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A couple of weekends ago Dave and I went to Pensacola Beach to watch the Friday Blue Angel air show. They flew the Friday one with five planes with the show in honor of the pilot that went down a month or so ago. Some of the maneuvers were done with four planes. Pensacola Beach has some nice beach homes. We watched the show from a houseboat docked at one of the marinas. The houseboat is owned by friends of Dave's. All around us people floated in every way imaginable and watched the zooming planes overhead. Great weather, perfect day.

Heather has been working for several days moving www.ScrapbookScrapbook.com and the DAC-ART site to a new hosting company. It has been an ordeal. We are trying to do it in a way that is the least likely to cause disruption of the flow of traffic and search engine rankings. To move the site, we had to first move the domain to a different managing register. Then move the actual files that make up the site. My original hosting co, Radiant Communications of Vancouver was great back in the 'old days' . As they have grown, the customer service and screw-ups have become totally unbearable. It is the polar opposite of Network Solutions who got a bad reputation for horrid customer service and now have such excellent customer service that it is hard to believe. We will move all my sites that Radiant has hosted all these years, but have to do them one at a time. I have an appointment w/ a writer on Thurs. who writes for Better Homes and Gardens, but in this case it is a piece she is wor...

Lots of us have used TinyURL to make small URL's to put in emails where a really long link might not work if it gets chopped up in a delivered email, but there is a rogue site called www. tinyurl. cc ( I am purposefully putting spaces in there so it is not a link)...if you use it to make small URLs from your long ones, the person who clicks on the link in their email gets slammed with pop-up's and Dan said his anti-virus popped on and said it had detected a virus and removed it. So just make sure, if you do a search, that you use the real, older, trusted site, www.tinyurl.com not the .cc one. I was sending Dan some ebay links of boom trucks and accidentally used this rogue site ...i noticed it looked different but never imagined it was a bad bad thing...google had it in the search results for a search for 'tiny URL'...I will file a google bad site report.

I met with John from Island Air, a local Trane dealer this afternoon and at same time I received a UPS package which was a lovely gift from Viking Range. It contained an assortment of Viking branded items including a mousepad, keychain, wine stoppers, apron, pot holder, oven mitt, coasters, and several other items. They said the local distributer would be in touch. Cool. My osprey has returned. I heard his loud CHIRP thru the house walls (only bird noise that comes thru my thick walls) and sure enuf, he was in a tree very near my house. Later in the day, he sat in the tall tree next door and Dave and I happened to be watching while he dove right in front of the yard into the lagoon and brought up a fish. He flew off to the east w/ the fish. I bet it is a 'he' and he was taking the fish to Mrs. Osprey and kids. Last yr he would sit in the tree nearby and eat the fish, but maybe he got married this past winter. Click these photos to see any of them in a larger size.

We are moving right along on the house project. My builder, Dan Zehentner is just the greatest. He stays so totally on top of every detail. He is in and out of the job all day....nothing gets by him ! I feel so secure about this project happening RIGHT. Inspectors came on Monday, Dan and I were there and first slab was poured Monday. Today the digging for the footer for garage and porches was happening. These heavy DAC-ART walls require a big ole footer, plus being on the water and recent hurricanes and all that. The center section of the house slab was poured first. What you see now, as slab, will be the above ground basement. No windows...no doors...no blow-out walls or vents. If water gets in there, it will be by seepage or because it got high enuf to enter front door or guest room door and went down the steps in the guest room to the basement. This room will be tall enuf to stand in and do art projects, etc...good lighting, but everything I store down there will be in rubbermaid...

The USDA says 50 percent of the apple juice imported in the United States today comes from China. That's an estimated 161,000 tons of apple juice compared to the 110,000 tons produced in the United States, according to the USDA. Garlic and pine nuts are also big exports. So are instant coffee and dried berries like the ones found in breakfast cereal. CNN Article

Well here it is a week later, or will be in 4 minutes. Here is the news in shorthand, well sort of. I'm just busy as can be. Not nearly enuf time in the day. Momma is in hospital in Memphis--Bapt East...oops, HIAPPA violation probably. Having lots of severe back or side pain. Stephen came up to Memphis from Greenwood for what he thought would be a cheerful Sunday afternoon visit only to find Momma in a bad way. Lisa is in Canada. I am here, Cary in Knoxville and Momma's doc out of town. It has taken a bazillion phone calls and emails to try to get info and such due to HIAPPA law. We don't even know who her doc is. She doesn't either...tall and good looking w/ no bedside manner is all we know. Nurse gave me one doc's name and phone number, but Momma say's that is not it. She may go to skilled nursing for a few days at The Village when released from hosp, and she ain'ta gonna like that idea but then she isn't gonna like having someone hired to stay in her...

Fully operational 1938, bids are up to 19,500 bucks already. The auction. Can't afford that toy ? Make your own. Read about the Enigma

McAfee has put a small phishing scam quiz online. They offer you 10 sample web pages or emails and you try to pick out the fake one. I got 2 wrong. One that I missed was one of the web pages that they don't show the browser tool bar and actual web address.....that is mostly how I made my choice to guess...i didn't' have time to read all that small text on the samples. The other one I guessed wrong , I don't think I'd have been fooled by in real life cause , again, I would not click anything with out ck'ing the actual address of the link I was about to click on first. Try it yourself and see how vulnerable you might be to scam artists.

The blocks are arriving...see www.ConcreteCottage.com for play-by-play report. I am staying at the Hardwood Dr house now, and come to the Lagoon House to work in the day or evenings. So call me on cell or at Hardwood Dr. We have had tons of rain, sure needed it, but bad timing for my block transportation. Had a fun dinner at Becky & Warren's Fri nite. They had Warren's 6 yr old grand son, Eric, a smart and good kid. He'd been loving it at the beach. Some Wash. D.C. friends, who have a beach house in same neighborhood as B & W came too. The mom's name is Sally and her daughter, Virginia. Virginia recently graduated from Univ. of Va. Now I wonder, since she started at Emory in Atlanta, think she switched to UVA cause she is named Virginia ? Anyway, she is a writer for a monthly publication in D.C. that covers politics....& stuff I know nothing about. We had grilled shrimp, yellow squash & onions, this great 'Asian' slaw, watermelon and then playe...

I've been busy doing a ton of printing, meeting with potential house component suppliers....Meeting w/ Dan Z. & subs. Most photos , all my time go to www.ConcreteCottage.com and www.VillaLagoon.com Heather, my assistant, is off this week and I hope she has a nice break. (Hi Heather :o)

Beautiful day, strong breeze out of the West, full sun. Trucks come on Monday to haul off the tree chunks. The machine operator has pierced nipples and various other skin puncturing adornments. His name is Dustin and he is really good at what he does. He has been exceedingly neat.

Pepsi has introduced Ice Cucumber flavored drink.... Coke is not to be undone by Pepsi, sooo.... Coca-Cola devised Water Salad ...and Water Salad is... well... salad-flavored water. And now, from the "selling ice to the Eskimos" department, we bring you Diet Water: the soft drink for the soft headed. To start the day , which would you prefer a BM Coffee , a BJ Coffee or maybe you can gain a bit of corporate power with GOD coffee. How about Breast Milk? Read More.... read more....

Coastal Living Magazine's info about the Coastal Living Idea House (or cottage) as it is occasionally called. Some 'cottage'. I notice that the sales info says it has these fantastic views of the Intercoastal Waterway but I wonder if it will when another house is built on the lot between it and the waterway. I have not bothered to look at the lot layouts, but it appears to be on an interior lot. Our waterfront Little Lagoon 'showhouse' is Villa Lagoon. Coastal Living Magazine sponsored an "Idea House' right here in Gulf Shores in the new Bon Secour Village development. My friend Mark invited me to go with him. It was a very nice lawn party with music , loads of good food, nicely set tables under the tent and on the lawn. We could take interior photos in the kitchen only. It had Viking appliances for the most part. These be some pricey diggs. They are not exactly on the water, but the development is built alongside the Intercoastal Waterway. Right now onl...

Great weekend, if you ever go to T-town, stay at the Holiday Inn Express. I remember years ago when the H.I. Express concept was first introduced. They were itty-bitty little pre-fab cracker box cubicles no bigger than a Ritz-Carlton bathroom. Times have changed. This place is fabo. Quite upscale, with big free b'fast which included sausage and biscuits and gravy as well as waffles, and a ton of other stuff. Fantastic beds, all those bazillion-thread-count sheets (3), fancy pillows embroidered 'soft' or 'firm' plus free fast wireless everywhere, no password needed and no frustrating, idiotic in-house software to navigate thru for wireless. I give it 5 charcoal brickettes. Jenny Rankin's wedding on Sat. was lovely, the dinner the night before was at Indian Hills Country Club and groom, Henry Mize's family was kind to include us. In fact, when we ck'd in, there was a silver gift bag waiting all full of great snacks, chocolate, etc...and we found out late...

For hurricanes with female names, I propose this symbol.