of “We take it for granted”

And when people say “Like” more than 5 times in a paragraph.

Ugh.

This may not look like much to you, but to me this is a treasure.  After a few years of searching for one of these I finally found one on eBay.  It’s a windshield frame for my Triumph.  One more piece of the puzzle is coming together.  I really can’t wait to get my car on the road.  I am tired of watching it collect dust.  I am tired of it being used as a shelf in my garage.

This weekend while I was at my Grandparents’ farm in Charlottesvile, we busted our asses.  There are tons of things that need to be done to the farm to get it back into shape and we have only just begun.  I was moving some stuff under the back deck and saw an opening to the crawl space of the house while under there.  I opened the door and saw something that I haven’t seen in years.  7 bottles of root beer.  Why were there seven bottles of root beer under the house? 

During the summers of my childhood, I spent ton’s of time at the farm with my grandfather.  One day when I was 11 or 12 I decided I wanted to learn how to make root beer.  My grandfather and I hopped in the car and went from store to store to gather all the necessary equipment and ingredients.   We got back and made home made root beer.  I distinctly remember making it.  When we were done, we put the bottles (a few dozen) under the house for it to ferment and cool and do whatever root beer does before drinking it.  At the end of the summer we went back and drank it.   Believe it or not, it wasn’t that bad.

The seven bottles were what was left under the house 21 years ago.  I decided to take one out and stick it on my mantle as a memory to one of my favorite memories as a kid.

Beware of the mini horses in Maine.  They may look fake, but when you shine your light for a closer look, they come to life!

When I went up to Maine with Austin and his family to deliver a bunch of surfboards, we came across this seemingly fake mini horse in someone’s yard.  Austin made a wrong turn while with our host, Ron and came a across something in someone’s yard.  It was dark, so he wasn’t sure what it was at first.  Then he shined his lights and the tail moved.  Not believing what he said he had seen, we went to look at it again the next  night.  Sure enough, there was a mini horse in someone’s front yard.  But it looked fake…we shined our high beams and it turned its head and shook it’s tail at us too!  It was hilarious.  The next morning on our way out of the neighborhood we went for a closer look in the light.  As seen by thte picture above, it is obviously a fake miniature horse…apparently it is activated by lights.  It was a good source of laughter for us throughout the entire trip.

You know you want one to put in your yard (http://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-76471-FurReal-Friends-Butterscotch/dp/B000F2JZKO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1219687266&sr=8-1)

I saw this in the historic downtown mall of Charlottesville a few weeks back.

Thanks, Troy.

This a picture that my friend, Troy from Austin Surfboards, took of me while we were all surfing one day on Little Island.  I like the mood that this picture captures….good job Troy.