Jul
29th
Archive for the ‘Military’ Category
Jul
28th
*At Mom & Dad’s in Colorado – Late Summer 2003. Nice apron.
Jul
27th
*First Marathon Together – Disney Marathon – January, 2009
Jul
26th
*December 2007, Afghanistan. Thanks, Max! I love this picture! 
Jul
25th
* Taken in Jerash, Jordan – Spring of 2009. Amazing, amazing place. Wearing a black shirt in the heat wasn’t on my All-Time List of Great Ideas, however…
Jul
24th
Gone from Home again. Of course, John’s been gone for nearly two months. He’ll be deployed for a year, which is not as bad as many military families have endured, multiple times.
One thing we have going for us is that sometimes it works out that we deploy together – to the same place. In six more nights, and for three short days, I’ll be able to see him.
CanNOT wait!
*at Lydia & Gabe’s Wedding, October 2008, Vermont’s incomparable Northeast Kingdom
Jul
20th
I sure miss all three of them…sure wish John weren’t gone for a year, and sure wish I lived closer to Dad and Armour.
Those of you who live close to family? I guess it might be easy to take it for granted, but I would seriously cherish that gift, if I were you.
Mar
13th
Well, I do!
Here’s Dad, and Spectre – saying Goodbye – at our house in Germany…
We are so close to getting a new website…the designer I’m working with says by the 23rd…I’ll be posting as soon as she gives me the final design!
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Feb
27th
This is an old picture – Max took it when we were in Afghanistan together last year, actually – but I posted it because I haven’t yet, I think it’s a cool picture of us, and I am limited to my stash on this computer…my hard drive is back at the office and right now, I can’t transport it out of the compound.
Still, the real reason for this post is I wanted to let friends and family know that when I’m not working on normal “HhhhhhhARM-eeeee Trainin’!”…(think Bill Murray accent …as in Stripes), I’ve been working on a cool new design for the blog. I love visiting Sara Janssen’s blog (Heck, I just adore Sara – I think she’s cool, she’s unique and she’s an inspiring person – check her out if you haven’t found her yet…) and I contacted her blog designers to help me design our very own Little Slice ‘a Heaven on this here World Wide Web.
It should be ready mid-April.
In the meantime, back to the picture:
John coached me on some cool Green Beret shooting techniques –
The Mozambique (I am obsessed with that shot group – criminals watch out…I will have my concealed carry before I return to Tampa in June…)
Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast
Muscle Memory counts for a lot
Reflex Drills – a shooter’s bread and butter
and finally
Stance, Grip, Sight Picture, Sight Alignment, Breathing, Trigger Squeeze, Follow-Through, and Recovery…because…
Excellence is Doing the Basics to Perfection
I figure that last one can be applied to just about anything.
Feb
7th
My mom sent us some smoked salmon, capers, toasted bread rounds, onions, and two lemons…
Look at the size of those things!
Here’s a better picture of one of the lemons…John thought it was a grapefruit – it’s the size of a large one. Mom and Aunt Nan picked up a bag of these at a grove in rural Florida. I won’t tell you how they got them to us, because I think it’s illegal.
Yummy!
….put the onion on the salmon…
…sprinkle with capers and lemon juice….
…et Voilà!
Thanks, Mom! This was a touch of home in a place that sucks the life out of you.