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House & Home
Never a place better than our own backyard.
http://home.comcast.net/~jw_collins/rae/rae.htm ....................................
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Travel
Latest trip of fancy, go here; 
Whimsey
http://www.howtofoldashirt.net/
http://www.embedtube.com/uploads/33101407Realage.swf
http://www.draac.com/laughin/mind.html
Memories
Visit two weeks before Dad died
Swiss camp memories running at http://home.comcast.net/~jw_collins/camp/camp.htm
Old-man Navy stuff at http://home.comcast.net/~jw_collins/sub/sub.htm. Reference the book 'Spy Sub' on the links and even better.....BLIND MAN'S BLUFF by Sherry Sontag. SSN 587 was also featured in a PBS TV documentary called Secrets, Spies, & Subs as well as a documentary on The History Channel.
Concerning memories, High School class of '67 gathers in Oklahoma for my group. Here's the link; http://www.ehs67reunion.org/ I have attempted contact with a few of those folks still within grasp of memory and have looked over their well-collected and collated list of potential participants with a bit of a knot in the stomach......I must confess that a forty year assessment of one's life, designed to slap one in the face in concentrated, comparative and focused social activity, is enough to produce a tinge of anxious reflection. For now I am struck by two things: the number of folks who stuck around Oklahoma, and the number of folks in the class of '67 who are deceased.
Midsummer Garden Flowers HERE ..................................................
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Wanna Laff? .......................................................................................
Some family scans
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Money
This is a site charting inflation rate. Personal savings nets yield minus inflation minus taxes on savings. http://www.inflationdata.com/Inflation/images/charts/Annual_Inflation/annual_inflation_chart.htm
Here is a debt meter reflecting how much money the United States is in debt. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
Here is the best dynamic stock tracker I've found; http://moneycentral.msn.com/detail/stock_quote?ipage=qd&symbol=%24INDU
Here is a site giving live spot precious metals prices http://goldinfo.net/gold1.html
Click here to find other banks and their ratings offering high rates http://www.bankrate.com/brm/rate/mmmf_home.asp
Click here to determine your long term retirement status (I use this one to know the big retirement picture) http://moneycentral.msn.com/retire/planner.aspx
Weather
Weather Loop to watch the hurricanes this season http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/rbigmain.html http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/images/ecir.html
National Weather Service http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
Accuweather http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/index.asp?partner=accuweather .............. Local View
Politics and Opinions
"Well behaved women rarely make history...E.Roosevelt"
So....you really want to know deep family history? A rebel's reb? Here it is: http://www.natchezbelle.org/ahgp-ms/jones/secession1.htm
Weblog & Various Thoughts on Current Events
Truth, Liberty and Justice.....my BLOG .................................,,,..............
The year in political cartoons (click the pic)
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/