I've Never!!!

Well, I've never seen a four leaf clover, but today my neighbor found two in our yard!!! :) See, having a clover field instead of grass has something good about it. Hehe! This Weekend Lord willing I'm going to Seattle to visit my Uncle and Aunt!!! Hopefully the flights will be opened. It will be my first time flying by myself. Dinner is calling...

Baseball is Here!

Welcome Baseball season!!!

June 14,15,16 the St. Louis Cardinals will be playing the Seattle Mariners. Uncle Jack you better start praying now! The Mariners will need it. May the best team (or the one with the best luck) win!!!

Black and White Photos

Some of these are kind of repeated but I didn't know which ones were the best.

Top of the waterfall. (or what I call my waterfall its just a tiny little stream flowing over some rocks.)

Saturday It was 54 degrees out. I took a walk and enjoyed the mini waterfall. I'm doing black and white photos in photography right now so I was just practicing.

Bowling

The Bear, Hans, Gene, A. Dawg, Joe, and Alex came down to St. Louis for the weekend to ski. We all had a very nice time. Friday night we had a sing at my house. Saturday we all went skiing/snowboarding. That night we went to Ralph's house for a sing and games. Sunday was meeting and we ate at the meeting room and then stayed for a while and played games. Then we moved on the ClayJ's house. Sunday night we all went bowling. Monday we went to the gym then SHOPPING!!! It was a really nice weekend. Bowling was the only time we got pictures much to my disappointment.

Me and ClayJ doing DDR.

The Athenian Boy's Oath

We will never bring disgrace to this, our city, by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks. We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many; we will revere and obey the city's laws and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in those above us who are prone to annul or set them at naught; we will strive unceasingly to quicken the public sense of civic duty. Thus in all these ways we will transmit this city not only less, but greater than it was transmitted to us.

Well, its the last day of the year. I hope everyone had a good one. Any new year resolutions?

"Clara Barton" By; Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benét

(December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912)

Clara Barton was a Civil War patriot. She became known as the Angel of the Battlefield because she nursed the wounded soldiers. Later she established the American red Cross.

Brave Clara Barton
Stood beside her door,

And watched young soldiers

March away to war.

"The flags are very fine,"she said,

"The drums and trumpets thrilling.
But what about the wounds
When the guns start killing?"

Clara Barton went to work

To help keep men alive,

And never got a moment's rest

Till eighteen-sixty-five.

She washed and she bandaged,

She shooed away the flies,

She hurried in nurses,

She begged for supplies.

She cared for the wounded

And comforted the dying,

With no time for sleep

And still less for crying.

Clara Barton went abroad

When the war was ended.

Hoping for a little peace

Now that things had mended.

Clara found, as soon,

As her foot touched shore,

that she'd come just in time

For the Franco-Prussians War.

After that, her life, for her,

Held but little rest,

With famine in the East

And earthquakes in the West.

Floods, Drowning Johnstown,

Hurricanes in Texas,

Fires out in Michigan,

Things that fright and vex us.

In between the hurry calls,

Never at a loss,

She founded and established

The merciful Red Cross.

Battle, murder, sudden death,

Called for Clara Barton.

No one ever called in vain.

Clara was a Spartan.