I am Bachen it this weekend.
I am Bachen it this weekend. My lovely bride is on the West coast visiting her family and I am hanging with Max the obnoxious parrot for the weekend. Ahhhhhhhh! Relaxation at its finest. But...... get home soon Honey before I OD on deadliest catch re-runs. Things get a little boring without you here and you are far better conversationalist than Max.
Actually things have been busy this weekend. I took a friend and his daughter to Gettysburg yesterday. It was a fun day.
Today I am vegging with the crab guys and having meaningful conversations with the bird.
The hard part will be picking up my Bride at the airport at the butt crack of dawn on Wed and having to hold her through the grieving process of dealing with her families poor decisions and financial destitution.
But, hey. I have her back, she has mine and we will be fine. We can only focus on what we can control and we can control our own situation and focus on continuing to guide our Son to viable adulthood. That we can do.
We can't fix everything for everyone. We guide but they don't listen. They don't listen so they have to feel.
Sigh! :?
The world would be a much better place if everyone would just listen to .............. ME! 
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Rags
Does ur bride read ur blogs? Just curious.
Glad u had fun with ur friend and daughter
She knows about my Blog time as a Stalker but does not
regularly read my blogs. She has her own thing going most of the time and we discuss just about everything so most of this would be re-runs for her. I tell her most of what I discuss at work, on-line and when I speak with friends and family.
Often an abbreviated version but we cover each other's day in the evening over dinner and a glass of wine or 20.
Best regards,
Success is rarely final. Failure is rarely fatal. It is character, courage and consistency of effort that count. Vince Lombardi (with some minor Rags modifications) To each according to their performance, screw Karl Marx. (Rags)
TBD. They got their foreclosure notice in June with estimated
execution range of Aug-Sept. No notice on when the Sheriff will boot them yet. My youngest B-I-L is scrambling to try to get his current Iraq deployment VA and Mortgage Protection benefits implemented to cover his Parents farm but from what I here it is extremely unlikely that is possible.
So, they are still in the money pit with pie in the sky hopes of being rescued at the last minute.
I will update as events unfold.
Success is rarely final. Failure is rarely fatal. It is character, courage and consistency of effort that count. Vince Lombardi (with some minor Rags modifications) To each according to their performance, screw Karl Marx. (Rags)
I am not sure if our friends have crabs but I will ask.
Nope, my Lovely Bride and I are not on the outs. We are in most cases remarkably synced though we do have our Two fights that we cycle through periodically. 1. House Work (we both hate it). 2 Dealing with the SpermClan (I follow the "kick em in the ass philosophy, she tends to try to minimize their toxic crap on the Skid by negotiating and being nice until they give her no choice but to "kick em in the ass" which is were nearly every interface with them ultimately ends up).
For me the "butt crack of dawn" is anything before Noon (I am a chronic night owl). But as far as picking her up at the Air Port ....... her flight is scheduled to get in at 2:00AM which for my internal clock is approaching bed time.
Success is rarely final. Failure is rarely fatal. It is character, courage and consistency of effort that count. Vince Lombardi (with some minor Rags modifications) To each according to their performance, screw Karl Marx. (Rags)
I'm listening..... :)
~ " I'm awful sorry you got pissed, just have to cross you off the list, of my true friends." PHISH~
I rather enjoy your
I rather enjoy your writings.
To every thing there is a season.
Thanks. Writings may be a bit grandiose for what I do but ....
I do appreciate the props.
As for history..... yep, I am a bit of a history buff. I have been to Gettysburg ~4 times in the nearly 5yrs I have lived in teh Mid Atlantic region. This past weekend was the first time since the Nat. Park service opened the new visitors center/museum. They did a great job.
It is a very emotionally intense visit IMHO. Both sides were commited to their relative perspectives and exhibited extraordinary capabilities and bravery during that three day nightmare.
Interestingly, my friend and his daughter spent Sunday in DC at the holocaust museum. They both said a weekend filled with such emotionally intense activities was more than they would recommend. Sat at Gettysburg and Sun at the DC holocaust museum was apparently a little much for one weekend.
Success is rarely final. Failure is rarely fatal. It is character, courage and consistency of effort that count. Vince Lombardi (with some minor Rags modifications) To each according to their performance, screw Karl Marx. (Rags)
Gettysburg
Rags,
DH, the kids & I visited Gettysburg a couple of weeks ago as well. DH is also a HUGE Civil War buff. I'm almost ashamed to say that this was our 1st trip out there...and we live in PA!
It was more than we ever imagined- Beautiful and moving. We used an official Battlefield Guide, which I think made the day even more meaningful and interesting, especially for the kids- they were completely engaged. Did you ever do that?
The new museuem was amazing as well. We finished up by going into town and visiting the David Wills house and a midnight Ghost Tour, where we had an incredible paranormal experience while walking up on Cemetery Hill!
DH and I decided to go back annually, it was that incredible. So much to see, that two days time just doesn't "cut it".
"Of course things worked out nicely for Carol Brady...she had a live-in maid and Mike's first wife was DEAD!"
Yep, we have done Battle Field Guide in our car, the guided bus
tour and I bought the History Channel Auto Tour on Sat which is a CD narrated by a very experienced licensed Battle Field guide with associated maps and other information. The next set of family or friends that visits I can just pop in the CD unless of course they would prefer a live Guide or to take the guided bus tour.
We have also done some of the G-burg historical building tour stuff and two Ghost tours that were pretty neat. No apparitions but I did get a pretty cool Orb picture that is florescent green and about the size of a football compared to the peoples heads it is floating over. The guide asked me to e-mail a copy of the picture when I showed it to her. She has sent a couple of follow up e-mails indicating that neither she nor her colleagues know what it is. Apparently the color is extremely unusual.
We have eaten at the Dobbin House a few times which is a pre Civil War structure and was a stop on the Under Ground Rail Road pre Civil War. Pretty neat if you go back to G-Burg.
If you are in to history I recommend that you tour Ft Mifflin, Fort DuPont and Ft Mott which are all short drives from Philly. Mifflin is next to the Air Port (Revolutionary War Coastal Artillery Fort) and Ft DuPont/Ft Mott (War of 1812 Coastal Artillery Forts and used as a prison during the Civil War, WWI and WWII) is a few minutes south of Wilmington DE. You catch the ferry from Delaware City to Pea Patch Island (Ft DuPont) and from the island to Ft Mott on the NJ side of the ferry line. Both are short drives and inexpensive day trips.
I actually had an interesting Paranormal experience at Mifflin. TAPS did a Ghost Hunters episode there before we went. We watch Ghost Hunters but I am/was a pretty strong sceptic. I did get poked in the back at Mifflin which is one of those things that make you go Hmmmmmm?
But I will maintain my sceptic status until a full body apparition picks me up, spins me and smacks me around all on camera. :O
I am glad you enjoyed Gettysburg. It is an amazing and hallowed place in our nations history. I think it is great that your Kids enjoyed it. Unfortunately I think that American history in HS does not go in to enough depth on those types of things these days. Until I took him, my Son (SS) had never heard of Gettysburg which is sad I think.
Anyway, I am glad you had a good family trip.
Success is rarely final. Failure is rarely fatal. It is character, courage and consistency of effort that count. Vince Lombardi (with some minor Rags modifications) To each according to their performance, screw Karl Marx. (Rags)
Thanks for the info
We are definitely planning to go back and planning our itinerary of the places we missed the first time through. Even with a Battlefield Guide (which we will use next time as well), there is so much ground to cover. We didn't even make it to Culp's Hill or to the National Cemetery.
The next trip will be just DH and I. Although all our kids went there previously on school trips and liked this trip, I don't think they would tolerate 4-5 days there as we are planning.
Your orb pic sounds quite interesting. We didn't get anything on film, but 7 people in our tour saw a full-body apparition of a young Union soldier. So real, in fact, we thought he was a re-enactor at first...
until we realized there WERE no re-enactors in the woods at midnight. And only 7 people out of 35 of us saw him. And when we turned around to point him out to the others...he was GONE.
I looked him right in the eye and smiled at him. So did my SD. In fact, he was so adorably cute, she tried to flirt with him!
She was so funny. She later put on her FB page...
"Met a guy on my vacation. He's cute, and he's got blue eyes (he did!) He's from the North and looks good in a uniform. The only problem is...he's been DEAD for about 146 years!"
It was so mind-altering and unlike anything we ever experienced, it even made a believer out of my incredibly skeptical DH, who was just blown away by it all.
"Of course things worked out nicely for Carol Brady...she had a live-in maid and Mike's first wife was DEAD!"