Kurt Leucht’s Blog

We witnessed this while at a public park in North Carolina today.  There was a boat ramp nearby and I saw this man drive right up and back his pickup truck right down the ramp and into the water with no boat trailer.  The rear wheels were totally submerged and the front wheels were probably just a little bit in the water.  We found out later that the guy was trying to rinse out the bed of his truck.  Well, needless to say, he got stuck there.  After maybe 10 minutes, someone drove up and backed their SUV up to his truck in an apparent attempt to help him get his truck out.  I got distracted for a minute and when I looked back, the man’s half submerged truck was completely gone.  Yes, it was no longer there.  It had somehow rolled completely into the lake and was totally submerged.  A couple of hours, two fire trucks, four police cars, two tow trucks, and one fire rescue unit later, I was able to record the following video of the rescue crew pulling the submerged truck out of the lake.  Enjoy.  I just hope the guy who owns the pickup will be able to laugh about this experience later. 

I took the boys out in the canoe yesterday afternoon and we explored the little island South of Parrish Park on the Indian River in Titusville.

Not sure if this island has an official name, but we decided to name it Horseshoe Crab Island.

We walked around the island in knee deep water and played and looked for horseshoe crabs and fish.  There were lots and lots of horseshoe crabs skittering around yesterday.  And we even saw this cute little baby one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9AFCfDWtIw

Last weekend was a three day weekend, and I had lots of plans to get all sorts of tasks done around the house. Until my seven year old came up to me on Saturday morning and asked me to build him a treehouse. Little did he know that many months earlier I had scoped out the tree in our back yard for a treehouse and I had even drawn up plans and figured out all the materials I needed.

Here is a photo of the tree I used.

Here is a photo of the treehouse platform under construction:

Here is a photo of the completed platform with flooring planks installed and a hole for the trap door:

And here is the final product complete with railing:

Reverse angle of final product:

Here’s a photo of the kids enjoying their new treehouse:

The boys got out their play tools and pretended to help me build the treehouse:

This took me the whole three day weekend to complete and it was a labor of love.  It also took me four trips to Lowe’s for various materials.  I’m very pleased with the results and the boys seem to love it.  The biggest problem for me was the deer flies that hang out in the backyard.  They were all over me all during the construction, and I have welts all over my arms and legs to remember the experience by. 

For anyone who wants more details, I have posted detailed high resolution photos and construction instructions on my website here:  http://www.leucht.com/kurt/treehouse/

Okay, there’s no more denying it. I’m one of those people who like to sing. Now that hundreds of Park Avenue Baptist Church members have seen the Gloria Christmas concert that I performed in last weekend, the cat is totally out of the bag.

(Not me … Mark Wahlberg in the film Rock Star)

In case you want to witness this spectacle for yourself, I put some snippets of it on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ufa2s215dQ

Or you can just watch the YouTube snippets right here by clicking the play button below:

Since this performance, I’ve had lots of people come up to me and tell me that they didn’t know I could sing like that. I just tell them that I sing like this all the time along with the radio in my car, so it’s really not a big deal. I guess I’ve just never sung like this in public until now.

Thanks for all the kind words. I’m just using the gifts that God gave me, though.

Okay, there’s no more denying it.  I’m one of those cheesy actor types.  Now that hundreds of Park Avenue Baptist Church members have seen the Father’s Day service introduction video that I did last weekend, the cat is totally out of the bag.

In case you want to watch it for yourself and make fun of me later, here is the video on YouTube: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ufa2s215dQ

Or you can just watch it right here: