First Contest at Rockstar Temple

Rockstar Template, The Next Generation Weblog is hosting their first contest with some great prizes to boot!
1st Place :$ 50 Amazon.com Gift Voucher.$ 15 Hard Cash through Paypal.$ 20 worth Banner Advertising in Rockstartemplate.com for 1 month.$ 15 worth Link Placement in PR 4 Blog [Their Personal Blog] for 1 month.And Get a Review at their personal Blog.
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3rd Place :1000 EntreCard credits.$ 15 worth Link Placement in PR 4 Blog [My Personal Blog].
ends: September 25th
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Head Over To Big Ben Patton's Place, Here's Why

That's why!

Go to the contest page, and enter now! Hey, good luck!

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Win An Asus Eee PC 2G Surf Notebook at Big Ben Patton's Place!

Hey with Ben at Patton's Place relaunch of his site,(blogging and internet marketing tips) he is giving away an Asus Eee PC 2G Surf Notebook! Wowsy this is not a contest to miss!
Market Leverage is sponsoring this great prize. Let's give Ben the subscribers, traffic and readership that is much due him. Please head over to the contest page and enter today. Here is a little info on the Eee PC:
Get the power of a full-sized laptop in the ultra-compact ASUS Eee PC 2G Surf, which offers a full QWERTY keyboard, 7-inch screen, and preinstalled Linux operating system. (This laptop is also compatible with the Microsoft Windows XP operating system.) You’ll be able to stay connected to email and the Internet easily thanks to the Wi-Fi LAN (802.11b/g). Because it uses flash memory instead of a hard drive (with 2 GB of storage), the Eee PC is optimal for weathering rough handling and sharing space in overstuffed bags. This 2 GB Surf model does not include an integrated Webcam.
the contest ends: September 30th

Our Italy Trip

Don't miss the video at the end of this post!

Dan and I traveled to Italy so we got meet our new grandson, my daughter is in the army over in Camp Elderle. She is training in Military Police. Well as it turns out my grandson Trevion was born January 28th. We got to Italy in late Febuary. Dan has been to like 13 countries overseas since his time in the service although never having been to Italy. For me this was my first trip overseas.

Trevion is a little doll! Her husband was deployed to Afganistan but was able to come home for 3 weeks when he was born. Samantha(my daughter) had him earlier than expected so her poor husband, Keith wasn't able to be there for the actual birth. At least he got to come home though. He has since finished his tour and made it home safely this month.

We got to go to Marco Polo, Venice. Besides meeting our grandson, and meeting our new son in law and getting to see Samantha, the most fun thing was feeding the birds in Venice. I never had so much fun! Why I don't know. Maybe because the birds aren't as friendly here, heck I don't know! Enjoy the pictures. Samantha and my hubby went snowboarding in Austria, I stayed and watched the baby, so they could have fun. Neither one have ever snowboarded. Dan lasted I think he said 45 seconds trying to snowboard. Samantha got pretty good at it. Check Dan out, and have a good chuckle of the 52 year old snowboarding for the first time.

All in all had a great time. Being in a foriegn country is definitely different. Nice to visit, wouldn't want to live there though.
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Pooped On In Italy

Can't anything go right?

Finally take a vacation, get out of the OZ, go to Italy, and guess what?

We still get pooped on!

GEEZZZZ!

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Danandmarsh Has Started Walking

We've been trying to walk every evening. We try to go a little farther each night. Night before last we walked 1 mile. Last night we took it farther. After we got back we got in the car and drove our route to see if we had gotten to 2 miles. Nope, just missed it by 1/2 of a block.

On the way back(from our turn around), I decided to count how many steps it took us to get back. Figuring just shy of 1 mile it took 1200 steps, this is counting every time my left foot went forward. Wow.

Tonight we are going to take it to where we now know exactly one mile is, turn around and come back, giving us 2 miles. We will also time it..

Dan is in the National Guard and cannot pass his PT(physical training)to save his soul. It's the run that is the hardest for him. He is getting ready to retire in April or August of 2009 but has to reinlist for the minimum 6 months in February to make his retirement, if he can't pass his PT test there is a strong possibity he will be put out and will lose his chance at a full retirement!

You know the old saying, "so close but so far," or how 'bout, "to close for comfort"

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Mr. Spider is Back

This morning the web was gone, we got rain last night. Well here tonight he has spun another web in the same spot. Industrious lil critter isn't he?

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