Dec 7th - Remember Pearl Harbor

The left wing main stream media may want us to forget, because they hate the America of old, but never forget Pearl Harbor. (I bet the media will be sure that we remember what terrible people we are (NOT!!!) on the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki) On December 7th, 1941 the Japanese murdered 2,400 Americans when they bombed Pear Harbor. The sneak attack was their way of declaring war on the United States. Maybe the worst part of this was the men who were trapped in the capsized ships. Over the next two days, after the attacks, holes were cut in the capsized hull of the Oklahoma, where it was above the waterline. 35 men were pulled out of those holes. These men had alerted others that they were alive by banging on the hull. The banging continued for another day in an area that was below the waterline. Rescue workers had no way to get to the men trapped in that section. They suffocated, or drowned in the dark cold water.

This morning Mark and I sawed more wood, until a pressurized rubber gas line developed a leak. Rather than waste over an hour going to Bryan to get a piece of gas line we moved on to other things.

We were getting close to having a trailer load. This rough sawn pine it going to be used to remodel bunk rooms in Fallow Hall.

We did some clean up work around the sawmill. There is still LOTS of trash to burn. This pile of slab wood would have heated our house for a week. That is Mark on the tractor. He works here part time, normally a couple of days a week. He is a good guy with whom I enjoy working.

After lunch Mark cut down some dead trees and I used the tractor to drag them to an area where they could be "de-limbed" and the limbs burned. I don't remember if he cut down 4 or 5 trees. After cleaning up our mess, where the trees dropped in the lawn or roadway, we did more clean-up work around the Dogwood complex. I filled up the leaf blower and didn't stop until it was empty, just blowing leaves, and sand, away from the 5 buildings in that complex. It was a full day.

There will be people staying at the Dogwood complex through Sunday morning. They are supposed to arrive around 6 (pretty soon now). I think John is still around to show them how to get to the place, or maybe they have been here before. John asked me if I would mind checking to see if they needed trash hauled away tomorrow and Sunday and I said certainly not. I'm here and it saves him a drive here from Bryan.

It is warm here for this time of year. Last nights low was 64 and todays high was 81. It is supposed to hit 80 again tomorrow and then cool down to a high of 47 on Monday. Normal highs here for this time of year are in the mid 60's. Monday night and Tuesday night it is supposed to get down to 28. We shall see.

I've had my shower and now time to fix some supper. I think some spaghetti will be tonights supper. Kathy sent me some canned spaghetti sauce and I'm pretty sure I can boil water for spaghetti <grin>.

Good night to all. May God bless you and yours.