First Day of School

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Yesterday was Favorite Girl’s first day at her new school. Her attitude has been wonderful considering this is her third school in three years. I’m glad we’re moving so much when she’s young and hopefully we’ll be settled in one place when she’s in high school.
Children are allowed to walk to school alone but, being [...]

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Back to the Boonies

After several weeks off, mostly due to rainy weather, we returned to Boonie Stomping. We went to the southeastern coast to the village of Inarajan. We could not have asked for a more beautiful day. It was sunny, clear and not too hot. The drive there was spectacular with gorgeous views of the ocean and the southern part [...]

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Toast to Sean

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A toast to Sean Sims on his birthday ~ never forgotten and always in our hearts.

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Bees! Part Deux

Both FM and FG were not overjoyed with my post yesterday about the bee attack. FG doesn’t like to remember and FM thought it was bad mojo to talk about it. So it was strange when FM took the dogs out for a walk around 5:30 pm and got attacked by  “boonie bees”. These boonie bees look [...]

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Flashback Friday Killer Bees of 2004

It was a gorgeous August morning in Germany so FG and I decided to take the dogs for a walk in the forest, something we’d done on countless occasions over the past 3 years. FM was “away” so we drove out to the forest and proceeded to walk along a dirt trail. We were about a half mile from [...]

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Way before the dawn

FM gets up at 3:50 am on weekdays because he has a half hour drive to PT (physical training). PT is done very early here due to the heat and humidity. The early mornings also holds true for organized runs on the weekends. A charity 5K scheduled for tomorrow has a showtime of 5:15 am and the run [...]

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Not pretty but it works…

It may not be pretty and, it certainly isn’t fancy, but if you want to know current Guam time, click on “Guam Time” in the right-side column. A big, fat, disproportioned clock will appear.  It’s the best I could do for now.

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Days of Summer

The days of summer vacation are fast coming to a close for FG. She’s more than ready to get back to the classroom even though she is still having a blast with snorkeling, playing with her friends and her favorite: staying up late and sleeping in.
The other day, FG mentioned how she liked the German [...]

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Rainy Days and Movies

It’s been very rainy here in Guam and, since we are fair-weather boonie stompers, I’ve been catching up on a lot of movies I missed while in Germany and also getting my money’s worth from Netflix. I went through an “F” phase: “Failure to Launch”, “Flightplan”, “Fever Pitch”, and “Firewall”. The only one which I found mildly [...]

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Flashback Friday Brussels 2002

During our trip to Brussels, we endured what seemed like a never-ending stau: 

We went to the Atomin, via the Metro, and got caught in a big rainstorm. It was unusually cold and rainy for August.  The Atomin was built in 1958 for the World’s Fair and reminds me of something out of ”War of the Worlds” ~ I thought it [...]

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