Memphis Democrat March 7, 2001

Day to Day Life
Memphis Democrat Column -- Jacob's Travel Logs

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Thanks to Alline for writing the column. I've been away more often than not, so I've been unable to write regularly, and certainly don't know what's been going on to write about it. I'm actually writing now from New York, where I'm visiting my family. I'm having a really nice time with not only my parents and brother, but also my cousins, their kids and the rest. Next week it will be Alline's turn again, as I'll be in Columbus, OH at another music conference.

Jeffrey, Cecil, Tony and I headed out to Champaign-Urbana, IL for a few days. Our friend Bob lives there and his employer hired us to do a little of the computer programming they didn't have time to do. We had a good time meeting folks there and hope to continue our working relationship with them.

Jeffrey, Tony and Cecil have been very busy with the computer, recently. Chris hired them to do the website for the Memphis Democrat. It will be unveiled soon! Then the Scotland County Business Professionals invited us to one of their meetings, at the Social. Tony and Cecil gave a presentation about the Internet and offered to help Scotland County businesses get onto the Web. Then they were interviewed by Rick and broadcast on KMEM. I enjoyed getting to meet all the business owners in town and attach faces to some of the names.

On the same trip, Tony and I got our immunizations for our upcoming trip to China. We'll be spending three weeks there with Tony's parents and a tour group.

We had a weekend-long follow up to our yearly retreat, where we took a look at how well our predictions for the year are going. It reminded me that on my list of things to do is building a solar powered hot tub. So if anyone out there has a hot tub where the the motor is broken or they don't want it anymore, please give me a call at 883-5511. We'll put it to good use! We can't work hard all day without having some ways to relax our tired muscles.

We chose our interns for the upcoming year. Alline worked particularly hard at interviewing and selecting the applicants. We had so many applications this year that we got to be as picky as we wanted. It was sad to turn so many people away. But we have a roster of about a dozen folks from all over North America coming to work here this summer.

Kurt has been working hard with folks at Sandhill gathering maple sap and making maple syrup. The first batch just got finished, at the same time that we were finishing the last quart from last year.

Don has been busy planting and babying the seedlings. Its fun to watch him poring over the flats, warming them with heating pads and watering them carefully.

We've been graced with some fabulous bird sightings recently. A kestrel has been hanging out in our little cluster of straw bale houses. We saw a bluebird the other day. And Tony and Don witnessed an in air fight between what we think was a prairie falcon and a kestrel.

We had a visit of four folks from Truman State University for a day and they helped load firewood. Our friends Stephanie and Kit, both students from Truman State, stopped by for an afternoon, as well.

Its been getting quieter and quieter though. Jeffrey left for a long trip to visit his family in Atlanta, GA, and friends in Amherst, MA. I've left town for a bit, and Kurt and Alline spent the weekend in Canton, MO at Dan and Nancy's, helping them prune their apple orchard. Its going to be a big change when all of our spring visitors, interns and potential members come in early April!

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