A T-Rex attacked my boys!!

SHARKS IN DANGER

In honor of Shark Week I want to share something of interest. To learn more click on the links here:

www.discovery.blogs.com/shark_conservation/

http://takeaction.oceana.org

www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/whiteshark.aspx

www.wildaid.org

www.pewtrusts.org

http://sharkfriends.com/

Statistics about SHARKS

22 -- Number of years the Discovery Channel has aired Shark Week

29.1 million -- Number of viewers Shark Week 2008 attracted

450 -- Known species of sharks

244 -- Number of documented unprovoked shark attacks worldwide since 1876 (65 of them fatal)

100 -- Number of documented unprovoked shark attacks in the United States from 1916 to the end of 2008 (12 of them fatal, and 8 of those in California)

90 --Percentage that the hammerhead shark population has dropped in the last 20 years

63 -- Average number of shark attacks a year

56.6 -- Percentage of all shark attacks that involve surfers and windsurfers

3 -- Species of shark considered deadly (great white, tiger and bull)

250,000 -- Number of sharks being killed every day by targeted fishing and bycatch (sharks accidentally caught in nets trawling for other species)

1 in 264 million -- Odds of being killed in a shark attack

1 in 9 million -- Odds of being killed by a dog

Sources: International Shark Attack File, Florida Museum of Natural History, the National Aquarium in Washington, D.C., the National Safety Council, Nielsen Media Research and the Discovery Channel 

FLORIDA on the 4th of July

Matt & Charlie Sagely

My awesome wife and me.

Reece & Charlie exploring in the shallow waters.

My boys posing with a fake white shark.
Note, my oldest on the right had to wear his bathing suite
the entire way down even though we stopped
and slept overnight in a hotel. Kids.

We caught crabs and starfish but no sharks.

We took a short boat ride over to an island one day. Can you see
the excitement on Charlie, Reece & Keenan's faces?

Cards

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THANKS JULIA!!!

Julia + Toys + Cats + Kids = 1 heckuva good time

My New Blob.

A while back I had asked my favorite painter friend Billy Blob if I could exchange a painting I had purchased for another. I figured if I can take stuff back to Wal-Mart then why not do the same with real art. At the time he hadn't been painting in a while but I just knew he would be producing some new art any day and I'd have something like a shark or squid or possibly even a hairy big-foot creature. Little did I know that I'd end up with a painting that he had already finished about a year earlier and that was truly one of my all time favorite blob paintings. Yes, I am now the owner of a large piece of canvas covered with a mixture of acrylic paints in shades of green, blue, black and a touch of something orange. All this makes for one cool looking African elephant head titled HALF. Billy still has a few paintings left from his last batch which he doesn't do nearly enough so rush on over to his site today and buy one. If you don't like it I'm sure he'll let you exchange it in a couple of years.

"sketchbook"

1975

This is part of a promotional piece I'm working on. I can only guess that my parents weren't paying attention when they bought my ticket to see this blockbuster in 1975. I have a vivid memory of being somewhere down front in the theatre, standing in my seat. The scene where Richard Dryefuss dives down to investigate a sunken boat and a dead body floats by the camera got a big scream from the audience and I can still see all the scared faces of the people in the seats behind me. For many years after this I thought anything sticking up out of a lake, river or creek was a shark fin.

CORRECTION!

I must admit, I was not aware that my son's story which I had thought he had made up on his own was his version retold from a fairly popular picture book. He had recently spent a few nights with his aunt and had likely been read the story there. As a proud daddy of my kids creativity I wanted to share something that I thought was neat and funny especially for a kid this young. But to now come to this realization that my kid is a plagiarist is even better. You can't teach this stuff.
This is the book.

The 3 little pigs, according to a six year old.

Tonight, our six year old asks his mother if she'd like him to tell her the real story of the 3 little pigs. Of course, she replies and the following is what was told.

The big bad wolf was baking a cake one day for his grandmother but he was out of sugar. He went next door to ask a pig if he could borrow some and when he walked in the pig was laying in the floor dead so the wolf ate him and went to the next house to get some sugar. When he got there that pig was shaving his chinny chin, chin hairs so the wolf ate him. He then went on to the next pigs house but that pigs house was made out of bricks and he heard the wolf outside and called the police. The police came and took that wolf to prison and do you know what that wolf wants more than anything in prison? ....sugar.

Weird Fish

Oklahoma Aquarium

The Cutest Dog in The World!

Meet Truman. He's a bichon mix, so we're told and he is the newest member to our family. He's also the first dog we've ever had as a family. We were told about Truman from a friend of my wife's cousin and during Thanksgiving we went over to take a look at the pup to see if he was what we had in mind. This is the photo I snapped that day.He's what we call an early Christmas present. We've been watching episodes of the The Dog Whisperer and are doing fairly well on getting him trained. He likes to play fetch and he's good about going to his crate when I ask nicely. He still will piddle in the house if we don't watch him close so if you have any good advice on how to get your pup to let you know when it's time to go out I'd really like to hear from you.