I found this T-Shirt at the McHenry Marlins Swim Team Awards Dinner.
Coach Ben Merwin was wearing it.
He’s a member of the Fellowship of Faith on Mason Hill Road just off what Crystal Lakers call the McHenry Blacktop. (It’s the Crystal Lake Blacktop to McHenry residents,)
The church held a retreat in Lake Geneva last year and the
INCITE ‘09
Are you a chocolate milk Christian?
was its theme.
I found this tee shirt on a high schooler sitting on the floor of McHenry West High School with some other girls and asked her if I could take a photo.
She agreed and you see 1st Corinthians 12:27 on its back, along with a map of West Virginia with Logan’s location identified.
The verse is,
“You are the body of Christ and each one of you is part of it.”
No Christian was this bold when I was in high school.
I asked her if anything else was on the front and above, you see the text:
FUMC
JULY 2009
H.S. YOUTH MISSION TRIP
LOGAN, WEST VIRGINIA
Since we attend the First United Methodist Church of Crystal Lake (acronym “FUMC”), I asked which Methodist Church sponsored the trip.
“The First United Methodist Church of Crystal Lake,” she replied to my surprise. That’s where we attend. I guess we missed the service where the teens reported back or I didn’t retain the destination of the mission.
With a 2010 twist for those who weren’t pleased with 2009.
Thanks to Allan Showalter, One Heck of a Guy blogger from Crystal Lake, for insertion of the year and months on top of this shot of the tunnel at Mesa Verde.
It’s time to get back to my “Message of the Day” feature. Switching back and forth on computers—NEVER, EVER buy a Hewlett-Packard computer—has made accessing photos difficult to impossible.
At any rate, take a look at the jar opener I found in Crystal Lake.
It’s a campaign gimmick for Veronica Armstrong, who is running in the Republican primary for McHenry County Board in District 3. That’s the one north of Crystal Lake Avenue in Crystal Lake that goes into the southern part of McHenry.
The message on the hand-shaped rubberized friction increaser is provocative.
It says,
Veronica
Armstrong
County Board District 3
Get a grip on your future.
Get rid of the screw offs.
The only incumbent running in District 3 is Barbara Wheeler. (Ed Dvorak is retiring.)
Wheeler was a leader in the successful fight to ban video poker (really slot machines) in unincorporated McHenry County. She also ran unsuccessfully against District 2’s Ken Koehler—also up for re-election—for county board chairman. The punishment was not being named a committeeman.
So, are the “barbs” on the jar opener aimed at Barbara or the county board in general?
Rain and wind really.
As I was picking up my son at Bernotas Middle School, these two girls were walking into the wind.
The first one was having a tough time with her umbrella.
I thought the fuzzy spot on the photos was the wind vibrating the umbrella too fast for the shutter speed, but now I think it might just be a rain drop on the windshield.
Well, at least one nut.
I was helping my father-in-law put up winter screens when I say this walnut.
Look where it is.
On top of a downspout.
What are the odds that the squirrel that put it there will find it this winter?
In Wonder Lake yesterday, I found a front yard full of signs on the street side of a lakefront property.
They were to promote McHenry’s Peterson Park’s Haunted Hayride.
I see dates of October 10th, 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th, as well as October 30th.
7-10:30 PM.
Volunteers were repainting parts.
On October 7th, next Wednesday, the McHenry County License and Liquor Committee will hold a hearing starting at 6 PM. It will be at the administrative center north of the county jail.
Input will be sought on whether the county should bar video gambling–electronic shot machines, if you want the truth–to be installed in places serving liquor in unincorporated areas. Bars and restaurants.
No need to be on time. Politicians justifying having voted for this source of revenue to finance a state capital program–roads, schools, a $40 million new campus for the failing Chicago State University–will speak first.
Come late and you’ll still get a chance to speak.
There has been some effort to alert traditional opponents to gambling, as I mentioned yesterday, but not much.
And, if you oppose this matter and don’t attend, don’t be surprised to see something like the front page seen above from the Elgin Courier-News on the front page of one of the daily Heralds.
Type “global warming” into MicroSoft’s new Bing search engine and one of McHenry County Blog’s “Messages of the Day” is on the second row of images. It is from March 30, 2009.
It didn’t make the images under “global warming.”
Those who have driven through Lakewood on the south side of Crystal Lake have seen my son’s tree house.
We had it built by Tom and Scott Selof while we were on vacation in late June.
Today McHenry County Blog features a machine gun nest, Nerf style.
The Nerf guns are getting more and more elaborate.
And the kids are getting more innovative.
This nest is resting on a little plastic yard table. One leg has disappeared.
The snow is the first we saw during our third week of June trip to Yellowstone.
This is a part of the country where they have real snow fences.
Click to enlarge the images.
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