Paw Paws Place

Geeeeeez I can not believe that is is getting that time again. It just seems like four years ago we did this and now here it is again. After much encouragement from family and friends I have opened my campaign account up and have started putting my campaign together. I have a number of family members and friends that are helping me raise my money. That is the hardest thing for me to do, is to ask people for money. I am hoping for smooth sailing again this time as the older you get the more I wonder if I can still hang in there. I believe that I still have a deep passion for this city and her people. There are a lot of exciting changes on the horizon and I want to be part of it. I hope that my family an friends and especially my grandsons can set back and say, that they are proud of what I left. Well is is getting close to the time that the Florida South Carolina game starts....so I will see you later. Have a Blessed week! “For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not ...

Top pictures demonstrate how things and people change. When this pool table first entered the Marvin's household it was a sacred place to play pool. Nothing would have been on that table but a few pool balls and maybe some $ bills. The second phase was that it was a good place to fold clothes. Now enter the world of Lego's, Dad would not dare move these Lego's for any reason or the world of Luke would come crushing in on him. Now, what happened to the scary people for Halloween? When I was a kid you dressed up as scary as you could. In my case just dressing like everyday worked for me. Luke lives and breathes the world of sports day and night, I guess that is a good thing. That night this is how he went trick or treating.....wow scary..for Fla fans anyway. Big brother Tyler got to stay home and pass out all the candy to the neighborhood kids. In my area the only kid that got candy from our bowl was me. Nary a one showed up at our front door.I am getting ready for another ...

During the week I noticed that some of my stucco was bulging a little. I took a putty knife and started to scrape a little off and continued until I scraped a lot off. I really had no idea what I was getting my self into but I found out quickly. The job was too small to call a stucco man and if he came he would have charged the heck out of me. So I took it upon my self to try and do the job myself. After the scraping I then painted a coat of concrete primer on it to help with the bonding and sealing. Then I began to stucco the next day, I could have done and will do a much better job next time. I really figured it out as I was finishing it up, but what the hay...did not cost me a bundle. As you can see I have now painted it and the new paint better hurry and fade or my neighbors will call code enforcement on me....ha I know you might ask, what the heck is that stuff, well it is another dish of tomato gravy over biscuits. A month or so ago I made tomato gravy using just plain diced to...

This past week end I took a stroll down memory lane. I coached little league football in the 70's and now I get to look at finished products. The head coach that you see is John Cucci, I coached John when he was 9,10 and 11 years old. He then went on to star at Manatee High School and then played at Marion Military Institute in Alabama. I can remember coaching and watching John play and I always hope that coach Kinnan would like what was sent to him. I believe he did, as John did an excellent job for Manatee. I guess he never forgot what was taught to him in little league as he now coaches it. And I might say he is very successful as a coach as he is undefeated. Oh, John is a fashion breaker, check out the new coaching hat! I saw some familiar faces out there, Bob Gagnon who is the principal at Manatee HS. I also saw coach Rod Frazier, he must have been on a recruiting mission for Manatee...ha. Kathleen Cucci who is John's wife was also there. She is the beautiful red head s...

Yea, it was a great week end for Pat and I as the kids were out of school on Friday. As you can see we were able to get the boat in the water and have some fun. The weather man had said that the seas would be flat and very little wind blowing, yea right! You would think that by now I would know better than to believe those jokers. They have all these fancy machines that are perfect, right? For all the old Bradenton folks who remember Charlie Stump we know better. He could look out the window and predict the weather better than that. When we got out in the bay it was blowing 15 mph with small with caps. I put two anchors out so I could catch bait and they did not hold. So no Shiner’s were caught at all, that was ok because I would be unable to go where we normally go because of the weather. We ended up at Rattlesnake and the kids fished for BIG Pinfish. Tyler also caught a fair size Trout on a Mirror Lure. I think we caught about 17 really big Pinfish and the kids had fun. We saw a 5 ...

My Mom, My Dad Family, Brother Bob & Me I have decided to scan and put some old family pictures on a CD, they will be in a Jpeg format. I have started with my side, mom, pop, grandparents and great grandparents and cousins. I hope that Pat will get me some of here family as I think our kids would enjoy them later in life. I also want to do some of our life with our kids. I am sharing a few on this Blog I hope they don't bore you too much. "Wild Bill" and his beautiful Wife Laura! It has been a sad week for me personally as I lost a classmate. Bill Aldredge passed away this week after a long battle with lung cancer. I am glad he came to our last class reunion so we could all see him and talk with him. He is a Born again Christian and had a great out look on going home to Heaven. See ya "Wild Bill" we will all meet again someday and have another reunion. Another friend of mine Terry Christie is in the hospital in Dalton Georgia and having a rough time. He is...

This was the preparation for the big Florida, Alabama football game. This was Luke's first time at the swamp and he enjoyed the victory. This is where we tail gate each Saturday and Luke and Darenda were welcome by all our Gator fans. We ate pulled pork, Ribs,beans, Mac & Cheese and desert. As you can see Luke found some Bama fans and played catch football before the game. As you can see there was a lot of joy for the Bama fans as they really manhandled the out matched Gators 38-10. There was a little joy for Gator fans but it only lasted for the first quarter. Then the lights went out and it was all over, out played, out coached you name it. By the picture below I can tell you that there was not enough of tackling this guy. We got back to the hotel at about 1 AM, the photo below is about 9 AM Sunday morning. Worth a 1000 words, this is what a happy Bama fan looks like!!!! I wish all of you a very Special Blessing and be a Blessing to some one else. And Terry, to you I say ...