Stingray – Crystal Beach, Texas – June 27, 2009

As we were getting to the beach today, a guy was standing on the beach reeling (and reeling and reeling) in his line. We suspected a pretty good sized shark, but were surprised (pleasantly, I might add!) to see that it was this big Stingray. The kids & I walked over to see up-close. And since I happened to have my camera in hand to take some pictures of the kids playing on the beach, I snapped some photos of the ‘ray’ and the two men responsible for landing this beauty! Since they didn’t have a camera, I told them that I’d upload the photos to my site for them to be able to download the photos whenever they wanted.

I didn’t see anyone measure it, but I estimate it was close to 4 feet across it’s back and probably in excess of 100 lbs! One man had a hard time rolling it over to get the hook out of it’s mouth. I don’t know how big these things get in the Gulf of Mexico, but it seemed like a nice sized one to me!! ha!

To the men who caught the Stingray: I have no idea who you are, but hopefully these photos will come through okay for you. If not, feel free to email me and I’ll send them to you.

Here is the man I saw doing the reeling:

I’m not sure who the second man is in the equation, but they were in the same vehicle and he posed for the photo too. Sorry I cut you out of the first photo! I thought you were one of the many on-lookers! :o)

And last but not least, here is a photo of Tyler posing too.

Nice catch guys! Congratulations!!!

Life is a Beach!

Just wanted to share quickly what my mom did to the downstairs bathroom at the beach house.  She painted a blue border at the top of the wall, added some lighthouse Wallies, then used the Life is a Beach Cricut cartridge to cut the top & bottom borders and the birds. 

Cute, huh?

Okay, back to relaxing…more later!

Not scrap related!!

 

 

Sorry for the post totally unrelated to scrapbooking, though I will probably scrapbook this one…at some point!  ;o) 

This is a photo of my youngest two with a shark that was on the beach last night.  It was obviously one that someone caught and ripped the hook out of it because it appeared that it’s ‘innards’ were hanging from it’s mouth.  I would estimate this shark was about 2 feet long?  I know there are sharks out there.  Common sense and all those JAWS movies I’ve watched tell me that there ARE sharks in the ocean.  I know this one is small in comparison to many out there…BUT to actually SEE a shark…any size shark…is a bit freaky!!

Here are a couple of other shots of the shark:

 

 

On a scrapbook/cardmaking note: 

I’ve been doing lots of coloring while I’ve been at the beach, so I promise I will get some cards and/or scrapbook pages posted when I get back and get this mountain of laundry done!  ha!

Thanks for stopping by! 

The Character Cafe - week #2

Sorry I'm late on getting my DT post up. I'm at the beach with no internet and very few 'resources' for getting anything accomplished. SO...this is what I have this week...LOL

Wedding Cake - The Character Cafe
Copics
Skittles

Sorry to be so short...I'm using someone else's computer and internet. ;o)

Hope you have a great week!!

Owl Whimsy

 

A full shot of the card I made.

 

A zoomed in shot of just Annie May.

• Annie May - Owl Whimsy Digital Stamp
• Sentiment - My Sentiments Exactly!
• Bling - Crystal Stickles
• Flower - White Prima colored with B24 Copic
• Card Blank - Textured Canvas from Cardstock Online
• Patterned Paper - Wings and Things paper pack by Tapestry Paper
• Copics - B29, B24, BG10, E50, E00, B32, C-5, C-7, E27, E37, R24 and C-1
• Skittles - colored with 29 and R24 Copic
• Ribbon - was white, colored with B24 Copic

Thanks for looking!!