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Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Cool... :-)
Absolutely. We learned a long time ago that you're your own child's best advocate.
You might want to update your count. 1402 knives as of today. And at 80 cents apiece, the plastic safety carabiners are a big hit, and I've bought 250 already. I just don't know if we should add something so small to our tote board.
This is a recent email I received about the Camillus BK3:
I received the four BK3's in the mail on Friday. These things are perfect for combat engineer's, they are even better for breaching ops than I thought they were going to be. I will be presenting the knives to the platoon on Monday at the end of day formation. We have took up a small donation and I will be sending that out this week as well.
The plastic carabiners are awesome too. Those things work great for hanging flex cuffs, attaching our NVG's to our IBA's, etc. Who makes those MOLLE adapters you sent with the knives I would to try and order one or two of those for other equipment? If it is possible could we get 4 or 5 BK2's as well and some more of those little carabiners? I don't know how many knives you usually give to a deploying unit.
If I am asking too much then please tell me, but our unit doesn't believe in issuing us the equipment we really need. We have been trying to get gerber multitools issued to the platoon for a year now. Anyways thank you so muc h for the great thing you do for us soldiers and we will try to get some pics of us using our hobbit hole knives.
Thanks,
PFC N and 1st Plt,[redacted] , BREACH HELL!
Excellent! Most Excellent! :-)
Makes me smile. Love that guy's sig line:
Breach Hell!!!
Going back over the thread reading...
The kids don't ever give me problems in church, but I did have one episode that I will recount now. On the way, Steve was very grumpy, doing things to purposely irritate me, just picking on me. By the time we got to church, we'd had a pretty major blowout and both of us were angry. I took some deep breaths, tried to calm down and went and sat in the sanctuary. Steve was swelled up like a drowned toad. Wouldn't sing, wouldn't shake hands with anyone, just in a real snit. I just suddenly felt like this one no way to come before the Lord and I took the boys by the hand, told Steve "Get up, we're leaving" and out we went. Right in front of God and everybody.
Heh heh...God bless him, he was pretty stuned. Looking back on it, it's kinda funny...but it took us all day to work through that little bump in the road. We obviously did, and he hasn't given me any problems in church since.
Heh heh!!
Here are the five different squashes...
Pattypan:
Zucchini:
Straightneck yellow:
Crookneck yellow:
Butternut (note the leaf size in relation to my admittedly very dirty size six foot.):
Here is a picture Joshua took of me next to the pattypan squash...see my green thumb? Heh heh...I'd been spray painting a birdhouse.
Here's the teepee. See, we planted the Kentucky Wonder beans in V-shaped cages sunk in the ground to thwart the bunnies and the gophers at the same time.
Here is the little patio tomatoes...they're doing great. Peas are gone...they're all done.
Here's the corn bed, with a cage built around it to keep Fiver at bay.
Here's my EarthBox that a friend of Steve's gave to me...it has four peppers and two tomatoes in it...
Here's the garden at the end of the day...
Jedis swimming in the evening while Steve grills burgers and squash...
Here's the jedis before VBS this morning.
Oops...sorry, thuhg'nads....ping to above garden pics.
That's the ol' Road Grill next to the pool, there...still going strong!
You got that right.
I want them to ~know~ that they're getting a great kid. *grin*
That's a good idea. If you have asked her school to send her records to her new school, it should be there, but it doesn't hurt to send a second copy, just in case. ;o)
Breach Hell, indeed. God Bless our military!!
Her new school sent the registration paperwork directly to me and I went and got her records from school.
I have everything filled out, but I've been waiting for a signature from her pediatrician.
He finally did that today, so I'll FedEx the package out tomorrow.
Understand this, things are now in motion that cannot be undone.
Your garden is awesome!! Those squash are gonna be SO good! I really like that teepee. Are you planning on it being a sort of shady arbor when it's done? It will be your very own bower!
Oh, and what exactly is an Earth Box, Precious?
Terrific! We have to get Clare's transcript from the Community College to send to Ave Maria, and to her high school from which she'll (eventually) graduate. ;o)
That's a hella-nice garden, 2J!
Don't frighten the poor boy, Master Dwarf!
I think I'm doing a fairly decent job of that myself! :-/
Yep...hopefully the beans will cover it all the way to the top and provide a kind of hideout for the boys and a place for me to sit and watch nature.
It's really going well this year...this is the best garden we've had (since the big one in Austin...that the Wiccan's hung out in in the evening)...you wouldn't believe how many toads we have out there!
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