Scavenger Hunt
Bass Pro SHop
the only clue I knew the answer to
Concord Mills
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Charlotte Motor Speedway
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Z-Max Dragway
We are going to drag race here this year!
Verizon Ampitheatre
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Great Wolf Lodge
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Backup Hot Rod Museum
That is Ricky Bobby's car
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Nashville 2012
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Liz and Baby Haviland. Jason and Emily's son.
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Jason. Beth and Mom in background sitting
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Liz and Matt Morgan, A very tall Pro Wrestler in town for an event. (Nice guy)
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Me and Emily
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Beth with the Baby, Aunt Eleanor, Diane, and Debbie walking
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mom and dad
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Aunt Martha
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3-story Honky-Tonk.
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Liz, Martha, Louise, and Diane on the 3rd floor of the big Honky-tonk.
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Diane showing everyone the house that she is thinking about buying.
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Martha, Louise, Diane, and Liz out with me for a night of hinky-tonking. The girls were good sports. Broadway had several of these horse drawn carriages.
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bad pic but that is a river cruise. we tried to get on it but it was booked up the day before.
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Broadway at night. Must be 50 bars all with live music.
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We finally found a southern rock bar. (Where I knew the words to all the songs)
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Liz at Bar-b-cutie's. They said they were the #1 BBQ place 3 years in a row.
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Thanksgiving 2011
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Baby Reagan
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Original Kitchen and Breakfast bar
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Original kitchen
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making templates for Granite
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Corbels to support new granite Breakfast bar
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joys of remodeling
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More fun with remodeling
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These brackets help support the sink from below
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New breakfast bar
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breakfast bar and sink side of counters
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Counter on other side of kitchen.
None of our granite has a seam!
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New stove.
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Cool new faucet
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Built in sprayer
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This one is funny. It is on our Vacuum cleaner. Liz had it facing out the door and every time I walked by the door i jumped a little bit so we moved it.
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Wedding1
Sleepover
We counted 11 people sleeping at Jamie and Sarah's 2 bedroom apartment. Here are about 5 of them.
BTW, how do you like their wedding gift?
Grands
Grandma and Grandpa Roach, Sis and me
Goody
Goody, after flying all the way from the east coast to be at Jamie's wedding had a little "adventure" the night before that involved a front tooth and a chin operation. Liz took care of the chin and the guys were up and at 'em this morning to get the tooth repaired.
Somehow Goody got stuck holding back the Mom of the Bride's killer dog.
Inlaws
Dale and Tammie, parents of the bride, and us.
Mom and Groom
At the hotel before the wedding
Father and Groom
Jamie and Sarah thought the bow tie would be funny. Can you see me laughing?
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Mom and Bride
immediately after the wedding they let the families get together alone for a few minutes.
Me and my sis
Diane flew in from Vegas.
And as it turned out, we and the Jacks gave Jamie and Sarah a Vegas honeymoon and Diane has been their guide and companion.
Bridal Party
This is Sarah and here bridesmaids.
Not for me
This was the photographers idea. The guys are checking out the girl while the groom refuses to look.
The girl is Katie and her betrothed is Joel who is on the far right.
Grooms party
From left
Matt, Sarah's brother
Thomas, best man
Goody, who Jamie met in the marketing business
Shane, who lived across the hall from Jamie as a freshman in college
Joel, also from the marketing company.
I don't know what it was but something about the struggles in that marketing company created some strong ties!
You know who
Virginia Creeper Bike Ride
White Top
The trail starts at White top. It looked to me like 95% of the people rode from here to Damascus which is 17 miles downhill. From Damascus to Abingdon, which is not downhill, I'd say 4 people made the trip :)
High up
trust me, this is a tall bridge.
Liz and High Bridge
A little more perspective
Another bridge
No idea what is so fascinating about bridges, but they are.
way up
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Liz Mountain Climbing
This is called a Karst Formation
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Liz was taking so long I was wondering if I was even in the pic
Creeper Cafe
Of course we stopped at the Creeper Cafe. Music was very good. Food.... not so much. (but it was fine)
Parking lot
Of course, EVERYONE stopped at the Creeper Cafe
Liz in stream
I wanted Liz to go down to the stream to put the rocks in perspective. Naturally, she risked life and limb to go all the way out into the middle.
Love that girl
Smilin Liz
I am often asked, Does Liz smile all the time? No, of course not! She smiles when she rides her horse, or when she is hanging out with me, or spending time with her kids, or...... well, yes most of the time she is smiling.
She is married to me so why wouldn't she smile all the time?
Maverick
Liz thought I was taking a pic of this quaint little store. SHe did not know that my mom had one of these Mavericks when I was a kid and I haven't seen one in years.
Treehouse
Now that is a treehouse
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Ugly bridge.
What can I say? 30+ bridges on the trail and they are not all beautiful.
Washington trip
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WWII monument. It goes on forever. Must be one of the biggest monuments in DC
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Jenny... Forrest.... Jenny..... Jenny
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Dashboard in Skylab
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This is at Arlington. Chief Plenty Coos was a chief who enjoyed the spotlight. It was an honor for an indian to touch a live, armed enemy with his coup stick shown here. Chief Plenty Coos was renowned for this accomplishment and would often touch caskets in ceremonies. This is his coup stick and a banner with his name mis-spelled.
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This is the rear of the Tomb of the Unknown soldier. Many Presidents have spoken from here.
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Changing of the guard at the tomb of the unknown. A soldier is on duty guarding the tomb 24/7 365. Even if there is a tornado.
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View from Robert E. Lee's home. Arlington is on Gen. Lee's homeplace.
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Gen. Washington's Mason tools.
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Washington on Blueskin. His other favorite was Nelson. Nelson was a chestnut and GW's favorite for battle because Bluskin did not like cannon fire. But Blueskin was prettier and he is in all the pictures. Gen. Washington loved them both and they retired with him at Mt. Vernon.
Our remodel
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This is our laundry room. We are going to move the dryer to the other side of the room, put up a wall with a pocket doo
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With the dryer moved we start framing the wall
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My friend George actually doing the framing
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Sheetrock
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Our house is now a wreck
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Now that the wall is built, we are installing the toilet. Here we have cut a hole in the floor
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Measuring from our hole to the main truck line in the basement
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cut a chunk out of the trunkline
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Not really an oops, but this is the moment of truth.
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Ok, the toilet is plumbed into the trunk line
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here is the wall with the pocket door and the new toilet
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New vanity. We did not have to plumb the vanity because we had a large laundry sink here before.
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Here is the new laundry with the washer where it was originally but now there is a wall right next to it.
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Now the dryer is across from the washer. Had to move the 220 line for the dryer power and also put in a new vent.
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New door is 6 foot tall and opening is 30 inches and does not pivot inside the shower. Makes the shower seem quite a bi
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That is a door even I can get through.
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Had to cut out a sample so we could find a match.
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Wood warped way out into the kithcen. By the way, the leak was a pinhole.
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I had nothing to do with this. Floor experts removed bad floor.
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And put down new floor.
Jamie and Sarah visit April 09
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If Jamie is home that means the phone is ringing! How do you like that Pistol Pete Jersey?
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tom.... with hair!
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Some of jamie's friends over for a visit.
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Stories and lies
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Dru and Liz
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This ride was huge. 80+ for the 50. The 75 and 100 was also larger than normal.
And it was rainy.
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Large crowd at the start. A typical ride is about half this size.
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And, their off!
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