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RROP has been entered into the American Express Members Project Contest. If we are voted the number one charity project by September 1, 2008, we will be awarded $2.5 million. To vote, please visit the Members Project site (http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/DJDKJ1) and “nominate” RROP. Also, please spread the word to your friends,…...

“When the shy star goes forth in heaven, All maidenly, disconsolate, Hear you amid the drowsy even One who is singing by your gate. His song is softer than the dew And he is come to visit you.” From Chamber Music by James Joyce . Now when he comes to…...

Howdy, . As promised, here are several groups, or galleries as they are known in this corner of webville, of photos that correspond to the last Recent News entry, Here and There, the what’s happening list. I’ll try and get others up in a timely fashion. I’d say the odds…...

Hello, A lot of stuff has been happening and I have had less and less time to tell you about it, so I’m going to try to catch you up and list some of the recent goings on : – the bid for bringing electricity to the area and to…...

The big of it is that it is my daughter Amy’s 31st birthday, and I talked to her and so felt both her presence and her absence more keenly. Boo Boo promised to send one of her swimming ribbons with Pat when he comes in July, and Bubba told me…...

I have been tossing around ways to try and keep you updated on the goings on here while dealing with decreasing amounts of time with which to do that. I’ve landed for now on an occasional diary entry in skeletal form, that is, a bullet list of some of the…...

Hello Everyone, I am looking forward to a Development Team meeting in a couple of weeks.  Let’s shoot for Thursday, June 19th at 6:00 PM. If that doesn’t work for you please let me know. In other news, the RROP jars are ready for distribution. It would be great if…...

We let the foundation firm up for a day or so and then put our backs in it again, figuring that if all went well we would finish by sunset. Now it’s just reconnecting the drip lines for the 5 acre trees and letting them drink again in this prematurely…...

We had the stone, the sand, the ballast, the cement, the lumber, and a growing case of building fever. So we set to it and in three work days raised a modest 6’x6’x6′ water tower of babel. Despite of the fact that the mutually unintelligible chattering was limited to just…...

I woke about 5:30, rolled around a little, got up, cut a lemon in half, squeezed it into a glass of water and eased into a morning routine and the three things that give me a decent shot at making sense of the day and the days. I read, a…...