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Capt Kirk's Blog
24 July, 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:59 am I have been on vacation for the past 3 weeks. We went to Georgia and North Carolina. Here are some pics of our vacation. This one is of our campsite in Cherokee N.C. This was just outside the front door of the motor home. Hard to stay awake with the noise. 
This is a small waterfall just upstream from where we were parked. 
We also went to Stone Mountain, Georgia. This is the carving in the side of the mountain. The mountain is a huge chunk of granit. The figures are of (left to right) Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. 
This is a huge chunk of granite cut from the mountain. 
This is just part of the mountain. 
I got two of the pics switched. Sorry. Last edited: Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:00 am This blog entry has been viewed 631 times
15 June 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:48 pm Well it's been a busy week this past week. I have been doing quite a bit of work with the American Legion post that I belong to. The county fair is the latter part of July and the Post always has the race program printed up for the 2 days of harness racing. We sell ads to the local businesses and that pays for the printing. Then we sell the the programs at the fair for $2 each and that is how we make our money. So I have been selling ad space for the past week. I also got the post's new web site up and running. I am the administrator of it. Here is the url for it if anyone would like to check it out. Please keep in mind that it is still under construction. http://www.unionpost79.org This blog entry has been viewed 80 times
06/06/06
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:42 pm Well it finally quit raining! We had 4 straight days of rain and got over 2 3/4 inches. But we had been getting quite dry. Then it cooled off a lot with a north wind blowing. It's just now beginning to warm up where you can be out in a T shirt. My oldest brother turned 70 on May 20th and had some medical test's done. Found out he needed a triple heart bypass. He had it done yesterday and is doing quite well. He said if he had known all of this was going to happen, he would have as soon as stayed age 69! I told him he should have expected it. Our Mom had heart problems and diabetes, my next older brother has the same, I have heart problems and diabetes. Now He has heart problems and has had diabetes for years So if heart disease and diabetes runs in your family, I caution you to get the tests done before it is too late. My diabetes was caught early and is diet controlled. Both of my brothers was found late and they are on medication. This blog entry has been viewed 102 times
29 May 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 4:49 pm Today is Memorial Day here in the States. It is when we honor all of our war dead, from all wars. I am the Post Historian for the local American Legion post, so I was on hand to snap the pics. First was a presentation of a Navy Wreath, which was commended to the seas, well actually Mill Creek, which flows into the Scioto River, then the Ohio River and then the Mississippi River and eventually the Gulf of Mexico 6 months from now. A Navy Captain from the town had the Honor of tossing the wreath. I had that honor 3 years ago. It is a quite moving ceremony. 
A prayer was said by our Chaplian and of course the flags were present. 
The Honor Guard fired a 21 gun salute to the Navy War dead. 
Mean while at the cemetery, everything was in readiness for the ceremonies there. 
The parade arrived exactly on time! 
I am now 62 years old, if anyone is curious at to what I looked like in uniform, here is a pic of me at age 18. Oh to be able to go back in time! 
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24 May 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:16 pm My son got a new Hewlett Packard computer last week. He got the Media Center with a 300 gig hard drive. I also found out that the Seagate Co. has come out with a 750 gig hard drive but is not in mass production yet. I inherited my son's old computer, which is a year newer than my old one, with a bigger hard drive and a lot faster. I had trouple getting my HP printer to install on it and was emailing back and forth to HP Support for 2 days. Finally got it to work. Then I went to use my HP scanner and it wouldn't work. So again I was working with support and I finally got it to work. Only took 8 hrs. for it! But HP Support was really great in helping me with both of them. They would not give up trying. This blog entry has been viewed 79 times
May 20,2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 1:05 pm There has been quite a bit going on since I was here last. They finished up the remodeling and I will post some more pics, once my wife figures out what color to paint the walls and they get painted. Went for a walk in the yard this morning and snapped a few pics. This is my climatis. Some of our Woodland Columbine. Regular Columbine And our Honey Locust trees are beginning to bloom. Another few days, once the bloom is open fully the air will be really sweet smelling and will be humming with bees. Too bad they only last a couple of weeks. We have about 50 of these in the yard. This blog entry has been viewed 143 times
May 7 2006 (added to)
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:13 pm I have worked on my ship some more, HMS Victory. I am far enough along now where I can work on some of the detailing. This blog entry has been viewed 216 times
7 May 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:35 am Well the shower is in and we will be able to use it tonight. When he finished on Sat, the cauling hadn't had time to dry enough to use last night. It has to dry for 24 hrs. He still needs to install the shower door yet, but we have a shower curtain that we will use until then. The ceiling vent fan is done. And he still needs to install the vanity,sink,medicene cabinet and storage cabinet after the walls are painted. Here are a couple of pics. This blog entry has been viewed 90 times
6 May 2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 10:06 am Haven't had much of a chnace to get in here lately. Have been busy getting our bathroom remodeled. Also we haven't had a working shower in 6 day's so I may be getting kind of ripe! Actually, we have been going into my brothers place in town and usine his shower! But they should have the new shower working by this evening. And should finish up the remodel by the end of next week. This blog entry has been viewed 77 times
27 April,2006
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:32 pm Not a whole lot going on here. I do have my onions and radishes planted and they are up. Isn't warm enough to plant tomato's yet. May 15th is the frost free date here. In fact we have had frost the past two mornings. I have worked on my model of the Victory, and have gotten quite a bit done the past several days. I have started painting the hull some. Here is a recent pic of it. This blog entry has been viewed 77 times
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