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
- The index issue of the New Year
2003’s beginning in Gainesville, and recapping the
end of 2002
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
- 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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