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Oct. 21st.

Category: Daily life. | Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:31 pm

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Gloomy weather again this morning. Cool about 45 deg. with showers and mist. Won't be working outside today or the weekend for that matter. Supposed to be like this clear through Monday. This afternoon I have to go into the American Legion Hall and make the cole slaw for tomorrows fish fry. Found out my next older brother and his wife are going to be there. They live about 45 miles from me and I haven't seen him since last spring. So will be able to eat good and get caught up on what is going on with him too! I will post some pics of the fish fry in Sat. or Sun post!

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Oct. 16th - garden work.

Category: Daily life. | Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:00 pm

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Today is cool and windy with a north wind which makes it seem cooler than it already is. Did some raking and gathering up in the yard, since the tomato's are done for the year, I picked the last of them that had any size to them and brought them in on the back porch. Pulled the vines and they were all about dead. Raked up two trailer loads of walnuts and got rid of them. The squirrels just aren't keeping up with them. This is the most walnuts we have ever had. And most of them were huge. About the size of a tennis ball with their husks on. So now I am tired and feel a nap attack coming on!

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Hart State Park in Hartwell Georgia, USA

Category: Holiday in 2005 | Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:03 pm

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We went to Georgia to visit friends that we have known since 1969. They were participating in a volunteer program as Hosts at the Park Campground.

This first pice is of the Park Ranger's Office.



This next one is the entry way into the park area itself.



This is one of the picnic areas, there is also a small swimming beach and is used by people who are there just for one day of activities.



Here is one of the camping areas.



The lake was made from damming up a river. The lake is huge, over 95,000 acres of water. This is a set of steps going to the top of the dam area.



This is a service road on the top of the dam. The dark area to the left is the part of the dam where they can control the level of the lake. The water coming out of there forms the Savannah River which flows clear to the coast in the south to Savannah, Georgia.



This is a picture of part of the bigger section of the lake.



As you can see, the lake is so huge, you can barely see the far side. And that far side is actually in the state of South Carolina.





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October 13th, American Legion

Category: Daily life. | Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:29 pm

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Being a veteran, I also belong to the local Post of The American Legion. Last night we had one of our two monthly meetings. I am also the post historian and keep the history book of the post up to date. We are currently working on a couple of fund raising programs. One is a Fall Fish Fry which is Oct. 22nd. We serve all you can eat fried fish, baked beans and cole slaw. All that for just $7. We have such a huge turn out, that we normally fry up about 300 pounds of fish. I am one of the cole slaw makers and we fix 40 lbs of cole slaw the day before the event.
We also have a Holiday Craft Show going on Nov. 5th. We raise funds buy selling the booth rentals and of course we sell food such as sandwiches etc. Between these two events, we will raise close to $4000 for the post which will eventually go back into the community.
We purchase and donate flags for the lamp posts in the main streets of town, we support a couple of different veterans related programs and we are the main contributors to the Support Our Troops organization which benefits the parents and wives and families of our troops stationed overseas.
Our post is made up of a fine group of guys and gals with experience from World War II clear up through the War on Terror.

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Welcome

Category: Daily life. | Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:19 pm

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Oct. 11, 2006
Starting the blog. First a quick introduction. My knick name is Capt Kirk. This is because my last name is Kirkpatrick and it was too long for most of my friends to use. So they called me Kirk and then when Star Trek started on tv, it automatically went to Capt Kirk. This was when I was in the US Navy. I was in for 22 years and retired out in 1983. I am fully retired now.

Hobbies; I like wood working and wood carving. My latest project is a solid wood mofel of HMS Victory from plans. I have been working on it off and on for over a year. I also do some gardening mostly flowers and a few tomatos. I also like to travel and try to do so for a couple of weeks out of the year.
My wife and I have friends that lived beside us in 1969 in Virginia Beach, Virginia and we were all transferred to Brunswick, Maine and then they retired from the Navy and moved back to Georgia. We transferred to Jacksonville, Florida about a year later. We then moved back to central Ohio where I finished up my Navy career as a recruiter in my home town. We have stayed close to them through the years and manage to visit with each other every couple of years. Last month we met them at a State Park in Georgia and spent two weeks with them in their 36 ft. motorhome. This next summer we are planning a month long trip with them through the following states. New York,Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticutt and Pennsylvania.

Gardening; Today I picked about 2 dozen tomatos and that mey be the last of them. With the days getting shorter , it is getting harder for them to ripen. Soon I will have to pull them up as they will stop growing also. They did not do too well this year as we had such a dry summer. And they just don't do as well with water from a hose as they do with water from the sky.

Home; I cut and split more firwood today and am almost done. I have room for about 2 more rows of wood in the wood shed. This year the wood will be more important with the higher energy prices. Our house has electric heat and I have noticed that the cost of electric has gone up in the past couple of months. The wood is free and my energy to cut it is free. I spend about $50 for the gasoline and oil for the tractor, saw and woodsplitter. I normally use the electric heat until Janurary and then use the wood. The weather is normally fairly mild until then and more bitter cold during Jan., Feb. and early March. I have had quite a few of the American Elm that have died from Dutch Elm disease. It seems about when they get between 1 ft and 2 ft. in diameter the disease gets them and they die. I also use wood scraps from my work shop and recycle them in the wood burner.

Oct. 12,2005
I went into town to the hospital's exercise center and exercised for 30 minutes. Four years ago I had to have a quadruple bypass done, plus have a pacemaker installed. I did the cardiac rehabilitation and then just kept on doing it. I exercise every Mon, Wed. and Fri. Stopped and had me a cup of coffee on the way home, ran a couple of errands and then came home. My wife went to her mothers for the day and my son who lives with us got up and went to work.
I started cleaning out the chimney, cleaned out the wood burner and had some lunch. Started mowing the yard and also repaired the mailbox post.
Still no rain, but we did have a couple of peaks of sunshine today. And now I am pooped, and in dire need of a nap this afternoon!

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