Missing in Action

Hello to all who are faithful reader (or truly board individuals who need a life).
We are truly SORRY for such a long delay without any posting. You see, we are back to our busy life style again and we don’t seem to have enough time to stop and sit down for a few minutes, let along play on the computer.

We have been up to our ears in ice around here. We have had an ice storm every Tuesday for the last three weeks, everything has been covered in ice up until this week when we got a light skim of snow on top of the ice. But today it’s warming up, it’s in the 50”s and most all the ice from this week storm is melted and you can smell spring in the air. YEAH!!!! Bring it on, I am so ready to get out side and do something outside.


But in the mean time we all have been keeping busy… Bowling All-Star’s is into it’s finally weekend (think goodness, I am so tired of bowling alley food). Kelsey is doing really well; she has stayed within the top 20 for the last 5 weeks. However, there are only 36 girls and last I checked she was in 17th place. She spoke with the High School bowl team coach the other day and he told her as long as she kept up her average to come see him when she starts freshman year. Which by the way is this August! She is already asking us to get a job and get her driving permit. Lord help us!!!!!

Woody is getting ready to go to Florida in two weeks for a big fishing trip. He seems to be getting along really good with the owners of the new company he is working for and just so happens he likes to fish also. I’m telling you them two together is a mess, look out fish here they come. Roy has talked Woody into fishing several tournaments this summer, but the trip to Florida is kinda business/leisure. See Roy has to go down there to meet with some business and it just so happens that is really close to a lake that Woody has been wanting to fish for a long time. So to help Woody understand the business a little better and to learn new things he get to go. They are shiner fishing for big Bass at Lake Kissimmee in Orlando Florida. Woody is hoping to land one of the record bass weighing in at 13lbs. Best of luck honey, you deserve a break. It’s been a long time coming!!!

JURY DUTY

I had to go for jury duty selection today. Got lucky ( you could say) and did not get picked. 50 people reported this morning, 14 were asked to come up front to the jury chairs and both atty's drilled them for over an hours before we took a break. After coming back into the court room the same 14 returned to their chairs and continued questioning. I was not one of these 14. After about another hour we were taken into a side room and them another group of 14 were called, again my name was not called again. They came back and another group of 14 went. (Now during this time keep in mind that 50 people minus 14 are all in one little small room, and we do not have a clue who each other are. It was really interesting watching everyone in the room as to what people do when they do not know each other.)

Back to the court, that group comes back and they finally call me and two other people. I found it interesting that they only called three people this time instead of 14. So when we were brought back into the court room, we were told that the jury selections was completed but they needed one extra person as an alternate. The three of us were questioned by the atty's and one of the questions asked was do you know the defendant, arresting officer or someone from the list of witnesses. I responded yes, I know a witness on the list. How do I know this person? He happens to our local chef of police, I went to high school with him and he provides security at the local high school events that Kelsey goes to. And for the next 15 to 20 minutes (seems liked forever) all the questions were directed toward me. You can say I was in the hot seat. After all this, we were taken back to the little room on the side and asked to sit and wait. Let me tell you sit and wait is the key here. a lot of sitting and waiting!!!!! So after all this a clerk came in and said the following name were free to go and my name was called.

Disappointed you can say, I would have really like to stay and try my hand at jury duty. I wanted to hear the fact about the case.

Mike was the lucky one, his jury duty was two weeks ago and after his sections process he was selected and was even elected jury formen for trial. Oh well, there is alway next time.