Watch The Wild Animals Live, From Africa

National Geographic has a wild live cam at a place called Pete's Pond in Botswana Africa. It is a watering hole during the dry season and all of the animals come to drink. It is one of the most fascinating site you will find. It is on 24/7 and also fun to watch the elephants and other animals night or day.

If you check out the site, they have a list of what wild things will appear at some time or another. You can hear them and then see them. They will get into the pond to play and wash or just come down for a drink of water. Warning, you might not be able to stop watching.

You can click on the screen to make in larger in another window. I keep it on for hours and just keep it in the background till I hear something going on, or just check on it once in awhile.

It usually starts in August when the dry season is upon the area and runs through Nov. when the rainy season begins. The Warthogs are interesting to watch as is everything that shows up.

Clicking on the National Geographic site will fill you in on how it all came about and what to look for. Humans actually are there to move and focus the camera. Just because it is night, don't let that stop you from watching as you can still see what is going on. They are 7 hours ahead of our time. Oh yeah, there is a crocodile in the pond that can cause some havoc when it makes an appearance. Enjoy!

http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/wildcamafrica/index.html

E Bay The Baltimore Ravens The Tennessee Titans And Nashville

Every year I meet my son Frank (left of the dial) in Nashville to see the Tennessee Titans play the Baltimore Ravens. When the Ravens are not playing the Titans, we still hook up to see the Titans play whomever. We plan this visit when the Ravens are not playing at home so we can watch The Ravens play on TV so I don't miss their away game.

Frank will get us 4 tickets through his Radio Station so we are all set for the game. This year I needed 2 extra tickets to the game as it will be 6 of us going to the game. The game will be played at LP Stadium in Nashville on Nov 13th. My brother and nephew will fly to Nashville, while my friend Mike and I will drive to meet Frank and his friend. Mike and I usually fly to Nashville, but this year we are driving. We decided to drive and take about a 10 day vacation after the game. We have no plans of where we want to go when we leave Nashville on Monday the day after the game. This is one of those just get in and go vacations. The kind with no schedule or time frame. Our wives told us to have a good time.

This is where E Bay comes in handy. I bid and got 2 more tickets to the game and they are very close to where the other 4 tickets Frank has. Getting them early was a good idea as I got them for face value and the only difference was the postage. That doesn't happen often!

Nashville is one of my favorite cities to visit. We will pickup my brother and nephew at the airport sometime in the early a.m. on Saturday and go to the Downtown Hilton to check our luggage till we can get into our rooms. The Hilton is one of the best hotels and about a 15 minute walk to LP Stadium. Eddie George has one of the best bars in town at the Hilton and we spend a bit of time there as does lots of other Ravens and Titans fans.

One of our first stops is at tootsies the honky tonk bar thats famous for quite a few country and western stars getting their start there. Sometimes they drop in and mix with the crowd. They always have someone singing and playing even at 10 a.m when we get there for our first beer.

Sometime during the weekend we always seem to meet people we know that came to see the game. The Ravens have a good showing anytime we play the Titans and we all wear the purple wherever we go. My son Frank and his friend Mike, yes there will be 2 Franks and 2 Mikes there, are Titan fans. We have some fun with each other during the game teasing about plays or who wins which we usually do. Except for last year when the Ravens played so poorly and lost. This year we will win and it will be fun to win with Steve McNair, Derrick Mason and Samuri Rolle former Titans. Ha Ha!!

It will be a weekend of drinking, eating and good football. The main thing, and this is what it is all about, is being with Frank and having a good time.

Damn, They Can Jump Too Far Sometimes

Recently one of our large Goldfish jumped out of our little pond. My wife found its body out on the grass where it died. We only have one large goldfish left in the pond with a school of freshwater Shiners that are getting larger. The Shiners are the same ones you buy and use for bait to catch Pike and Bass or any other game fish.

The Goldfish that we lost was a tiny little thing when we put him or her in the pond. So, it has been a family member for several years. Larger Goldfish like any Carp like to jump. We have seen this many times, but it never jumped out of the pond. We were saddened to find it dead.

The Shiners were put into the pond by me a couple of years ago. It was only 2 of them and they were small. I thought they would be a good addition as the pond had plenty of room for them. Now there is a school of them. Damn things reproduced! We feed all of our fish Cheerios cereal, not the expensive fish food from the stores. They love the Cheerios and it's good for them.