Stumping with Gil Almquist
by kgroke on Jan.02, 2010, under About Me, Interesting
stump (st
mp)
- n. The part of a tree trunk left protruding from the ground after the tree has fallen or has been felled.
- v.To traverse (a district or region) making political speeches.
I went stumping with our City Councilman, Gil Almquist today. Now I’ve never been much for politicians, but I got a knock on our door today from Mr Almquist, and he was very convincing:
Hi, I’m Gil Almquist, and I noticed you’ve been working on those two stumps out front, and I have my backhoe, want some help pulling them out?
He proceeded to spend the next hour helping me, a complete stranger, pull two tree stumps out of my yard with his tractor. Then he even disposed of them. He didn’t mention the city council or government at all, I brought that up, he was just being a good neighbor (see Mark 12:31)
Why can’t our other elected officials be more like that?
(Yeah, I used the <marquee> tag on a webpage, I haven’t done that in years)
January 3rd, 2010 on 10:44 am
Now that you are no longer stumped, I am. I have the game concentration and when I install it, and then try to play it, it only loads in the far left part of my screen and I can only see the edge of it. Help please?
January 10th, 2010 on 7:49 am
I was trying to find info on Dad Groke,and didn’t realize you had added more to your page. Great story. thanks for sharing. I love you! Ohhhhhhh, I forgot to tell you something. Remember a long time ago (well within in the past year anyway) I ask you to help me find where my coloring site went so that I could color black and white clip art? And you never could find it. Well, you Dad went right to it yesterday, and now I can color like the big kids–giggle. Love you, me