Watching The Weather – Vacation Day 12 – Tied up for the night. 2
Outdoor Activities
Time spent in the great outdoors hiking, backpacking, camping, fishing, paddling, and shooting. Anything well away from the madding crowd.
Vacation Day 12 – We hired a sailboat in the vain hope of getting in some sailing. x4
June 16, 2014 17:34
Glock 17 – Another good thing about having visitors from the UK is that I can ask my friends if I can borrow their handguns to take down the range. 2 pictures
April 14, 2014 16:21
Beretta 92FS- Compared to the Glock the Beretta just screams finish and quality. 2
April 14, 2014 16:19
Quick winter hiking clothing test – With temperatures down to 18°F (-8°C) and six-seven inches of snow on the ground, I thought it would be a good opportunity to check how my hiking clothing fared. 2 pictures
December 6, 2013 17:45
Saturday night youth lock-out followed by a Sunday morning service and picnic at Camp Shawio. 32 pictures
October 13, 2013 21:54
I attended an ‘Active Shooter’ training session at church a couple of days ago, I think this should be filed under ‘Things I didn’t expect to learn/discuss at church’.
September 7, 2013 10:10
Another day’s sailing on my friend John’s sailboat – only this time instead of too much wind, we had too little. 5 pictures
September 3, 2013 0:03
A Late Afternoon Paddle on the James River with Lanie – Lanie had a break in her rehearsal schedule, so I thought I’d take her kayaking to get her out and about for a while. One-minute read, 5 pictures
August 27, 2013 21:23
Spent the day with cap’n John getting the boat ready for some real sailing – he has a mainsail. Unfortunately, the ‘iron Topsail’ is currently broken, and beyond my knowledge to repair.
August 26, 2013 10:25
Some chores then sailing on Stockton Lake — John asked if I fancied going sailing. He had to ask? That’s a given. Five-minute read, +13
July 13, 2013 21:28
I really like this series of pictures of John I took while we out sailing yesterday. 3 pictures
July 13, 2013 14:33
I’ve had a long outstanding arrangement to take Jonathan out in one of our kayaks. Last week we agreed some mutually convenient times, and today we finally got out on the water. 8 pictures
July 1, 2013 19:38
Remember cap’n John? Well, he’s gone and done it now and bought himself a twenty-seven-foot sailboat. I went with him to Stockton to take a look. Pretty cool she is too. 19 pictures
June 24, 2013 20:02
Sailing with John on Stockton Lake -When my friend John said he wanted a sailing buddy to help him out on his first day sail in a keelboat without an instructor I jumped at the chance. Video: 1 minute. Five-minute read and 15 pictures
June 1, 2013 14:02
Old man’s beard on the trees at the edge of the bluff
April 19, 2013 20:50
Every so often the knot under the sole between my toes breaks off. When it does I have to stop and tie a new one.
April 19, 2013 19:09
Ginger spotted this picture which worked very well. We probably should’ve put more water in the Platy.
April 19, 2013 18:56
A picture from last weekend’s backpacking trip. We were checking out a stock pond to see if it might provide drinking water. The pond was not only quite large, but also surrounded by cattails which had started to break apart and seed.
April 19, 2013 18:49
We spent a long weekend backpacking in Hercules Glades. The highlight being an afternoon resting and enjoying the spring sunshine on top of a 260 ft. bluff overlooking Beaver Creek. Journal: 1 29
April 14, 2013 23:28
I’ll be writing more in a few days. For now, we camped at the top of this 260ft. bluff last night. It took a bit of bush-whacking to get there but it was worth it. | Read about our trip
April 14, 2013 22:56
This time last year we were backpacking with Lanie at Piney Creek Wilderness and doing other exciting things!
April 1, 2013 9:20
It was when we saw this view that we realized how far up the mountain we’d driven last night – Spring Break 2013 – Day 2 – The view from Cheaha Mountain State Park, Alabama. 3 pictures
March 10, 2013 8:34
Cheaha Mountain State Park, Alabama – Spring Break 2013 – Day 2 – Our camp for last night. Lanie couldn’t be bothered to pitch her tent and slept in the van.