Archive for June, 2007
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
Field Day
Ever seen a woman cry over a porta-john?
This weekend was “Field Day” for Amateur Radio Operators. Its a really big deal event for HAMs all over the country. Its purpose is for individuals and groups to test their emergency preparedness, educate the community about Amateur Radio, and have some fun at the same time.
Our club [...]
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
“Vacation”
Hi Y’all,
We’re doing okay. I’ve been on “vacation” from our lives. I did something I swore I wasn’t going to do. I started making maps for this year’s MS bike ride coming up in September. I swore I wasn’t going to do them partly because of the all new routes (which gave me the excuse that [...]
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Salute
Lew went back to the store yesterday to clean out his locker and to see the folks he didn’t get to see on Tuesday. When he got home, he starting calling everyone he missed — leaving Mickey for last.
In my last post, I claimed to be the hero of this adventure. The more accurate version [...]
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Wonder Woman
Last week, Alice asked Lew to come in to the store today. She was too busy doing interviews all last week to spend any time with him then. When Lew arrived and saw that Alice wasn’t alone in the office . . . Lew was told the decision was made this morning that they weren’t [...]
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
A New Man in Our Lives?
A couple of weeks ago, I parked my van down on the street with large signs front and back, “Van Washer Wanted.” A bit later, a young man from the far side of the neighborhood rang our bell.
Lew wasn’t happy with me. He thought he could, at least, hose down my van. I reminded him [...]
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Learning
Yesterday’s storm scared the daylights out of me! I was napping when the thunder suddenly had me clinging to to ceiling. Then the ruckus began. Hail hitting the windows. I jumped up and closed the shades in the bedroom and hit the button to drop the shades over the picture window in the bathroom — [...]
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Honey Dos
Lew got his very first, for real, job jar today. I threw in a bunch of folded pieces of paper and realized that the jar was way too big. Lew stuck his hand in and was shocked by how many were in there. He groaned when I added more later this evening.
When I got up [...]