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Fire !!!

acprater — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:23:52 GMT

The next morning(after my sisters b-day party) I went back to pick up Jacob, who spent the night with Grandma & Grandpa (ma & pa). I meet up with my parents, cousin's, & Jacob at Big Boy for breakfast. On the way home from big boy I saw smoke coming out of some factory so we pulled over to check it out....

We were the 2nd car to see the smoke, we got out of the car to get some pics and a better look...(note i am hiding behind the tree to avoid any explosions, in case they have propane!!)
pre-fire department and police arrival:

After Fire Department arrival:

Sisters B-Day

acprater — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:01:24 GMT

Went to my sisters b-day party on Saturday at my parents Lake House. Juliea's actual b-day is on Jul 11th.

From left: Ronni, Jani, James, Juliea, Ma)............(Tracy, Ma, Abby)

(Juliea)........................................................(Roni)

(Me, Allison)...................................................(Jacob)

(Juliea)........................................................(Dad, Bryan)

Wall

acprater — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:40:41 GMT

I built a rock wall blocking the old pathway to my front door over this last 4th o' July weekend.

Front o' house View:

Garage View:

break'n

acprater — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:14:15 GMT

I went downtown to Stringz's "Kingz & Queens" practice spot last night. It went pretty well, after the first hour I was completely soaked in sweat. Overall I am happy with my enduarance, it should hopefully be better by next week as well. The floor there is concrete, which sucks for doing 90's, backspins, starz -- too much friction! But I think it is good to practice on a variety of surfaces. So I'll keep practicing 2.5 hours 4 days a week, and go to the Hardcore practice spot on Monday's and see what happens... Also found out that U-turn and his wife J-bay are kinda out of the scene, must be getting to old, I think he is like 35 or something.

Stringz: