During a recent get-together of Chuck’s high school classmates, fellow NHS graduate, Art Faschan graciously offered to create a portrait of our girl, Shadow. Art is a premier artist who specializes in graphite painting. If you don’t know what that is, or have never seen a graphite painting, check out Art’s site, www.PortraitsofMemories.com. His work […]
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Artist Paints Shadow
August 7th, 2012 
Cheryl 
Chuck Donates 10 Gallons of Blood
January 11th, 2011 Cheryl Today Chuck was honored with a plaque by LifeSouth Community Blood Centers in Citrus County, Florida to celebrate his having donated TEN gallons of blood, one pint at a time. As you can see by the picture, Chuck is pretty proud of his achievement and says he is looking forward to donating his next gallon. […]
Calling All Marines!
June 19th, 2010 Chuck The following was found at www.RLeeErmey.com: Marine Corps Identity Bill Gets 400 Co-sponsors in House Washington D.C. April 20, 2010 The Marine Corps Identity Bill, HR 24, has received 400 co-sponsors92 percent of the House of Representatives. Backed by the Marine Corps League, HR 24, introduced by North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones, proposes to change the name of […]
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Tags: bill hr 24, department of the navy, Marine Corps, marine corps identity bill, marine corps identity cause, r. lee ermey, the gunny 
Comments OffR. Lee Ermey is NOT Dead
June 15th, 2010 Chuck I recently received an email from a Marine Corps buddy that looked like this: FW: Fallen Marine Vet RIP R. Lee Ermey, 1944-2010 It’s with a heavy heart that I find myself writing this about someone I’ve admired for many years. Ever since “Full Metal Jacket”, R. Lee Ermey emboded the image of a hard-ass […]
Posted in Non-RV Stuff, USMC Tags: Marine Corps, r. lee ermey, r. lee ermey dead, snopes.com, the gunny, urban legends, USMC Comments OffTax Day. Let’s Have a Tea Party!
April 15th, 2010 Cheryl Today is April 15th, a date dreaded by the 50 percent of Americans who pay federal income taxes according to Fox News’ Hannity. Of course, a lot of other news agencies are saying that Hannity is perpetuating false information, because the Tax Policy Center has estimated that only 47 percent of American households pay no […]
Abusing the Right to Free Speech
March 30th, 2010 Cheryl Today’s Headline: Fallen Marine’s Father’s Legal Battle Albert Snyder sued protesters at his son’s funeral and won; now the judgment was been thrown out and he’s ordered to pay protester’s legal fees. Watch this video from Fox News and tell me, when does your right to Free Speech begin to impede on my rights to […]
Posted in Non-RV Stuff, Politics, USMC Tags: Fallen Marine, Free Speech, Marine Corps, Matthew Snyder, USMC, Westboro Baptist Church Comments OffBlack Friday – the Christmas consumerism addiction
November 27th, 2009 Cheryl Chuck and I have long been of the opinion that the Christmas holidays have gone from being about celebrating the birth of Jesus to being mainly about keeping the U.S. economy in the black – promoted solely for the purpose of encouraging Christmas consumerism. As such, we decided to not exchange Christmas presents, nor buy […]
Tax Day Tea Party
April 15th, 2009 Cheryl All I can say is “Wow” and “It’s about time!” Have you seen the news regarding the Tax Day Tea Parties organized by www.taxdayteaparties.com going on around the country today? We hadn’t heard anything about them until we watched the evening news and I must say, it’s amazing (and refreshing) to see Americans actually being […]
I Finished!
October 28th, 2008 Cheryl I finished! Yay for that. Unfortunately, if anyone has seen my times on the Marine Corps Marathon site (and the pictures of me running which are awful!) you will have thought to yourself how SLOW can she go?! ;-P However, considering the injury I was dealing with for about the last four weeks, I’m satisfied […]
Posted in Hobbies, Native American, Non-RV Stuff, Running, USMC, Washington DC Tags: Marine Corps Marathon 2008, Running, Running Strong for Indian Youth Comments Off
On Top of Crazy Horse Mountain
Today we stood on the arm of Crazy Horse Mountain in Custer, SD. Our guide was Tom Wilson who works at the Crazy Horse Memorial. He was a joy to talk and spend time with, as is everyone we’ve ever met while visiting the site of the largest mountain carving in the world, begun by […]