Supreme court rules for gun owners, strikes down Washington D.C. Handgun Ban!
As most of us know who have more than a pea for a brain… an armed populace is a great deterrent to crime.
VIVA NRA!
Roger Freberg
SUPREME COURT RULES FOR GUN OWNERS!
from crumbs… emerges a clock!
A while ago, I wrote about how my wife’s sister sent her a clock… a special clock that had huge family sentiment to Laura. When it arrived, we opened the box and found only crumbs and twisted wire … as you can observe in the picture on the far left above.
Laura was distraught and wanted to toss it all as it was too painful to see. This particular clock was something special to her, she would walk by it as a child, stare at for a few minutes and smile… so, OBVIOUSLY, I had to save it!
The largest piece was about 2 inches long and knowing where to begin was quite a challenge. I did not remember the clock myself so it was a bit of a puzzle. There was also another troubling issue… how do you repair stone? Although restoration experts might be shocked… I discovered “Gorilla Glue” and it held marble together wonderfully! It wasn’t without further challenges, but by sorting the many tiny pieces together first by thickness… then by fit … I finally got the idea of how it might have looked.
This experience brought me back. There was a time that archeology held my complete interest in college … so in a meaningful way … I felt I was putting together some Etruscan urn on a lost dig. The experience was very satisfying … and Laura is very pleased.
Roger Freberg
Note: the pendulum clock movement was by ‘Japy Freres’ a French (Beaucourt) clock maker until around 1910
The First Woman to become a Four Star General?
Lt. General Anne E. Dunwoody of the Army has been nominated to become the first female four star general. General Dunwoody has 33 years of service ( 1975) and has had a number of command positions.
If confirmed by the Senate, she will be the first woman to gain a fourth star ( the first female 3 star general was in 1970). In the armed forces of the United States there are currently 57 active duty female general officers.
Good Luck and hopefully congratulations to General Dunwoody.
Roger Freberg
what’s on your Bucket List?
Okay, I have a tendency to give unwanted and unneeded advice… but this isn’t one of those times.
The movie “Bucket list” and the book by the same name is interesting in that they ask the question,” if you knew you only had so much time left in your life, would you do anything different today?” The book explores the ‘Bucket Lists’ of ordinary and extraordinary people. Young folks have accomplishment goals… while, older people have certain housekeeping issues that they want to finish in their lives… but everyone has something… even if it is only perfecting a golf swing.
One blog was even betting as to which of the two actors would ‘kick the bucket’ first… charming.
I guess the best advice I ever heard on this subject… was given to me as a young paperboy by a kindly old gent of 103 : ” I live and enjoy today , but keep an eye on tomorrow in case I am not lucky enough to die in my sleep.”
Roger Freberg
Ode to daughters
As readers of my blog know… I have three daughters: Kristin, Karen and Karla. Although I was not either trained or prepared to raise daughters, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Daughters need fathers in ways sons seldom do…. and best of all… they keep in touch.
I was thinking these past weeks while two of my daughters were site seeing in and around Beijing, how much they have changed, grown and off doing many interesting things.
Although the picture above goes from right to left on Karen’s ‘evolution’ from a middle school thrower to a Ph.D. student at the University of Tennessee, it reminds me of the many challenges met in her varied athletic experience. One of the fortunate lessons from her mother was to develop a ‘life after sports’ and this can be easily viewed in watching her strong academic efforts.
Just a note , ladies, you all make me proud to be your daddy.
Roger Freberg