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  • Billie Jean Is Not My Love

    For my friends 51st birthday, I was privileged to go to a Railroad Earth concert at the famous Malibu Inn in Malibu California. I kept telling my "old" friend that it was his Dick Butkus Birthday. A couple of my other "friends" didn't know who Dick Butkus...
  • Peter, Jake and Joe

    When I was a child I was fascinated with most of the rodent family. I loved squirrels, beavers, mice, rats and even rabbits. For some reason, but I am pretty sure it is Disney's fault that I think these were cute and cuddly and very much human. I also rea...
  • Here I am Rockin' Like a Hurricane

    Toby is going to be a little biz zee the next few days. He just got home from his duty requirements with the National Guard in California and is in the process of buying and moving his family into a new home here in the beautiful (shhhhh) Bastropian fores...
  • Fathers Day

    Yesterday I had the honor of driving down to the Fisher Houses at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio to deliver some presents, gift wrapping paper, and Fathers Day cards for the "kids" who are staying at the Houses could give co...
  • Consider the Power of Legacy

    Jeff please post this! Toby's email from his cell phone....  This Father's Day Consider the Power of Legacy By Doug Stanton Author of Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in AfghanistanHorse Sol...
  • No Rest For the Wicked

    Sorry about the delay in keeping the briefing room updated. Toby is still in California finishing his drilling requirements with the National Guard and I caught a mean dose of Texas poison ivy last week landscaping the "front forty". I'm finally starting...
  • Apprehension

    I am about to leave on my last field problem as an Infantryman. This is a bitter sweet moment as I clean up the back yard and get the house ready for my departure and think about how I will be low crawling in a few days. The Marines believe that once a Ma...