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June, 2006 – Issue #61
BOB AND CAMILLE,
Still Making Themselves at Home
TEN YEARS AGO – VIRGINIA, 1996
WHO IS TRAINING WHOM?
Three-year-old Molly argues with Jesse, age eleven, over whether or not they will be turning to the right. My guess is that Molly won! She is one of those people born with the tenacity to get her way if it takes all day. This trait has made her a superb animal trainer. Molly first sat on Jesse when she was six-months old.
COOKIE GETS ANOTHER YEAR OLDER
June 4th rolled around again and Bob helped Camille celebrate in style. Lots of Happy Birthday pictures at Camille’s 52nd Birthday
TAKE ME OUT
And as if the weekend birthday extravaganza wasn’t enough, Bob took Camille to an afternoon ball game on June 7th. How many men does it take to water down the infield? Click on the photo for the answer. It was the hottest ball game on record at 97F. In fact, this month may hold the record for record-breaking high temperatures. Amazingly, the majority of folks around here still don’t believe in Global Warming.
BIRTHDAY SELF-PORTRAITS
Camille, 52 and Stephanie, our Texan Email Buddy who turned 36 on June 8. You may recall a Birthday Photo of Stephanie’s pet Iguana from last month.
SACRED PLACE
On June 11, we hiked nearly two hours to this spot for a view of snow-capped mountains. A previous hiker installed this string of prayer flags which Camille mistook for laundry.
Bob, atop the rock and perhaps contemplating the mysteries of the universe.
Ahhh – the glories of That Nature Thing! Seriously, we can’t think of any better way to enjoy life on earth than to climb up to a sunny rock on a crystal clear spring day and bask in the endorphins.
WHAT’S COOKING?
Baked Teriyaki Tofu and Cabbage “Burgers” are two of our current favorites. The advantage of both is that they can be baked first thing in the morning and eaten cold. It has been too hot to turn on the stove after 10AM.
A HAPPY FATHER’S DAY
Emily (18) and Amy (16) came up to spend the afternoon with their Dad. Emily will be a Sophomore in College this fall as Amy enters her Senior year of High School. We ate lunch and went for a walk.
GARDEN TOUR AND FRISBEE IN THE PARK
Bob showed off the garden at work and then tried out his new Frisbee.
OBLIGATORY TRIP TO THE DUCK POND
Amy, an accomplished dancer, poses for a photo after throwing bread to the ducks.
STORM ON THE HORIZON
We snapped this picture of an imposing thunderstorm on our way home from visiting a friend.
MAN AT WORK
Eric has moved on, leaving Bob and Steve to keep the Biodiesel plant running. In addition to making fuel, they are always refining the process. Here, Steve drills a hole in one of the tanks. Tragically, a few minutes later, the drill got away from him and broke his hand. Yikes!
SIMPLE ABUNDANCE
Food doesn’t get any more local than that which you grow yourself. This is chard, arugula and peppers from left to right across the front with cilantro, petunias and a large cucumber plant in the back.
You don’t even need a plot of dirt to make a garden. Bob filled steel drums with a soil-free potting mix for the tomatoes and eggplant.
Marigolds, petunias, daikon, beets, lettuce and more arugula flourish in a container that Steve cut in half. Everything here is grown organically, that is, in keeping with the ecological balance of natural systems. Ladybugs, butterflies and dragonflies abound.
THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:
“Our govt. has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic
fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.”- General Douglas MacArthur
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”- George Orwell
“War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means good business for construction workers, and cholera improves the business of physicians, pharmacists, and undertakers; but no one has for that reason yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.” – Ludwig von Mises
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address to the nation, January 17, 1961
Think this hasn’t come to pass? Think again. Look at the Comparison of World Defense Budgets and ask yourself why the United States pays ten times as much as any other country for Defense. This is the reason our National Debt has reached the staggering new height of $8 trillion.