My son has been doing gymnastics for about a month or so and he has come a long way. This is his second attempt. He did awesome!
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Ben doing front flip
May 25
Played a Live
May 22
One of my Favorite songs, is a dance song called Played a Live. Ben LOVES this song, and will often request it be played in the car, and it HE always wants me to “Turn it up” Here is the Youtube vid of the song.
Pike HotShots
May 10
There are days when you get a cool story, and this was one of them. I went with Bill Folsom up to Monument, to the U.S. Forrest Service, Pike Hotshots area. They were doing a media day and training. From the time they get the call until they have to leave is under 2 hours to deploy to a fire. The Hotshots will go into the fire and create a fire line to hold the fire from moving. There are now about 10 HotShot crews around the nation. These are the elite wildland fire fighters.
Here is the story.
Curling
Feb 17
Growing up in Detroit, I used to watch Curling on CBC. I enjoy watching it, and found out the Broadmoor has a Curling Club, and with the Olympics on, what a time to do a great story.
Here it is!!! Let me know what you think!
Dave Matthew’s Band
Feb 3
I am not the biggest fan of DMB, but I really Like this song, it was at the Grammy’s and they also did this for SNL.
Just like the saying, you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, the same can be said for people. In the past few weeks, the City of Colorado Springs has been dealing with the issue of “Tent City”. The homeless living around the city in tents, mostly on the trails and by the creek.
One City Councilman wants the homeless to be able to camp there, cause he too was once homeless. Here is his story
Some Good Stories
Dec 7
I have been a busy bee. Here are a few cool stories that I have done in the past week.
The first is a story about LED lights, seems simple. At our station, when you shoot 100% of the video we put our name on the story, that airs, even if it is not so great. I, for many reasons, want my name on that story, so I try not to use any types of file video when I can avoid it. With that being said, a story about LED lights may not be exciting, but that is the fun challenge, shoot a story with little video, and you have to be creative.
Sunday, we had a snow storm, and I got called and said I would be working outside today. I like that kind of phone call, that way I can prepare for the day before I leave the door. The goal, snow.
We head out and go talk to the City streets division and find out about how the plows are going, how many are out, etc. Then off to get some video, so we shoot some, and drive all over the city. On the way back we get a call saying a slippery area on the east side of town. John and I get there, and it was slippery. A few car accidents already, and from our vantage point you can see the intersection is a sheet of ice, but the cars driving can’t. Here is some sweet video of the day.
It snowed in Woodland Park
Oct 29
It was the first real snow storm of the year. They were saying it was going to be bad, it was bad in the high country, and in Woodland Park, 
but not to bad at all in the springs. I got sent up to Woodland Park, and here is what we did.
I am told there is this cool story about a Meat Cutting competition.
I head out to Monument Ice rink to shoot this story, and there is about 10 – 12 tables set on the ice. I meet the people, who are involved and do some quick interviews. I have about 10 min to get the interviews, which go well. I am going there thinking this is going to be a Nat pkg, but as I quickly learn, this may not be possilible. They are all vying for the chance to win $20,000 for being the best meat cutter. So they have to consintrate, 
and I can not mic them up and talk to them as they are working. So I get my 2nd interview and then they get ready to start. Then the worse thing that could happens…. happens… They turn the music on the overhead speakers. I call the desk to advise that I do not think I can do this as a nat pkg cause my nats are all muisc and this will not work.
I shoot all the video, and think, that maybe I can pull this off, cause I know I have some GREAT sound, and some cool video.
I come back and find out that I am going to have a reporter write the story, which makes me feel good, since it would be really hard to pull this off.
I thought the story turned out good. Here it is…
Wintry Weather
Oct 11
Here is a cool and fun story I shot today. I shot all but the traffic accidents. It was at one of my favorite places, Helen Hunt Falls.
