My life is busy. But it's mostly my fault.

My #2 daughter is getting married on the 29th to a wonderful young man, Jimmy. The wedding will be here at the college- lots of people are coming. I haven't had alot to do with planning... just writing checks My parents 50th anniversary is the day before and we're throwing them a surprise party that evening down here on the lake. So we're burning the candle on both ends, so to speak.

Caleb has been in Rhwanda this summer finishing his internship in videography. He's working with Feed the Children, videoing kids and conditions there. He has a blog here - http://cobproductions.blogspot.com/ We are trusting he has a life-changing experience there- no doubt he has.

Greg is working this summer, entering College of the Ozarks for his 2nd year. He's the only kid still at home, technically anyhow. He's doing well.

My trip to Alaska was exhausting. I lost almost 20 pounds but gained alot of strength from working on the cabin. I was pretty burned out before I left which was unfortunate. Not many people get to do what I did and I feel I didn't appreciate it as much as I should have.

I'm planning on going back in September to help Jim guide and close down the camp for the winter.

I've been fishing here on Taneycomo a few times, going real well at catching rainbows and a few nice browns. It's nice to have running water for an extended time (most of spring and summer)- it really makes our trout bigger and stronger when it runs. I look to have a very good fall season for browns and rainbows.

Starting last fall, a couple of guys started a new template for OA for the purpose to improve the look and navigation on the site. They had it ready about the time I left for AK but I didn't have time to work up the files for it. We're now working on it again but I don't think we'll have anything to share till after I get back in October, seeing how things have gone in the past. I have lots of ideas, just hope we can work them all up on the site.

Back a few weeks ago, hackers hacked their way onto several servers owned by the company who hosts my sites, including OA and the forum. I don't know for sure what they did or why but Jim and others have to rebuild their servers, starting from scratch basically. The sites were down for a day or two. Some sites are still not up including LilleysTackleStore.Com. They're having trouble with the XCart software people getting the basic back up and running. I'll have to rebuild the data base which is about 100 hours of work. I want to devote some time to the webcams again. The software that drove them now locks up on my computer and whatever I've tried hasn't worked. I'm going to have to buy new video cards for another computer and the software and try to run them off it instead of my main computer- either that or reinstall windows and start over, which I'm not enthused.

Best be going...