Thursday, September 18, 2008

Elk at LOone Elk Park!

Friday, August 08, 2008

Yup, here we are in sunny Pennsylvania. We just lunched at the world famous.....ha! Midway Diner! Bison burgers and meatloaf...how could one go wrong...

We are on our way home from Lawn Guyland. We spent a few days there after the Longaberger bee. Nice coincidence that Marshall and Diane were there as well from Australia. We haven't seen them since we were there in 2001. Probably won't see them again for another few years.

Nice to be with folks but the humidity and mozzies (that's skeeters to you and me) drove us nuts. Window a/c just doesn't do much for a whole house.

Might stop in on Howie and co. on the way home. I haven't met Norah yet.

That is all....for now....

Monday, June 16, 2008

Check it out!!!!

Friday, June 13, 2008

storm front

Oooooh......spooky sky!

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Nathan's Chicago apt.

Nathan was in Chicago for a block, studying a history topic at the Newberry Library in downtown Chicago. His topic was the rivalry between St. Louis and Chicago. The students stayed in the Canterbury Court Apts in the Gold Coast area. Those of you not familiar with Chicago don't know that it is the second most affluent area in the US.
As one could assume, he had a wonderful time and has decided he is definitely a "city boy"!

Laumeier Sculpture Park

We did another 30/30 walk on Monday through Laumeier Park in STL County. Very pretty walk through some woods, as well as paved trails. This is only a sampling of the large number of artworks in the park. I don't necessarily go in for modern or contemporary art, but I do appreciate the work involved.
The red one has been there forever. The wooden box one is one I hadn't noticed before. There are 45 of them, virtually identical. I think I'd have stopped at about three. LOL
The blurb on the white man (I personally hate those artist blurbs...) says that the artist started at #1 and has sequenced numbers every day. This is how far he or she got when this was finished. "Man's inhumanity to man," is all I can say. :P

Sunday, March 23, 2008

happy easter!

Blooming cross at church. happy day!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! Blooming cross at church.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Magic stripes sox for me!!!

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Monday, November 19, 2007

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Hey! its that Bean guy!

Friday, April 20, 2007

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Happy Birthday to me LOL



Thanks to Mardy Bum for her wonderful Sharpe caps. And cos I'm basically lazy, here is the link to the pic spam I did on LJ.

http://fabjacuzzi.livejournal.com/

Enjoy!!!

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Letter from Matt Damon

Dear ONE Campaign Member:


I just returned from a 7 day trip to South Africa and Zambia. What I saw changed my life. I want to tell you about my trip and let you know about billions of dollars in development assistance that is at risk this week.

Each day, I saw the devastating impact of AIDS and extreme poverty, but I also saw the incredible work being done to save lives and give people the tools to provide for themselves. I visited a facility that reduced, by half, the chances of a mother transmitting HIV to their child. I met a 24 year old woman who told me that there was a good chance the anti-retrovirals she was taking would save the her baby's life. The next day, I met a widow who had become self-sufficient thanks to a micro-finance loan. With her new financial freedom, she was not only able to take care of her children, but also began caring for local orphans.

The biggest lesson I took home from the trip was that folks in these countries can turn things around if given the basic resources that we take for granted here every day. That's why I was shocked to learn from the ONE campaign that within the next 2 weeks the U.S. Senate is poised to slash billions of dollars from President Bush's plan to fight AIDS and poverty.

This is an outrage - and it can be stopped. Please join me in speaking out right now!
http://www.one.org/dia/track.jsp?key=53122690&url_num=1&url=http://www.one.org/dia/organizationsONE/one/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1285&t=OneColumn.dwt

The second day of the trip, I met children at an orphan care center in Zambia who had HIV\AIDS. Most of them couldn't remember their parents because they died of AIDS when they were only babies. Frederick, an HIV positive father showed me something called a "Memory Book." A scrapbook with pictures and stories about him he was putting together for his son so he would have something to remember him with after they he was gone. About 650,000 children in Zambia are AIDS orphans. They play "Duck, Duck, Goose" and "London Bridge" just like kids around the world, but without help; the problems they face are only going to get much worse. We can't let Congress cut funding that provides critical assistance to kids like these all across Africa.

Senators Mike DeWine (R) and Dianne Feinstein (D) have written a letter to their colleagues in the Senate asking them to stop these devastating cuts in funding for the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. With just 30 seconds of your time, you can send a quick note to your Senators asking them to support this funding and add their signature to this important letter.

The work we are doing on the ONE Campaign will change the world. It already has. Let's keep up the pressure and make sure they know we won't let billions of dollars in cuts to the President's request for the world's poor go unnoticed.

Ask your Senator to support critical development assistance
http://www.one.org/dia/track.jsp?key=53122690&url_num=2&url=http://www.one.org/dia/organizationsONE/one/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1285&t=OneColumn.dwt


Matt Damon

P.S. Click here to join communities around the world for the AIDS Candlelight Memorial on May 21.
http://www.one.org/dia/track.jsp?key=53122690&url_num=3&url=http://www.candlelightmemorial.org/

Sign the ONE declaration here: www.one.org

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Goodbye AdultSean

Okay so......the thing is that this group has been around forever. There have been some personnel changes of course, but generally things have been pretty much the same for quite some time. However, we do have a nutso freak owner and she has a tendency to bitch at anyone and everyone for no apparent reason, but then offer a very shallow apology later. She's acting like a famous person's brother is on that list. Really nutty stuff. Well anyway, the shite hit the fan last night, she ranted and raved, he ranted and raved, and apparently we were all guilty of something that nobody had a clue about. Very scary....so...she gives the list to the other owner (normal one) and then poof-we wake up this morning, the list is gone. Naturally she's blaming everyone but her, but you have to be an owner to delete a list. Duh. Biotch.

Anyway to cheer myself up, here's some caps I did of Challenge. They aren't great, but they are okay.