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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: alfsauve on June 27, 2011, 09:18:53 PM

Title: Missed me?......don't answer that.
Post by: alfsauve on June 27, 2011, 09:18:53 PM
Took a whole week off.   Didn't have "real" internet access, so I tried to keep up with you folks using the smart phone and Tapatalk.  It's okay in a pinch, but I don't like trying to use the small screen.  So I wasn't making my normal, snappy, to-the-point commentaries.

This vacation was truly a do-nothing, sit and read, watch some movies and consume inebriating substances.  So since, I know you are dieing to know where I was here's a short picture montage.


Holden Beach,  NC.   Just over the border from SC.   This was my "office" for a week.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-409xyYSOqz4/TgkuJos3_3I/AAAAAAAAlAU/wkdsGzAKpJc/s640/IMG_20110618_170556.jpg)

The interesting thing about this stretch of NC is the beach runs east and west.  This pictures are all taken looking south.  The roof over the porch was enough to keep us in the shade all day.   The reason the Wright brothers went to NC to test their planes was...............WIND.   This was a nice enough beach but the constant winds were a bummer.   You'll notice in the pictures there was hardly ever a real clear sky.   

The condo we rented was Christened   "Endless Summer" and had this sign by the front door.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8miGC7BFOGU/TgkuUsZHkVI/AAAAAAAAlAc/eAxu0KlRRoQ/s640/IMG_20110619_173504.jpg)


So on Day 1
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-pIBM4XAOu4k/TgkuYGV07WI/AAAAAAAAlAk/9Gx4RrQu-OU/s640/IMG_20110619_175742.jpg)
















Day 2
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SAnRxnnB6wI/TgkuaZYczAI/AAAAAAAAlAs/iryhSA9nhiU/s640/IMG_20110620_203717.jpg)















Day 3
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XojeHJWfzZw/TgkuekgZ6LI/AAAAAAAAlA8/uJq31v_WV5U/s640/IMG_20110621_201929.jpg)













Day 4
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-mHHIgb3xf6o/TgkuhhlR5_I/AAAAAAAAlBE/bbodCDmCPX0/s640/IMG_20110622_184958.jpg)














Day 5
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-liFEI-Og2W8/TgkulscJpiI/AAAAAAAAlBM/B-0ZEUsElpw/s640/IMG_20110623_183047.jpg)

















Day 6
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-mlyuKgXtTx0/TgkupzmchmI/AAAAAAAAlBU/tZFHxI_JBIk/s640/IMG_20110623_183118.jpg)























Day 7  (BUMMER)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZcbrnKKzMEQ/TgkutoSSp6I/AAAAAAAAlBc/aAvH22iHSKo/s640/IMG_20110623_183349.jpg)



Oh oh.   Gun related.   Yes, visited several gun stores and pawn shops but didn't buy anything.  Visited Ant Hill Range, but didn't get to shoot and stopped in some range in Wilmington, but all of this activity cut into the primary objective of the trip.....to do nothing.
Title: Re: Missed me?......don't answer that.
Post by: Badgersmilk on June 27, 2011, 10:31:49 PM
Plenty a room on the pier when your ready to move out full time! 

(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww40/BigCheeseStick/103_0021.jpg)

So you familiar with "Calabash style" sea food now?  Mmmmmm.   ;)
Title: Re: Missed me?......don't answer that.
Post by: Solus on June 28, 2011, 09:17:17 AM
One bottle a day????

24 bottles in a case, 24 hours in a day.  Coincidence?  I think not.   - attributed to Paul Newman.
Title: Re: Missed me?......don't answer that.
Post by: Teresa Heilevang on June 28, 2011, 09:22:19 AM
;D ;D  Love it.. classic pictures...  ;D  I do hope you had a wonderful do nothing week..  ((I would kill for one of those about now)) :-\
 speaking of the do nothing part.. ( not).. I have to head out to the lake.. There is about 5 hours of weed whipping down by the lake shore that I have to get done before this weekend.. then back home and do massages this evening..
 Not on here much.,. no time.. I do facebook through my blackberry.. Hell if I didn't have my phone right now I wouldn't have any contact with the outside world..  :-[ :-[   :'( :'( :'(
( anyone feel sorry for me yet?? ) lol
Title: Re: Missed me?......don't answer that.
Post by: fightingquaker13 on June 28, 2011, 09:35:17 AM
Quote from: Marshal'ette Halloway on June 28, 2011, 09:22:19 AM
;D ;D  Love it.. classic pictures...  ;D  I do hope you had a wonderful do nothing week..  ((I would kill for one of those about now)) :-\
 speaking of the do nothing part.. ( not).. I have to head out to the lake.. There is about 5 hours of weed whipping down by the lake shore that I have to get done before this weekend.. then back home and do massages this evening..
 Not on here much.,. no time.. I do facebook through my blackberry.. Hell if I didn't have my phone right now I wouldn't have any contact with the outside world..  :-[ :-[   :'( :'( :'(
( anyone feel sorry for me yet?? ) lol
Five hours of weed whacking? One word M'llette. Goats. You can buy them for about $75-$100 a pop, turn them loose on your lakeshore and they have food and water. Zero maintainence. Zero weeds and they are fairly cute and affectionate. Just saying.
FQ13
Title: Re: Missed me?......don't answer that.
Post by: 2HOW on June 28, 2011, 09:41:10 AM
nice beer story , but you forget who youre telling it to. I would say you had to empty the trash can several times. Glad you had a good time  ;D
Title: Re: Missed me?......don't answer that.
Post by: Pathfinder on June 28, 2011, 10:05:36 AM
Quote from: Marshal'ette Halloway on June 28, 2011, 09:22:19 AM
;D ;D  Love it.. classic pictures...  ;D  I do hope you had a wonderful do nothing week..  ((I would kill for one of those about now)) :-\


This from someone who just got back from shootin' freakin' machine guns for heaven's sake, and then having the audacity to label it "work"!!! Sheesh!!!!  ::)
Title: Re: Missed me?......don't answer that.
Post by: tt11758 on June 28, 2011, 10:24:23 AM
Quote from: Pathfinder on June 28, 2011, 10:05:36 AM
This from someone who just got back from shootin' freakin' machine guns for heaven's sake, and then having the audacity to label it "work"!!! Sheesh!!!!  ::)



What he ^ said!!!
Title: Re: Missed me?......don't answer that.
Post by: Badgersmilk on June 28, 2011, 03:07:12 PM
Quote from: Solus on June 28, 2011, 09:17:17 AM
One bottle a day????

24 bottles in a case, 24 hours in a day.  Coincidence?  I think not.   - attributed to Paul Newman.

I was going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say those were just the ones he had with his cerial in the morning.    ;)


GOATS left to their own doing are faaaaarrrrrr from "no maintenance" :o :o :o.  I'd compare a boored goat to something along the lines of a F4 tornado.  ;D   You've clearly not owned goats good sir!
Title: Re: Missed me?......don't answer that.
Post by: shooter32 on June 28, 2011, 03:26:00 PM
Time well spent my friend, welcome back.  ;D
Title: Re: Missed me?......don't answer that.
Post by: alfsauve on June 28, 2011, 04:16:45 PM
Quote from: Solus on June 28, 2011, 09:17:17 AM
One bottle a day????

24 bottles in a case, 24 hours in a day.  Coincidence?  I think not.   - attributed to Paul Newman.

You remember in grade school we had to "interpret" those graphs with the stick figures?  Each figure represented so many actual things.  Okay this was one of those exercises.  Each bottle represents...&^*&$*^!&#$%&^ <signal lost>  #@$(*%+_)  <signal restored>   

Also not counted are the red wine in the evening, the blenders of daiquiris or the...

Coming home and going back to work has been......a sobering experience.










Oh and the trash was picked up 3 times while we were there........
Title: Re: Missed me?......don't answer that.
Post by: twyacht on June 28, 2011, 08:19:17 PM
Reminds me of of Little River, Murrell's Inlet, North Myrtle Beach,.....Oak Island... Calabash. 20 years there makes me want to get back there mui pronto.

Compared to S. Florida,.....I'd go back in a minute,....

Great pictures Alf,.....Glad you made it to "God's Country"..... ;D