Where we live
Where Justin and Calie live
Where Mom and Dad live
Where my aunt and sister live
Where John and Jessica's relatives live
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sat 30 Sep 2006
Bryce won first place in his age group at the Stockton Walnut Festival this year! I told you I had the cutest Grandkids in the world! Delilah won second place in her age group when she entered in 2003. Click here for her photos.
Thu 21 Sep 2006
Beware of this virus. It’s real and there’s no anti-virus program that can fix it!
I thought you would want to know about this e-mail virus. Even the most advanced programs from Norton or McAfee cannot take care of this one. It appears to affect those who were born prior to 1960.
Symptoms:
It is called the “C-Nile Virus.”
Wed 20 Sep 2006
| Further on up the road, further on up the road where the way is dark, and the night is cold but one sunny morning we’ll rise, I know and I’ll meet you further on up the road —Bruce Springsteen, Further On |
Sat 16 Sep 2006
Richard and I were thrilled to attend Garland’s football varsity football game last night. He’s a freshman, so doesn’t get to play much at the varsity games. He got to this game though, as Harrisonville quickly dominated the game and so the second team got to get some good practice! Unfortunately, even though we watched carefully, neither Richard nor I saw Garland in the three plays he was in on! He’s number 97 just to the left of the “50″ block. He plays Tight End and Line Backer. The final score was Harrisonville 38, Northeast, 8.
Wed 13 Sep 2006
This morning while hanging the laundry on the line (doing my part to slow global warming!) I noticed that the morning glorys were particularly lovely. So, I had to take some photos!
Wed 13 Sep 2006
I’ve read several of these stories which are very similar, but this one, in my opinion, combines the best of them all with an extra twist! I thought it worthy of posting.
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NAS A satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored.
He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color,150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”
“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says the cowboy.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the cowboy says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”
You’re a Congressman for the U.S. Government”, says the cowboy.
“Wow!
That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required.” answered the cowboy. You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked.
You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about cows…this is a herd of sheep.
Now, give me back my dog.
Tue 12 Sep 2006
I’m sporty, yet practical, and have a style of my own. I like to have fun, and I like to bring friends along for the ride, but when it comes time for everyday chores, I’m willing to do my part.
Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.
Mon 11 Sep 2006
I swapped babysitting days from Thursday to Monday so I can volunteer at the Single Parent Family Dinner with Richard. We saw this awesome sunrise while driving in in the morning!
Here’s the two cute kids during babysitting duty.
Then Jessica and the kids and I drove out to Andy’s work site, this lovely duplex on the golfcourse.
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 Andy’s directing the crew on the left, and Justin’s posing for me above. |
Here’s Richard serving dinner at the Single Parent Family Dinner. I took photos of the SBU students who help out, and Justin came to have dinner with us there. We qualify, I’m Justin’s single parent!
Sat 9 Sep 2006
We spent the weekend at Mom and Dad’s attending another Stockmanship School. The sunset tonight was particularly excellent. This was the best I could do with getting a photo of it though. I need to work on my settings for sunrises and sunsets. I know this camera can do it, if I can just learn how!
