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In honor of the Olympics, I was wondering if any of your have heroic reef keeping stories that should have won you a medal. You've trained for years, and then one day you had to step up and do...what?

Share your story, and later I'll share mine.

Who'll win the gold?

With my recent blogs, you've read about how the power has been going out due to the snowfall in Fort Worth, Tx:

Snow - my favorite topic; & a power outage to deal with

No Power Again

Let me describe how I run the generator when an emergency strikes. If the power doesn't resume within one hour, the generator is used.

The generator is stored in the garage, safe from the environment. Gasoline is also stored, ...

Since 3:30am today, the power has been out to my home (as everyone else in the vicinity). As of now, it's been about 12 hours straight without juice. I was up until 6 a.m. waiting for it to come back on, then I finally fell asleep. I got up around noon, as my son brought back a hot chicken teriyaki subway sandwhich, which helped warm me up a bit. The house was 65F then. I'm glad I took a hot shower with the stored water in the water heater before I went to sleep.

I installed a ...

I've lived in Fort Worth, Texas since I was 17. We get about one inch of snow one day a year, and the following day it is gone. People in our area usually have no idea how to drive on the stuff because it is so rare, and chaos ensues. I usually enjoy the view from the comfort of my home, sipping on hot cocoa. There's no reason to risk my life or my vehicle with so many clueless drivers out.

The snow came in last night and it was gorgeous. I was up late, enjoying the huge flakes ...

While I was staying in Seattle, WA last month, I took the time to shoot some pictures of Trido's tank. In no particular order...









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