05-JUL-A-1

HIGH (AND HOT) AS A KITE ON THE FOURTH OF JULY1

  1. Index to the Jul-A-series, beginning with the holiday weekend
  2. An unusual confluence of coincidences has me on a Somaliland diplomatic circuit in giving inspirational talks and encouragement to the Somali Diaspora; then, on the anniversary of packing up Derwood two years ago on moving out, I complete the “unboxing chores” fallen tree log stacking deck staining, and homeowner detail work on “settling in” during the Fourth of July weekend.
  3. Domestic Derwood details and diagnostic work-up of lumbar disability while making major purchases for filling in gaps in the household and yard with new furniture—just in time for the Hurican seasons leftover tropical rainstorms to drench them.
  4. Things are now happening on a rapid rush in fast forward in the previously lazy interval of the canceled Haiti medical mission: large purchases for home remodeling are expanded further, and the long-awaited  visit to review the new game room of Bob and Mary Killet in Sykesville; then an early morning run of the Seneca Creek Greenway Trail; a pre-mission meeting with the Eritrean group, and then I do a DVD performance for Eurasian Expeditions in a visit to Derwood’s game room by George Sevich, and a proposed change of plans to include a Mid-Asian hunt before the Eritrean mission.
  5. Fast breaking news on a possibility for an Azerbajiani televised Tur hunt in July before diverting to Eritrea.
  6. Response to John Howe’s visit, and announcement of my forthcoming Azerbaijan  Caucasian Mountain trip.
  7. New revised itineraries to merge the Asian and African travels into a continuous set of itineraries.
  8. Delivery of the new master bedroom suite from Hecht’s, I pre-pay Azerbaijani trip and scramble for further arrangements (still without passport or visas), a morning boat trip to fish out of  the Magathy River into the Chesapeake, picking up surgical supplies for the mission from Crofton, MD, the Rockville Twilighter Run in a deluge, and further Eritrea trip preparations with pre-submission of ELDP papers in last minute pre-departure shuffle of commitments and tickets.
  9. Leo Murray reports from my former stomping grounds of Swaziland, Southern Africa.

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