Re: [Philmont]: PhilMoment this morning

Wow.. have just been playing 'catch up' on the the various Philmont emails,
(I am a bit behind to say the least - still have 939 to go!), and I thought
your PhilMoment's were so nice! Thanks for sharing. Obviously you and your
daughter share something special.. GMTA (great minds think alike).
Trying to get back to "normal" in these parts since Ivan and Francis hit our
area. We're just 'over the hill' from Camp Daniel Boone in Cruso, NC. The
local Pigeon River went 27 feet over flood level and those that lived near
the river were pretty much wiped out. Most all those homes are condemned
and will probably be torn down. And here we thought we were safe living in
the mountains AND on a hill. Ha-ha! One never knows about "mother nature"!
Our biggest problem in these parts now is finding ANYONE that can help with
the repairs we need. Those that are credible and reliable workers are
swamped with more than they can handle. But, we're thankful that we don't
have anything near as bad as those poor folks in Florida, we still do have a
roof over our heads and utilities again.
In Friendship ~
Lauri A. Johnson
Owner & Co-Founder - IdentiFind/Child Keep
5465 Dutch Cove Road or PO Box 567; Canton, NC 28716
Phone: 828/648-6768 Fax: 828/648-1466
mailto: labels@identifind.com Web Site: http://www.IdentiFind.com

----- Original Message -----
From: John LeBlanc
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:41 PM
Subject: [Philmont]: PhilMoment this morning

Was reading my email this evening when my 18 year old daughter came in to
show me a collage she made. In the center of it is a picture of the three
girls on the 2002 PhilTrek which included Lauren, now a college junior and
two year PhilStaff, Allison, my H S senior and Kirsten, our Philmont
Resident friend (Mark Anderson's daughter).

The Picture is the three girls in identical class A dark green Venturer
uniforma sporting their arrowhead post trek and B-I-G we made it smiles.

Allison then volunteered that this morning at early band practice she had a
PhilMoment.

She said they were outside a little before sunrise (7:10) ready to start
marching practice (she is s twirler) when she looked at the beautiful pink
sunrise. Looking at it and a particular smell in the air took her back to
Philmont in a flash. Said she wanted to be at Philmont instead of marching
practice.

Well, this isn't so unusual.

What's unusual is that about the same time on the same day, I was having my
own PhilMoment.

I got to work a little early, so I decided to take a little walk in the
field behind the office and watch the grass grow while the sun came up..
Was walking through some thin spindly grass about a foot high that was
thinned considerably due to 6 weeks without rain and looking at a beautiful
red sunrise and thought the exact same thing....I'd rather be at Philmont.

So there you have it, a dad and daughter, both PhilTrail veterans, at their
respective morning places fifteen miles apart at the same time both having
PhilMoments at the same time.

There is just something magic about Philmont don't you agree?

Well, we are no longer in a 6 week dry spell. Hurricane Ivan returned to
the Texas Gulf
Coast as T D Ivan and is currently camped out above our house dumping about
1-1/2 inches of rain per hour. A little lightning but not much wind. Ivan
is in it's 21 day of activity since it formed.

We needed the rain.

Take care.

John LeBlanc

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Received on Sat Oct 16 14:55:31 2004