The Gum Tree for 2004 August 3

There was a storm last night and the power went out. Needless to say that our alarm clock didn’t go off and we had a nice little sleep in. Work was good today. Tonight I will be with the Scouts and that should be good. We are going to plan something to do for this Saturday’s Scout Day Camp. I also found an interesting little website that archived all of the Presidential Campaigns from 1952 to the present. I would recommend it. The site is: Living Room Candidate I hope that the link came up. I am still learning. The site has some memorable ad’s Such as the “I like Ike” jingle and the 1964 “Daisy ad” that is intended to show how Goldwater was not to be trusted with nuclear weapons. I love the line “We must either love each other or we must die.” I really never realized how cutthroat and accusatory politics were back in the Pre-McCain-Feingold days of Campaign advertisements (see Nixon’s second election campaign ad’s). Not much else is happening. Louise and I are just prepping for school. We also visited my Grandpa yesterday. He is just as sparky and sober as always. It was a nice visit. I think that he really likes visiting with Louise especially. That is basically how it is with the rest of my family. I think that it will also probably be the same for our children. That is OK because Louise likes to be with me. Grandpa is healing from a nasty little fall, and he is excited to have David when he comes up after his mission. Well, that’s it for me for today