aquarist48

Y'all come on down! The 3rd Annual Redneck Raft Race begins today at 1pm! Food will start being served at 4pm. Bring your raft and a stocked cooler with your favorite beverages
It's going to be a HOT one today. 103 degrees with the heat index of 110.
If anyone wants to help (Shawnie, CapeKate) me clean house by all means come on lol
Have a great weekend everyone!

Shawnie

OMG that sounds like a great day!!!!!! id be there in a heartbeat if it wasnt so far..im so jealous as im off to work and you get to play

have a great weekend yourself my friend!

Lucy

Sounds like a lot of fun!
Enjoy your self and don't forget the sun screen.

MizRamzi

In that kind of heat you'd find me more in the water then in a raft

Lucy

Did you win?
Any pics you want to share?

Angela_96

Hope you had fun!
My preggo but is INDOORS during this heatwave... I can't take it... I think they should have a pregnant womans heat index as well... like for 90 it should say 130 cause thats what it feels like.

I hope Carson gets his special ear plugs tomm, we can water park it a few days... (I don't know if they give them the "special fitted" ones the same day or not.

Beth1965

Where's the update and pics??
Beth

Butterfly

Many years ago one of the radio stations in Chattanooga Tn sponsored this type of raft race on the river. The participants had to design their own rafts and the best designed raft as well as the one that got to the finish line first won a prize. My husbands company sponsored a raft and the guys tied truck tire inner tubes together and each guy had his own tube. It was hilarious and all had the time of their lives.
Ok Aquarist48 time to come tell us all about the race
Carol

Angela_96

That would be cool if they did one in Chatt again... IT would be fun for my sons Cub scouts to make a raft. (hmmmm.... plans in the making)

Butterfly

Yep Angela there was every kind of contraption you could imagine LOL
Carol

aquarist48

The raft race was a big success. There were more people participating this year than the previous years. Some really neat rafts were used. I don't think anyone cared about winning or losing they just wanted to get here for the food. (too I think a good many of them were a little buzzed ) LOL We had 40 to 50 people here after the race was over, for dinner. Some people started showing up about 3pm and it lasted until almost midnight.
I take pictures the old fashioned way with a 35mm Nikon and I took about 15 pictures. I will see if there are any that I can post once I get them developed. I think most of them have people in them so I don't know that I should post them without their permission. We'll see.
I was exhausted yesterday and slept most of it. LOL We had an electrical brown out about 8pm the night of the race. The heat was awful, AC's running full blast it's no wonder our neighborhood lost power. Luckily it was only off for about an hour.
I didn't get to participate in the race myself because we had to prepare for the dinner after. My partner outdid himself on the food (I mentioned previously that he is a chef by profession). People around here will eat anything that he prepares. lol
Thanks for the interest and I'll see what I can do about some pictures Have a great week everyone!

capekate

Hi Aquarist and g'morning to you! Hopefully the sun is shining where you are... we havent seen the sun here in weeks.. and it looks like another week before we even get a glimpse of it... ugghh...
It sounds like everyone had a great time! It really sounds like a blast.. Glad to hear you had great weather abit hot.. but at least not rainy for the river run and the party after.
Hope to see some photos...

Beth1965

OK, now I have to ask, what kind of cooking does your chef do? Is he a chef for a restaurant/caterer? I'm in love with food and do some catering here where I live-dinner parties and such.
Oh and Im glad your raft race was a success/or was it the food that was a success?
Beth

aquarist48

Hello Beth. He's trained classically as a French chef. He cooks anything and everything. He started out as a cook in the Air Force and continued his training after that. Currently he has an industrial kitchen outside. It used to be a 2 car car port that we converted. He cooks for the neighborhood on some weekends and all holidays.
I would have to say that the food was the main success. Everyone knows they will leave here with full bellies and to go plates for left overs. It's not a good idea to arrive here "fashionably late" because these people are here to eat

Beth1965

Perhaps if the occassion arises, I will have to look you guys up. Sounds like an awesome neighborhood.
Beth

aquarist48

If you're ever in my neck of the woods by all means....

reefdude

a heat index for preggo's! Priceless! My sis in law is going through it too!