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Smoke and Dust

Cleaning Up

I have been slowely trying to clean up my reader. I always used an extention that was added to firefox and avoided the google one because when I use it I somehow end up accidentally deleting someone from some magic list. I like making folders for different subjects. One for MS, photography, general, etc. . …

For some reason with all the changes going on some blogs are now listed twice. Once in my folders and once where google decided they go under blogs you are following.  Logic says move the folks from blogs your following into a folder and the blog would only show once. But nope.  Now there are two of them. Umm, if I delete the wrong one then I am no longer following them at all. Oh this is so confusing when it really should not be.  Add to this that deleting someone that I also follow in G+ and sometimes but not always if I remove them from the reader it removes them from the G+ augh!!!

So, if you get deleted let me know and I will add you back – I claim opps.

My friend Mikey drove us around the Sutter Buttes last week and I played around with the camera a little bit.  Mostly we just looked at all the scenery and enjoyed the drive. All but the road shoot were taken from the car window as we drove around.

Our Graduate – Never Give Up

He never quit

He never quit Thursday was one of those days. Full of excitement and reflective thought, happiness with a tinge of sadness thrown in best describing our mood as Chuck, KRP, and I loaded up and headed off for Nevada. Three people that physically might make one and half if melded together!

You Never Know

Our friend Chuck and Brandon hit it off when Brandon was visiting us one summer.  The two of them formed a friendship:  mentor and student, comrades, and fishing buddies they became. I must admit they are an odd compo. Brandon with his youthful angst and Chuck a retired justice dept. special agent. Who would have thought?

Brandon has worked hard to achieve his goals. You see Brandon has learning disabilities and I hope he does not mind that I share this here. He never said never, never quit, he never gave up. Blessed with some special educators, real teachers that never quit, never said never, and never gave up on him he learned. Parents and extended family that never quit him, never gave up, and fought the battles to raise a child to become a good heart-ed, honest and ethical, confident young man.

When testing time rolled around he could have accepted extra help but he decided to take the tests without it and he scored! No adjusted or special diploma for him. That took courage IMHO. Not only did he achieve a High School Diploma but also he bettered that, received an advanced one, 9th in his class, and became a scholarship recipient to boot.

So off we go excited to attend his graduation and yet well, feeling old. He has so much potential but we worry about the state of the world. Please God that you watch over him and never quit him.

A few bits of the trip and ceremony.

I am gonna miss my little fishing buddy. Sometime when I was not looking he grew up!

Pics from Memorial

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