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  • Both of my sailors grew up to be shellbacks. I'm just so darn proud. Here's a photo of the band in front of the admiral's helicopter, there on the Blue Ridge: Alex is behind the right-hand sax.

  • Alex sent this photo of him and another sailor, apparently riding in a van and saluting a stuffed duck. Actually, Alex, is that a proper salute? I'd have thought both eyes were supposed to be visible, but your hand's…

  • Alex is getting a fair amount of "face time" (photos) at the Navy's coverage of the Blue Ridge's trip through the Pacific. As well he should. Hehehe! Here's one of him playing the tuba for some kids at a school in Gen…

  • Just got an email from Charles!

    He's bought a plane ticket home, arriving on January 30th at 5:30 pm! He'll be here until the afternoon of February 11th. That final weekend we'll have him, Beth and Hannah home with us.

  • Okay, maybe they didn't blow the other subs out of the water (probably a good thing), but in last fall's Commander Submarine Force Atlantic 2006 Battle Efficiency Competition the USS Dallas picked up a couple of awards: …

  • Charles has updated his blog!

    He's back in Sardinia, where he first joined the Dallas. ;^) What goes around, comes around, apparently.

  • Miscellanea..

    Today Kirstin leaves for a quick trip to Honduras, checking in with the church down there that her own parish helps. She has been instrumental in getting both a milk-distribution program going (IIRC) and a school unifor…

  • Happy New Year!

    I love New Year's Day! Getting out the new calendar and hanging it up is a small but intense pleasure. This year's calendar teaches the Cyrillic alphabet....you know, a letter with an accompanying picture that begins…

  • Well, ain't this a kick in the head?

    From BBC comes a startling claim: Housework cuts breast cancer risk Women who exercise by doing the housework can reduce their risk of breast cancer, a study suggests. The research on more than 200,000 women fr…

  • From: 20,000 leagues under the sea

    That was the subject line of the email received from Charles this morning. Thanksgiving wasn't bad, we had turkey and ham and all that good stuff, but the meal was 2 hours long and almost the entire boat was up for i…

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