Virginia Tech Homecoming Weekend

So it's homecoming weekend. The time when a bunch of old friends roll into town and catch up. I'll have guests this weekend and am even planning on playing a little football on Saturday after Virginia Tech plays UNC. A few things arrived in the mail this week, the first is the Cabela's Camp kitchen. I put it together, took maybe 10 minutes, when it arrived. Should have taken a picture, but the camera is acting up.

I am debating taking it out to tailgate with this weekend. Not sure what the tailgates have been like this year and they may be set, but I figure if something like this could help, why not?

Also landed a pretty nice family size tent, that I have yet to put together. I'm sure that will be taken care of by the end of the weekend.

I was trying to think of more "Tales from the Trailer Park", but nothing too eventful has happened. The latest is that I called Social Services last week to see what they could do about getting the boys that live across from us in school. They have been living there about as long as I have and have not been attending. After being handed off to the school system and finally to the local elementary school I found out that they we attempting to get into school, but did not have all of the documentation since there mother is in Indiana or Ohio and their Dad is missing in California. Really a pretty confusing situation. The best part about it all though is that yesterday when they were returning a game cube game one of them said, "Hey! Guess What? Something really exciting happened to us today. We went to school!" I just smiled.

Flag Football Upcoming

Right around the corner is the yearly Flag Football Tournament in Delaware. It's a time for old friends to get together and really stick it to some other teams :) This will be my 5th consecutive year heading up and 6th year overall, having taken the title 3 of the last 4 years. Should be a great time!

Tales from the Trailer Park #1

So the more I think about it the more I am tempted to create a section called "Tales from the Trailer Park" to share stories of interesting things I have come across since moving. These things have provided countless minutes of laughing and while some are common in everyday life, others are reserved for my new neighborhood :) So here goes, story #1:

The disappearing house!
I've become accustomed to homes in lines, with lanes. Or as accustomed as anyone could become in the first month and a half. I wake up, take the dog out and check out my surroundings as anyone would. Behind my home is my storage shed (I need to take pictures) it houses my camping gear, tools, bike & some storage items. Behind that is a small chain linked fence followed by another home. Just your standard large white rectangle. Well a morning not too long ago I wake up, take the dog out and check out my surroundings as anyone would only to find a large rectangular patch of dirt, some insallation and a few cinder blocks. It was gone! Granted I know these are 'mobile homes' but it looks like many of them pretty much stay put for long periods of time. So I guess I will be getting used to homes just disappearing (and possibly reappearing) in my time to come.

I'd rather be...

Went camping over Labor Day weekend and it was the first camping trip of the summer (shame).We stayed off of a tributary to the New River (which is thought to be the 2nd oldest river to the Nile) on some land that my Mother-in-law's friends own. They all get together on major holidays and have cookouts and I usually try and get there the day before and camp. It was the perfect weekend for it.

I also started teaching a High School Personal Finance class today. I have 4 students and the class went well, actually 45 minutes flew by. I was working on the lesson plan last night and kept coming up with ideas. I think teaching will be a good way to exercise my creativity. Getting high school aged kids to think at 7:30a.m. should pose a formidable challenge.