Archive for December, 2006
because I promised
After the umpteenth request for a few recent photos, I submit:
Papa and I at home in Enschede. We blame him for this whole Holland thing.
Two beautiful churches in downtown Enschede, not Escalade (ahem, Larry …)
My parents, outside a lovely little church in a German town I can’t pronounce. Obergammerau? maybe?
This is a Paul, a [...]
Posted: December 29th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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ahhh Amsterdam
So we’re mindlessly staring at the TV for the third hour now, watching as flight after flight from Heathrow is cancelled due to fog. Already 40,000 people are stranded in the airport. My sister, Kristen, and her husband, Chris, are due in to Amsterdam this afternoon if they ever make it off their layover in [...]
Posted: December 22nd, 2006 under Dutch, life, world.
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From 12/18 Daily News Record:
Gunsmith Unearths Buried Treasure
Wealth Of History Discovered Inside 1740s Musket
By Kelly Jasper
SINGERS GLEN — Finding the blackened, broken musket was at least, at first, Scott Musser’s buried treasure.
This summer, he found an antique gun — a 1740s-era musket that sold for $125, plus tax — in one of Philadelphia’s South Street shops.
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Posted: December 22nd, 2006 under work.
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From Friday’s Daily News-Record:
Park On Ice
Drive Reels From Freakish Storms
By Kelly Jasper
It’s quiet up on Skyline Drive. There’s the occasional hum of chain saws, the beep of a bucket truck backing up, and the ominous thunder of falling trees.
But there aren’t many cars or hikers, and even fewer campers.
A sign at the Thornton Gap Entrance Station announces [...]
Posted: December 8th, 2006 under web, work.
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Faces Of Meth
Too bad I couldn’t trackdown a copy of the photo that ran with this story in today’s paper. It made the story.
From Friday’s Daily News-Record:
Faces of Meth
By Kelly Jasper
HARRISONBURG — Their pictures are heart wrenching, stomach-turning and mind-boggling.
Inside an auditorium at the Simms Center, faces flash across a video screen that magnifies the sunken [...]
Posted: December 1st, 2006 under work.
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