I get mad, I get mad, I GET MAD!

For years I've been listening to Bob do this Sesame Street skit about a goat that "gets mad!" I've always loved his rendition, and finally found the skit online at YouTube.

Enjoy: Sesame Street - I get mad!

Marie Parr Wangler (Bob's grandmother)

Marie Parr Wangler, 84, passed away Monday, June 5, 2006, at a local nursing home.

Funeral Mass: 11 a.m. Friday at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church. Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Greenwood Funeral Home, with rosary at 7 p.m. in Greenwood Garden Chapel.

Marie was born July 12, 1921, in Tarrant County, in the area now known as Haltom City, to Lucia Mais and Arthur N. Parr Sr. She was a homemaker and a longtime resident of Haltom City.

Marie was preceded in death by her husband, Ervin J. Wangler; brothers, Charles E. Parr and Arthur N. Parr Jr.; and sister, Helen Moore.

Survivors: Sons, Michael Ervin Wangler and wife, Joan, of Washington, D.C., Daniel J. Wangler and wife, Joann, of Allen and Jim Wangler and wife, Jacqui, of Cedar Hill; daughters, Kay Haaser and husband, Bob, of Irving, Beverly Gordon and husband, Mark, of Lenexa, Kan., and Barbara Steward and husband, Kenneth, of Arlington; 11 grandchildren; sisters, Margaret Price and husband, Bill, and Patricia Burk, both of Hurst; brother, Raymond Parr and wife, Pauline, of Richland Hills; and sisters-in-law, Theresa Matzer of Richland Hills, Jenny Parr of Arlington and Valerie Parr of Haltom City.
Copied from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram 6/8/2006.

Happy Birthday BOB!

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to my Bobby
Happy Birthday to you!

I know, I'm a couple hours early. :)

Trip to South Dakota

Bob and I took a trip up to South Dakota for my sister's high school graduation. I posted some of the pictures over at sname. Since all us girls were together I took a shot of my 3 sisters, below.


We took a quick trip to Mt. Rushmore, walked around the trail, simulated blowing up the mountain, fun stuff.

Update

I've slowly been updating my website so that :

The pages are coded in CSS style sheets,

My photo album contains the story of the photos and not just pictures, and

I'm moving the destination photos to www.sname.com and keeping family pictures on nautmile.com.

Thus far I've moved over My Construction Project and My Goonie Adventure and added Northern California.

Other than updating the website, not much going on down here. We've had a couple monster storms that have sent us running for buckets to keep from soaking the carpet. Bob is doing well at Dell and looking forward to starting classes this fall. I may have another construction project later this year, but it depends on how quickly I can get this job permitted. My record is 2 weeks, but I cheated by having a Congressman write to the Corps to speed up the project.

I will need to start studying for the Professional Engineers exam later this year, as I plan to take it next April. I could take it later this year, but after witnessing what a colleague went through prior to taking his, I'd prefer more time to study for it. Especially considering there it no Coastal Engineering PE exam, so we have to learn some environmental engineering to take the test, an 8 hour exam.

In the meantime, I'm just swimmning and preparing to go up to South Dakota for my sister's high school graduation (bio-father's daughter with new wife). Bob and I will spend a little extra time to go see Mt. Rushmore and possibly Crazy Horse, so it should be fun.