Hi Everyone. It's been almost a year since I've posted a blog on this account. For you that haven't heard from me in almost a year here's what's going on. Judy and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary last June, Our grandkids the twins turned 2 on January 11. Also son returned home from his 3rd tour in Iraq in October, My parent's sold there house in October and have moved up by us, We just finished helping them build a small house on the property. Judy dad will be retiring in May. Judy in December was hit by a drunk driver She is fine the car was total they caught the person, July and January I was injured twice fighting fires nothing serious March I went back to building and launching model rockets. That's about it in our lives. Take care everyone and Have a great week. :) Mt Pocono Pennsylvania. A Tribute to Rod Serling Port Orford Oregon Stiles N.C. St Johns Newfoundland Lewis River Falls Washington State Lafayette Indiana Yoho NP B.C. Structure Fire Date : Address : Officer : 2/13/2008 4016 N. Division BC Craig Cornelius Narrative : This evening, February 13, 2008 at 2210 hours, the Spokane Fire Department responded to a reported fire in the Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant located at 4016 N. Division St. The first arriving fire companies arrived within 5 minutes of being dispatched and found heavy grey smoke coming from the rear of the building. Workers from the restaurant reported that the fire was in the rear kitchen area and that everyone had safely evacuated the burning building. Fire crews forced a rear metal door off the kitchen area and attacked the fire with several fire attack leads. Additional crews ventilated the roof and front windows to assist the firefighters advancing the leads inside the building. Interior crews fought fire throughout the entire kitchen and rear roof areas. The firefighters brought the fire under control within 30 minutes. There were no injuries to civilians or firefighters at this incident. The restaurant sustained heavy fire and smoke damage. The cause of this fire is still under investigation. The official pronouncement will be made by investigators after all evidence has been reviewed. Fire crews will likely be on the scene for the remainder of the night. Cause : Still Under Investigation. Damage : Extensive damage to the entire kitchen area. Grand Coulee Dam Laser Light Show. This narrated story, combines colorful lasers that move across the entire span of the dam, creating magnificent moving images that virtually dance across the spillway! Beautiful music, and an uplifting patriotic finish, provide worthy entertainment for all ages! You can see and hear the program from and around the Visitors Arrival Center. Viewing bleachers are available.

We lost a wonderful friend yesterday. Drea always had a way to make us laugh threw here blogs. She was a wonderful person to so many people. Prayers to her Ffamily and friends.

Enjoy the photos and joke.

Have a good week. :)

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Can you guess who this Actor is. ?





Two-Medicine fall in Glacier-Nat. Park



Scattata dalla costa calabr.



Mount Rainer. Washington State.



New-Brunswick




Mural Lompoc CA.



Cavendish Prince Edward Island.



Sunset Over Gaston North Carolina.




Brown County in Indiana

A guide to walking tigers

Tigers really are as big and poofy and soft as they look, and they purr like a freight train going by. You find this out by taking one for a walk. To take a tiger for a walk, you first need a tiger. Tigers fresh from the bush are not recommended for the inexperienced. What you need is one who's used to the procedure. He or she is thus liable to be merely playful, rather than actively irritated. You also need a friend, whom you really, really trust. The friend carries an apple wood cane; apple, or some other wood which will bend under stress rather than shattering. This, friend, is your backup, and the cane is his or her only tool for everything, from knocking stuff out of the way that the tiger is liable to eat, to crowd control, to hooking on and madly hanging on if things go wrong.

What YOU carry is a ten foot length of pass-link chain. This is your leash.

Pass-link chain is the stuff where the links will fit through each other. This is important. You need this so you can hook on a safety clip. The chain is looped about the tiger's neck and acks as a giant choke-chain, but the clip is there to keep a loop of some sort in case things go badly wrong. You carry the chain looped in one hand in a peculiar fashion which permits the whole length of chain to be dragged from your hand without taking your hand and/or arm with it. You practice this beforehand till you're sure you've got it right.

Then you go into the cage with the tiger. Your friend does not. You gauge the tiger's mood and put the leash on the tiger. There isn't a whole lot more to say about this step except to say that that is why your friend is there, OUTside the cage. On your side is the fact that the tiger knows what the leash is for by this time and presumably is largely in favor of the idea.

This is where you find out that tigers are soft and poofy. They are also much, much larger than you had ever dreamed, when you're standing next to one.

Then you take the tiger for a walk. Your friend walks in front with the cane to clear the way. You walk with the tiger at your side, keeping pretty good control and letting the tiger know that you are Paying Attention, because if the tiger thinks you are not Paying Attention, it will do what housecats do, let you know that you should be Paying Attention. Unlike housecats, the tiger is big enough not to have to do anything truly outrageous to rectify the situation. Reaching behind you with one forepaw and sweeping your legs out from under you is generally considered good enough by most tigers. They think this is hilarious. To this extent, tigers differ from housecats in that they seem to have a sense of humor.

It is possible that the tiger will see something that it wants. In this case, the tiger will go where it wants to go, and your job is to stop it. This is generally done by wrapping the chain around something that you pass, as the tiger drags you away. This will slow it down enough for your friend to jump on top of you and grab the chain as you go bulleting across the countryside. The weight of two adult humans will generally slow a tiger down enough to make things manageable, whereas one will not.

It is not usual for the tiger to react to freedom by turning around and turning you into fajitas, though this would actually (at least in the short term) be an eminently practical thing for the tiger to do. They enjoy their fun but are generally not ill-tempered. If they are they don't get taken for walks.

They also purr like a freight train passing. Experts in the field claim that this is not purring, that it means something else, but you couldn't put it by me. Sure sounded like purring, at 16-2/3 RPM, but it sounded like purring.

All in all, an experience I highly recommend as a lifetime source of cocktail party conversation, but it sort of tends to leave you limp for the rest of the day.


Todays Lunch Nachos
The last time I had Nachos, Was six months ago.

Well it seems I have offended some people on the site and I apologize. I will not be doing any more blogs for a while or responding to people blogs after today.

Goodbye. Jason.

I've been tagged by cherokeelady42

1. I've been married almost 25 years
2. I've worked for the same company almost 25 years
3. I'm a volunteer Firefighter.
4. I live in the Evergreen State
5. I enjoy fishing and camping
6. I have 2 grandkids
7. I have 1 Brother and 4 sisters all younger.

I will tag KFCgravy,Kimba and Hoffman9102

Not a whole lot going with us just been working, We did have a little snow here and went down to my parents to celebrate my Mothers 70 th birthday. Thats it for now have a wonderful weekend. :)

Hayden-Falls Ohio

New-Brunswick Sussex

Mural Lompac CA.

Sunset Madison IN.

Pinnacle Peak Mt-Rainier-NP

Mount-Stewart. Prince Edward Island.

Elk Rocky Mountain National Park

Blue Ridge National-Parkway N.C.

Is Windows a virus?

With the recent problems being encountered by Windows users all across the country, people are begin to ask themselves if windows is a virus. In response to the high demand for an answer to that question a study was done and concluded the following.

1. Viruses replicate quickly.
Windows does this.

2. Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so.
Windows does this.

3. Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk.
Windows does this.

4. Viruses are usually carried, unkown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems.
Windows does that too.

5. Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware.
Same with Windows, yet again.

Maybe Windows really is a virus.

Nope! There is a difference!

Viruses are well supported by their authors, are frequently updated, and tend to become more sophisticated as they mature. So there! Windows is not a virus.

Here's lunch for everyone. :D

Last night I was level 51.31% and this morning when I check my Q. Just came back on to the site to post comments and I'm leve 53.55%. missribs said there would a change to levels updates for 51 and above I didn't expect this big of a jump. :o

Mary is at level 91. Congrats. :)

Update I won't be back on till morning run the computer in to get some work done on it. My hard drive is acting up.

Have a great day. :)

[color=green]The Ship my grandfather served on in the Pre WW1 German Navy. He passed away in 1945. 19 years before I was born. A photo with him and his shimpmates. He's top row first one on the left. Prinz Adalbert of the German Prinz Adalbert forbidden Cruiser. The Prinz Adalbert was built at Kiel Dockyard and laid down in 1900, launched 22nd June 1901 and completed for the German navy 12th January 1904. She was intended for use in Oversea cruiser Station but instead was used as a Gunnery training Ship. When war broke out in 1914. Prinz Adalbert was mobilized for war service. but on the 23rd October 1914 was torpedoed and sunk with heavy loss of life by British Submarine E8, off Libau Displacement: 9719 tons. Speed: 20.5 Knots, Compliment: 591, Armament: Four 210mm Guns (2x2), Ten 150mm Twelve 88mm, Four machine guns and Four 450mm Torpedo Tubes.(submerged)[/color] [color=blue]The following is supposedly a true story relating a situation that actually occurred in Los Angeles. The Marines were backing-up LAPD on a call that someone had broken into a store. At the scene, the cop told the Marines to "cover" him as he approched the store (to police, "cover" means to point your weapons in the direction of the threat, to Marines it means lay down a base of fire!). The Marines promptly laid down a base of fire. The Marines fired 178 rounds before they stopped shooting. The thief, probably a little scared at this point, called 911 and reported, "They're shooting at me!".[/color]

I haven't felt like doing a blog lately and been doing a little blogging lately. Family emergency and every thing is fine now. We did go to the Blue Man Group on Tuesday.

Have a great day. :)



Fire Helmet Cam



Sunset Lompac CA.



Sardegna-Alghero




Grandfather-Mountain N.C.




Ayers-Rock Australia





Yosemite-Valley Glacier NP



Manuels-River Newfoundland



Bald Eagle Idaho

 

The weekend is for  some of us. Me I've been just doing little this week and not killing my self with work. I actually sat downand watch some movies Battlestar Galactica 1978 and How the West was Won.

It's been cold here too and finely climbing back into the 30's.

I can't believe it's been 25 years almost. There already have plans for our 25th High School reunion in August. Been talking to a few of our classmates lately looking forward too it. Some have passed on and they are missed.

Have a  great weekend.  :)






Bottomless-Pools North Carolina.




Beaver chief-Falls Glacier NP.



 Jamal Beach CA.



New-Brunswick Jemseg.


Sun Set, Cagliar Italy

 I can't think of any really to say just very disappointed on how bugs are being worked on and how problems keep popping up on the site. It hasn't effected me now but what I have read the feelings about this site, A lot of people are not happy.

On to better note.  I'm ready to do some fishing and Judy says hi. I'll post a better blog later in the week. Photobucket is down for Maintenance I was able to post on picture. Just a funk today sorry.

Have a good day.




 

Hi everyone.

Haven't had a whole lot of time for the site and just getting stuff done at home and at work. Was down with the flu for a few days.

I've decide to start retiring from some guides just don't have the time. I will keep three guides already assigned some TU.

Will know more of whats going to happen in a couple of months with my  job assignment,  I don't feel like discussing it n this site right now till I know more.

Have a nice weekend.
 



Snoqualmie-Falls Washington State


Sunset-in-Costa-Verde Italy


Prince-Edward-Island Sunset


Lompoc CA.  flower-fields


Smoky-Mountains-in-North-Carolina


Glacier-National-Park