Fun weekend

Wow!!! As freaking hot as it was this past weekend, I had a blast! The regular June Airsoft game was Saturday, and only 50 folks showed up. This was nice. I like small games like this because the field becomes more open and you can work on your sneaking, etc while you play. Also all of the whiners and cheaters and bitchers didn't show up. There were zero complaints and I never once heard "call your hits". My buddy Justin's advice worked. He said to drink Gatorade the night before then again in the morning as well as drinking lots of water. It worked as I wasn't dehydrated all day. I went through an 8 pack of Gatorade but wasn't dehydrated. Nice. Sunday Cat and I went fishing at Percy Priest Lake. Nothing was biting because it was just damn hot, but we enjoyed just sitting on the little fishing dock nestled in the trees staring out at the lake taking in the sights. We were being stalked by two turtles in the water. You'd see this little black spot (the head) sticking up and moving along, then it would duck under the water. One of the turtles was fascinated by Cathy's day-glo orange bobber. It kept swimming around it no matter where she cast it out to and no matter where it drifted to. It was quite amusing. We called it quits at 11:30 and went shopping a Lowes and Home Depot. We've decided that "the fence project" would take way too long and be way too much hassle, and moving that fence six inches is what has been holding up our pond digging and deck building, etc. So we decided to leave it as is, put the one panel back up, get two more and be done with it. We bought the basic stuff for the pond yesterday. Liner, UV Filter (pretty damn sweet actually.....it constantly bathes the water coming through it in UV rays which help to kill the bacteria.......this is after the water passes through two filters and bio balls......), pump for the pond so we can pass the water through the UV filter and back into the pond as a waterfall, and a small self-contained pump/fountain. We plan to get a difuser to attach to the fountain pump so we can run a line to a spitting frog or something like that. The reason you put a spitting statue and/or fountain is so you can keep the water moving without having to run the big main pump/waterfall all day long. Saves you energy. Now we just need to keep digging the hole and it will be time to lay out the liner and all that. Whew!!! Fun fun fun. We also got a solar powered shed light. It's a 30 dollar solution to the lack of lighting in our shed. There is no electrical run to it so we had to take an extension cord, horsehoe nail it to a beam in the carport and then when we need light in there we run the cord to the outlet by the back porch and then plug into one of the two work lights we have (you know the ultra bright halogen ones.....) and we have light. It's a pain. This light uses LED's and has an on/off switch (so it's not on all the time). You mount the light, the mount the panel and run the cord to the light. Simple. We will see how much light it puts out.