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Comments: I don't really know where to begin this post. Usually, I have something humorous to share. Today I come to you asking for a little prayer for the soul of my 27 yr. old daughter Jill. Some of you know that for nearly ten years she's struggled with depression, drug addiction, and mental illness. Late last night I got a phone call from her uncle. He told me Jill had taken her own life yesterday evening in Houston. It was a call I had expected for nearly four years - but it still hit hard when it arrived. I imagine we will have a private family farewell for her. Not sure yet about the details. There are tears aplenty for a young life that once offered so much promise. 
Comments: It is also very cold and iced over here in Pottsboro and being couped up with two teenagers and two dogs is truly testing the strength of my heart!! No school since Monday and out again tomorrow. We have such steep hills here the streets are better everywhere else while we are still iced over. Think I may look into living in Florida. The news today said the Houston area is about to get hit with the snow. Hope everyone is warm and safe.
Comments: Lynell, did you see the eagle drop her egg about 30 minutes ago?
Comments: The veracity of "Groundhog Day" examined in depth by Mortimer and Monte: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlYQBAQx_jQ
Comments: The icemaker isn't working, making me think a pipe in the attic is frozen. Oh, noooooooo. 
Comments: 23 degrees and rolling planned blackouts in Houston throughout the day. brrr!
Comments: So much for the old adage about the mail always getting through regardless of weather - no mail delivery yesterday and probably only 3 cars on the street all day long. Today will be another ice day lock-in - glad I'm retired but not looking forward to paying the electric bill. The central heat has been running non-stop since yesterday!
Comments: Hope all you folks in the frozen tundra stay safe and warm. It's a balmy 35 here in the Houston area. Chili and Margarita time!
Comments: Used to love to go to Kip's with Steve Hunton.
Comments: We're not "iced in" but it is plenty cold here. I was reading today where The Woodlands and Cairo both are located on the same global latitude line (30 degrees north of the equator). I'll bet it's warmer in Cairo, although I'm not anxious to travel there. Looking ahead to Groundhog Day makes me think of our young grandson. On the "short list" of baby names for him was Ernest and Punxsutawney. Lucky for him his folks settled on calling him Reid.
Comments: Is everybody iced in? There hasn't been a single car go down our street today. We have had a lot of friends call us and the dogs keep looking out the window barking at NOTHING. I guess they are hoping one of our neighbors will take their dog for a walk.
Comments: SNOW DAY!! I am iced in, but I'm using this time productively awaiting this eagle couple's first egg of the season. I'll warn you that this website can be habit forming! Bill Akins got me hooked last season when this pair raised triplets. http://www.wvec.com/marketplace/microsite-content/eagle-cam.html
Comments: Funniest site around. Thanks!
Comments: Cynthia, great idea! Maybe the guys at facebook will share how they do that. We need one for John's geo stories. As for dinner at Three Forks, I'll believe that refund when I see it!
Comments: Lynell - where is the like button? I like those stories John. I agree with Bill -likely the best yet. Lynell - what a sandwich after finding your own money? How about a steak at 3 Forks? Surely there was enough for a big spurge.
Comments: Yeah, Bill, I thought the Wedding at the Dreyfuss Club concept was mighty clever. It is up to me to move the geocoin to another cache that is somewhat closer to Germany. Here is what the ying-yang geocoin will look like once it is reunited with its counterpart: 
Comments: JS, that may be one of the better geo-crashing stories you've told yet!
Comments: I found a geocache in the woods this morning that has a link to Dallas. It was located off I-45 back in a woodsy thicket. The container was hanging about 10 ft. off the ground, suspended with some paracord. This type of cache is called a "TravelBug Hotel" and is meant to house certain items in transit to elsewhere. http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/I-45_hotel1.jpg I untied the cord and lowered the cache. I added a TravelBug and a pathtag, and removed a coded Geocoin and a $5 Peso. Later I looked up the code on the Geocoin and learned it had traveled over 7,800 miles, beginning in Brandenburg, Germany. The coin is half of a ying-yang shape and has the mission of someday rejoining the other half back in Germany. It had moved through a series of caches and crossed the Atlantic to end up in a cache outside of Waxahachie. http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/I-45_hotel3.jpg Then it made its way to the east side of White Rock Lake near a site that once housed the Dreyfuss Club (built in 1936 by Sol Dreyfuss). In late 2006 the Dreyfuss Club burned to the ground. At that time the city owned it and rented it out for weddings and parties. The White Rock cache therefore had a "wedding" theme. It was a container the size of a large pickel jar and included a bridal veil and bridal bouquet and a "guest register". The hider of the cache encourages all finders to bring their cameras and pose for a "bridal portrait", then post it online. Here are a couple of fun "portraits" recently posted: http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/dreyfuss1.jpg http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/dreyfuss2.jpg After one of the "ceremonies" the little Geocoin was taken from that cache and transported 194 miles south, then dropped off south of Conroe in that cache hanging in the tree - for me to find. It was a fun morning.
Comments: You got it. We're getting some of our money back!
Comments: Obviously, the Garrett-Smiths are in line for a refund.
Comments: My husband and I spent a few hours with Turbo Tax today. Whoopie! We just E-filed! Time for a cocktail to celebrate, followed by a cold sliced chicken sammy. I love America!
Comments: Back at you Kathleen! Happy Birthday to you AND to Sandra and Wayne!
Comments: Just wanted to wish my follow classmates Sandra Osborne Phillips and Wayne Zablosky a Happy Birthday! We certainly had beautiful weather in which to celebrate our birthdays.
Comments: There is a movement among some college lecturers to ban cell phones in their classrooms, because -- in addition to the obvious danger of cheating on exams -- students allegedly spend the whole period texting/web-surfing, etc., and not listening to the lecture. That might explain the recent study showing that way too many people come out of college knowing no more than they knew when they started!
Comments: You guys took notes in college?
Comments: Um, I think note taking in college has changed to recording or voice typing or waaaaaaaaaaaay sompin else than writing....that was waaaaaaaaaaaay back in the dark ages when I went to college...that writing stuff. Can the kids these days read a conventional clock? Some..NO because of the digital clocks...this technical age is erasing the thought process.
Comments: Lynell, I'm sure my Grandsons would happily fix any of your electronics for free, but you would have to put up with their condescending attitudes, as they regard those of us who aren't computer geniuses as simple-minded Luddites. Regarding not teaching cursive writing, it's already happened. My 15-year-old Grandson was never taught cursive and can only print, although he's pretty good at reading cursive. How will they ever read the Declaration of Independence? Oh, wait, bad example: no one can read that. But, it will slow their note-taking in college, if they're attempting to do it manually. Linus Wright's suggestion probably won't find any traction at DISD; he left under a cloud and has only negative good-will.
Comments: Remember what fun it was to give a funny name to the seating hostess at Kip's? "Schnickelfritz, party of two"? Gosh, was that hilarious.
Comments: Or the Kip's Big Boy after a movie date on Friday night.
Comments: Seems like just yesterday when we were at Red Bryan's or Arthur's after a football game. |
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