TOLERATION

Unique Bird Call

He came across this purely by accident. Sounds like a bird so,

on it went......

No birds arrived. 

Obituary

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend -
Common Sense

When door is closed, is light on or off?

Just another cute day in my life. 

Yummy Yogurt

Breakdancing Ballet- Planet B-boy

The soundtrack was changed. It works so well.
Well done Nutcheese!

Snow Day 3 - Nov. 21,2008

This can get down right boring.

Snow Day 2 - Nov. 20, 2008

Snow Day Nov 19 2008

Having a Bad Day!

You think you have it rough. This little guy is having a BAD DAY.

My days babysitting can get loud. Hopefully this phase will pass soon.

Help Us!

Punkin

Things that tell - FALL is HERE!

Plays piano with 4 fingers

Vegetable Garden A Look Back 2008

Another perfect Gardener! (next to my Father)

Temptation

Dishwasher repair

Going to the groomer (fear urination)

Wonderful story about a friend of ours

By Julianne Kuykendall Goldthwaite

Special to The Mountaineer

Nancy Stevens, 64, skydives after breast cancer diagnosis

Photo courtesy of Carolina Skydiving video: Nancy Stevens, a 64-year-old Waynesville resident, went skydiving, an item on her life’s “to do” list, three days before having breast cancer surgery on July 29. The skydiving adventure was a gift from her son, Bobby. 

After 64-year-old Waynesville resident Nancy Stevens was diagnosed with breast cancer in July and was schedule for an immediate mastectomy on July 29, her son, Bobby Stevens, decided to do something extraordinary for his mother – something that had always been on her life’s “to do” list. 

He would take her skydiving – only she had no idea of his plans. 

“I called up my mother’s friend, Jenny Amatulli, who looked online and found that Carolina Skydiving, just above Hickory, was the closest place to go skydiving so, after a swipe of my Visa, it was done,” said Bobby, who only told his mother that he had something planned and to clear her calendar for the day of Sat. July 25, a mere three days before her surgery. When she anxiously pressed him for details, all he told her was that it was outside Asheville and to bring everything to wear – something casual and even her high heels and jewelry – not offering any clues to ruin the surprise. 

“When we got 20 miles outside of Asheville,” began Nancy, “I finally looked at his GPS and saw it was 108 miles to the destination so I asked my son, ‘Are you taking me to the funny farm?’ Then, he finally pulled off the road and got the brochure out of his glove compartment. When I saw we were going skydiving, I was so thrilled and I started crying like a baby!” 

Nancy had always wanted to go skydiving but things continually came up in life like a car would break down or her kids would need clothes and it never happened. “When the opportunity came, I was positively flabbergasted and I couldn’t believe my son remembered,” she said. 

When they arrived at Carolina Skydiving, Nancy was surrounded by four 20-something-year-olds looking for adventure. “While I waited, the first girl landed and looked like she had seen the Holy Ghost, the second guy couldn’t walk straight, the third guy was vomiting and the fourth guy didn’t even get on the plane,” recalled Nancy. “After all that, Billy Ray, the instructor, said to me, ‘It’s your turn, Nancy – come over here and I’m going to hook you into the jumpsuit.’” 

The videographer asked Nancy, “Are you ready?” She responded, “I’m ready as I’ll ever be” and hopped into the plane with Billy Ray. Once the plane was airborne, her son overheard the 20-somethings ask each other, “I wonder if that old lady is really going to jump?” “I just kept my mouth shut but I knew my mother and I knew she would jump,” said Bobby. 

At 10,000 feet in the air after Billy Ray hooked Nancy onto him, he told her that, when the plane door opened, she would feel a sudden rush of air and that when he tapped her on the shoulder, that would be her cue to jump. “Billy Ray and I were sandwiched together and I mean everywhere,” said Nancy. “I hadn’t been that close to a man since my husband died four years ago and I was just glad that he couldn’t see the blood rush to my face!” 

When Billy Ray tapped her shoulder, she jumped, without hesitation, from 10,000 feet in the air. “When I jumped, it was such a feeling of absolute ecstasy and euphoria and I felt the Lord inside me,” said Nancy, recalling free falling for 50 seconds before the parachute deployed, then spending another six minutes gliding to the earth below. 

During the trip down, the owner of the company videoed the whole adventure with a video camera strapped to his head while gliding down with his own parachute. 

“When we were gliding down, Billy Ray let me control the parachute reigns and I did all kinds of tumbles and I was thinking that it was like dying and going to heaven and what a wonderful journey that is going to be,” said Nancy, adding that Billy Ray was an extremely competent instructor who made her feel safe and the whole adventure enjoyable.  

Upon the gentle landing, Nancy couldn’t wipe the broad smile off her face while the young crowd cheered and her son just stood back and said, “That’s my mother!” “I felt like I was king of the world for making my mother so happy,” said Bobby.  

When Nancy saw Dr. Nathan Williams of HOPE: A Women’s Cancer Center in Asheville on surgery day, she told him she wouldn’t need anesthesia because she was on such a high. “He asked me, ‘What did you take?’ and when I told him I went skydiving, he laughed and said, ‘Nancy, I can’t believe it!’” she said.  

Overall, Nancy described her skydiving jump as an exhilarating adventure that gave her a more competent feeling to face her breast cancer. “It gave me such a confirmation that the Lord is right there with me and that’s why I don’t have any fear because I know that whatever happens will happen,” said Nancy. 

To contact Carolina Skydiving, call 336-526-JUMP (5867).

“It’s an extraordinary experience that I believe everyone should have at least once in their lifetime,” she added.  

Thanksgiving 2008 (Canada)

We thank family again for a great day. Perfect weather, wonderful meal, great fun. Love you.

Pussy versus Printer

Daddy's Little Girl

Post-It Note Experiment

Another Good One from GodTube

I feel this will effect us in Canada too.

LOOK! I can climb.

Every day is an adventure.

Who Moved?

Gossip

Lazy day with puppies

Full of Gas

Just a great YouTube family video.

Childbirth Song

More of Helen Austin.

No Plans

This is a beautiful song. Check out her channel on YouTube.
Double click takes to YouTube. Click on channel name takes you to her site.

Building Trike Mast

Our Labour Day

Paramotor to Trike conversion (planning stage)

The things Kirk gets into.... to be continued.

AiFM - 1.Complaining

AiFM - 2.Priorities

Dried tomatoes

When Cats Pray

THE SECRET

TORONTO 888 (and meeting Paul Telner)

This is the best video of 888 But then, I'm in it!

No fun traveling alone!

Should old people be on the Internet ?

A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes

Summer Fun with Friends

Baby Smart Car

My first video created on my new computer.

The Zimmers - Old and Wise

This is beautiful. This is another person I subscribe to on YouTube. (geriatric1927)

Little Sunshine of My Life

Happy Birthday (Canada & Brother)

888 Toronto Meetup

Some of my friends on YouTube.

CANADA ROCKS!!! (with Gus)

This family "ROCKS"

(double click to enlarge)

Strawberry Fields

Check out more from MuggleSam - double click video to go to YouTube.

Baby's Morning

The Baby's big surprise was; someone moved the riding mower!

Bad news for baby and good news for most of the adults in his life.

One less hazard to watch out for.

Penny transformed

Day 3 - Kirk and Penny are Buddies now!

Here's my Butt!

First Day with our new addition to the family.

Catching the Wind~

Double click to take you to YouTube for location info.

Watching TV with Kirk

Childbirth Song

Severe Thunderstorm June 8th, 2007 Windsor Ont.

This storm was last year the next video is the storm from this year.

Canwarn Windsor Ontario June 6, 2008

BABY! what are ya doin' (1 1/2 year old)

Babysitting is a test some days.

Natasha's Bridal Shower

Beautiful day, many wonderful people, lots of food. It was a excellent shower!
(double click on image to enlarge)

I Want

$10,000. Stake

Thank you Boomerchick55

Stone Picker

Gone Fishin'

We did release the fish in the basket.

Geriatric Thoughts 12

This explains why we youtube.

It's hard to take a step down

Getting Ready to Plant!

Kirk's first time to use the camera. He did well.

My new camera-man. WhooHoo.

USS Montana

You may have seen this story in emails. It's just too funny.

Had save it on Blog.

Making Home Parking-lot

Mother's Day for Unpleasable parents

For My Mom.

This is one of the best videos made for Mothers Day. YouTube channel- mythreeguys

Good to be a Bachelor

Just funny and true.

Breakfast of Champions

Appox. 3 minutes - Baby's breakfast. Oh, I think he is so cute.

Partners and Revenue sharing

Another YouTuber I subscribe to, who accepted the partnership deal with YouTube. Some day this could be me.

Strange Song

This is an example of some of the work I watch on YouTube. Some day I hope to get these effects. (wouldn't try to sing though)

Deere John executes Dande

Thank You to Residents and Staff

I really enjoy my time with the residents and the staff is very helpful and friendly. Thanks to all.

Cutting this short

It can warm up any time now.

Nap Time

Rufus is a Scream! - Episode 12

Petey made it on the AskRufus show! He's a star!!!!

Staying in bed until I get lonely!

EXPELLED

Click on picture to see trailer.

Baby decision on garden tool

We Stutter

This is for the baby's Mom, toys and boy

Direct from Fox News

Click on Bill O'Reilly picture to take you to Fox News

O'Reilly and HotForWords

One of our favorite programs is; The O'Reilly Factor. You could say we watch him religiously evening and morning (rerun). I also watch and subscribe to HotForWords.com and her YouTube channel. So, I was excited when I heard Marina was going to be interviewed by Bill O'Reilly.

I just had to film it. (difficult to get quality picture when filming from TV)

meetup video! 888 Toronto

Re: meetup video! 888 Toronto

the internet

Golden retriever Puppy falliing asleep 5 weeks

This is so cute.

001 - pets and friends' pets

I started another YouTube account. JustPetPics
It's just to share pictures of pets. Experimental at this stage.

Ask Rufus 10 (Where in the World is Rufus?)

Peaty made the list on "Ask Rufus" show. (Peaty is at the very end) 3:13

I love babysitting

This little man is talented. I think he knows it too. We have good time together.

As you can see, he is not camera shy. Maybe, a movie star in the making.

Just having fun. Thanks for watching.

I'm A Parent-ly Stupid...

April Fool weather

need more fire wood

Trip to Lake Huron

Machinist/Welder - Show and Tell

The high point of our Anniversary. I love this Man!

In Observance of Good Friday- I Remember You

Good Friday

Easter with Family 2008

The best part about Holidays - Family

CUTE! Little Boy and His Dog

Just another great video from YouTube. Some day I want to make one like this.

Otters holding hands

This is so cute. At the Vancouver Aquarium.

My G4 TV Appearance

Hot For Words - is another YouTube channel. She is a teacher who, definitely has a way of keeping her students attention.

Great Baby-Sitting Day!

Little buddy and me always have great days. Today, was just better than others.

(approx. 3 min video)

Fixer-Upper Jaguar

Hide your own Easter eggs!

My (our) YouTube Channel

For some unknown reason, I'm unable to post my YouTube videos over to this blog.
(working on correcting this, I think)

Anyway, for some of you, if you wish to venture into the community of YouTube - my channel is AnneMarie96 which is just called - kierstead at home.

http://www.youtube.com/user/AnneMarie96

All my videos are there, and should you join and subscribe to it...it would help me achieve my goal of applying for a partnership. Also, once you join and each time you sign on, it will show all recent videos posted by the channels you subscribe to. It is something like subscribing to TV channels. If you like them or they interest you - you keep the subscription. If not, you delete it.

Contrary to what you may believe it's only as scary as you let it be. Sure, I subscribe to channels that I may not recommend mainly because you don't know the history and at first glace, you will think it is BAD! I go through this with Kirk many times. But, once he knows the story behind the person, the video isn't as bad as he thinks. - In short, that's just the way life is. (knowing the history and/or both sides of a situation before judging)

So, should you be interested - click on either link above (I think it's in purple/blue or just underlined) it will take you to my channel. You have to JOIN to be able to rate and comment. (that is when channels get noticed = $)

Thanks for reading this.

Right now videos are very random - We, Kirk and I, discuss a theme, welding, pets, fishing or just leave it random. Open for comments.

Tired of Snow

Ice fishing continued....

It is cold, windy and close to home. Thank goodness. We are on a neighbours pond. They caught 4 fish. Kirk got all the fish because no one else wanted to clean them. Fish dinner tonight.

Ice fishing must be a very popular topic, as the video I posted already has 38 views in under 18 hours. Now if I could get subscribers, I could make money at this. Ya, right.

(double click on photos to enlarge)

Ice fishing March 2 2008

I'm On a Role Model!!

Country Sushi - Best try

Wired for sound, almost 6 minutes of not knowing what to do with myself. I dislike winter. It started out as 10 min. With edits and speeding up video managed to cut it to 5:55 minutes.

Star Wars according to a 3 year old.

This is so cute. It is a YouTube feature this week. Good pick. Over 2,000,000 views. Got to love it.

The Amazing Skidboot (Dog)

Kirk loves this video (8:36 min) So this is the best way for us to save it. If you have the time, watch the love between man and dog. (This is how Kirk felt about Shadow)

Youtube.com Theme Song by Irving Fields

92 year old Irving writes song for YouTube. Some think YouTube is only for younger generation. Wrong! (video is 5:26 min)

Domona Lisa

This is another YouTube channel I subcribe to. Interested is seeing more...double click on video-- takes you to YouTube and double click on name FlippyCat takes you to channel-- all their videos. Love the cat!

Book Store Customer Training

God Tube.com - Logan, The Sky Angel Cowboy

This is really good. Every time I listen to it I get goose bumps. I can't even remember if I posted this once before. It doesn't matter. It is something worth listening to again and again.

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=d5d4ee2c067a456e7c0f

Get up & Go, Got up & Left

This is what happens after shovelling snow for an hour or more. (video is 27 seconds)

www.westfallhorsemanship.com

This is worth watching. Amazing/beautiful connection between human and animal.

(approx 6 min) Go to website for more info.

Married to YouTube

This video kind of explains the relationship to YouTube. I understand it. I should have my YouTubes tied.

Rant on Snow

Yes, I know we have it better here than most places. Still, I rant. And,when there is nothing better to do, make a video.

Another Snow Day!

Ice Fishing - First

It is the first time in his life - Kirk, ice-fishing, Feb. 3 2008.

He had a great time and more fishing trips are planned.

Pelican Briefs Or Boxers?

I don't understand the Title but he is just too funny not to share.

Is it a NEED or a WANT???

I know the answer........I want this so bad, I can't stand it. Do I really need it? Probably not.

I've been going through this debating thought process for the last 24 hours now. Should I or shouldn't I buy it. It would make the movies and picture presentations so much better, easier and faster. I like the faster. With the system I have now, it takes approximately 3 to 4 hours to produce a 3 minute movie. I dare not go over 4 minutes.

However, this MacBook Pro starts at $2100 and with the features (I need/want) it will total around $3200. yhoo whoo! I tell myself, "lets be reasonable here. It is, just another toy. You have a computer."

Then the child in me wants to say, "well Kirk got all his toys when he wanted them. He has two boats now, extra boat motors, fishfinder, GPS and many rod and reels." Gee, whats up with that?

We think we have come up with a solution. When Kirk sells one of his boat motors ($4500.) I get to have a Mac attack.

Patience is a virtue.

I Parent Better with Gin

This guy is the best!!! I subscribe him too. He is always funny.

snow mobile : 101

This guy is funny (sometimes) or an idiot. Either way, I like him and subscribe to his channel. Just had to share this one.

Don't watch this!

I told you not to watch this.

Need power windows for your truck?

This is so funny. We almost want to try it.

I Miss Bill

Won't it be fun if he becomes "First Gentlemen???" Enjoy.
I Miss Bill Clinton
It doesn't matter what party you belong to - this is hilarious. From a show on Canadian TV, there was a black comedian who said he misses Bill Clinton. "Yep, that's right - I miss Bill Clinton! He was the closest thing we ever got to having a black man as President. Number 1 - He played the sax. Number 2 - He smoked weed. Number 3 - He had his way with ugly white women. Even now? Look at him... his wife works, and he doesn't! And, he gets a check from the government every month. Manufacturers announced today that they will be stocking America 's shelves this week with " Clinton Soup," in honor of one of the nations'most distinguished men. It consists primarily of a weenie in hot water. Chrysler Corporation is adding a new car to its line to honor Bill Clinton. The Dodge Drafter will be built in Canada . When asked what he thought about foreign affairs, Clinton replied, "I don't know, I never had one." The Clinton revised judicial oath: "I solemnly swear to tell the truth as I know it, the whole truth as I believe it to be, and nothing but what I think you need to know." Clinton will be recorded in history as the only President to do Hanky Panky between Bushes." ... ya gotta love it

Hilarious New Hampshire Debate Footage

I think we need CHANGE. There is another video out there I'm still searching for it. I saw it on TV this morning and when I find it I will post it too.

Quick Change Artists on America's Got Talent

Your shirt is in the mail!

WOW, are you serious!

Toronto - I lived there once

For my friends in the south.... Yes, Toronto gets snow. But it doesn't last long. They have an army of people and equipment for snow-removal. I'm surprised the snow gets to hit the ground.

Forget Rednecks, Jeff Foxworthy about Canucks

(Forget Rednecks, here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about Canucks )

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May,you may live in Canada .
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you may live in Canada .
If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in Canada
If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Canada
If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of Muncie for the weekend, you may live in Canada . If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Canada If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Canada
If you have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again, you may live in Canada
If you can drive 90 kms/hr through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you may live in Canada
If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Canada
If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Canada If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you may live in Canada
If the speed limit on the highway is 80km -- you're going 90 and everybody is passing you, you may live in Canada
If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you may live in Canada
If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you may live in Canada
If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you may live in Canada .
If you find 2 degrees "a little chilly", you may live in Canada
If you actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all your Canadian friends & others, you definitely live in Canada

Alcohol

This is funny and true. Jim Breuer talking.

Apple of my eye

Petey is getting a lot of attention

Adaptability

This brings back memories. When I was 25, I did the same thing. I called it "having a routine".

2008 Resolution

Happy New Year to All and May God Bless Us All

I WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR

This is someone who I subscribe to. Not everyone is young and crazy on YouTube.