February 27, 2003
Another one come and gone, Taina decided to move on. I have tickets for Saturday’s opera :IL TROVATORE” but no one to go with again! Onward and forward.
Susan sent an email:
Answers to Questions You Never Asked (or even thought to ask)
1. HOW DO YOU GET HOLY WATER? You boil the hell out of it.
2. WHAT DO FISH SAY WHEN THEY HIT A CONCRETE WALL? Dam.
3. WHAT DO ESKIMOS GET FROM SITTING ON THE ICE? Polaroids.
4. WHAT DO YOU CALL CHEESE THAT ISN’T YOURS? Nacho cheese.
5. WHAT DO YOU CALL A BOOMERANG THAT DOESN’T WORK? A stick.
6. WHAT DO YOU CALL SANTA’S HELPERS? Subordinate clauses.
7. WHAT DO YOU CALL FOUR BULLFIGHTERS IN QUICKSAND? Quattro sinko.
8. WHAT DO YOU GET FROM A PAMPERED COW? Spoiled milk.
9. WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU CROSS A SNOWMAN WITH A VAMPIRE? Frostbite.
10. WHAT LIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN AND TWITCHES? A nervous wreck.
11. WHERE DO YOU FIND A DOG WITH NO LEGS? Right where you left him.
12. WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ROAST BEEF AND PEA SOUP? Anyone can roast beef.
13. WHY DO GORILLAS HAVE BIG NOSTRILS? Because they have big fingers.
14. WHY DON’T BLIND PEOPLE LIKE TO SKYDIVE? Because it scares the dog.
15. WHAT KIND OF COFFEE WAS SERVED ON THE TITANIC? Sanka
16. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HARLEY AND A HOOVER? The location of the dirt bag.
17. WHY DO A PILGRIM’S PANTS ALWAYS FALL DOWN? Because they wear their buckles on their hats.
18. WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BAD GOLFER AND A BAD SKYDIVER? A bad
golfer goes whack, damn. A bad skydiver goes, damn, whack.
19. HOW DO YOU CATCH A UNIQUE RABBIT? Unique up on it.
20. HOW DO YOU CATCH A TAME RABBIT? Tame way, unique up on it.
21. WHAT DO YOU CALL SKYDIVING LAWYERS? Skeet.
22. HOW ARE A TEXAS TORNADO AND A TENNESSEE DIVORCE THE SAME? Somebody’s gonna lose a trailer!
February 23, 2003
Note from Amy:
We’re doing great!! We just got an all in one scanner/printer/copier, so I am playing with it. I will try to send you a photo that I have been wanting to send you since Christmas!! It’s Sarah on Christmas day. 🙂
Glad all is well, I love you!
Amy
The Engineers Week Banquet went well, we sat next to the Engineer of the Year! Then I went to breaking the bridges over at USF. The kids have fun with that too. We were going to go to the races today but Taina’s daughter had to work and Taina is taking care of her kids for her. Jim and I might go sailing then, the weather is surpurb!
February 20, 2003
The opera Madame Butterfly was wonderful. Taina and I had a great time; next is dinner at the Engineers Week Banquet Friday!
February 18, 2003
We did go sailing on Saturday, Jim, Taina and myself. It was perfect out there! We had a great sail, then as we approached the bridge and I was taking down the sail, a seam blew out. Jim will have to repair it. This is about the fourth seam he has had to re-sew. On Sunday Joel and I put together the brochure and the music for the St. Patrick’s Day Fiddlers. I still have not gone back to playing my bass. My tendonitis in my elbow is still giving me fits.
Tonight Jim and I are playing chess, tomorrow afternoon there is a hearing for my GAL kid, and in the evening…..Taina and I are going to the opera!!! Madame Butterfly http://opera.stanford.edu/Puccini/Butterfly/
Should be fun!
February 14, 2003
Picture of the day, this morning’s sunrise at home.
February 13, 2003
And a happy Valentines Day to you all tomorrow.
I have a new Valentine!! Her name is Taina and she is from Jolly Old England. We have been dating a whole week. So far we have plans to go sailing, go the opera and to go the engineers banquet together!
Just a great friend.
I see it is
in Vermont!! It is going to be near 80 degrees here Saturday and we are going sailing!!
February 9, 2003
It has been a while since I have updated this! Dad’s birthday came and went, we had a good meal with their friends at John’s Steakhouse. Dad and Betty’s anniversary came and went, they had a great time reliving their honeymoon up in Georgia. Dad, Betty and Shirley went over to visit Darrell in his new 5th wheeler Saturday while I was teaching.
Aunt Shirley is still here, she and I spent the night in Zephyrhills last night. Shirley has been helping me with the genealogy. She gave me some old pictures and I took pictures of some large pictures of our grandparents dad had:
Grandmother (Dad’s mother) Lillian Iola (Weymouth) Herrick
Grandfather Daniel Abijah Herrick
Great Grandmother Elizabeth (Locke) Herrick
Great Grandfather Daniel Herrick
Great Grandfather (grandmother’s side) Andrew Jackson Weymouth
February 1, 2003 (errata)
What a terrible accident. David Brown (one of the astronauts) was Wesley Wynn’s cousin. His parents were called and invited to watch the landing. Shirley was in contact with them prior to the attempted landing. Our prayers go out to them.
David Brown was a Navy novelty: a jet pilot as well as a doctor. He was also probably the only NASA astronaut to have worked as a circus acrobat. (It was a summer job during college.) He said what he learned about “the teamwork and the safety and the staying focused” carried over to his space job. He joined the Navy after his medical internship, and held a captain’s rank. NASA chose him as an astronaut in 1996. This was the 46-year-old Virginia native’s first space flight. Personal data: Single.
 Columbia’s Problems Began on Left WingBy Marcia Dunn Associated Press Aerospace Writer posted: 06:55 pm ET 01 February 2003 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Investigators trying to figure out what destroyed space shuttle Columbia immediately focused on the left wing and the possibility that its thermal tiles were damaged far more seriously than NASA realized by a piece of debris during liftoff.Just a little over a minute into Columbia’s launch Jan. 16, a chunk of insulating foam peeled away from the external fuel tank and smacked into the ship’s left wing.On Saturday, that same wing started exhibiting sensor failures and other problems 23 minutes before Columbia was scheduled to touch down. With just 16 minutes remaining before landing, the shuttle disintegrated over Texas.Just the day before, on Friday, NASA’s lead flight director, Leroy Cain, had declared the launch-day incident to be absolutely no safety threat. And an extensive engineering analysis had concluded that any damage to Columbia’s thermal tiles would be minor.”As we look at that now in hindsight, we can’t discount that there might be a connection,” shuttle manager Ron Dittemore said on Saturday, hours after the tragedy. “But we have to caution that we can’t rush to judgment, because a lot of things in this business that look like the smoking gun but turn out not to be close.”The shuttle’s more than 20,000 thermal tiles protect it from the extreme heat of re-entry into the atmosphere.He said that the disaster could have also been caused by a structural failure of some sort.As for other possibilities, however, NASA said that until the problems with the wing were noticed, everything else appeared to be working fine.Dittemore said there was nothing that the astronauts could have done in orbit to fix damaged thermal tiles and nothing that flight controllers could have done to safely bring home a severely scarred shuttle, given the extreme temperatures of re-entry.The shuttle broke apart while being exposed to the peak temperature of 3,000 degrees on the leading edge of the wings, while traveling at 12,500 mph, or 18 times the speed of sound.Dittemore said that even if the astronauts had gone out on an emergency spacewalk, there was no way a spacewalker could have safely checked under the wings, which bear the brunt of heat re-entry and have reinforced protection.Even if they did find damage, there was nothing the crew could have done to fix it, he said.`”There’s nothing that we can do about tile damage once we get to orbit,” Dittemore said. “We can’t minimize the heating to the point that it would somehow not require a tile. So once you get to orbit, you’re there and you have your tile insulation and that’s all you have for protection on the way home from the extreme thermal heating during re-entry.”The shuttle was not equipped with its 50-foot robot arm because it was not needed during this laboratory research mission, and so the astronauts did not have the option of using the arm’s cameras to get a look at the damage.NASA did not request help in trying to observe the damaged area with ground telescopes or satellites, in part because it did not believe the pictures would be useful, Dittemore.Long-distance pictures did not help flight controllers when they wanted to see the tail of space shuttle Discovery during John Glenn’s flight in 1998; the door for the drag-chute compartment had fallen off seconds after liftoff.It was the second time in just four months that a piece of fuel-tank foam came off during a shuttle liftoff. In October, Atlantis lost a piece of foam that ended up striking the aft skirt of one of its solid-fuel booster rockets. At the time, the damage was thought to be superficial.Dittemore said this second occurrence “is certainly a signal to our team that something has changed.” |
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| 2004 | Donald | |
| 2005 | David and Jean’s Housewarming party, Pocomoonshine Lake, Princeton, Maine | |
| 2006 | Darrell & Marilyn | |
| 2007 | Dan | |
| 2008 | Sue and Al | |
| 2009 | John | |
| 2010 | Donald |