Best Emails of the Week

June 24, 2007

 

Pete, I don't recall seeing this on your website, and it is pretty cool!

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~yeli23/Flash/Fire.html

Very cool

 

 

Thanks Don for sending this email to me:


 God, the Soldier and the Spider (with sound)

http://home.att.net/~mcp3_2000/_classics/009/god_spider.htm

As I wrote you last week Don, your son David (Julie's brother)

will return from Iraq a hero next year.

We are sorry you must miss our Fourth of July celebration

while you attend the ceremony to deploy David's Unit.

David will be in our thoughts and prayers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the NYTimes:

BAQUBA, Iraq, June 25 — The enemy was a phantom who never showed his face but transformed a neighborhood into a network of houses rigged to explode. And the soldiers from Comanche Company’s First Platoon confronted this elaborate and deadly trap.....

An American soldier carrying shoulder-fired grenades paused to wait for orders during an operation on Saturday in Baquba, Iraq.

 

 

 

 

And getting it done stateside by graduating with high honors:

Hello Pete and Mary,
Thank you from Ann for the lovely birthday wishes. 
Here are some photographs taken this week of Emily's HS graduation.  The skies threatened to open up and soak us with rain during the ceremony, but it stayed dry and turned into a beautiful sunny day.  Emily is off at beach week with a group of friends; it's a glimpse of her full-time absence to come in August.
See you this weekend, Tom and Ann

 

 

Elyse, Dad, Emily, Carolyn and Mom.

 

 

A few new ones here I believe:

Compendium of Puntification 
 
1. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger.   Then it hit me. 
 
2. Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest. 
 
3. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off?  He's all right now. 
 
4. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. 
 
5. To write with a broken pencil is pointless. 
 
6. When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate. 
 
7. A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months. 
 
8. A thief fell and broke his leg in wet concrete.  He became a hardened criminal. 
 
9. Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking. 
 
10. We'll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply. 
 
11. When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U C L A. 
 
12. The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground. 
 
13. The dead batteries were given out free of charge. 
 
14. If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory. 
 
15. A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail. 
 
16. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).

 

I put wood chips down in my oval garden to suppress those confounded weeds.
My expert advisor Martha recommends a lasagna garden this winter with layers of newspaper and mulch.

Those are Raf's sweet peas from seed on the left.

 

Driftwood Art

 

 

 

I have been using my septic installer's license along with my engineer's license to keep busy during this stagnant real estate time.

Here is a typical  septic pump truck:

 

I have completed my one year tenure as president of our business association.

I wish our local entrepreneurs all the best.

 

Pete

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