Ah, that's a nice picture, Snood. Looks like there is one proud Mama next
to her son. Your wife seems very happy too. Retirement sounds good.
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dyslexia
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Sun 30 May, 2010 05:21 pm
@snood,
2 cool snood, congrats.
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Intrepid
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Sun 30 May, 2010 09:58 pm
@snood,
Nice pic, Snood. Congratulations on your retirement. I haven't seen many posts from you lately. Enjoy your retirement from the army.
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snood
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Mon 31 May, 2010 09:10 pm
@ossobuco,
I have a "what now". I am 3 semesters from my Master of Arts in Counseling. I want to get certification as a licensed professional counselor. This Fall I will be doing my Practicum - counseling teenagers in a middle school (promises to be challenging).
I visited an arboretum in Lisle, Illinois today. They have a huge granite boulder which had been pushed to Illinois from Canada by glaciers 14,000 years ago.
They have a huge granite boulder which had been pushed to Illinois from Canada by glaciers 14,000 years ago.
i knew there was a rock missing in canada - you better get it back here real quick , wj !
( the mountiies have been looking for that rock - but i won't tell that you have it ) .
I hope the mounties don't look at A2K, otherwise I have incriminated myself.
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wandeljw
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Mon 7 Jun, 2010 09:24 am
@wandeljw,
I found a website explaining Illinois geology. This excerpt explains the boulder in my photograph:
Quote:
Here and there in Illinois are boulders lying alone or with companions in the corner of a field or someone's yard, on a courthouse lawn or a schoolyard. Many of them -- colorful and glittering granites, banded gneisses, and other intricately veined and streaked igneous and metamorphic rocks -- seem out of place in the stoneless, grassy knolls and prairies of our state. Their "erratic" occurrence is the reason for their interesting name. These exotic rocks came from Canada and the states north. The continental glaciers of the Great Ice Age scoured and scraped the land surface as they advanced, pushing up chunks of bedrock and grinding them against each other or along the ground surface as the rock-laden ice sheets pushed southward. Sometimes you can tell where the erratic originally came from by determining the kind of rock it is. A large boulder of granite, gneiss, or other igneous or metamorphic rock may have come from Canada.
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snood
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Sun 13 Jun, 2010 09:25 pm
Posing at the GG Bridge. Man, San Francisco is Freakin' Bee-yoo-tee-ful!!!!!!
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