JAN-A-1

THE NEW YEAR BEGINS WITH A RESOLUTION OF
SOME OLD YEAR REAL ESTATE CLAIMS,
 AND A VISIT WITH DONALD AND THE GAINESVILE GRANDCHILDREN
  1. The index issue of the New Year 2003’s beginning in Gainesville, and recapping the end of 2002
  2. A sudden flurry of real estate activities comes at the date of my long-term departure in the interim between Christmas and New Year’s, as I have been playing with the cherubic twin grandson visitors to the Washington area homesteads. 
  3. The visit at Derwood with the Kiletts, the husband and wife master measurers team from SCI who look over the two sheep and score them officially, and swap almost half the stories we can come up with in the opening round of our exchange of visits—with a plan to return for the antlered game, and a special visit to the SCI Chesapeake Chapter on February 8 . 
  4. The Derwood Day for the visit of Michael and Judy and the twins for their holiday time at home, a Needwood Lake run, and my departure for Florida, with continuation to Cumberland and then return for Mindanao.
  5. The New Year’s visit with Donald and the Gainesville Geelhoeds,  and the New Year’s Eve “GPD Ride-Along” with my son Cpl Donald Geelhoed; the New Year’s football games with the triumph of the Big Ten and most particularly UM over UF—and an abrupt departure by rental car from Gainesville to Jacksonville, enroute with the supplies to Fernandino Beach for the Lucy Ferguson launch to Cumberland Island.
  6. The start up of the Cumberland Island excursion from Jacksonville by way of rental car and the Lucy Ferguson launch to Greyfield Inn and Nancy’s Fancy and a tour of the island from the beach to Plum Orchard Mansion, to the Wharf Ruins Point and the African Baptist Church in scouting the Spanish Moss covered Live Oaks of the Main Road of the Island and the later arrival of Reg and Gene to catch the lower island tour before scouting for the hunt.
  7. The Cumberland Island Hunt 2003, with the daily deployment of seven hunters in pursuing hogs, the eventual score in the beauties of Cumberland Wilderness, and evenings consuming the venison products of my Maryland Hunts—a good time was had by all!
  8. One adventure runs rapidly into another, as a rapid transit by Ford Ranger pickup, to Lucy Ferguson Launch, and Embassy Limo brings me to JAX and the USAir connections through Charlotte (an airport on a very eventful day for its own air safety) to BWI and on for the brief touchdown in Derwood, before the re-packing and scramble off to the far Pacific. 

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