Wednesday, February 23

The Wonderful Skies of Alpine, CA

The weather was a so wonderful today...With myself dying to get out of the house, I took my camera and car on a road trip. I drove the 25+ miles east towards and past Alpine, CA.....This small area is in the hills a little over 3000 feet high...So close the ocean..But now so HIGH in the sky....The rain came and went, as did the hail, gusts of wind, and colors in the sky....Hope you enjoy the next few pictures....

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The drive east to the small city of Alpine...

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The storm out in Alpine

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Will there be a break in the thunder clouds....

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Santee area..looking towards Lakeside

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As the storm moves in...the sky darkens...

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North in Alpine...

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In Alpine looking toward San Diego to the west 25 miles...

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Alpine hills...east of San Diego

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Alpine area...east of San Diego

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Darker.....

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The last of the skies.....

The storm is near....

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Blues skies

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Saturday, February 19

Rose and Rhonda...for those of you that know , we have been friends for over 18 years. We lived together in Corning after high school. She was down here in San Diego and came over to the house.

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My friends from way up in Corning came down for a wedding and stop by for a visit. Rose and Roberto Guzman.

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Thursday, February 17

Robin William's and Al Asad, Iraq

Robin William and John Elway visited Kirks base and his co workers in Jan. Kirk said he was either working or sleep, but he missed it all. Then I got this email from a friend, and I so agree...You may too...

You gotta love Robin Williams...... Even if he's nuts! Leave it to
Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need
now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.

Robin Williams' plan....(Hard to argue with this logic!)

I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a
plan for peace. So, here's one plan."

1.) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in
their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin,
Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole
boys,' We will never "interfere" again.

2.) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting
with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines.
They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one
allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3.) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and
leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder
will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who
or where they are.. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4.) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90
days unless given a special permit!!!!!!!! No one from a terrorist
nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it
yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to
anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5.) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers.
If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home
baby.

6.) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy
wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy
but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness.
The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7.) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel!
for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can
go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the
wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8.) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world,
we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for
seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we
give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get
very little, if anything.

9.) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place.
We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the
building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10.) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no
one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we
speak is ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE.....

Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor,
your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's
yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "




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Our Sunset here in San Diego

As Gunnar began the following meal in the pictures below...this was the wonderful sunset we could see from our backyard...very nice tonight...

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Gunnar's Cooking up on the BBQ

Things are beginning to get a bit smoky at Gunnar's Grill House. He loves to cook outside. Smoke, flames and wind...he wants to be the "Chef" of the night...like most nights. Tonight he made Krabby Patty's, Hot-n-Spicey Hotdogs and Mac-n-nCheese..YUMMY...mom still did the dishes...

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Gunnar working on his tossing up in the air skills...

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Gunnar decided to BBQ Krabby Patty's for us all. He's getting good with the flipper and the FLAMES.

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Tuesday, February 8

Kirk waiting to go flying...the next pictures are of what he saw in Iraq....Feb 2005

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.Karballa,Iraq from the CH53e...Pictures by Kirk...

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Karballa,Iraq from the CH53e...Pictures by Kirk...

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Palm Trees.....Karballa,Iraq from the CH53e...Pictures by Kirk...

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Karballa,Iraq from the CH53e...Pictures by Kirk...you can see Kirks 50cal.

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Thursday, February 3

Lillian Mikaela---- One of my bestfriends new Baby GIRL

Kelly and her new baby girl. She was a bit late and had to come C-Section but as you can see she is a doll just like her other 2 sisters! Kelly and Greg did a great job with this baby! They just moved to VA and had nobody to watch the girls , so they got to be there for the birth too! Now thats a close family! CONGRATS KELLY AND GREG!

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SHE IS HERE! Kelly and Greg had baby girl number 3. Born Feb 3, I think she said around 5am ish VA time.... Lillian Mikaela is her name and she is HUGE 9'14 and about 20 inches long!

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Lillian Mikaela

Lillian Mikaela ...

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Tuesday, February 1

Check out some of my friends pages too...

My friend Adea got me started on these blogs, her friend Vergie got her started, now three of my friends have started some too.... http://adea21.blogspot.com (Adea in WA) http://tabbykats02.blogspot.com (Sabrina in CA) http://bonistallis.blogspot.com (Kelly in VA she just had a baby, so her's is a bit slow) http://hollandhsabc.blogspot.com/ (Steph in CA) These are Navy and Marine wives I have met over the past several years...

OH...and don't forget to look at everyones "Archives" off to the side of everyones pages...you don't want to miss a single silly picture!!!



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