Going Round N Round!

We are ok. This is not us.

Life is going Round N Round, but at least we are not literally!

Well, we are truly blessed this hurricane season, once again. We survived Fay, only having to hunker down in the closet twice for small tornado sitings, but we barely even had any rain. She hardly effected us here in Orange Park, although some in Jacksonville Beach and even closer areas had pretty severe damage. Fay did show us that we need a new roof, yesterday (before Fay), but hot glue will have to do for now$ All in all, we were blessed!

We have been missed by Gustav, Hannah and now Ike. Fay prepared us though, woke us up for what may be coming. Let us know that we were NOT ready. Just because you are ready one year, does not make you ready the next. Especially when you eat all your canned goods! I am now watching Ike heading over Galveston and Houston. Please pray that all those living in those areas did evacuate and that they will be safe.

This destruction, the day after 9/11- makes it hard to complain that our AC went out two days ago. I came on here to explain why I may not be blogging lately...like it's different than any other week!! My computer does not like to be hot, so I can only use briefly in the morning. Hopefully we will get the AC fixed tonight, otherwise Louie may wake up to only a nightgown laying on the mattress in the morning. Remember Wizard of Oz...the wicked witch of the west? It's very humid here....


Be sure to catch my friend Pat's blog on Beijing. Yes, she went to the Olympics! She won a contest! That is all I am going to tell you, you will have to read about it and check out all the photos. Once in a lifetime experience. Be sure to read from the bottom up...http://bloggingfrombeijing.blogspot.com/

Crazy Pat!

Her link is also at the bottom of my page, along with my other favorite blogs

Other than that, we are back into the school stuff, Boy Scouts, Academic Team, Math Team, Church, and active with marching band. Keeping TJ on task and running the "Kingsley Taxi"

GO RAIDERS!

To see photos that I take for the band go to : http://spotted.myclaysun.com/pages/galleries.php?type=you
my photos are under OHHAPPYDAY. My friend and PR partner Karen has photos under Strandberg.

We put the photos there so the parents can all go there and download the photos of their children they would like, plus it puts the band out to the community. My Clay Sun is a community insert to The Florida Times Union newspaper for Clay County. They ran a story on our new band director, Mr. Gaines, a few weeks ago and just yesterday ran another story written by a student, AND used a photo of our band (not taken by K or K, but that is OK!) We are thrilled to be in the paper twice in two weeks! Part of the "Pit" crew. Far right, my baby TJ

The Band Parent Organization is working on getting as many donations as possible since the district funds have been cut and keep getting cut and we are in need of so many things, including instruments, storage, music, competition fees, the list goes on. We do have a formal letter for corporate sponsors, let me know if you would like one. We are blessed that the music program has not been cut completely and I pray it never does. So many children benefit so greatly from being in the band. I have personally seen it keep children out of trouble. Karen and I have a goal to make Orange Park High Band become known as an awesome group in Clay County. We have a great start this year with our new director and his impressive section leaders.
These kids have fun!

If you are reading this and are moved to make a donation, you can always send it to me, make it out to Orange Park High Band. Make sure you put Band on it, so it doesn't get put in the general fund. It is a non-profit organization, so it is tax deductible. I will see that it gets to the Treasurer and I will have them mail you a receipt! If you were in the marching band at your high school, you may want to think about sending them a small donation (or large one if you can!) even $25 or $50 is always welcome! We are trying to contact our alumni to see if they can help support their old band! Thanks for reading!
TTFN-BE SAFE!