Jerry Loggins Notes

Laminar jets

Jerry — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:48:05 +0000

When we went to Josh and Allie’s barbecue party last weekend we were really entranced by the Pentair pool lamina jets that they had running in their pool during the party. The way that the jets squirted water in an arc across the pool reminded me of the play area in DisneyWorld’s Epcot Center outside the theater that showed the 3D film “Honey I blew up the kids.” Our kids loved playing and running around in those fountains. Funny how things like that can bring back memories of when our kids were young!

The Princess Bride

Jerry — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:41:50 +0000

Tonight we are watching the movie The Princess Bride. I haven’t seen that movie in about six years, and right now we are watching the fencing scene. This is such a good movie; each time I watch it I notice something else that I had either not noticed before, or at least had forgotton since the last time that I had watched it. I was trying to find a YouTube clip of that scene to share with you, but every one that I’ve seen so far has the embedding disabled. Oh well… I encourage you to watch the movie for yourself if youget the chance, it is truly a classic!

Great parade

Jerry — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:49:06 +0000

One of my proudest moments as a parent was when I went to the town’s big Easter parade and saw my son in the high school’s marching band. He was playing one of the snare drums, and the band was playing the song “Seventy Six Trombones” from the musical “Music Man.” Although it has been probably over twenty years since I saw the movie, that is a song that I frequently sing to myself, so I was really pleased that the marching band was playing that tune as they marched past me. And even better was the fact that my son’s eyes met mine, so he could see how proud I was to see him in the parade. That was a good day.

Carpet cleaning raleigh

Jerry — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:23:06 +0000

I’ve been hearing a lot of people talking lately about how bed bugs are becoming a big problem for homeowners. There have been articles in the newspapers about how easy it is to bring bed bugs and cock roaches home from innocent-appearing places like the grocery store (in bags) and movie theaters (from the upholstery in the theater seats!) Just reading about these kinds of infestations makes me want to give my entire house a good top to bottom cleaning, including carpet cleaning raleigh with a steam cleaner. From what I understand, steam cleaning is the best way to kill pests like that.

Solar is made easy

Jerry — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:46:56 +0000

For years I’ve been waiting for a time when solar is made easy. Even though solar power has been available for a couple of decades now, the practicality of the technology being within the reach of the average American homeowner has yet to appear on the horizon. For as long as I can remember my wife has taken full advantage of the passive solar energy in the winter by opening the doors and curtains that face the sun during the day to allow the sun’s rays to warm up the house as much as possible, and making sure to close them all again when the sun started to wane. And in the summer, as much as we enjoy having a house full of sunlight, we pull down the window shades and close the doors to the hot sun, to help keep the house cool and to reduce the work and energy usage of the air conditioner.

Even so, we would ultimately like to take better advantage of the newest technology when it becomes within our financial reach, of putting solar panels on our roof to help reduce our electricity usage and to help heat and cool the house. Just the idea of not having to pay the electric company, or the gas company for our lights, heat, and air conditioning gets my juices flowing! My wife has even suggested that we look into getting a small windmill to see if we could generate our own electricity with it to help cut down on our electric bills. With so many people living in our house, and everyone being on a different schedule of wakefulness and sleeping, our lights and climate control are constantly going, so our bills for electricity and climate control are probably a lot higher than many families bills are.