Shuttle's going home

The Space Shuttle Discovery hitched a ride on NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft for the flight from the Dryden Flight Research Center in California, to Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 19, 2005.

Image Credit: NASA/Lori Losey

Here is the sword maker's maker mark on the ricasso.

My new S Word! It is really cool. Check out darksword-armory.com for more info on it, but here is the basics. It is a hand forged replica of a 12th Century two handed sword. It is very wicked!

A close up of the beds

Our Japanese Maple

Our weekend work, a nice new garden.

Trying this again, Jack and the Bear

I am happy to repeat the announcement of the birth of:
Jack Henry Peart
A little boy
7 lbs, 11oz. 20 in.
at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton
on Monday August 1, 2005 10:24 am
Mom and Baby are both doing well as you can see in this picture.

congratulations to my brother, and his wife, and now that I am an uncle I can teach Jack about all the bad things like, poker, girls, fast cars, and that other silliness, but I might have to wait a few years.