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Congratulations to Richard Ford

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Richard E. Ford - Picture from Indiana Academy Biography

Richard Ford has been a client of Easterday Construction for the last decade and I am pleased that our business relationship has progressed to where he is counted as a family friend.  We first worked on Richard’s home in Wasbash completing some storm repairs and from there we completed several projects at his Wabash home including the addition of an endless pool, a two story music room and the remodeling/reconstruction of two guest houses.  We have completed several projects at his second home in Culver on Lake Maxinkuckee as well as his guest house here.  We are also proud to have helped with the creation of the Dr. James Ford Historic Home in Wabash for which we won a Judges Special Award from Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) of Indiana. 

Richard has won many awards for his community involvement such as being twice awarded a Sagamore of the Wabash, Indiana’s highest honor and named as a Living Legend by the Indiana Historical Society, now Indiana Landmarks.  This coming weekend he will be receiving another award from Indiana Landmarks, the Cook Cup.  We want to congratulate Richard on this latest award.  The State of Indiana, Cities of Wabash and Indianapolis, the Town of Culver and Lake Maxinkuckee have all benefited from his generous philanthropy.  We are pleased to have participated with Richard in some of these endeavors.  We wish him the best and hope to continue our friendship for many years.

Melba Easterday’s 90th

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Melba Easterday is my Great Aunt.  She is wholly deserving of the prefix to that title.  I was truly sorry that I was unable to attend her 90th birthday celebration last month.  Unfortunately, we had already made travel plans and had purchased plane tickets when we received the invitation to save the date.  I hope that it was well attended and celebrated to the fullest!

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Happy Evacuation Day!

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St. Patrick’s Day isn’t the only holiday being celebrated today.  There are a few people around Boston, MA celebrating the day the British troops evacuated during the Revolutionary War.  Since 1901 March 17th has been an official holiday, Evacuation Day, in Suffolk County.  It is celebrated in several other cities on the east coast on different days based on the day the British army left those areas.

Wonder what color beer they’re drinking…

House Democrats walking out

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I was amused when I saw that the Wisconsin State Senate Democrats were hiding in Illinois.  Their new moniker as the FLEE Party was funny.  Now I am ashamed to see that our Indiana State Representatives, including our local District 17 Representative, Nancy Dembowski, are doing the same.  If you’re as embarrassed by her method of representing us as I am, please take the time to send her a note here:  h17@in.gov

This is poor government, poor sportsmanship and just plain poor leadership.  I received an email from the Indianapolis TEA Party that has a lot of interesting links if you want to follow up with them.  You can see the email here.  They are not only taking on the missing Democrats, but also the Governor and the Republican led Senate, asking for better leadership from our representative government.  I don’t think this is an unreasonable request.

There is a billboard at the corner of S.R. 8 & S.R. 17 that I pass every day on the way to work.  It has Nancy Dembowski’s smiling face telling me she’s my Representative.  If that’s the case, why is she hiding in Illinois?

Adult ADD

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I don’t know if I would have passed this test or not.  I got distracted and didn’t finish it.  <rim shot>  Anyway…  I ran across this test in Bottom Line Personal, February 15, 2011.  I actually scored a four, so  I guess I’m borderline.   Not something that comes as a surprise to me!  If you’re still reading and haven’t clicked on to the next site, you might want to take the test.