October 2004

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October 31, 2004

Happy Halloween!

From our pumpkin patch to yours!

We had a yard sale all yesterday (I skipped out to go to teach at the YES program in the morning though). Today I moved my computer setup to the window! Pam brought down a desk, and I am trying it out. it is very nice to sit here looking out over the water!!

Susan sent along a list:

Q. What occurs more often in December than any other
> > > month?
> > >        A. Conception.
> > >
> > >   Q. What separates “60 Minutes,” on CBS from every
> > > other TV show?
> > >         A. No theme song.
> > >
> > >   Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of
> > > what?
> > >         A. Their birthplace.
> > >
> > >   Q. Most boat owners name their boats   or
> > >      What is the most popular boat name requested?
> > >           A. Obsession
> > >
> > >   Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would
> > > you have to go until you would find the letter “A”?
> > >           A. One thousand
> > >
> > >   Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes,
> > > windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in
> > > common?
> > >           A. All invented by WOMEN.
> > >
> > >   Q. What is the only food that doesn’t spoil?
> > >           A. Honey
> > >
> > >     Q. There are more COLLECT calls on this day than
> > > any other day of the year?
> > >            A. Father’s Day
> > >
> > >     Q. What trivial fact about Mel Blanc (voice of
> > > Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
> > >            A. He was allergic to carrots.
> > >
> > >     Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all
> > > people at a party?
> > >            A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
> > > *******************
> > >     Did you know…
> > >
> > >     *The first couple to be shown in bed together on
> > > prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
> > >
> > >     *Coca-Cola was originally GREEN.
> > >
> > >     *Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than
> > > the US Treasury.
> > >
> > >     *Men can read smaller print than women; women can
> > > hear and smell better.
> > >
> > >     *The US state with the highest percentage of
> > > people who walk to work: ALASKA
> > >
> > >     *The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
> > >
> > >     *The percentage of North America that is
> > > wilderness: 38%
> > >
> > >     *The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age
> > > of eleven: $6,400
> > >
> > >     *The average number of people airborne over the US
> > > any given hour: 61,000.
> > >
> > >     Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in
> > > their hair.
> > >
> > >     *That San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile
> > > National Monuments.
> > >
> > >     *Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a
> > > great king from history:
> > > Spades = King David; Clubs = Alexander the Great;
> > > Hearts = Charlemagne; Diamonds = Julius Caesar
> > >
> > >     *111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
> > > 12,345,678,987,654,321
> > >

> > >     *If a statue in the park of a person on a horse
> > > has BOTH front legs in the air, the person died in
> > > battle.
> > >     *If the horse has ONE front leg in the air, the
> > > person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
> > >     *If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the
> > > person died of natural causes.
> > >
> > >     *Only TWO people signed the Declaration of
> > > Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles
> > > Thomson.
> > >    Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last
> > > signature wasn’t added until 5 YEARS later.
> > >
> > >     “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the
> > > English language.
> > >
> > >     *The term “the whole 9 yards” came from WWII
> > > fighter pilots in the South Pacific.
> > >    When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50
> > > caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27
> > > feet, before being loaded into the fuselage.
> > >   If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it
> > > got “The whole 9 yards.”
> > >
> > >     *Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the
> > > machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the
> > > conveyor belt.
> > >
> > >     *The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old
> > > English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your
> > > wife with anything wider than your thumb.
> > >
> > >     *The name ‘Jeep’ came from the abbreviation used
> > > in the army for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.
> > >
> > >     *The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only
> > > six inches for EACH gallon of diesel that it burns.
> > >
> > >     *The only two days of the year in which there are
> > > no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL)
> > > are the day before and the day after the Major League
> > > all-stars Game.
> > >
> > >     *The nursery rhyme “Ring Around the Rosey” is a
> > > rhyme about the PLAGUE.
> > >  Infected people with the plague would get red
> > > circular sores (“Ring around the rosey”),
> > >    these sores would SMELL very badly so common folks
> > > would put flowers on their bodies somewhere
> > > (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of
> > > the sores (“a pocket full of posies”).
> > >   Furthermore, people who died from the plague would
> > > be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the
> > > disease (“ashes, ashes, we all fall down”).
> > >

October 27, 2004

Darrell sent pictures of his new giant 37′ motorhome! (click on any one to see a larger version)

It’s a new 2004 Gulf Stream Sunvoyager…36’8″ long, 8.1 gas engine, 4
speed Allison transmission on a Workhorse chassis. The tires are 22.5
inch…just like bus tires. On board are two slide outs, an extendable
kitchen table, side by side refrigerator with icemaker.

It came with a washer/dryer, 7000 Onan 50 amp generator that will run
everything on board. Dual air conditioners, back up monitor with audio,
hydraulic jacks that are controlled from the drivers seat. Cruise
control and six way leather seats make the driver’s area very
comfortable.

Equipped with surround sound stereo to handle both TV’s (front and back)
and DVD player. It has a 75 gallon gas tank and will get approximately 8
miles to the gallon, giving it a long driving range and guaranteed to
empty your wallet at the pumps.

We have not gone on our maiden voyage yet, but plan on camping sometime
around Thanksgiving. But we don’t call it camping anymore…it’s the
Herrick Hilton on wheels!!!

We picked up a 1992 GMC pickup to run around town in, or to tow behind.
The Motorcycles will probably end up in the rear bed of that, or we may
find a trailer to take them in when we go for extended periods of time.

We are indeed very luck folks!!!

Pam and  have been very busy, last Thursday I became Vice President of FES, 

Friday we went to Charlie’s to work on the bridge building training for this year and stayed for dinner, on Saturday Carl took us sailing!! On Sunday we went to the Bucs game – THEY WON!

Touchdown!

Enjoying the tailgating.

Heather sent a picture of Georgia on her first birthday:

October 22, 2004

And another neat site:

http://www.sed007.com/bheicv_bevkgmmvrk.html

(or get it directly from JibJab http://jibjab.com/vault.asp by clicking on “This Land!”.)

October 15, 2004

Another cute site:

http://i.madblast.com/funflash/swf/ColorBlind2.swf

checks to see if you are color blind – check it out Dad!

October 11, 2004

With all of the rhetoric going around, I thought this one done by WABC’s Mark Simone in September was funny!

Click here to listen.

Yesterday we went to an airshow, quite the fun!!

This little boy was “zooming” his little plane in the same formation the planes were going!

The old and the new.

October 5, 2004

Dad and Betty only lost power for a day, then they returned. No damage to them, but all around huge trees were down, porches lost, the church lost it’s sign out front:

Dad and Betty also got a new car (a 2004 Chevy Impala):

I am without a job at the moment, Ash Engineering closed the division. I am again looking!

I found the above Art Gallery and have listed some of my pictures for sale there!! Anyone can display their art there!

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John and Pam, and Darrell and Marilyn’s weather:Weekend trip weather:

Amy and Darren’s weather:

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David’ and jeans weather:

Donald and jeanne’s weather:

Daniel and candy’s weather:

Heather and michael’s weather:

Rod and jill’s weather:

Don in California 2004 was cancelled, see you in Maine in 2005!

2005	David and Jean’s Housewarming party,        Pocomoonshine Lake, Princeton, Maine
2006	Darrell & Marilyn
2007	Dan
2008	Sue and Al
2009	John
2010	Donald