Marine Corps Birthday Ball

 

Marines and Associates of the Year, 5 Nov 2022

Utah Dixie Detachment 1270, St. George, UT

Computer Upgrades

I'm in the process of updating my laptop (and some parts of my PC).  My server recently changed its programming which created an issue with my older e-mail software.  I’ve now got a huge hard drive and am in the process of getting a new Office suite (mainly for my e-mail program) as well as a 1T stick where I can copy all my photos for safe keeping.   

Happy Birthday, Bill

Oct 19, 2022:  Today would have been his 90th birthday.  It's been a challenge going on without him.  We were together and that was special.

Bill at Groundbreaking for Ivins Nursing Home

Ephesians 5:25:  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her. 

2022 Devil Pups Made the News Again This Year

SOUTHERN UTAH DEVIL PUPS IN THE NEWS 

Beating Summer Heat

Celebrating the end of summer!  Such a stressful summer, battling dehydration without knowing it, attending Devil Pup graduation at Camp Pendleton in July, trying to rein in an extremely recalcitrant person trying out for a Devil Pup staff assignment, followed by a fever and virus and closing the books and planning a dinner meeting for an end-of-year meeting - pretty busy summer.  Cooler temps and less stress is sounding very good to me.
 

How and why someone ends up being dehydrated is a subject on my mind.  After our Devil Pup Awards night, honoring 27 recent Devil Pup graduates from the prestigious and difficult summer camp at Camp Pendleton, California,  I went to look for something out of one of my plastic tubs, felt light headed, sat down and fainted!  Wow - never happened to me before in my long life.  Someone called 911, an ambulance arrived, and I was taken to the ER.  A non-family member was allowed into my ER room creating a lot of stress giving faulty information and invading my privacy, so it was not a restful night. After lab tests and a cat scan, it turned out to be dehydration -  so I am hydrating.  It's because of a medication prescribed for me in April by an orthopedic doctor.  Beware if you are prescribed Meloxicam.  It can mess up kidneys quickly.  A couple days after the fainting episode, I came down with a virus.  Caught me when I was down!  I'm rarely sick and I'm impatient with it!

Looking for Joan Nordstrom

I'm working on a tree for a friend.  I worked on her tree a few years ago and found a half-sister she hadn't known about, and just recently found out there was another half-sister born in 1933 who was adopted out when her father and his first wife divorced.  She (and I) would love to find this other half-sister, even if to only know what happened to her.  The baby was born as Joan Nordstrom on 19 Mar 1933.  Her birth certificate shows up on Ancestry and shows her father as Clifford Nordstrom and her mother as Aris Thomas.  We know nothing about her adoptive parents, her adopted name or anything else about her.