Heavenly Father put a preview of the Celestial Kingdom here on earth, just so we could see what it might be like. I hope that in the last days when the mountains are laid low and the valleys raised up that somehow this little corner of the world gets over-looked and it remains just as is.

When we were going through New Mexico we saw this semi pulling a low-boy trailer and at first we thought it was empty, but as we got closer we could see were mistaken. We thought this would go really well with Benjamin's car carrier pictures. Maybe they get paid by the number of vehicles they haul?

Mom thinks that I have a screw loose, (probably more than one, and she would know better than anyone else) but I have a fascination with the modern windmills. So when I went to Hi-Willow on our vacation, I stopped and shot a few pictures. Here are only two of many I took. They have installed quite a few of them there, and Tom said they are producing about 25% more electricity than planned. They aren't without some problems -- they have a crew that goes around to them regularly and picks up the dead birds so the environmentalists/PITA people don't cry about that. Then Tom was saying that they have lost a few blades, evidently from someone shooting at them. Go figure!! We saw quite a few parts being trucked on the road during our trip, and they are huge. They truck two blades at a time on an extra long trailer. The square box that sits on top of the column fills up a whole semi trailer by itself. The nose piece must be pretty heavy -- they truck two of them on one lowboy trailer. The columns seperate into about 3 pieces and they are huge. Anyway I think they are cool even if they aren't a viable alternative for generating power.

Don't put that grass on me!!

So do these Glade Boys just not like grass, or are they nervous about being around where dead people are buried. In any case I hope that their Mom and Dad can find a place in LA with some grass and get them over their grassaphobia

Befoe & After

I know that you have all seen pictures of the devestation of Ike, but this was a beach house located on Crystal Beach, owned by a lady that worked for me at Huntsman in Accounts Payable. As a lot of these cabins were 2nd homes and the insurance was very expensive many owners did not carry insurance or were under-insured. The problems caused by flooding in Bridge City and Orange continue to surface. Galveston will probably take years to recover and maybe some of these places shouldn't recover. Its easy to say when it isn't your home/property.