My how we have changed

Oh yes, Friday afternoon on the beach! Umbrellas and tents as far as the eye can see, or at least as far as the beach cam will let us see. One thing 6 did notice, have all-you-all noticed the increasing number of hammer shirts on the beach? 6 doesn’t want to sound pompous, but he is a real trend setter! It is not too late for all of you to run over to Belk or in most of your cases Lord and Taylor and get you one of them hammer shirts! As each of you know, 6 has been expressing his displeasure with the whole idea of beach tents. Since my efforts to have the famous KICA ban them from the beaches, just like all the other beaches along the east coast have failed 6 says if you can’t beat them join them! 6 is a trend setter, but if he has to steal an idea, well it is not beneath him to do just that. A week or two ago, he noticed a group of people who did it right. They must have gone to Ollie’s and picked them up two giant tents. From my research, this would cost us about $100 bucks. So if we fly or drive it would not make a difference, because we could just put them in the trash when we left on Friday and would not have to worry about bringing them home. All we would have to do is find an Ollie’s in Charleston metro area. 6 could always give 7&8’s buddy Josh a call, 6 is sure he would know exactly where he could find one. The first day that 6 notice the tent complex was on a Monday morning, 3 people (we could send 61, 62, 63, and 71) gathered on the beach around 10:00 AM and picked their spot accounting for the tide changes and constructed their private beach city. It only took them about ½ hour to erect there home away from home, they left and sometime in the early afternoon they returned with the rest of their crap, including their family. Once they got all of the crap unloaded, they did a very interesting thing, the tent they chose had sides on it, so they rolled down a canopy on each side and the total back so that they were enclose on 3 of the four sides of the tent! Awesome! Privacy!

Here is 6’s plan! Unfortunately 6 doesn’t think we have enough time this year to organize our own tent city, but if we all pull together we certainly can accomplish this for next year! If you don’t want to do it for your favorite brother/uncle/uncle in-law (is that even a thing), do it for 621! If this doesn’t get KICA to kill tents on the beach, 6 doesn’t know what will!

Picture this: Two 13x13 tents (338 sq feet), one Honda generator, one portable A/C, one portable fridge, beach chairs, boom box, one coffee pot, one laptop, five extension cords and one gallon of gas!

61, 62,63,&71 will go down to the beach at 0800 and set up the tents, ensuring they place it where it will cause the most inconvenience for our beach neighbors. 0930 people show up, fire up the generator, make some coffee, and put ABC channel 2 on the laptop, so we can watch Josh, Hoda and Kathy Lee. 13:00 open the fridge, and make some lunch, 14:00 fire up the A/C, 17:00 Rex Time on the beach, 1830, shut down the generator, 20:00 whiskey time on the beach, 23:00 tent city teardown.

Words of wisdom: sometimes if you want change, words may not be enough, you may have to take action!

Gators have rules too!

It is about that time, where we need to start setting the ground rules for our fun old family vacation. Over the past years 6 has spent a tremendous amount to brain power developing an agenda, and ground rules in order to facilitate a restful, but fun vacation. At times there has been a few negative comments on my schedule but for the most part, they have been completely ignored. 6 has to wonder if he is appreciated, for doing his best to make this week long journey as productive as possible, so we can fit a years’ worth of fun into one week! This year 6 is going to take a different approach, this year 6 is going to ask for fun ideas that he can incorporate into the weekly activities. This way all you all can have ownership of what we do, instead of it being dictated to you.

Since this is a blog and blogs are interactive, 6 wants each of you to come up with a fun family activity and submit it for the approval of the MVKB which is made up of one member, and that one member is 6. ^ doesn’t want any dumb, ideas, nor nasty comments that might possible hurt 6’s feelings. After what would vacation be without order and discipline? We all know the answer to that it would rapidly turn paradise into a disaster.

Here is the order we are going to do things: Next week 6 will publish the final mandatory fun schedule. This will include any ideas that past the muster from the MVKB. I expect input from all you all , by the time we open the bottle of Rex next  Friday night. The following week will be the cooking schedule, the same will go for that all inputs must be in by Rex Time!!

Words of wisdom: people can be like a delicate flower, in the correct environment, the flower will flourish. If one changes that environment the flower will wilt, and not produce any new growth.

Birds tell all!

By now if you are not getting excited about vacation then 6 Just doesn’t know what to say. For if one follows the timeline for our all-time favorite flick, this is about this Saturday will be the day the Griswold’s go out to cut down the family Christmas tree! So get on the stick! Yes I do know for a fact that 5 was the all-time master of finding the perfect tree each year, for whit-out his expertise, we would have had some mighty dismal Christmas’s.

As 6 sits here looking out over paradise, (6 thinks that he is going to sue KICA, because they must be reading 6’s blog…. 6 coined the phrase “Paradise” not some rich rube from KICA) one would have to be blind note to notice a line of blue umbrellas and right in front of them a row of tents, and on each side yards of empty beach….6 just doesn’t get it!  Hey, if anyone is looking for any last minute vacation gift ideas for me, 6 has one. 6 would like a big roll of that yellow do not enter tape. 6 would like someone to go out each morning and tape off our area down there by Eugenia lane with all the other want to be rich people. 6 want to be able to not have to see all of those cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four flushing, low life, snake licking, sand eating, overstuffed, ignorant, blood sucking dog kissing brainless, dickless, hopeless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff legged, spotty-lipped, worm headed, sack of monkey shit , they are! Hallelujah, Holy crap, where is the Tylenol?  The other thing one notice are all the people out in the drink! Today 6 would like to expand on the dangers that lurk below the sea in paradise. Over the years we have seen Jellyfish, they love to sting 7 and 21A, but then again, 71 got stung for when it really counted. Or the year that the lady got stung by the stingray! Or the year the guy caught the shark while people were swimming? Or the first annual whiskey/stogie night on the beach, where we spent all night keeping the skeeders from biting us? Or 62 leaning up against a tree resting from a long bike ride with a 5 foot snake 2 feet above her head? Or 63 riding along the bike path looking for gators in the pond and there was one sitting inches away from her? Or 4 taking a bike ride and running over a poor old snake that was just trying to cross the bike path? Or the little boy walking over to pet the deer who was busy eating and had no other place to go, but over top of the boy? Or 6,8 and 21 teeing off on the 10^th hole with a 10 foot gator sunning itself on the tee box? Need 6 go on?..

Well 6 is here to tell you with age comes wisdom. We all know the dangers that lie below the depths of paradise. If one uses a little wisdom, one needs not to worry. For example, don’t lean against a tree, or don’t chase the deer, or shuffle your feet on the ocean floor when entering or exiting the water, or don’t tee off on the same tee box as the gator is laying, or don’t go in the water when every 5 feet you see a jellyfish. Those are just common sense things, but as one ages and gains wisdom, and is able to use his superior intelligence one looks at nature and make a determination as to what one should do. For example this year on PVV, we were all sitting on the beach watching 40 or 50 of the pelican’s dive bombing the fish not 30 yards off of the shore line. It was about time to go out and do some swimming, but after careful consideration, 6 deemed that it was probably not safe to go in the water that day. After all the birds we having a feeding frenzy on the fish, so what do bigger fish eat, well they eat fish, and what do sharks eat?? Well they eat fish, so we all decide that it was probably not the prudent thing to do to go out there and swim with the fish’s…

Words of wisdom: One needs to be cautious in life, but caution should not drive ones life.