I Feel A Disturbance in the Force

My heart goes out to the family and friends of those Navy SEAL Operatives that went down with the helicopter. Also to the Night Stalkers on the helicopter. It is so difficult to see our soldiers giving the ultimate sacrifice for the rest of us to stay safe.

A Delicate Balance

Being misunderstood can be very unsettling. While raving and being proud for one, it's gone unnoticed how proud of the other I am. Hey I'm there.

A new baby deer in our front yard today, looked to be only a few hours old. We saw the mommy deer pretty close by.

Gary and Nevada at Bailey Day June 25th 2005

Bailey Day 6-25-05

Bailey Day June 25th 2005

Summer Solstice 2005

Happy Solstice

What a fun time we had while at the Solstice party. Great folks, food and music, as always. Our friends are the absolute best and being able to introduce folks of different groups that didn't know each other but have similar interests was a very fun thing to be able to do.
We successfully stood the proverbial "egg" vertical to stand alone, and as we all were looking on in awe at this feat, about 30 seconds into it; a little kid came by and broke our intense wonderment of it all by grabbing the egg and announcing "mine". This was of course another "aw", of another ilk, as I had never seen this other than on TV or to read about being able to do it.
Fun times....

Half Life

Overheard at the party tonight. "Physics aside, the half life of whiskey is always shorter at an O'Leary party".
What a fun time, good friends, food, and live Irish music.

So Very Proud

Wow, my son just bought a house. He called and told me of all the wonderful details, and his voice was filled with excitement and joy. I am very happy for him and proud too.

Peanuts Quiz

This was a fun quiz, I was pig pen.
Cut and paste into your browser:

http://quizilla.com/users/anonymousnowhere/quizzes/Which%20Peanuts%20Character%20are%20You?/

Spotting Bullshit From Miles Away

Our Clint Barmes of the Rockies who plays short stop has broken his clavicle.
On the news tonight he was talking about how he broke it when he slipped on some steps while carrying groceries. He went on to say that he didn't know it was broken for a time and when he found out he was bummed. That's pretty painful how does one not realize that it's broken?! Is it the fact that he's an athlete that has a higher pain tolerance?
I suspect he was doing something that he shouldn't have been doing, but gave this lame story to cover. I wonder how much money he got in his contract. Maybe I should cut him some slack. It is possible that it happened the way that he says, just because who would make up a story like that.
I'm sorry that it happened, but come on fess up with the truth!

Guilt Professional

I was really enjoying some cherries that I bought at the grocery store the other day. How sweet and firm they were, I loved everything about them.
Then I remembered a conversation I had with my daughter a few years back about how she hated cherries, and thought it was because of the cherry flavored cough syrup I gave her as a child. How terrible not to enjoy fresh yummy cherries.
I used to pick cherries as a kid with alot of my friends. A group of 5 or 6 of us would attack a tree, and pick it clean in a few hours. We would climb up the rickety ladders, and one would climb up the trunk of the tree, and we'd have the radio playing. I remember, "Little Red Riding Hood You Sure Are Looking Good...." as being one of the songs that was current at the time.
Fun fun times, earning money to buy clothes for the next school year, and gas that cost 23.9 cents per gallon at the time sigh....
I would like to think she'd give cherries another chance....

Nut Fat

What a fun discovery. The natural fat that is in almonds is good for your heart. Wow two fun discoveries in one week, fat free hotdogs a few days back, and now the natural fat that is in almonds being good for you. Kinda makes you want to sit down at our dinner table huh?