ManLand

I invite you to a tour of man-land, the land of testesterone. To help you through the tour here is a map of the kingdom.

As I drive my crome plated man-mobile through the gate that protects me from the ravages of wildland, to my left I see man-storage where all the equipment needed to do battle with wildland is neatly and orderly arranged.
Straight ahead is man-work bench, where all the tools necessary for keeping man-land operational are also neatly and orderly arranged.

Next to the man-work bench is the stairway leading to man-attic.

The mancave was built with the fine tools from man-work bench and borrowed tools from neighbor man-Jim.

Framing begins

Getting a real charge out of this

Want to be toasty warm
Let there be light

Road to civilized world

Crown molding

AAAH, life is good in man-cave.

OOPS, got to run. Woman is calling from civilized world.

Glacier National Park

Sue and I had a great time camping in Glacier NP

Our home for a week

Majestic views

Avalanche Lake

Roads cut out of the side of the mountain

Rugged mountains

The last glacier will disappear in 2020

Lots of wildlife

More wildlife

More to come

Texas Floods

My first job working with the Red Cross was helping people who got flooded by all the rain we have had. My job was to register the people as they came in to the shelter. Here is the morning paper



the following pictures were taken the day after the flood waters peaked. It has receded quite a bit. the water was only 3-4 feet from the road in the next picture.

How doooo I get back to the barn?

The shelter was set up in the Baptist church in Eastland

Greece and Turkey

Our trip went fromThessaloniki south Athens and Corinth. we teh took a ship to Rhodes and then up the coast of Turkey to Istanbul. This was just a test for inserting a picture. more to follow.








Papa Paul

An evening with grand children

Friday, Jim and Kelly asked us to baby sit for a few hours.
As grammy Sue cooked supper, I got to play "go fish" with the kids. Sitting on the living room floor, we battled hard to get rid of our cards and keep Reese out of the fish pile. After a long struggle, Paige won the game(I need to go in to training for the next game).

We then went to the backyard for more physical exercise. Grammy Sue helped Reese and Paige work on their trampoline moves, and I worked with Troy and Trent on their football moves. We practiced fly patterns and crossing patterns. (trent remember to plant that left foot when you turn)

I learned a mother's trick at supper: give them twice as much as you want them to eat and then tell them they only have to eat half of it to get dessert. It worked! They all got a popsicle.

After another rousing card game( old maid) and a video,mom and dad arrived to take their urchins home.

Grammy Sue and I went to bed very tired that night but slept well as we had a wonderful evening with 4 of our precious grandchildren.