I AM STILL HURTING & IT'S NOT LOOKING LIKE A GOOD BEACH DAY

My ear continues to give me problems this morning, it's causing quite a bit of discomfort which does feel a little better after I take some Advil but that only last for a few hours. Besides my ear hurting my left bottom wisdom tooth is also hurting which isn't making me a happy camper, I think the two could be related. I didn't make to the beach yesterday but allot of the others did bu there trip was cut short by some thunderstorms, speaking of thunderstorms it looks like they could hamper beach plans again today. I understand that fireworks in CH we postponed until last night because of bad weather and weather threatened last nights show as well. I have posted a link below to some photos that have been taken this week & some taken a few weeks ago. Kyle Busch won last nights Sprint Cup race at Daytona holding off Carl Edwards for the win, it looked like JR had the car to beat for a while but faded towards the finish. Also the people here on the OBX have there eye on the tropics as Tropical Storm Bertha continues to track towards the U.S., hopefully it will turn north and go out to sea. MICKEY

BEACH PHOTOS
http://public.fotki.com/bp2/family_photos/2008-family-at-the-beach/

I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders. -George P. Burnham

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SOMETHING TO PONDER
If the cops arrest a mime do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?

DID YOU KNOW
That jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years. This is before sharks and dinosaurs.

Celebrate freedom
Freedom is the great enabler of opportunity. When you are free to act in accordance with your most treasured values and interests, anything you can imagine is possible.

Essential to freedom is responsibility. It is by accepting and exercising full responsibility over every aspect of your life that you become truly free to live and fulfill your own unique vision.

Freedom carries with it great power. Responsibility keeps that power focused in a positive and productive direction.

Freedom, lovingly tempered with responsibility, has produced many great and wonderful things. Even more wonderful is the fact that freedom's best rewards are yet to come.

For in freedom there is endless promise. With freedom, the possibilities for goodness and fulfillment are always growing more abundant.

Celebrate freedom and, more importantly, creatively put it to good use in your own special way. With your life, uncover and bring to life some of freedom's treasures that have never been seen before.
-- Ralph Marston

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