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BearSchlong

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  1. They found Ella within the last hour, still looking for young Mr. Heartfield. Cadaver dogs doing work.
  2. My company is the same. I donate to my halfway house via payroll deduction but they won't match like they do with larger charities like the ASPCA. I can't think of the 3rd party administrative company but I also log service work time as we allow for that. Edit - we use https://benevity.com/
  3. The mom of a missing girl and I are both on the board of a nonprofit; our quarterly meeting is tomorrow - obviously she will be absent, but I’m dreading that meeting. I just hope we can get through the agenda before everyone is crying.
  4. He's talking about you, not me.
  5. Actually, it was the grand niece of a different friend, a lady named Debbie who is a lifelong teacher/principle and a close family friend. But my stepbrother and first cousin have children in her classes. The young man Heartfield is another, but that family is closer to my cousin’s family.
  6. Mary Grace Baker, 3rd grader at St. Anne’s in Beaumont, has been recovered, deceased.
  7. Yeah, lots of damned if you are, damned if you aren't going around, all magnified by social media. I feel like a ghoul, monitoring my friend’s Facebook for news that he and his wife found her daughter’s body. I just hope they get closure soon. Here is his wife (Ella’s mom). https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375339052112?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLZJXVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtP_IvCJunDm_DlsYvWBj0Vx0KFEP6hiz00rZ6RIUDoi3fyWCXKML6s-RBJS_aem_bD0IRi4J91y_8ipG1NcGGw A different Beaumont mom who was searching for her daughter was the one who found her remains. The mother posted “God told me to look here and that is where I found her.”
  8. A psychologist is having free zoom calls tomorrow to help parents game plan how to discuss the loss of friends to flooding. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/166qdudWUi/?mibextid=wwXIfr
  9. Done and thank you. If anyone looks at you funny, remember, I chose my username before I quit drinking.
  10. Southeast texas uses this. https://www.everbridge.com/?trk=ggls-mnbrand&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=evbg_branded&campaign=96612624&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=96612624&gbraid=0AAAAAD_dm_ydS8QFgmjXuhLAME7QAczwz&gclid=Cj0KCQjwvajDBhCNARIsAEE29Wq3E1bdpqiEbi3jtUebBb-RqRyxZERtITGqJ33jjwY4FbyytcCeHMgaAh55EALw_wcB Everytime a warning hits I get a text, a phone call, an email. I also get a slack from my company’s weather alert system. There is almost no way I cannot be alerted when an event occurs, unless I am in a plane without wifi or - and I realize this is common in the hill country - cell service.
  11. Quit hogging all the vitriol; leave me some please.
  12. Spent an idyllic week in the first campground on the other side of that creek. Even a small squall swells it enough to make things sporty.
  13. I am very very close friends with her mother. Just gut-wrenching. Texting right now with her husband, to whom in some ways I owe my life.
  14. Shit. I remember the day Ella was born. Her mom and Dad are two close friends. https://kfdm.com/news/local/search-underway-for-kelly-hs-grads-missing-in-catastrophic-hill-country-flooding?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4HO9TMSU6vvH5zx7qyVSODdnoGk8I0CFl6M660C50BG3KfjnfNTfwLNWwLjg_aem_WRQL1u6kacGok7ZBH8_xsw
  15. Thanks, fellow Presby.
  16. I'm reading a biography of John D Rockefeller and discovered he greatly endowed the Spelman Seminary for Black Women in the 1880s. That's where Martin Luther King’s mother and grandmother studied.
  17. Skote Outdoors. Guy buys a decrepit shack on an island in Newfoundland and goes off the grid with his cute little wife. Oddly satisfying to see adventurous living.
  18. Oh man…sending positive energy your way.
  19. The weird thing was they were airside of TSA, so intended for departures.
  20. The cops always have the best drugs. Just saw this at ORD and guffawed.
  21. Walked around the Manassas battlefield this afternoon. Twas but 103 degrees but I did take a while to imagine the short-range artillery battle in July ‘61 at first Bull Run where they wailed on each other from a mere 300 yards. One can imagine the blood soaked earth.
  22. TIL i can buy a San Angelo Husky bar for any upcoming hole requirements.
  23. My daughter's friend group in Chicago has someone periodically bring it from Michigan because IL set their taxes…too high
  24. Small world. I too passed Cornerstone while taking my kids to the best early childhood program in San Antonio, at the JCC. Was so happy when they moved it to NW Military.
  25. Honestly I don't give a shit about the weed as I gave it up almost 15 years ago. I'm just impressed that wheels vetoed something this insane clown posse of a lege passed.
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