The Edge Of The World

We got to New Orleans OK and avoided some of the rains. Saw some very colorfull people and places. The food is incredebly addictive,
Drove west of Houston and stayed at a state park of old pecan trees and it was littered with deer.
We drove south west of San Antonio to a Mexican American border town called Del Rio and we are at a state park about 1500 ft.
The views east are flat and expansive and the views west are of the Big Bend mountains.
The sunset was very cool.

Keeping my feet on the ground
Tim

I'll try and keep up

Leaving Thursday 17th and be home around 6th of new year.
Happy Holidays to all.
We will try to update something.


I feel my blood pressure dropping already.
Tim

Let's make er fit.

Just a little water mold. It makes me cough.



Let her hang off the rotted drywall stand. No biggie.



Let's shove this rubber wedge in here. Man that's custom stuff.

Won't you try a little bit harder,
Couldn't you try a little bit more......

Tim

My heart and ears are in New York

Gave a listen to this afternoon.
WOW.
Hope you have a good night tonight Maurice.

Shakin my bones,
Tim

Most people love the FREE calanders

Here is the 2009 calender crew for Rocky Point.
10 young men, 1680 calenders, 9 pizzas, 3 cases of soda and Gatorade, and 5 hours.
Another year of calenders.
This year we had 6 or 7 people curse and yell at us.
I don't understand that.
Thank You Boys you did a great job.

Cats and dogs meeting at the animal door.
Mr Charlie we all know, and Blackie the cat.

Here are a few fuzzy and poor looking pictures of our garden.
The veggies are MUCH better than the pictures,

This year Ana grew Multi kinds of tomatoes,and lettuce.
Radishes, carrots, green beans, very very hot jalapenos, many kinds of peppers, onions, and broccoli.
All came out very well.

May the cool winds of change blow against your sails,
Till next time
Tim

Oh So Cold

72 for the high.
45 for the low.
Now that's Florida cold!
Open them windows and let it blow.
Hope you didn't eat too much yesterday, and saved a few leftovers for today.

Enjoy the ride,
Tim

Need I say More?

I guess I'll be busy for a few days in February.
Miami outdoors Fri..5th
Orlando HRL Sat 6th.


Tim

One month and counting.

We are going on a nice 23 day vacation.
Here is one of the "campgrounds" we are interested in.
The Rio Grande is in the background.
This site is about 45 miles from any town.

There is a whole bunch of different animals in the southwest desert.
This is a Javelina.
They look like they need a good scratching.
There is also alot of coyote and about 30 kinds of lizards and geckos.

This is Chisos Mountain.
The average elevation is around 2500 feet with some mountains and peaks as high as 5500 feet.
The day time highs are around 60 to 70, not too bad at all for the dead of winter, but because it is the desert and at such high altitudes the lows are 10 to 20 at night.
That's a little cold for this Florida boy, but we have a big heater.

The sunsets are big and long. They are even longer than a Florida sunset if you can believe that.
My family has not been west of the Mississippi. They are in for a real treat.
We are going to go all the way to Arizona, but I have my heart set for Texas.

Grateful A/C will be open for full business. We will have three qualified techs on hand.
Any problems?
No problem.

Getting antsy pantsy
Tim

Complaints?

A friend of mine called and said I don't write enough on my blogs.

Enjoy
Tim

Veggies

There is nothing better than eating veggies that you grew yourself.
Nothing.
Tim

Where Have I Been?

Believe your eyes or not, but I think I see a skateboarding peanut.

Where have we been? We have been all over and back.
Football season is coming to an end now. Our season went 4 and 4 we just missed the playoffs but most of the kids and coaches were satisfied with the results.
We are going to play a bowl game on November 14th in Royal Palm Beach.



Looks like the lone peanut skating off into the sunset.

Planning our yearly trip. We want to go to west Texas and east New Mexico.
Carlsbad Caverns, Guataloupe Mountains, White Sands, and BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK.
Why did I capatalize Big Bend?
That place is the bomb. It has everything we want and are looking for. If any of you have time, check out the web on this place.


Air Conditioning 101:
Plunum is the air box that comes off the end of an air handler or furnace.
The plunum should be 3 to 4 feet long.
As you can see someone missed that memo.

Work has been solid and steady, Hot October and starting as just as hot of a November.
Remember the $1500. Tax Credit is still in effect and the best time of the year to take advantage of it.

Till next week, or next time,
Tim

Insert Generic Title Here

Remember when you were young, you shone like a sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there is a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught up in the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reach for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.


MAY YOU REST IN PEACE

TIM

It's been a long time

It has been some time from my last report.
Things have been very very busy.
So here goes.
I have had a few comments from people that they noticed me at the tattoo studio a few times in the last two weeks.
Mike colored an octopus on my shoulder and that came out real cool.
More importantly is my nephew Joseph, who is almost 19, now wanted to get his first tattoo. Who else to call than Uncle Tim, I set him up with Mike and he got a real cool piece. Kinda big and in a very tender spot for your first one.
No one ever accused a Hessing for not having balls.
He will get the Queen card and color in about 2 weeks.



Here is one of the main reasons I have been a little tight on time.
POP WARNER FOOTBALL
I love it, our first game was Saturday and Jr. Midget got a win!!
This is Teds first win in 35 months!!
It is a great group, It keeps the kids and some of us coaches off of the streets, and some days that is a good thing.
I will keep you up to date during the year on our progress.


Last but no least is school and band.
Sam started high school this year and he has to wake up at 5:30 and be out the door by 6 am. That is way early.
I do have to say Sam has done a very fine job of doing all this in a very timely and quiet manner.
Sam is also in the marching band at Southfork.
After school practice.
Friday night games.
He IS a busy dude.
I will try, and try is a very key word, to keep up on our lives a little more and often.
By the way this is Grateful A/C blog so I should mention that work is cool and even with all this stuff on our plate, we still tend to ALL our customers needs.

Till next time,
Tim

Shirts are days away from being here.
Dog days of summer are here and here to stay.
Talking to Dude man at the store yesterday and he said summer is over and its been cooling down and starting to feel like fall.?.
Not sure what part of Stuart he lives.
Football is in full swing the kids are conditioned and starting to bang pads.
I love this time of year.
All teams are undefeated.
Stay cool and lay low.
Tim

Why?

Because my son dared me to.

When I was 18 it was blond.
Now it is slightly gray.
2009 Pop Warner football season is officially started today.
Lets Go Bulldogs.
Tim

Saint Augustine

Ted is always ready to ham it up for the cameras. Here is our site at Anastasia State Park. We have stayed here a few times in the last 10 years or so. Always a blast with this weekend not being any different. The trees over by the beach are dwarf like banzi like wind swept. They are very cool, and the kids always like to climb them. We also rode bicycles on the beach trying to chase down the seagulls. No luck.
This is a very nice 3900 person venue. It is a 10 min. walk from our campsite and is a new place. Hopefully we can see a show here again.
Sam say's he did not like the show, but he was checking out alot of people and situations. He also had a real good time with a box of snap-n-pops.
Ted said he wants to go on tour for a couple of years.
July 19, 2009
St. Augustine Ampatheater
Jam>
Playing In The Band>
Cold Rain And Snow
Silvio>Tequila>Silvio>
Althea
Lost Sailor>
Saint Of Circumstance
A Hard Rains A Gonna Fall
Looks Like Rain
Mississippi Half Step>
STUFF>
Dear Prudence>
Throwing Stones>
Johnny B. Goode

4 Tickets........................$180.00
2 Nights camping w/everything....$250.00
Jamming with my whole family.....Priceless

Tim

48 to go

Say hi to Lester.
Has anyone noticed the new search for blogs.
It sucks.
48 hours to see Bobby.
Most of the family his pummped.
Ratdog has been throwing out some very solid shows.
Will return with photos and sunburns.
Till then
Tim

Super Summer Sizzler.

The kids were playing "throw the plastic bags into the return air game"


I spotted some water stains on my ceiling about a year and a half ago. They seem to be getting worse in the last 3 or 4 months. Then I thought I would call you on this Sunday night to look at this emergency water problem.

I looked at my air handler in the front lawn and I think we could have painted up or taped up those little rust holes. I think you replaced the unit a little prematurely. It was only 28 years old.


July 19th (next Sunday) our family, including both kids, are going to see Bob Wier and Ratdog in St. Augustine.
Looking forward to 3 days off of work and camping on the beach.
First time the whole family will be in the pit of big show. Great seats.
Ted is very excited.
Sam is you know Sam. He would rather have his liver cut out.
Hope they play some songs my kids will know. (After all these years I do believe they know them all.)
I'm hopping for a The Music Never Stopped.
We WILL have photos.


The mosquitoes on the river.
Fish are rising up like birds.
It's been HOT FOR SEVEN WEEKS NOW,
Too hot to even speak now.
Did you hear what I just heard?

There's a band out on the highway,
They're high-steppin' into town.
They're a rainbow full of sound.
It's fireworks, calliopes and clowns...

Keep on dancin' through to daylight.
Greet the morning air with song.
No one's noticed,
But the bands all packed and gone.
Was it ever here at all?

Everybody's dancing.
Come on children, Come on children.
Come and clap your hands.

Drink lots of fluids,
Stay in the shade,
Stay cool
It's been a record breaker.
Tim

More Summer Fun

Like Son like Father.
The mannerisms, noises, and attitude you know he is MY boy.
My Mom and Dad always said" We hope you get a son that was just like you"
He Is.
I'm so proud of him.


I keep hearing the voice of my Mother-in law and wife in the background.
What was he thinking?
Why?
It's just a phase.
What's that smell?
That came from HIS side of the family.
Will that wash off?
I'll pay for the theropist.
What did he just eat?
ETC ETC ETC
Get the point?
Stay cool
Tim

Teenage summer jobs.

My boys got a couple of summer jobs.
I remember my summer jobs, some of the most interesting and fun jobs went down in the summer.
I was serious enough to go every day but yet loose enough to not care.
Above is a picture of a new tattoo shop opening up just outside of Rocky Point.
The name of the shop is Tiger Shark Tatoos. A catchy name for Port Salerno.
The owners name is Mike Ridge AKA Fish.
If anyone wants bright colors and fine lines he is defenatly the man to see.

My oldest son Sam is 14 and hooked up with Mike for an apprentship.
For a 14 year old this does sound like a totally cool job, and in a few years he can be tatooing someone or something, not a bad trade to know when rolling off to college.

www.ohanasurfshop.com

Ted my youngest son at 11 is a junor counsoler with Ohana Surf Shop.
Ohana is a very cool and layed back shop.
The owners are Jordon and Tara Schwartz and both are overflowing with possotive vibes and good Karma.
Ted helps the kids 5 days a week from 9-1 at surf camp.
He helps with the wave take off, skim boarding, hummping stuff up and down the beach and bunch of other stuff.
Cool stuff.
Fun stuff.
He is a very happy camper.


......We'd blister in the sun,
we couldn't wait for night to come.
To hit that sand and play some rock-n-roll......

Summer time jobs, what fond memrories.
Tim

Time is NOT on my side.

Ted says goodby to elementery school and hello to middle school.
It only seems like a year ago it was his first day on the bus.
Sam is moving on to high school.
My back is killing me, my hair is grayer by the minute.
I looked in the mirror and I didn't see a kid anymore.
WTF
Tim

Les Claypool

Saturday May 30
Pompano Beach Amphitheater

Up On The Roof
Rumble Of The Diesel
Amanitas *
Fisticuff
Red Star Girl *
Precipitation
Hendershot
Drums/Whamola
Booneville Stomp *
Southbound Pachyderm
D's Diner

Fast, Deep and Loud.
Way too short 85 mins.

This new CD rocks.

Tim

Tough Times?

If anything ever happens to me (God forbid), I have given permission to my family, that they can survive by eating me, if necessary.

Still gettin by
Tim

Happy Mothers Day

Here is a picture of Stella May Joyce Raye.
Isn't she adorable? She will be a heart breaker soon enough.
She belongs to friends of ours.
Today is Mothers Day, I hope all the mothers out there had a good day.
My Mom died a few years ago and I miss her so.

Sam, Ted and I did nice things for Ana today.
First off we gave her Killians chocolate.
Soon after she received 3 new orchids and a handmade card promising we would be on our best behavior.
Finally for dinner we had crab stuffed shrimp, blackened Maui Maui (Dolphin), 2 Main lobster, and a huge fresh salad.
A feast to say the least.
Ted was very,very intrigued with the lobsters all afternoon, I think he even had a race with them on the kitchen counter.
A good day by all.

Tim

Workingman

KEEP YOUR DAY JOB

Maybe you collect or maybe you pay,
Still got to work that eight hour day.
Whether you like that job or not,
Keep it on ice while you're lining up your long shot,
Which is to say hey-ey-ey-ey.

Keep your day job, don't give it away,
Keep your day job, whatever they say.

Ring that bell for whatever it's worth,
WHEN MONDAY COMES DON'T FORGET ABOUT WORK.
By now you know that the face on your dollar,
Got a thumb on it's nose and a hand on your collar,
Which is to say hey-ey-ey-ey.


I fight poverty,
I work.
Tim

I Like It.

Stella Mae Joyce Raye.
Now that's a beautiful name.
Good luck and God bless.
Tim

I Quit

I did not want to mention it until it was final.
I woke up on February 22 and went to my usual pack of smokes on the porch and I said no.
I had no planning, no plotting, it just happened.
I started to smoke when I was 13 to be cool, you know the chicks will love it.
I was smoking a pack a day by 15.
I was up to 2 solid packs a day.
Lets figure this out, my rough calculations says I smoked 300,000 plus ciggerteets.
WOW.
I still have a few slight urges here and there, but they only last a short time.
Here is to a smokeless attmasphere (at least around me)
Tim

Burnt to a crisp.

Crabbing was poor.
Fishing was non-existiant.
Surf was too small to even ride.
Rain one full day.
Cold as can be for two days.
Windy as a dog all days.
No fires alowed.
But we all still had a blast, and would not trade any of it.
God Bless Dom.
We all love Shamu.
Let the good times roll.
Tim