• About

grayfeathersblog

~ Diabetes, Cancer Survivor, Cycling, Photographer, Exercise, College Parent, Twins, Boy Scout Leader, Life

grayfeathersblog

Tag Archives: Football

What a Day!! :( Accidents Happen

02 Saturday Nov 2019

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Uncategorized

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

accident, Band, Car, Damage, Football, Ford, Insurance, playoffs, trailer, Truck

IMG_20191018_145557

It’s going to quite around the house for the next few days because my wife is not speaking to me. She told me not to do something and I did it anyway.  I had an accident with the band trailer on my way to a football game tonight.  The route we took led us downtown Birmingham where they are currently working on the bridges that go through the center of town.  It’s 5 o’clock traffic, it’s bumper to bumper and along some narrow streets.  A lady and her brother were sitting at a traffic light in the left turn lane.  I’m next to her waiting to go straight.  The light changed, I move forward and I hear a long and loud horn blow.  The lady pulls up next to me and tells me that I hit her car.  Now, not only did not hear the crash, I didn’t see it either.  I was not about to stop in the middle of the street and call the police to come and do a police report. But there was nowhere to pull over either. I drove for several blocks trying to find a place and all the while the lady was beside me in the turn lane trying to get me to stop.  We finally stopped at a traffic light long enough for me to communicate to her that I was looking for a place to pull over.  I finally found a parking lot big enough for me to pull into so we could exchange insurance cards and get a police report.  Which we had to wait over forty-five minutes for the cop to show up.

IMG_20191101_171222

The school has insurance on the trailer so therefore the school’s insurance will take care of the car that I hit.  I was told that it would not go on my insurance but my wife does not believe this.  And this is where the rub comes in.  When I first sat down with these people to volunteer to haul the trailer, I signed a document stating that very same thing.  Plus, if anything happens to the trailer or any of the contents I would not be held responsible. My wife did not want me to volunteer for this.  In fact, she doesn’t want me to do anything outside the home since I retired.  She always has some excuse for why I shouldn’t do it.  I get paid $100 each time I haul the trailer no matter how short a run or how far. So far I’ve raised $800 and that’s pretty easy money.

IMG_20191101_171200

As you can see there wasn’t much damage to the car I hit but still, I hit a car.  My wife is worried that regardless of who pays for it, this will make our insurance costs go up.  I haven’t had an accident in over thirty years and I really doubt our insurance will go up but I can’t get that in my wife’s head.

Our team is in the playoffs and they won their game tonight.  Next week we travel again to another school but this time we don’t have to go through town to get there.  Originally, this was supposed to be my final night but because they’re in the playoff’s we have yet another game to go to.  This could be over an hour away so I’m not really looking forward to hauling the trailer that far. Is it a bad thing to hope they lose so next week would be their last?

A Few Thoughts and Other Entanglements

18 Sunday Mar 2018

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Family, Photography

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Baseball, City, Drone, Footage, Football, Parks, School, Soccer, Track, Video, Wondershare

As I sit here tonight, they are predicting severe weather for tomorrow evening.  The biggest threat is north Alabama but they include large hail, strong winds, and a few strong tornados.  I can handle the severe thunderstorms but tornados is another thing.  I’m still not over the tornado outbreak of 2011 that wiped out nearly half of our town and killed eleven people in our community.

What I’m also doing is putting together a few videos that I’ve created.  Most of which have been taken to try and boost the city’s morale. We have several city FaceBook pages and each one of them consist of negativity about our community.  We lost a lot of homes and families right after the tornado.  With these homes destroyed, many of which were never rebuilt and the families moved out.  With that said, we lost a lot of tax money.  Our city doesn’t have the money for a lot of the upkeep and people are complaining about the trash, businesses closing, and crime.  What I’m trying to do is post these videos on these pages showing what we have to be proud of; A nice athletic complex, a nice school, a storm shelter, etc.

During the tornado of 2011, we thought we had lost the brand new school.  Some kids and I were on a bus with the band heading to Orlando for a school trip when the tornado hit.  There were all sorts of rumors that told of the school burning, people lying on the ground dead and many other stories.  Most of which were true but the school did not catch on fire.

The tornado hit about a half a mile from the school and the athletic complex.  Like I said, a lot of rumors floated around and we were happy that we didn’t lose either of these landmarks.  My house was also spared thankfully.  The athletic complex is one of the jewels of our community.  Between the complex and our park (I don’t have a video of it as of yet), the kids of our community wouldn’t have a place to go and play.  My kids were fortunate to be able to spend a great deal of time at the park and they couldn’t wait to go and play in the creek.

I think we take for granted these places that our city has supplied for us. We always focus on the negativity instead of the positive.  I’m really hoping these storms that are predicted for tomorrow will pass us by. I’m really hoping!!  I’ll let you guys know how we faired tomorrow night.

Grayfeathers Blog A Week in Review

16 Saturday Jan 2016

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

Alabama, Baritone Section, Crimson Tide, Football, Million Dollar Band, Mugshots, National Championship, Proud Father, Roll Tide, Senior Year, Son, Sweet Sixteen

12509473_1003094429755269_1616185825551015039_n

After being off for two weeks from being sick and in the hospital, this past week was tiresome to say the least.  I did a lot of traveling for work and I got to meet the new guy they’ve hired to give me some help.  Next week starts with Monday off so I’ll only have to work four days.

I’m going to be a proud father for a minute and share a picture he sent me.  This picture was taken just after the Alabama Crimson Tide won its 16th National Championship.  One of his section members sent this to Mugshots and they are going to have a canvas print made to hang in it’s Tuscaloosa location.  They already have one hanging that was taken just after the 15th title game a few years ago.  What a way to go out his senior year!!

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 344/365 “Family Matters”

09 Wednesday Dec 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

365 Day Photo Challenge, Alabama, Christmas, Family, Family Time, Football

My son is home for a few days for Christmas and I’m really excited.  He’s got to go back to school on the 28th of this month because the band is flying to Dallas for the football game.  He’s also got several days that he’ll be spending away from home for the basketball games the pep band is playing in.  So, although he’s home for Christmas, he’s going to be gone a lot of the time as well.

We’ve accepted the fact that he’s now a young man and will not be able to spend all his free time with the family.  So we will be treasuring every minute that we get to spend together as a family.  Who knows how many more times we’ll get to spend the holidays together as a family.  I hope many more.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 276/365 “Disappointed”

02 Friday Oct 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

365 Day Photo Challenge, Anger, Disrespect, Football, Unsportsmanlike

11986448_948961471809543_7881794435783287981_n

I’m just sick to my stomach as to what I witnessed tonight.  So much so that I’m spitting mad.  Tonight was a football game between my daughters school in which they play in the band and my alma mater.  I was so looking forward to seeing some of my friends that I went to high school with but instead I had to hang my head in shame.

I arrived at the game late in the first quarter.  Corner, my alma mater, had already had seven points on the board.  I was to meet my parents there and they were sitting on the home field of Corner.  I made my way past the gate where I saw one of my cousins in which I spoke to for about ten minutes or so.  I then made my way to where my parents were sitting and sat down with them. About ten minutes from the half is when all hell broke lose.

I’m not privy to what gone or what is said between players during the game but something must have been said or done to cause one of Pleasant Grove’s players to literally attack Corners player right after he got tackled.  Of course, either the refs didn’t see it or wanted to turn their back to it.  The home team stands saw it though and they went wild.  Words like “Eject him, Throw him out and tremendous amount of Boo’s went on for nearly ten or so minutes.  Finally the refs got together and ejected not one but two of PG’s players.  This was the start.  For the next five plays, PG was penalized after every play for personal fouls.  During this time they even managed to get two touchdowns in which were called back because of these fouls.  Unbelievable.  Now I’m already having a difficult time sitting there because I’m pulling for my daughters school and to hear the crowd boo our team was a little more than I could take.

Half time came and the bands played.  Which both bands did an excellent job considering all the tension on the field.  PG came onto the field with Boo’s.  I was really expecting to see the same unsportsmanlike conduct during the rest of the game but the coaches on both teams must have had strong words with the players during their halftime break. The remainder of the game was relatively calm.  Oh there were some pushes and some unnecessary shoves but not one personal foul made during the second half but the damage was done.

After the second quarter got started, I walked my mom and dad over to the visitor side and they got to see their granddaughters.  After a while they said their goodbyes and my parents went home.  The final score of the game was PG 31 Corner 13.  Should I be proud of the win?  I’m not sure.  In all my years of my kids attending this school, I’ve never, never seen this sort of disrespect and unsportsmanlike conduct.

I don’t care what the excuse is, if there is any, there is no reason for deliberately attacking another player.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 263/365 “Down for the Count”

19 Saturday Sep 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

365 Day Photo Challenge, Alabama, Football, Million Dollar Band, Sick

_1TH7349_50_51_tonemapped

I was under the weather and didn’t feel like posting last night so I guess I’m another day in the whole.  Oh well.

Spent the day in Tuscaloosa watching my son practice with the Million Dollar Band.   We left soon after the band marched down the street toward the stadium.  My team is loosing and unless a miracle happens they won’t win tonight.  But, that’s ok.  I got to see my son play out his dream of being in the Million Dollar Band.  He should graduate in December so he doesn’t have much longer.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 179/365 “College Tour”

27 Saturday Jun 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

365 Day Photo Challenge, Alabama, BBQ, College Tour, Football, Marching Band, Million Dollar Band

_1TH6541

I spent this morning and some of this afternoon taking my daughters on a college tour at the University of Alabama.  My son already goes there and we’ve already been on this tour with him.  After the tour we went and visited the newly renovated Butler Field.  This is where the Million Dollar Band practices.  In years past they’ve been having to deal with an uneven field where water would always stand when it rained.  Now it’s all terf with painted end zones just like a regular football field.  It’s really nice.  They did an awesome job.  I’m glad that they’ve finally decided to spend some money on the band instead of just the football teams.

_1TH6573

After which we went out to eat at Dreamland BBQ, a place known for their BBQ ribs.  Boy was it good.  My son is home until the end of July before he has to leave for band camp.  I’m looking forward to spending some time with him before he has to leave again.

“Life Goes On!”

Blog Stats

  • 8,416 hits

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 478 other subscribers
Follow grayfeathersblog on WordPress.com

2015

February 2023
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728  
« Sep    

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • grayfeathersblog
    • Join 478 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • grayfeathersblog
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...