Here is another speech by Sir Ted Robinson.
Archives for 2010
Traveling and the Grand Canyon
This past week Roman Emerson and I traveled to Utah. We stopped in Flagstaff to hang out with a friend of mine Mike Wilson. He works for the Grand Canyon in the IT department. We visited a bunch of Native American ruins around flag staff. That was pretty cool. I was surprised at how many buildings there were that were still standing that were built by Native Americans. All of these were, of course, built from stone.
Then we visited the Grand Canyon, that is quite amazing. Now that I have seen down into it I want to hike down to the river. It was fun to take my boys and have them experience it also.
We hiked a bit, maybe a 1/2 mile on the bright angle trail. On the way down Mike Wilson ran into one of the head scientists and a colleague that were on their way out. They had been down checking air quality in the Canyon. Wow what a cool job, being able to hike into the Grand Canyon as part of your job.
Mike also told us about the cookies at Jacob lake, which we tried out, on our way to Saint George.
As we left Flagstaff on Wednesday morning it was 57 degrees Fahrenheit and about 110 when we pulled into St. George. It’s nice to feel the cold once and a while but I do prefer the heat.
Freedom
The struggle between good and evil comes down to one thing, Freedom. The good want freedom, especially freedom to follow the dictates of our own conscience. The evil want to oppress and force people into doing the will of the leader. Amazingly, they tell the oppressed it is for their own good.
being July 4th, I am thankful for my freedom. All people are free to think as they wish. However to act and speak as I want and not fear for my life. That is the freedom I am thankful for. That is the freedom that really makes America great.
Good Week – Bad Week
Most of the things that happened this week are great and one bad thing. First, but not the best, I finally got together with a couple of friends of mine and we traveled to Oklahoma City to check out the hail damage and see if we are going to give roofing a try in OKC. It was a good trip and we have decided to give it a try.
The best thing that happened this week was that I was able to hang out with Warren Coulam and His wife Deborah. It was fun to see warren again. I’ve only seen him three times since high school and two of those have been in the last couple of months. His wife is great, and has polished him up quite a bit. I think he’s more fun to hang with than in high school, I’m going to blame that on Deborah. I wish Amanda could have been there to hang out with us. If I can get some pictures I will post them here later.
I was also able to meet with a couple of people about business this week and one gave me, what hopefully will be, a great contact. Funny thing is that guy is in Oklahoma City. I’ll be going back up there on July 5th. Funny how things work out that way.
The bad for the week is that I hurt my back again. This is the second time in the last year. This has been happening occasionally for the last ten years. These last too times have been the worst. I am going to have to really figure out a way to prevent this from happening. This time it’s preventing me from going to scout camp. It’s hard for me because I know the boys won’t be as productive without me there. But I can’t do much about it.
So there it. The week was great, with just an annoying backache. Hopefully I’ll heal quickly.
Roman Turns 15
Roman has wanted to drive since he was about 5. Golf Carts, lawn mowers anything. Here in Texas he can get his permit at 15. We thought we would just be able to go over to the DMV and get his learners permit. We had done some looking on the DMV website and called. Nothing was really that clear. We didn’t do it right and it’s going to take some more doing. Roman was pretty good about it. But I know he was disappointed.