Vote December 7, 2008
Posted by reuben257 in Family, Favorite Sites, Gratitude, blogs, internet, introduction.Tags: group blog award, Stratford Sentinel, vote
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So, I don’t have a whole lot of readers, but I thought I would help my wife out a little bit and ask the people I do have coming here to take a look at her school’s online newspaper The Stratford Sentinel. This is one of the many projects she has taken on in her new role as English teacher at Stratford Comprehensive High in East Nashville. They have been nominated for , so please support her and go check it out and vote if you have the time.
There is a link to Missie’s teacher blog, Stugart Sense, under family in the blogroll in the sidebar, feel free to check that out too.
Hello world! August 31, 2008
Posted by reuben257 in blogs, introduction, thoughts.Tags: intro, new blog, Reuben
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Hello!
This is Reuben, I am creating this blog because my wife and I want to maintain a backpacking theme with our other blog at www.reubenandmissie.com. This will provide me with a place to talk about whatever I want to tallk about which will probably include some backpacking, my truck, gardens, gizmos and gadgets online, and whatever else I happen to stumble upon. I welcome feedback, so feel free to give me some.
The story of Violet March 5, 2008
Posted by reuben257 in Violet, introduction.Tags: dog, story, Violet
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VioLet….
Once upon a time, there was a spectacular black lab named Bear. Bear was a wonderful dog…full-bred and professionally trained for shows. However, his original owner could not keep him because he grew to be skittish around people and preferred a more isolated life. At the same time, Reuben was looking for a mature, well trained animal to own and so found Bear and adopted him.
A few years later, Bear was diagnosed with a brain tumor. There was nothing that could be done. And so, sadly, Bear was put to sleep and buried with tears in the backyard.
The next Spring, in the place where Bear had been buried a whole mess of Violets sprouted up. And the next year, and the next year. Finally, when Reuben was ready,
he turned to me while gardening in the yard, and said that he’d like to adopt another dog…a female black lab… and name her Violet. And so we did, 2 hours later….(it turned out he knew someone giving away puppies…)
Anyway, that is the unsolicited story of Violet’s namesake….
