Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Just Folks at Mount Vernon

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Back to Front

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This side of Mount Vernon faces west (the camera is looking south.)  In the summer it would be a marvelous place to start the day, and, w...
Monday, May 6, 2013

A Riding Chair

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Ya' think you've seen it all - or at least read about it - but here's yet another new one on me:  a Riding Chair. The one i...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

Living In The Moment

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Granpa and I were talking on the way to work this morning.  I opined that this medical traveling we're doing forces us to live in the mo...
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Saturday, May 4, 2013

The Necessary

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Yup.  That's the Mount Vernon Necessary.   Some things never pass away.  Guess what's on the bathroom door of our little fa...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Strolling Up To Mount Vernon

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Wow!  For the 1700's this is a HUGE home in America!!  As with most homes here, it didn't start out this size.  It began as a sim...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

Over To Mount Vernon, The Home of George Washington

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From our Cherry tree quest, we cross the Potomac River and follow what seemed to be some very convoluted GPS directions to Mount Vernon.  Ev...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Cherry Blossoms?

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We're drivin' and lookin' - lookin' and drivin'... Cool architecture.  A couple of flowerless, leafless trees of un...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

On To Washington, D.C. For Us

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We need to move on from Antietam.  We have to be "home" by dark.  (That's so funny!  Our grandkids get to stay out until midni...
Monday, April 29, 2013

"The Bloody Lane"

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Such a beautiful, pastoral scene.  This is quite probably what it looked like on that September morning in 1862 - until the cacophony of ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Antietam Creek Near Sharpsburg, Maryland

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Maryland.  I don't know why the bloodiest battles were fought in Maryland...  This battle at Antietam Creek would be the bloodiest one-d...
Friday, April 19, 2013

The Schedule and, Therefore, The Plan

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Granpa's work schedule will be a bit different this go-round here in Danville.  There are only two echo techs, so they will have to be o...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Danville, Virginia - Again

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We're back at our same lil' farmhouse in Danville, Virginia by nightfall Monday night.  Tuesday morning Granpa is at work at Dan...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

Tyler, Texas

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Home again, home again, jiggety jig.  Backed the pickup up to the door, off loaded the suitcases, popped 'em open, unpacked the snorkels...
Friday, April 12, 2013

DFW

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Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport.  It's 6:22 p.m. Saturday evening here.  We come off the plane and out the gate, and what to our ...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

LAX

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Los Angeles International Airport.  Seen it a lot in movies and television shows.  I guess with a six hour layover here we're gonna see ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The Flight

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Our pastor on Kaua'i and his wonderful wife were good enough to take us out to eat before dropping us at the airport.  We had such a goo...
Monday, April 8, 2013

Aloha, and Mahalo!

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Good-bye, and thank you! We are homeward bound yet again --- but not to worry, our schedule will have us in Texas for only eighteen hours....
Sunday, April 7, 2013

Glass Beach

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As I was saying... Off to the left of Glass Beach is a cliff.  We park up there by the cemetery, and walk to the edge.  Ah! An ancient, co...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

We Discovered a New Beach

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(I hope you're looking at this on a full size computer screen and not an iPhone...) After spending more than a year on this island of ...