We're On The Way !!!

Uncle Tim, are you ready for this !!!!! Woooo Hoooo!!!

Labor Day - Here We Come !!

Ok folks. To those of you who will be at the Hoch reunion
on Labor Day Weekend, you know we have the annual auction.
Here is one of the items I will be bringing for the auction.

These are Salad Tongs:
Flip them one way and they are spring loaded;
flip them the other way and they fold flat for storage!!!

We will have a few other neat items and Mikayla will also
be baking some ... :) ..... :) ..... :) .... to auction off!!!

Non-Typical !!!!!

Look what I saw Saturday on the fence here at the house!!!!

New Family Photos !!

What A Feast!!

This is what we had for supper Saturday night (before the crash)!!
Maybe I was just top-heavy!! :)

P.S. - It was very good !!!!!

Weeeee!! Oops!! OUCH!!!

Okay, so here I was trying to get a few miles on my old bicycle to try and keep ahead of my cousin Jason who is racking up the miles. Susan, the girls and I were taking a little ride. The girls had stopped to climb on up rock pile. I was riding around and I reached back to turn on my wheel-powered light. Just then I hit a patch of small, loose gravel. The gravel and my narrow wheels didn't mix real well!!

Here's what I wound up with:

My left arm wasn't to bad (It did bleed some) but my right arm had this hunk a meat just torn out!! (It didn't bleed at all) I should have went in and had stitches, but my insurance dosen't cover our local hospital, so I went to a nurse that goes to church with us. She bandaged it up and gave me supplies to take care of it. (This picture is after it has healed for a day. It looks pretty good compared to what it was!!)

Wooo Hooo !!!!

Not too often ya see a power bill like this!!

72nd Annual Galax Old Fiddlers Convention

Once again, we have the Fiddlers Convention in town.
Lots of good Bluegrass music to be heard (and some not so good)!

http://www.blueridgecountry98.com/bluegrassmusicstreamingonline.aspx

To those that may be interested, here is a link that will take get you a live feed of the music. The link is to our local radio station, but they won't go live to the Convention until about 6:00.

Thursday night, 6:00pm, starts the Clawhammer Banjo, Autoharp, and Guitar Competitions.

(Uncle Tim, you would enjoy the guitars. They should be on about 8:30-9:00.)

Friday and Saturday nights are the Bluegrass band competitions. They start at 6:00pm also. They generally sound pretty good unless they sing along with it. The singing gets a little screechy sometimes!! I prefer just the music, myself.

Heard A Lot Of Good Guitar Last Night!! Posted 8/10/07

My New Bumper Sticker !!!

I like it !!! Do you?? :)