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Upper Peninsula Moose
Not one, but two! Truly amazing! These animals were photographed just north of the Wisconsin border on a highway near Marenisco, Michigan. Once in awhile there is an opportunity to take in a piece of nature that you may never see. In these days of unrest and turmoil it is great to see that Mother Nature can still produce some wondrous beauty.
The odds of seeing an albino moose are astronomical and to see this in the upper peninsula of Michigan, is even greater than astronomical. To see two of them together is nearly impossible. We wanted to share these photos with as many people as possible because you will probably never have a chance to see this rare sight again. This is a really special treat, so enjoy the shot of a life time.
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Happy Valentine’s Day
A puppy has been born in Japan with a large, clear, love-heart-shaped pattern in his coat. The Chihuahua was born in May as one of a litter to a breeder. Shop owner Emiko Sakurada said it was the first time a puppy with the marks had been born out of a thousand she had bred. She had no plans to sell the puppy, which has been named ‘Heart-kun’. The long-coated male Chihuahua puppy was born in Odate, northern Japan.
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The “Middle Wife” by an Anonymous 2nd Grade Teacher
I’ve been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second grade classroom a few years back. When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them. If they want to lug it in to school and talk about it, they’re welcome.
Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid, takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater. She holds up a snapshot of an infant. “This is Luke, my baby brother, and I’m going to tell you about his birthday.” “First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put a seed in my Mom’s stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord.” She’s standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I’m trying not to laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me. The kids are watching her in amazement. “Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts saying and going, ‘Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh!’ Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. “She walked around the house for, like an hour, ‘Oh, oh, oh!’ (Now this kid is doing a hysterical duck walk and groaning.) “My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn’t have a sign on the car like the Domino’s man. They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this.” (Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall.) “And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!” (This kid has her legs spread with her little hands miming water flowing away. It was too much!) “Then the middle wife starts saying ‚Äö√Ñ√∫push, push,‚Äö√Ñ√π and ‚Äö√Ñ√∫breathe, breathe‚Äö√Ñ√π. They started counting, but never even got past ten. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff that they all said it was from Mom’s play-center, so there must be a lot of toys inside there.” Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat. I’m sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, when it’s show-and-tell day, I bring my camcorder, just in case another “Middle Wife” comes along.
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Bumper Bowling
Today I played bumper bowling against a 4 year old kid. The 1st game I got lucky by getting a strike and I ended up beating him 100 to 86. The second game was more close of 99 to 87. The 3rd game however, I was behind the whole game. I could not hit that head pin to save my life. It wasn’t until the 10th frame when I was down 80 to 94. I needed a strike or spare to catch up with this kid. I ended up bowling and getting 8 pins. Then my second ball I picked up the spare. Now all I had to do was get 5 pins to win. I ended up getting only 4 pins for the tie. It’s pretty sad when you have to have a come from behind spare to catch up with a 4 year old kid at bumper bowling.
Don’t worry though, I’m used to doing terrible at bowling. My worst game to date was a whopping 32. The best game I’ve ever had in my life was a 184. I think that was a once in a lifetime game. Don’t hold your breath to see me on the next bumper bowling circuit, however this 4 year old might be a force to be reckoned with.
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Fishing at Pearl Harbor
Today my boy and I went fishing over by Pearl Harbor. We were there for 5 hours and didn’t officially catch anything. My boy had a fish on the line, but it was his 1st time reeling in a fish and he was reeling too slowly, so the fish got off. I had a bite that had my pole bent over, so I started reeling it in and I got it all the way to shore to see that it was a crab. Luckily when I got the crab in to shore, he let go of the bait. That was good because I really didn’t want to try to entice a crab off my fishing line. Even though we didn’t catch anything, we still had fun and will try again. Like they say, “A bad day fishing is better than a good day in the office.”
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College Graduation
I finally graduated college with a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Software Engineering. It seems as though I was on the 10-year plan to obtain a 4-year degree. I swear the only people who go to school longer than me are doctors. Regardless, I switched between 4 different schools and changed degrees just as many times, but persistence paid off. This degree was definitely not the easiest thing I have ever done, as a matter of fact, it was probably the most difficult thing I have ever done. I needed help along the way and definitely am very grateful to everybody who provided assistance. The nice thing is the feeling of relief to finally have completed this accomplishment. The road does not end here though; I will take a break and then further my education. During the break, I will try to apply some of the things I learned and put them to practical use.
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Hiking Experience in Kailua
Do you remember the stories that your grandfather probably told you about walking to school everyday, through the snow barefoot, uphill both ways? Well, today I have one of those stories, but it’s 100% true and it just happened to me, today. I thought it would be fun to go hiking with my son today at Moana Wiliwili. We drove to Kailua, Oahu. Anyway, I wasn’t sure if it has been rainy in Kailua so I wore flip-flop shoes. I made some major mistakes when we got there. The 1st mistake I made was that I forgot to bring water. The next major mistake I made was that I forgot the mosquito spray in the car.
We started walking and about ¬Ω mile into the walk we realized that it was really muddy. It was then that my son started complaining about not liking mud and every time we stopped for him to whine about not wanting to walk in the mud, mosquitoes would start biting us so bad that I smacked my leg and killed 5 mosquitoes at once. So for the first 1.8 miles I carried him on my shoulders, uphill, through the mud. When we arrived at the waterfall people were jumping off cliffs into the water, so we took a break to cool down our feet in the cold water.
Before long we decided to start walking back and once again he started complaining about not wanting to get muddy and once again I ended up carrying him on my shoulders. This time we were going downhill, but it was really muddy and slippery and I had a 40lb child on my shoulders. I ended up getting my flip-flops stuck in the mud where I couldn’t get them out, so I ended up walking the next 1.8 miles, through the jungle, down muddy hills, barefoot. We were about ¼ of the way down and I stepped on a metal stake that was buried in the mud. I still kept carrying him on my shoulders, but the pain was pretty severe and I was leaving a blood trail down the muddy path. Before long the mud was so packed into the cut that it burned like hell, but at least the bleeding stopped. We walked a while further and I was able to soak my feet in the cold stream to wash the mud out of the cut on the bottom of my foot. Once we got ½ way down the hill, my son got so heavy on my shoulders that I just couldn’t carry him anymore and I was so thirsty I felt like I was foaming at the mouth with extreme cotton mouth. We worked our way ever so slowly down the path, but my feet were hurting so bad because of walking on rocks, sticks, and through hard walking woods with slippery mud. Once we got to the bottom of the trail we trespassed, on the person who owns a house back in the woods, driveway. You would think that walking barefoot down a driveway would feel better than walking over rocks, sticks, and through the mud, but this driveway felt like coarse sandpaper on my feet. By the time we made it back to the car I was so physically tired and dehydrated that when I drove to the nearest 7-11 to buy a bottle of water, I thought I was going to puke from drinking it so fast. On the drive home I called my Dad and he was laughing so hard that I knew this sounded like one of those stories my grandfather used to tell me.
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Christmas Trees Around the World
Rockefeller Center, New York
The Capitol, Washington DC
Trafalgar Square in London
The Romer, Frankfurt’s City Hall
Red, White and Blue [on display at an unknown location]
Puerta del Sol in Madrid
St. Peter’s Square in Rome
Galeries Lafayette in Paris
A chapel in Germany’s Karwendel mountains
The largest Christmas tree in Europe [over 230 feet tall] in Praça do Comércio in Lisbon, Portugal
Moscow
Murano Island in Venice, Italy; home to the tallest glass tree in the world sculpted by master glass blower Simone Cenedese
Prague’s Old Town Square in the Czech Republic
Tokyo’s nighttime neon display projected onto the Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka in Japan
The world’s largest Christmas tree display up in the slopes of Monte Ingino, in Italy’s Umbria region, made of about 500 lights connected with 40,000 feet of wire
Merry Christmas!
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Family Vacation
Family on holiday in Australia for a week and a half when husband, wife and their 15 year old son decided to go scuba diving. The husband is in the navy and has had some scuba experience.
His son wanted a pic of his mum and dad in all their gear so got the underwater camera on the go. When it came to taking the pic the dad realized that the son look like he was panicking as he took it and gave the “OK” hand sign to see if he was alright.
The son took the pic and swam to the surface and back to the boat
as quick as he could so the mum and dad followed to see if he was OK. When they got back to him he was scrambling onto the boat and absolutely shitting himself. When the parents asked why he said, “there was a shark behind you” and the dad thought he was joking, but the skipper of the boat said it was true and that they wouldn’t believe him if he told them what it was.
As soon as they got back to the hotel they put the pic onto the laptop and this is what they saw.
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The Most Beautiful Girl
‘She’s’ the Winner of Thailand’s Miss Transvestite 2005 contest
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Awesome Helicopter Paint Job
This very special Mi-24 helicopter is presently flying in Afghanistan, where it is no doubt causing quite a stir.
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Leaving Tokyo
Today I’m leaving Tokyo, Japan. This was a nice trip to take it easy and catch up with friends. I’m sitting at the Narita airport waiting to catch the plane. I just finished eating at McDonalds. The thing that is crazy about McDonalds here in Japan is that I asked for 1 BBQ sauce to each my french fries with and the lady told me I can’t get a BBQ sauce when I order a burger. This is the 2nd time this happened to me in Japan. So after requesting a BBQ sauce for a couple of minutes, I finally asked her if my wasn’t good at McDonalds. She finally fessed one up. That is definitely some Japanese thinking. They definitely don’t think outside the box and heaven forbid somebody actually likes BBQ sauce with their french fries. Oh well, it has definitely been a good trip and it was very enjoyable seeing how Tokyo has changed. Now just for the long plane ride back to the US.
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How To Get Kicked Out of The Air Force 101
Who says AF people aren’t a little wild…
When it gets hot outside on the flight line, people get a little crazy!!
A few days ago somebody found a pic of a KC-135 guy marshaling a jet in his underwear. The next day Airman Jerknuts of our grand 34th AMU decided to out do the tanker guy. I think our guy won!
The chief lost his mind over this. He read 11 people their rights and they all lawyered up. The chief confiscated a bunch of cameras (not before the pics got put on laptops of course) The kid asked everyone if they minded, including the aircrew and super, no one cared.
There’s a huge cluster-gaggle with it. Apparently every lawyer in the AOR plus a few extras have to be flown in for this.
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Mori Building Tokyo, Japan
Today I took the train over to Roppongi Hills and I went up inside Mori Building. Here are some of the photos of I took of different landmarks in Tokyo. You can see Fuji television, Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo Tower, and other views.
