Franjolorada

10/09/2024

So,
Milton is determined to come roaring through Central Florida. Trey and I are far enough inland that the storm should be down to a Cat 3, hopefully a Cat 2.
I’ve been hearing about people holding hurricane parties. Even though this storm is no joke and our friends on the west coast are in for a really hard hit, I think we’ll be OK.
Many years ago Jimmy Buffett wrote a song in Key West while waiting on a Hurricane. I’ve made a recording of Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season! I hope you enjoy it! Good luck to us all!!

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0b2pAtjRRdyq1DmiSHE02IL_A

Enjoy
One Love, Y’all

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10/07/2024

Hi, Y’all,
People are asking if Trey and I are running or riding out the next hurricane. Gus and I are sheltering in place at Lucky’s. My apartment is above the garage (which is a concrete block building). Lucky has a generator, I have a great cooler, plenty of food, water and ice, so we’ll be fine.
Trey gets on a plane with the FSC SKI TEAM tomorrow morning in Orlando to fly to Texas for the team Nationals, so, he’ll be long gone before we get hit!
So, we'll be fine!
Trey just called to tell me he has been invites to join the English National Honor Society! With his Psychology AND Athletic Nationals Honor Societies, he now has THREE National Honor Societies memberships!! I guess that fancy Webb "edumacation" WAS worthwhile, after all!
Thanks for checking on us!

09/28/2024

Joe’s Garage Band’s card met me at The Snell Shell, my studio in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I think Trey put it there. I like the connection and hope this great band will come play my place sometime.
So far we’ve hosted Road Kill Drums (Mark and Connie Combs) twice. Hoping more of the Central Florida musicians/singers will come play with us in the future!
It’s a very cool Stress Free H***y Tonk!

09/07/2024

These were all taken by one of the staff photographers yesterday! In the first picture, Trey and I are high diving for Joy Kelly, the other Tennessean here, a GREAT skier and a veteran of 12 Worlds! She set a new World Record in Skalom on Wednesday! She is amazing and she and her husband Dennis have been so supportive of me. I’m humbled and proud that these great people are friends of Trey and myself!
The other shots are of me getting ready to jump and lugging the equipment back up the stairs after my 3 ride away jumps! (It’s bad enough that we throw ourselves at a solid incline plane that is 14 feet wide, 22 feet from bottom to top and five feet high! That gets you MOTHING unless you ski away! I did just that all three times!)

09/06/2024

In response to several request, I am posting I’m From Tennessee, the song that is the background music for Trey’s splendid video that I have watched before each set. It is an incredible boost to me and I can’t begin to tell how great it makes me feel every time I watch it!
I actually wrote the song one morning on my home lake, Center Hill in Smithville, Tennessee. I STILL believe it is the most beautiful place I ever ever been!
Here’s the link! Enjoy!

I wrote this in answer to why I still live in Tennessee and not the Caribbean which I love so much. I played it down there many times and people from all over the world told me it reminded them of the

09/05/2024

So, once again, Trey continues to amaze me! Yesterday morning right before we left the hotel for the Worlds, Trey said, “Before we go, I want you to watch this video.” I must have given him a look like. “We need to go” because he said, “It’s short.” He played the following video that he “created”. To everyone involved in this video I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart and I love you all! Please don’t feel left out if you weren’t included. Trey either didn’t have a number for you or he thought the technology would be frustrating for you!
I watched it be fire I tricked today again. I’ll watch it before I jump tomorrow and if I’m lucky enough to make it into the finals, I’ll rewatch it then!
I’m beyond proud of my amazing Son! I am humbled by all who participated in this project. It packs A LOT into a couple of minutes!

09/04/2024

Opening ceremonies in Toledo (pronounced
toe led do), Spain! An incredibly beautiful city!

🎥 Samuel Sanchez

08/31/2024

First leg of the trip to Spain for the Over 35 World Water Ski Championship Tournament is over! After my van overheating due to a leak in the radiator (which was checked and misdiagnosed on Thursday as no leak and “worn out” antifreeze) before we got out of Lakeland! We went back to Florida Southern and swapped my vehicle for Trey’s. Believe me when I say it took an engineering degree and a shoe horn to get the water ski bag in a Toyota Camery! It cost us about two hours total, so no big deal!
Trey moment was, “Well, Dad, we “Rolled with the punches” very well! Considering that yesterday was the first Jimmy Buffett Day, I was so proud of my young Parrot Head for quoting that line from Jimmy’s Cowboy in the Jungle. A great song and a great way of life!
Getting to the gate at MIA was a breeze. TSA was easy, polite, and rapid especially considering that I set off alarms due to the titanium plate in my chest (which I had actually forgotten about!) This was my first flight post Bipass surgery! AND I got “caught” trying to “smuggle” sun block on the plane in my carry on (yes, I knew better, just in a hurry!)
Also, Trey was lucky enough to get “chosen” for extra screening! Is t he lucky?
So, a short flight to Charlotte, NC, a four hour layover, then, onward to Madrid and the Worlds!
One Love, Y’all!