THOUGHTS

From: Vickie

Summer has arrived and with it comes Independence Day, Labor Day Weekend, vacations and all the fun we can pack into 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the next 4 months no matter what the weather is like. Safety and well being are the main keys. Be sure to drink plenty of water and watch out for our little ones who are too busy having fun to worry about such things as vehicles or swimming and firework safety techniques. Some of our older dear ones may need to be reminded from time to time to . . . [More]

Camping Information

If you plan to camp on our leased area at Paradise Point on Lake Perry, you must obtain a camping permit from the ABATE office prior to camping. Please remember that the office is not normally open on Fridays and arrangements would need to be made by Thursday if at all possible. Camping permits are required by the US Army Corp of Engineers and any violation of this requirement is a Federal offense. Individual camping permits will be restricted by the following: the last weekend in April is . . . [More]

A Rainy Memorial Day

Brian "Bruin" Allen

Memorial Day Tucker and I wanted to ride out to the Overbrook, KS cemetery. The town's claim to fame was being a resting spot on the old Sante Fe Trail. You can actually see wagon wheel ruts running westward through the cemetery. Unfortunately a driving thunderstorm forced us to go by car. The acreage of the burial grounds reflect the one bank, one grocery store, one horse size of the town. But like so many small crucibles throughout the heartland it turned out men of iron. Men of the land . . . [More]

Geeks Wear Black, Too

During this chapter on the scourge of viruses, I've discussed only a few ways through which viruses enter your system. The nefarious horror of reality is that there are literally thousands of other ways in which a virus could get on your computer. The most numerous are called ports. Ports are a special number attached to data packets so that computers know for what that data is used. For example, when your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.) communicates through the web to a . . . [More]