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Fun Theory – Lets Have More Fun

October 27th, 2009 Posted in Videos | No Comments »

This was sent to me. Don’t you just love how creative people can be to make life a little more fun…..

Growing Up….

September 11th, 2009 Posted in Personal | No Comments »

We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I’d like better. I’d really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.

I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.
I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.
And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.

It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.

I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.

I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And it’s all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room,but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he’s scared, I hope you let him.

When you want to see a movie and your little brother/sister wants to tag along, I hope you’ll let him/her.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.

On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don’t ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won’t be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.

If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.

When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.

I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy / girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.

May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.

I don’t care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don’t like it.. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.

I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.

May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.

I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor’s window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.

These things I wish for you – tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it’s the only way to appreciate life.

107 Years To Receive a Promotion

August 3rd, 2009 Posted in Personal | No Comments »

The following is an article from the June 30, 2009 Rapid City (South Dakota) Journal. The next time your waiting for that email or express letter, remember that we have come a long way in a very short period of time.

STURGIS — The Fenton brothers found a piece of their family history at the Fort Meade Museum on Monday.

Bill Fenton and his brothers, Griff, and Nat came to Sturgis to view their grandfather’s long-lost military commission and saw something that Capt. Charles Fenton probably never laid eyes on in his own lifetime — the 1901 document signed by President William McKinley promoting him to the rank of captain in the U.S. Army.

“We had absolutely no clue about any of this,” Bill Fenton said.

That 108-year-old document mysteriously showed up in the morning mail at the Fort Meade Post Office in March 2008. Addressed to Capt. Fenton, its late arrival confounded Postmistress Kathy Wacker and Charles Rambow, director of the Fort Meade Museum.

A Rapid City Journal article last year about the unusual delivery led Lori Potts of Rapid City to track down the soldier’s descendants.

“It only took me an hour to find the grandson,” said Potts, a genealogy buff. “If that were my ancestor, I’d want somebody to try to find me, so I would know.”

After learning of the presidential proclamation’s existence, the three brothers, along with Nat’s stepson, made plans to see it. Potts met Fenton family members Monday at Fort Meade.

“Very nice people,” Potts said. “They were very grateful.”

Capt. Charles Fenton died in 1918 when his youngest son, William, was just 5 years old. Only two of his five sons lived to adulthood, according to military records from the Arlington National Cemetery Web site. William Fenton told his children about their grandfather’s military service, and they grew up knowing that he was buried at Arlington in Washington, D.C., but they had no knowledge of his service at Fort Meade. William died two years ago.

“He would have been incredibly proud to see this and to hear about it,” Bill said about his father.

Seeing the document connected him to his grandfather in a palpable way, Fenton said.

“I looked at it and felt a great deal of pride. It was just amazing to me that it was signed by President McKinley. I got chills reading it.”

Like Rambow, the Fentons remain in the dark about the document’s whereabouts between 1901 and 2008.

“I don’t have a clue,” Fenton said. “The amazing thing is how it got there with just Capt. Fenton’s name and Ft. Meade, S.D., written on it.”

Family members say they’ll get copies of the parchment-paper commission made, but they want the original to stay exactly where it is.

“We were very impressed by the display they’ve arranged for it up there,” Bill Fenton said. “It’s definitely in the right place.”