Posted by Mung/CA on 5/29/06 4:10pm
Msg #123000

So what's everyone doing today? n/m

Reply by LkArrowhd/CA on 5/29/06 4:40pm
Msg #123001

Re: So what's everyone doing today?

Well, get this..... recovering a table in my office with crumpled brown paper bag, and starch, once dried staining for a faux leather look, it is partially dry at the moment and it is the neatest transformation and a simple process. And making new curtains for my home office......busy busy busy...enough about me HOW ABOUT YOU?

Reply by Loretta Reed on 5/29/06 6:13pm
Msg #123009

Re: So what's everyone doing today?

I actually did a signing this afternoon. I slept in until 10:30 this morning.
Yesterday we went out on the boat and since I look like a piece of white bread put in the brioler, I figured I would stay out of the sun today.

Reply by Joan Bergstrom on 5/29/06 10:26pm
Msg #123016

Re: So what's everyone doing today?

Played Golf and went to a barbeque with friends. The weather was absolutely beautiful in Riverside. My golf wasn't so hot!!

Reply by BrendaTx on 5/29/06 10:42pm
Msg #123017

Re: So what's everyone doing today?

Dinner here. Family and one friend.

Went and picked up my friend from the ret. center. When I returned her we passed a very nice looking older man walking his adorable chihuahua.

She said "He's two doors down from me. Always neat as a pin. Too bad he does not speak a word of english." I told her, "Oh, I bet he speaks a little english."

She had mentioned this man and the non-english at lunch, so I kidded her, "Well, next time you see him in the hall, test him - just ask him if he wants to have sex."

She and I started laughing about that like two teenagers. That was the best laugh I have had in a long time.

Reply by PAW on 5/30/06 5:21am
Msg #123027

Visited the Florida National Cemetery

Even though I had been visiting this area 10 years before moving here, this was the first time I actually 'toured' the FNC. What a beautiful and serene place.

http://www.cem.va.gov/nchp/florida.htm

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

Florida National Cemetery is located in the Withlacoochee State Forest, approximately 50 miles north of Tampa in Sumter County, Fla. Withlacoochee State Forest was acquired by the federal government from private landowners between 1936 and 1939 under the provisions of the U.S. Land Resettlement Administration. The U.S. Forest Service managed the property until a lease-purchase agreement transferred it to the Florida Board of Forestry in 1958. Currently, Withlacoochee State Forest is the second-largest state forest in Florida, divided into eight distinct tracts of land.

In 1842, Congress encouraged settlement here by establishing the Armed Occupation Act. The law granted a patent for 160 acres to any man who kept a gun and ammunition, built a house, cultivated five acres of the land and remained there for at least five years. Settlers moved in to take advantage of the generous offer. The area contained abundant timber and suitable farmland, appealing attributes to frontiersmen. In 1845 Florida was granted statehood.

During the Civil War, a sugar mill on the Homosassa River supplied sugar to the Confederacy. A robust citrus-growing industry developed in the eastern part of the area and became a focus of intense economic expansion soon after the war.

In 1980, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it would establish a new national cemetery in Florida, its fourth. Two major locations for the cemetery were studied: Cross Florida Barge Canal and Withlacoochee State Forest. The Withlacoochee site, though more environmentally sensitive, was supported by government officials. On Feb. 15, 1983, the state transferred land to the VA for the development of a Florida National Cemetery. The first interment was in 1988.