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I Splurged and Got a Handmade Lanyard

This lanyard is made from Kangaroo Leather.  Bob Bertram, the artist, talked with me several times to determine the colors I wanted.  It turned out perfectly to match the color of my Brits.  It took about three weeks, because each one is made by Bob in a tree house made from ethically harvested non-rare trees (Stop!, Just kidding about the tree house!)  Anyway, he makes each one by hand and will make yours to reflect your requirements.  636-256-7817- Bob Bertram, Sporting Artist

University of Florida Grad!

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Graduation!

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Southern-isms

Yesterday, I went went to Blimpie in Zebulon for lunch. "Mom", the head chef, was preparing the sandwich and a customer asked if she could, "you know, cut the center of the bread out? I'm not sure what you call that." "Oh," Mom replied, "you want me to GUT it!" Yep, that was it. Only in the South!

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What is being done to help housing?

Hey, Presidential Candidates: Where are the New Ideas to Fix Housing? Fixing the housing market is perhaps the most important step toward fixing the economy, so you would think those who want to win the next presidential election would be talking about how housing creates jobs, the ways consumer confidence is tied to home prices, and what the heck they will do to fix the housing market and turn the economy around. Read

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Too hot for dogs!

This is my Brit, "Ruby", relaxing inside. It's 95 outside and once a day I go out and grab one of the dogs to come in and have a little "cool time". As you can see, she is making most of the situation.

Bad Times or Great Times

An interesting story about the insight Admiral Nimitz had into the "mistakes" the Japanese made when they bombed Pearl Harbor. Comments from a retired US Navy buddy



Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii every thirty minutes. We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty minutes. I went into a small gift shop to kill time. In the gift shop, I purchased a small book entitled, "Reflections on Pearl Harbor" by Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Sunday, December 7th, 1941--Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat--you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war.

On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters every where you looked. As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?" Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice. Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make or God was taking care of America. Which do you think it was?" Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?"
Nimitz explained. Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.

Mistake number two: when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow everyone of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.

Mistake number three: every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make or God was taking care of America.
I've never forgotten what I read in that little book. It is still an inspiration as I reflect upon it. In jest, I might suggest that because Admiral Nimitz was a Texan, born and raised in Fredricksburg, Texas--he was a born optimist. But anyway you look at it--Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism. President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job

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