Music Monday: Muskrat Jack to the Rescue!

This week's Music Monday pick at the Bay Head Blog is a tribute to Muskrat Jack, who came to the rescue last week while Rex, London, Maddie and I were up north in the Roxiticus Valley, and a couple of adventuresome raccoons decided to pay a visit to our Bay Head beach house via our chimney.

If you've got critter problems in the Point Pleasant - Bay Head area, give Muskrat Jack a call and tell him Roxy sent you: (732) 295-1618.

And now, enjoy the video from Captain & Tennille...



If you'd like to sing along with Roxy and Muskrat Jack, here you go...

Muskrat, Muskrat, candle light
Doin' the town and doin' it right in the evenin'
It's pretty pleasin'
Muskrat Suzie, Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug at a Muskrat Land
And they shimmy, Sam is so skinny

And they whirl and they twirl and they tango
Singin' and jinglin' a jangle
Float like the heavens above
Looks like Muskrat Love

Nibblin' on bacon
Chewin' on cheese
Sam says to Suzie
Honey, would you please be my Mrs
Suzie says, yes, with her kisses
Now, he's ticklin' her fancy
Rubbin' her toes
Muzzle to muzzle
Now anything goes as they wriggle
Sue starts to giggle

And they whirled and they twirled and they tango
Singin' and jinglin' a jangle
Floatin' like the heavens above
Looks like muskrat love

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Bay Head 5K

London, Maddie, Rex and I have sure missed the beach... we didn't make it down to Bay Head for the last two weekends... one was rainy and the other was Mother's Day weekend and we had plans up north. But here we are, we grabbed the girls a bit early from school on Friday and headed down to enjoy the sunshine and 100 clams from Crab Shack in Brick, NJ.

This morning, we all woke up early, in time to watch the Bay Head 5K race. We had so much fun cheering on the runners that London and Maddie are thinking about running next year, or maybe in the Shark 5K in October.

TV at the Beach This Summer?

After a couple of weekends up north in the Roxiticus Valley, Rex, London, Maddie and I made it down to the our beach house in Bay Head, New Jersey, early on Friday afternoon for the weekend. This morning we were all up bright and early, in time to see the Bay Head 5K race along the beach on East Avenue and right up to the finish line on Lake Avenue. We've been cleaning up the porch, setting up the girls' sea shell stand, doing a sun dance and getting ready for the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend. I had to turn on our seasonal phone service for a conference call yesterday afternoon, which got me to thinking about whether we would sign up for any sort of television service here at the beach. We didn't miss it one bit last summer, but right now, as part of a campaign to reward their cable TV customers in new and exciting ways, Charter Cable is giving away $$$$ "ten grand on demand" as well as four (4) huge 52 inch HDTV sets.

During the month of May 2009, all I have to do is visit the Win 10 Grand Contest Page every week, answer the questions about Charter On Demand all 4 weeks for 4 chances to win, and I could take home a sweet $10,000 prize. In addition, Charter is giving away a 52” Sony Bravia HDTV every week, so we'll have four chances to win and upgrade from our old small beach house TV with the rabbit ears on top. Charter On Demand has a huge library of more than 6,000 movies and shows, and has added more free content and new releases for it’s subscribers. Check out Charter’s Twitter Feed for all the latest information. And stay tuned at Roxy's Bay Head Blog to find out whether London and Maddie will have their beloved Zack & Cody and Hannah Montana here at the beach this summer, or whether we'll leave them for a rainy day up north.

Second Annual Shout Out to Point Beach Painting

It's time for another shout out to our beach house painter: Steve of Point Beach Painting!

After Rex and the girls and I spent the past couple of weekends up north in the Roxiticus Valley, New Jersey, we grabbed the girls out of school early and returned to our beach house in Bay Head, NJ this afternoon. While we were away, Steve of Point Beach Painting had been busy freshening up the blue and white paint on the porch of our Bay Head NJ Beach House. He also did some touch up work in the dining room and one bedroom where an older paint job had started to peel... the salt air down here really gives the paint a beating, inside and out. Steve's family has been in the painting business forever, his prices are fair, and he's done nice work for us two years running.

If you live in the Bay Head - Pt. Pleasant Beach area and your beach house needs a refreshing paint job, call Steve at Point Beach Painting: (732) 779-4551.

Music Monday: Miley Cyrus Sings "The Climb"

I know some of my blogosphere buddies (like Jason Buckley, for example) justifiably mock me for my Disney weakness. Yes, our family attended the new Miley Cyrus movie a couple weeks back, and both Rex and I were teary-eyed throughout. So go ahead and mock me, but do so at your own risk, as next week's Music Monday just might be "Sixteen Minutes" from High School Musical 3.

So this week's Music Monday at the Bay Head Blog is The Climb by Miley Cyrus:



I can almost see it
That dream I am dreaming
But there's a voice inside my head saying
"You'll never reach it"

Every step I'm taking
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking

But I gotta keep trying
Gotta keep my head held high

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down
But no, I'm not breaking

I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm gonna remember most, yeah
Just gotta keep going

And I, I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on

'Cause there's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb, yeah!

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Somebody's gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb, yeah!

Keep on moving, keep climbing
Keep the faith, baby
It's all about, it's all about the climb
Keep the faith, keep your faith, whoa

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Renewing My Domain Names

I know I've mentioned over on Roxiticus Desperate Housewives how busy Rex and I have been at work at our "real jobs" lately, but after the big 9am Monday staff meeting tomorrow (as I told my good blogosphere buddy, Mariuca, I have to get up so early to catch a 6:30 am train from Bernardsville to New York City that I should probably stay up all night long, but I'm afraid I'd doze off while the partners were looking for my undivided attention), I plan to spend the rest of the week until Friday trying to catch up on other important stuff that has been slipping between the cracks. Like my domain renewals. Roxy's Best Of almost ran out in April, but I caught it just in time. Domain renewal time is also a good time to look into my webhosting options. When I first started blogging and moved some of my content to my own web sites, I stayed with our company's business site host and they didn't know a thing about WordPress or other blogging tools. Now that those sites are up for renewal, it's time to check out Web Hosting Geeks to see which web hosts they recommend for multiple domain hosting and blog hosting expertise. If you're thinking about leaving Google's Blogger (otherwise known as Blogspot) or other free hosting service and are looking for a new web hosting service, be sure to do your online web hosting research before signing up with a host.