Snow Creek

Today after work I met up with a bunch of folks, including some from the Smith River valley canoe club,  to run Snow creek on a release from the Shepard's Mill pond.  We all had fun and spent about an hour or so all running the flint mill hole rapid.  It is a solid class 3 right in the middle of the run.  I watched about everybody run it before I did so I could pick my line.  I hit my line and bounced through without swimming.  It was the first real rapid I had run in the canoe, so I was very happy.  Now I want to go back...

With any luck pics and video will be up soon.

Season's End

Track season has ended.  Friday the 20th I spent the day at Greensboro A&T for the 1a State Track Meet.  Everything went well, one of our athletes won a State Championship, 3 were runners up and all the kids we brought score points for the team (top 8).  Now I have a month off till summer basketball.

Spring is also over.  We went from mid 70's to high 80's- 90's overnight.  Soon the water will be warm enough to get in the WW canoe and play a bit.

The garden is in and growing, but the peppers are looking pathetic.  I need to fertilize them.  The skinks and lizards are all over out at the house, eating the bugs and skittering under the flowerpots whenever we go onto the porch.

Oddly enough, with summer coming on, I am thinking about fall and hunting season.  I am going to try to get up to Michigan for 3 days of grouse hunting for my birthday.  Soccer season will be over, so it looks like it might happen.  It will be the first time I have hunted there and I am looking forward to it.

New Shoes

Went to Winston today and got stopped in at Great Outdoor Provisional company.  There I found a pair of Chaco sandals on the clearance rack for half off.  Bought them right up as my Tevas from last year are totally dead.

I also stopped at Sports Authority and got a pair of New balance running shoes 1/3 off.

Pretty happy with the afternoon purchases, but the chacos are really chunky.  I feel like a spice girl wearing them.

Come on...

Guys, please-when you buy a new shirt, wash it and iron it before you wear it.  I just sat through a good presentation, but the guy had a new shirt on with the lines in it from being folded at the store.

Work Week

Well, it was back to work big time this week.  Tuesday school started back up, and all the classes are quickly coming to an end so it it time for the mad rush to get everything in. On the home front I have a few projects going.  I have built the frame of the shed and have cut the rubber for the walls and roof.  Now I need to put it all together.

I am also in the process of gluing some of the outfitting in the Outrage.  Also trying to set up a put in on Big creek so we can get some good class 3 paddling in.

Ohio

After  my post Friday, Allison and I decided to go to Ohio for Easter.  We left home at 730 and got to my folk's house after dropping Allison off at her parent's house a bit before 3 am.  The Drive totally sucked- rain and wind the whole 400 miles.  We had a great time seeing family, but I now realize just how much I did not get done over break that I had planned on doing.  It is going to be a busy week.

Conference Track meet is next week.  We have a lot of work to do before the kids are ready...

Rainy Day

Alli and I went down the Dan yesterday.  I found myself getting frustrated and struggling with my new boat.  I thought the learning curve would be shorter being that I have paddled most of my life. I was wrong.  I tried to surf the playwave and was rejected twice.  I did manage an accidental crosspry to right myself after nearly losing it working on hitting eddies.

Today I had planned to do some work to the outfitting on the boat and finishing the shed.  It is raining.