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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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trip up date
Hi every one! We are now at my daughters in Chicago. Drove all day to get here but all went well. We hope to be back home by the first of the week. has been fun but just to much driving! LOL! have a grat week catch you later~!
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
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Pit Stop
Hi everyone, just a note to let you no where we are and try out the lap top. We left T-Town around 6:00am this morning and are now in Columbia Mo. about 535 miles north west of home.
We made great time got here at 4:00pm after stopping to eat this morning and twice for gas. I stop every 200 miles and get gas and stretch. No pics so far but I did bring my camera!
We hope to get an early start in the morning and get into Omaha around lunch time.
Sunday, July 06, 2008
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July Update
The summer is going by way to fast! Hard to believe six more weeks and school starts back. We have had much needed rain for the last couple of days. I got caught cutting grass at church and got soaked! First time that I can remember we didn't finish cutting.
My wife has come down with a bad cold and we are suppose to leave for Nebraska This Wednesday. Sure hope I don't get it.
Church update...
Molly at the lake
Please throw the stick
Big catfish
Shot across the lake...
Fathers Day, my wife had Portillos Italian beef flow in for me! Was I surprised.
Hope all had a safe 4th. Have a great week. I'm taking my lap top on the road, hope to have some hot spots!
Sunday, June 15, 2008
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Currently Reading
Emissary of Light: A Vision of Peace
By James F. Twyman
see relatedUp Date
Happy Fathers day to all the dads today! What a way for a golf nut to spend the day watching Tiger going foe 14 for 14! No doubt about it Tiger will be talked about for centuries to come.
We have had just enough ran to keep the grass growing like crazy. So my work at church the lake and home has kept me busy. Also I have cut at our St. Johns church down town for the last two weeks. The guy who has been doing it has had health problems.
My grand daughter has a full plate this summer before going to high school. She is a nurses aid, two days a week and is taking a Jr. college course on study habits.
The great grand kids are growing like weeds. They spent the week with us and went to our vacation Bible school. They had a blast and the week went by fast far them.
Construction on our new church is on schedule. It's starting to really look big...
Granddaughtere in her nurse uniform...
Newest family member, great neice...
Every one have a great week. I'm in plaining mode for our trip to Nebraska some time after July 4th!
Friday, June 06, 2008
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Currently Reading
The Elephanta Suite
By Paul Theroux
see relatedEveryone should be aware
John McCain's Sons
Talk about putting your most valuable where your mouth is! Apparently this was not 'newsworthy' enough for the media to comment about. Can either of the other presidential candidates truthfully come close to this? ... Just a question for each of us to seek an answer, and not a statement.
You see...character is what's shown when the public is not looking. There were no cameras or press invited to what you are about to read about, and the story comes from one person in New Hampshire.
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One evening last July, Senator John McCain of Arizona arrived at the New Hampshire home of Erin Flanagan for sandwiches, chocolate-chip cookies and a heartfelt talk about Iraq. They had met at a presidential debate, when she asked the candidates what they would do to bring home American soldiers - -
soldiers like her brother, who had been killed in action a few months earlier.
Mr. McCain did not bring cameras or press. Instead, he brought his youngest son, James McCain, 19, then a private first class in the Marine Corps about to leave for Iraq. Father and son sat down to hear more about Ms. Flanagan's brother Michael Cleary, a 24-year-old Army First Lieutenant killed by an ambush ... a roadside bomb.
No one mentioned the obvious: In just days, Jimmy McCain could face similar perils. 'I can't imagine what it must have been like for them as they were coming to meet with a family that ......' Ms. Flanagan recalled, choking up. 'We lost a dear one,' she finished.
Mr. McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee, has staked his candidacy on the promise that American troops can bring stability to Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son, who spent seven months patrolling Anbar Province and learned of his father's New Hampshire victory in January while he was digging a stuck military vehicle out of the mud.
Two of Jimmy's three older brothers went into the military. Doug McCain, 48, was a Navy pilot. Jack McCain, 21, is to graduate from the Naval Academy next year, raising the chances that his father, if elected, could become the
first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower with a son at war.
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