Saturday, July 21, 2012
To the Families and Friends in Aurora, Colorado.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families of the Batman shooting in Aurora, Colorado. It was truly a tragedy.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Why the Swimming Hole is a Dangerous Place
So, out in the middle of Nelson County, around the corner from my house, is a swimming hole. It used to be part of the Soapstone Quarry, and it apparently is the hang out spot for all the young kids.
Me, being a Cancer and a lover of water, finally decided to go explore it Saturday, after living near it for two years, with my brother-in-law. Husband decided to stay home and Little Miss was in bed already.
First off, you have to walk through bushes taller than you are to get to it, then manage to balance yourself as you walk across a two by four, then get through ALL the broken glass. Then, voila! Water.
Brother-in-law made the mistake of just sliding off the side of the bank in the water, thinking that the water would MAYBE come up to his waist. He was sorely mistaken, because he sunk like a rock.
It was here I learned that BIL wasn't exactly what you would call a good swimmer. But thankfully, he surfaced, then proceeded to dog paddle all over the place. I ended up lounging on a little edge that was submerged under water and watching him to make sure that he didn't drown.
I may also have been trying to fall asleep, since due to the storms that knocked out pretty much everyone in Virginia's power, I had just gotten power back that day. And I didn't have a day off at all last week because I was staying at the hotel, so I ended up picking up shifts that no one wanted.
Granted, I appreciate the overtime, but I was (and still am) beat.
BIL was done swimming pretty quickly and I got up and went back to the house, but not before realizing that I had mosquito bites the size of golf balls on my back and arms. Those mosquitos out there are freaking evil.
So, unless you actually WANT to catch malaria, the swimming hole in Schuyler is actually pretty freaking dangerous.
Stupid mosquitos.
Me, being a Cancer and a lover of water, finally decided to go explore it Saturday, after living near it for two years, with my brother-in-law. Husband decided to stay home and Little Miss was in bed already.
First off, you have to walk through bushes taller than you are to get to it, then manage to balance yourself as you walk across a two by four, then get through ALL the broken glass. Then, voila! Water.
Brother-in-law made the mistake of just sliding off the side of the bank in the water, thinking that the water would MAYBE come up to his waist. He was sorely mistaken, because he sunk like a rock.
It was here I learned that BIL wasn't exactly what you would call a good swimmer. But thankfully, he surfaced, then proceeded to dog paddle all over the place. I ended up lounging on a little edge that was submerged under water and watching him to make sure that he didn't drown.
I may also have been trying to fall asleep, since due to the storms that knocked out pretty much everyone in Virginia's power, I had just gotten power back that day. And I didn't have a day off at all last week because I was staying at the hotel, so I ended up picking up shifts that no one wanted.
Granted, I appreciate the overtime, but I was (and still am) beat.
BIL was done swimming pretty quickly and I got up and went back to the house, but not before realizing that I had mosquito bites the size of golf balls on my back and arms. Those mosquitos out there are freaking evil.
So, unless you actually WANT to catch malaria, the swimming hole in Schuyler is actually pretty freaking dangerous.
Stupid mosquitos.
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