A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....08-30-05....How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Billie, Diver Dave | Diver Dave

[Billie]

Keep in mind, no air-conditioned comforts, four kids crowded across the back seat of the car, windows wide open, I climbed up on the back window ledge and laid down feeling the full effects of the open windows. It also relieved the over-crowded conditions. Subsequently, Don and I alternated that window ledge position for much of the remaining trip.

LOL! I bet your sisters liked it much better with one of you up there behind the seat (unless you kicked them or pulled their hair or something. :) Which one rode in the front seat with Mom and Dad?)

[Billie]

Thank you for posting the Bucket from the Klammath Bucket Brigade.

Gosh, I remember reading some of those threads, and we featured a few FReepers early the first year who were very active in the Klammath Falls threads - not to mention AT Klammath Falls itself.

[Billie]

Hi, Aqua - thank you for your comments and compliment. I'm happy to hear from you and that "debris" is the extent of your damage. The news and photos I've seen are mind-boggling. It's just unbelievable the destruction and extent of the damage there.:(

[Billie]

Good afternoon, lonestar. Your post .... it's just hard to think of the words to respond. Offering prayers for all who are affected by Katrina. :(

[Billie]

You are loved. I hope you are able to get through to your sister soon.

[Billie]

Thank you, Kitty. Hugs to you.

[trussell]

Prayer pings. I'm sure there are many people who need prayers because of this hurricane. Post 16 and 27 are two specific requests on this thread.

My prayers go up for all who are in peril because of Hurricane Katrina. God's protection over them all.

Blessings,
trussell

If you want on/off my prayer ping list, please let me know. All requests happily honored.

[tiki]

Believe me I'm praying. I will remember your specific requests.

[AZamericonnie]

Prayers for Kara's mother & your family Texagirl as well as all who are affected by this terrible storm!

[JustAmy]

I'm just getting back and will only be here a short time. Back to School Night tonight.

Last Friday, when the school bus stopped to let Marissa off, both Junior and Charly ran to meet her and the bus. This almost made me change my mind about taking them to the SPCA.

Fresno County is passing a law (due to another child being killed by a pitbull) that all dogs will be required to be spayed/neutered and either tied or penned. Charly would not be very welcome in the back yard; Millie is very jealous of Marissa. Poor LouieMax, she has finally accepted that he gets lots of attention from her.

Yesterday after taking Marissa to school, we put the two dogs in the car and took them to the SPCA (with tears in my eyes.)

Since Marissa has been asking for a kitten, we went and picked one for her. The kitty had to be spayed so we could not get her until today. Marissa is thrilled but she does miss Junior.

I'm afraid my ((( Bro ))) will disown me when he discovers what I did. Four dogs are just too many for us. In fact, JA is threatening to give LouieMax away if the new fence does not keep him in. Now that would make me very sad. :(
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[Colonial Warrior]

Merciful Father, Bless all those in need and their families!

A prayer warrior at work!

[DollyCali]

aw, I am sorry Amy.. you might call in a few days or make sure they call you if the "kill" order comes thru so you can go get them back!

I know this is all difficult. I sometimes go half crazy w/all teh animals we have here.

[lonestar]

It's been years since I was in the Quarters but my guess is it hadn't changed a lot.

I wonder how the donut place made it. I can't think of the name--"Morning Call" or something.

I've never been more thankful that I live on top of a hill.

[LadyX]

How wonderful to read this gem a second time!
Dave, your descriptions are highly entertaining, and I can just picture
all the in between actions of you restless children..:)

All those car games were familiar, as was reading (and making up!) Burma Shave signs, and we did them with our own children when they were growing up.

Most folks here might not realize that in 1951 there were no Interstate "whizways" anywhere - major highway speed limits were 40 mph.
Growing up, going from Coral Gables (Miami area) to SC to visit my grandparents in the summers in the 40's involved spending the night on the way!
[That was taking U.S. 1 and U.S. 17 - both two lanes wide even in the 60's and 70's. It took 'forever' to get through long, long Jacksonville, with red lights at every intersection..:( ]

As for the no a/c, almost no one had it back then except in a few luxury cars of the wealthy.
That was true in houses, too, and I didn't have a/c in a house until 1966 - base housing at Myrtle Beach AFB, SC. - no auto a/c until 1974 in North Carolina.

Billie, you did such a beautiful job on the presentation and the graphics, and collage of Logan and Christian for the Pledge of Allegiance!

[Texagirl4W]

Thanks for all the well wishes. I just got the call from my sister and she is fine -- still at the hospital on duty, but OK. Thank You, Lord. Now I'll try to relax a while and watch a little baseball.

[LadyX]

Although my sons and families in Florida were spared the wrath of Katrina, I always closely follow hurricanes, having grown up with them and knowing first hand what terrible things they can do.

Sunday night I made my last reply on the Weekend Thread, with Lakeside answering....

"To: Lakeside

If you're able to log on, Lakeside, I hope you have moved far east/southeast of the projected path of the hurricane, and are safe.
Know that frequent *special prayers* are covering you and yours, and your property in northeast Alabama.
May God be with you wherever you go....

325 posted on 08/29/2005 8:42:54 AM EDT by LadyX ((( To God be all praise and honor and glory -- )))
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To: LadyX

Thanks, Lady. I'm still here on the lake and going to stay. You just never know where these things will go after landfall but they always seem to recurve over us! I'm usually much more prepared for 'the worst' but this time I just can't seem to get it in gear.<< A good sign it will knock out our power for days! O, well. They are beginning to take down our lake in anticipation for all the rain coming.

I'm much more concerned about the NO area. I heard a little blurb on the news that a levee in Kenner failed. This is not far from Mom & Dad's home. I just got off the phone w/ Mom(evac'ed to her sister's in Texas) who wanted to know if I'd read about it "from that news website you go to" (she meant FR!) and could I get any more info about it there. I told her no one was there to give a report -all the news type folks were either in downtown NO or on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This is all very hard on my parents. So thanks so much for your thoughts and prayers.

326 posted on 08/29/2005 2:42:01 PM EDT by Lakeside ((northeast Alabama))

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Yesterday I had to shop and do housework, and was making homemade beef vegetable soup (and beef stroganoff at the same time). Managed to post just once on the Prayer Thread for TexasCowboy, now out of the hospital...in the evening had to prepare for my every-other-Tuesday trek to Aiken for Dr. Whirling Dervish (with his knives-LOL), as I called him today.

I was glued to the television set yesterday watching the hurricane move into the shore on the Gulf and up...simply didn't feel like posting, realizing Lakeside's parents' house must be in the area under water; no doubt no longer have a home.

I thought then of dutchess and GailA and all the Ohio Freepers in the path; and of WVNan perched on the banks of the Ohio River.

THINK ABOUT IT - all the heavy rain falling up through Pittsburgh ends up coursing toward the Ohio River, which in turn goes on to the Mississippi River - - and then the IMPACT when THAT reaches its mouth at New Orleans....very sobering, and heartbreaking. It isn't over yet.

Came home this afternoon, and had to shop some more...we had only a few bands of brief showers, and none of the tornadoes for which we had warnings until 4 p.m.

The worst moment came last night around 1 a.m. when I switched to CNN for different scenes from Fox, and Jeanne Meserve was reporting to Aaron Brown on the section near the Dome under water, and attempted rescues before dark - a pro, she was totally shaken "hearing screams in the dark from persons trapped on their roofs since morning," and no way to get to them, with live wires and leaking gas in the water; rescue boat propellers snagging on a submerged railroad track, etc....

My heart and prayers go out to "ALL" those affected in "any* way by this Tragedy of The Century in America.

[WVNan]

Thought I should check in with everyone. I'm devastated at the tragedy unfolding before our eyes. I can't do anything but pray and pray and pray. Sorry I do not feel up to chatting, but I did love reading about your travels, Dave. I've been to every one of those places you went and your pictures from the 50s brought back a lot of memories. God grant us all peace in the storm.

[Aquamarine]

I'm cleaning that last post up. *whew*

Anyone who is still in the path of this huge storm will be effected by it, especially if they are on the east (nasty) side of it. It's the most powerful storm in our lifetime, when I saw it coming on the Vis Loop it took my breath and brought me to tears knowing that it would leave death and destruction in it's wake.

[WVNan]

Oh Sistah. I never even thought about worrying about us. We're fine here. Just a few rain showers. Living on the banks of the Ohio, but a very large floodwall between the river and my house. Not to worry. In fact I was thinking, as someone else mentioned, that I can open my home for a Freeper family from N.O. if they need one. I don't know how we could get that message to them.

I've thought about you a lot in the last couple of days, wondering how you are doing. I'm looking at a Gall Bladder operation in the next two or three weeks. Will meet with a surgeon next week. Seems such a minor thing to me, I almost hate to take the time. Got to run now. Loveya.