"A Little Closer to Heaven"

Well, the boys went flying and the Journal Courier newspaper posted this online video.

 

What do you think?

PPGing Online

A week ago Monday, someone from our local newspaper contacted Deke to request an interview with him and Austin to demonstrate their PPGing. The man, Mike, met them at the Delphi airport and shot about an hour of film. One interesting aspect of the filming occurred with Mike hooked Austin up with two GoPro cameras. I saw some of the pre-edited film and it looked awesome. The whole 2-minute segment will be online this Friday (Aug 17) at noon ET when you go to jconline.com. I don't exactly know what the link will be once you get into the newspaper but I suspect this is a weekly video of something of local interest posted every Friday at noon.

 

Bountiful Harvest

I went to the garden today...

Flying High

Deke and Austin flew their powered paragliders last night against one of the most breathtaking sunsets imaginable. I know these pictures do not do it justice, but just try to imagine the scene.

Well Glory Again!

This early morning when Deke and I sat on the front porch drinking our coffee, this scene developed in front of our eyes. It was glorious and I just wanted to share it with you.

We traveled to attend Mark's promotion ceremony where he pinned on the rank of AF Major. Even Erin and the kids joined us for a wonderful day of being together. So proud of Mark! While there, we celebrated C-Bear's 3rd birthday. She loved the candles that looked like crayons and it was everything I could do to convince her not to color with them. And she licked off the bottoms of each candle when she removed them from the ice cream cake. So much better than eating a real piece of the stuff! When we left Mark and Lori's, we spent two days with the Varnell clan. The men went choo-choo training and the women went shopping. Yeah! What fun.

Mark's promotion to Major

All of the grandchildren together again

C-Bear's 3rd birthday

"I'm proud!"

The Rest of the Story (or Mama Jo Lives On)

This is going to be a tough posting to follow because:  I (Deke) am writing it and because you almost have to be in the family to get it.  But if you want to give it a try, you must do a little blogging homework.

1. First you will have to visit the Verbal Infusion posting titled, "Remembering Mama Jo" (http://www.verbalinfusion.com/2012/05/remembering-mama-jo.html).

2.  Now come back to this blog and read "Wel Glry 2" and "Memorial Day."

Consider this an addendum to the "Memorial Day" posting.  I thought it would be a good idea to link the license plate to the grave of the one we remember so fondly, so I sneakily (if that isn't a real word, just think of it as a texting abbreviation) took the plate off the van and placed it on the head stone.  I told Cindy we could use it in the blog if she wanted to.  Now look at the sequence of three pictures.  Study them carefully to see the subtle change between picture one (that I thought was just fine) and three (that was as it should be).

 MAMA JO LIVES ON!!!!!!!!!