Forty five year old woman from Arkansas with 10 boys and 9 girls, and expecting 1 more baby. God Bless her and her family.
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Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Zakynthos Ionian Sea Greece
Great Place. Direct flights available on this lovely island or through Kilini (about 1 hour with Ferry).
Vassilikos has the best beaches and carreta turtles can be seen through boat trips from Laganas. Also don't miss the boat trips to the shipwreck or the summit point at Bohali.
Recommended beaches are Gerakas, Banana,Azzurro, Daphne (difficult access;need a jeep), Kaminia and if you're into french tarts or english muffins try the nightlife in Tsilibi.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Joey
Joey was successful in everything he did.
He graduated from an Ivy League university, landed a successful job.
Joey was a shooting star in his line of work.
Joey met Kathleen and it was love at first site.
They got married, had 2 children (John and Alice) and led a family life that most would envy.
On a particular business trip, Joey met Gwen, a ravishing redhead.
Gwen simply bewitched Joey; Joey was so enchanted with Gwen that he abandoned his family and settled in with Gwen, far away from his homeland. Kathleen eventually filed, and was awarded, the divorce due to being abandoned.
The years passed, and Joey and Gwen had four children. Joey loved Gwen for all the years of their marriage.
After 20 years since the day he left Kathleen , two young people walk into Joey’s shop.
Joey sees them, stands up and recognizes them as John (after-all John looked exactly like Joey) and Alice.
“Father, why did you abandon us?”
Joey stood up, crying, embraced his two children and died.
The official Coroner’s report states that Joey died from a massive coronary, but people in the area where he lived believe that the cause of death was a broken heart.
He graduated from an Ivy League university, landed a successful job.
Joey was a shooting star in his line of work.
Joey met Kathleen and it was love at first site.
They got married, had 2 children (John and Alice) and led a family life that most would envy.
On a particular business trip, Joey met Gwen, a ravishing redhead.
Gwen simply bewitched Joey; Joey was so enchanted with Gwen that he abandoned his family and settled in with Gwen, far away from his homeland. Kathleen eventually filed, and was awarded, the divorce due to being abandoned.
The years passed, and Joey and Gwen had four children. Joey loved Gwen for all the years of their marriage.
After 20 years since the day he left Kathleen , two young people walk into Joey’s shop.
Joey sees them, stands up and recognizes them as John (after-all John looked exactly like Joey) and Alice.
“Father, why did you abandon us?”
Joey stood up, crying, embraced his two children and died.
The official Coroner’s report states that Joey died from a massive coronary, but people in the area where he lived believe that the cause of death was a broken heart.
εστιν κεκαλυμμενον ο ουκ αποκαλυφθησεται
"There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed" (Matthew 10,26)
"There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed" (Matthew 10,26)
Monday, May 2, 2011
The Mysterious Island of Scorpios, Lefkada Greece
Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, otherwise know as "Ari, the Golden Greek" and one of the most famous and legendary self made billionaire tycoons purchased Scorpios in the fifties.
Before Onassis, Scorpios was nothing more than a barren rocky piece of earth in the middle of the Ionian, across Lefkada.
Onassis deployed the latest engineering and irrigation methods including an underwater pipe system that carried water from the mainland, via Nidri (Nydri), to Scorpios.
Onassis also ordered the transportation, via his own fleet, of fine beach sand from the shores of Northern Africa and had it deployed in key areas of the island, thus creating shorelines and beaches.
Onassis in addition brought vegetation from different parts of the world and planted them on Scorpios (once the irrigation system and water works were up and running) and converted a barren wasteland into a man made paradise.
To the wonder of the Lefkadan locals, what was once a piece of barren rock in the middle of the Ionian seven island complex, the Eptanisa, was transformed into a habitable island rich in lush and exotic vegetation, beachfronts with ample water supply.
Once the island was made habitable, estates were built including his own and the “Pink” estate which housed visitors. Notable visitors to the island paradise were celebrities such as the legendary Maria Callas as well as Onassis' last wife, Jacqueline Onassis formerly Kennedy.
Onassis had the island guarded 24 hours a day on shore by local security, and underwater by frogmen to ensure that paparazzi and unwanted visitors were kept at a distance from the family premises.
Aristotle Onassis' only son, Alexandros, was killed in a plain crash in Greece in 1973, and Aristotle Onassis died of pneumonia in France in 1975. Onassis' only daughter Christina passed away in Buenos Aires, Argentina from pulmonary edema in 1988 leaving her daughter Athina as heiress to the Onassis empire.
The mausoleum of the Onassis family occupies an area on the island and houses Aristotle Onassis and his two children, Christina and Alexandros. Onassis has included a clause in the will that even if the island is to be sold, the area occupied by the mausoleum will remain with the Onassis foundation thus ensuring that the remains of the once powerful family remain undisturbed for the years to come.
How to Get There
To get to Scorpios from Athens one takes the road to Patras. Right before Patras one crosses the Rio/AntiRio bridge and heads for Astacos, then Amphilohia and then across the bridge to the Ionian island of Lefkada.
Before Onassis, Scorpios was nothing more than a barren rocky piece of earth in the middle of the Ionian, across Lefkada.
Onassis deployed the latest engineering and irrigation methods including an underwater pipe system that carried water from the mainland, via Nidri (Nydri), to Scorpios.
Onassis also ordered the transportation, via his own fleet, of fine beach sand from the shores of Northern Africa and had it deployed in key areas of the island, thus creating shorelines and beaches.
Onassis in addition brought vegetation from different parts of the world and planted them on Scorpios (once the irrigation system and water works were up and running) and converted a barren wasteland into a man made paradise.
To the wonder of the Lefkadan locals, what was once a piece of barren rock in the middle of the Ionian seven island complex, the Eptanisa, was transformed into a habitable island rich in lush and exotic vegetation, beachfronts with ample water supply.
Once the island was made habitable, estates were built including his own and the “Pink” estate which housed visitors. Notable visitors to the island paradise were celebrities such as the legendary Maria Callas as well as Onassis' last wife, Jacqueline Onassis formerly Kennedy.
Onassis had the island guarded 24 hours a day on shore by local security, and underwater by frogmen to ensure that paparazzi and unwanted visitors were kept at a distance from the family premises.
Aristotle Onassis' only son, Alexandros, was killed in a plain crash in Greece in 1973, and Aristotle Onassis died of pneumonia in France in 1975. Onassis' only daughter Christina passed away in Buenos Aires, Argentina from pulmonary edema in 1988 leaving her daughter Athina as heiress to the Onassis empire.
The mausoleum of the Onassis family occupies an area on the island and houses Aristotle Onassis and his two children, Christina and Alexandros. Onassis has included a clause in the will that even if the island is to be sold, the area occupied by the mausoleum will remain with the Onassis foundation thus ensuring that the remains of the once powerful family remain undisturbed for the years to come.
How to Get There
To get to Scorpios from Athens one takes the road to Patras. Right before Patras one crosses the Rio/AntiRio bridge and heads for Astacos, then Amphilohia and then across the bridge to the Ionian island of Lefkada.
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