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My revised site (very lightly penciled in for "sometime" this century with an eraser at the ready) will include good ideas and samples in a different visual approach. I'll include some thoughts about working with technology-dependent media and the ever-increasing load of digital information. And I'll be offering downloads of some of my photos and NASA images that can be used for your computer desktop background image.

In 2011, Cousin Judy from Penobscot, Maine sent a wonderous live lobster dinner for two and it arrived on my birthday. Our Bichon Gus and Schnauzer Brothers Archie and Chester enjoyed jousting with our East Coast ocean visitors. What a great dinner! We steamed the clams that came with the lobsters and put them over pasta with a nice white sauce with Portobello mushrooms the next day. We had some great shrimp bisque with garlic bread for dinner. It will be difficult to go back to those "Banquet Salisbury Steak" dinners! CLICK HERE to see some of the fun on Lobster Night!

Did you know I was on the Today Show on August 31 of 2011? And that seems like 2 years ago already!

Here's how that happened -- I volunteer my time to help announce the Frog Jump, held the third weekend in May each year in Angels Camp at the County Fairgrounds. The folks on the Frog Jump Committee are truly outstanding volunteers, and I feel honored I'm asked to participate in a very small way each year. The Today Show contacted the Calaveras County Fairgrounds and asked for someone who could MC a Frog Jump on the Today Show during a segment that celebrated the odd and wonderful actitivites of county and state fairs in America. The Fairgrounds folks asked me to be that MC. I was stunned. I asked John Hamilton of the www.pinetree.net for some video clips of the Frog Jump and emailed those the Today Show producer, worked on the topics that the Today Show wanted me to talk with the show anchors about, and after preparing for about a month I flew to NYC to appear on the show. Also travelling from Calaveras County to appear on the show was Mindi Bach, who was working with the Fair and Frog Jump to develop and implement a fun new program called LEAP - Let Every American Participate - which provides the chance online for anyone to enter a sanctioned Frog Jump, name their frog, and have that frog offically jockeyed and measured for distance. The winning LEAP frog and online participant qualify for the Grand Finals Jump where the top prize is $5000. The Today Show segment was a lot of fun, and the Frog Jump continues to attract media attention and is portrayed in a good-humored way.

Here's a link for that Today Show Jump - The third video clip is the jump footage.  My 210 seconds of national "fame." Hah.
                                     
   http://allday.today.com/_news/2011/08/31/7538886-savannah-confronts-one-of-her-biggest-fears-frogs  

And be sure to check out the Frogtown website, and come to the Fair in 2013!
 
      http://www.frogtown.org/

Abraham Lincoln wrote:  
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

I often awake with a start in the middle of the night and ask myself the same thing. Well, let's say . . .

• Print, Internet and Video Services - Writing, photography, ad and brochure design, websites, video production

• Communication and Event Management - Communication with groups, membership and sponsorship solicitations, event promotion and staging. Adding to database deploying experience.