Good!!

He will have a much easier death than he gave to Jessica Lunsford.

No tears will be shed for John Couey.

INVERNESS — John Couey will die by lethal injection for the brutal 2005 murder of Jessica Marie Lunsford of Homosassa, a judge ruled today.

The death sentence is something Jessica’s family hoped for.

“I think he needs to stand up and be a man now and take his death penalty . . . and I hope he rots in hell,” Mark Lunsford said, just a day after his daughter’s body was found buried in a shallow grave on March 19, 2005.

Couey, 49, got his death sentence from Circuit Judge Richard Howard at a 2 p.m. sentencing hearing at the Citrus County Courthouse.

Lunsford, along with his parents Archie and Ruth Lunsford also attended the hearing. The courtroom also was packed with law enforcement officials including Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsy, who spearheaded the investigation. [source]

Ahhh!  I’m writing this from work! However, it is before school, and I will be logged off by the time school starts.

RT didn’t pay his internet bill on time.  So they cut off service.  I think it will take nothing less than a presidential order for it to get back up and running again.  I’ve spent over an hour on the phone with the idiotic DSL folks - and RT has probably spent five or six times that - or more - and we still don’t have service - despite actually having a CREDIT on our account at the moment. 

I would just like to mention that our DSL provider (BellSouth or is it AT&T now?) has no clue how to do business.  We’ve been without DSL service for about a month now.  Supposedly it was re-instated over a week ago.  Alas, still no DSL service.  When we move to the new house, we are seriously considering getting satellite service.  We can’t get cable service - and wouldn’t get it if we could.  Maybe satellite will be better than AT&T - if it doesn’t cost too much.

Anyway - I’ll be back to blogging as soon as I can.  I really miss writing.  I should spend a little time and figure out how to blog via my new Treo.

Carol’s computer has been broken and with getting her house finished and starting school she has not been able to blog. She asked me to put a note up here and let you know that. I thought I’d share the post below of the naked protesters on the Aletsch glacier just because. Enjoy …

Remember when I told you about the group that was looking for volunteers to get naked to save the planet from global warming?

Well, they did.

And here they are.

Don’t you wonder what all that body heat must have done to that poor glacier? At least it was hundreds instead of thousands of naked people.

Reuters

ALETSCH GLACIER, Switzerland (Reuters) - Hundreds of people posed naked on Switzerland’s shrinking Aletsch glacier on Saturday for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick as part of a Greenpeace campaign to raise awareness of global warming.

Tunick, perched on a ladder and using a megaphone, directed nearly 600 volunteers from all over Europe and photographed them on a rocky outcrop overlooking the glacier, which is the largest in the Alps.

Later he took pictures of them standing in groups on the mass of ice and lying down. Camera crews were staged at five different points on the glacier to take photographs.

Okay, now I have to go get that vision out of my eyes.

Sweet Stuff and Sunshine went to Sunday School and church with us yesterday.  During the last hymn,  I was aware that Sweet Stuff was looking up at me.   So I smiled at her.  When the song was over, she whispered in my ear, “You’re pretty, Grandma Carol.”

Now I had a boyfriend once whose nickname for me was “Pretty” and I’ve had my share of compliments.  However, there has never been a compliment that touched my heart and made me feel better about myself than those sincere and heartfelt words from Sweet Stuff.   It doesn’t matter what I look like to anyone else.  To my precious Sweet Stuff, I am pretty.

This past Saturday morning RT and I flew in his small Bonanza down to Destin, FL for a few days of R&R with our children.  Our son and his wife left Friday night - drove part way and finished the drive on Saturday.  Our daughter, her husband and the two grandgirls did the same.  We all arrived at the condo within ten minutes of each other.

It was beautiful.  That’s an understatement.  The condo was perfect for our little family.   The kids are staying through Saturday.  RT and I had to come home Monday because there was just too much going on with the new house and school starting next week for us to be gone all week.

So it is strange not having our children in town.   Today RT flew to Indiana on business.  And I’m here in TN without any other family around.  Usually when he’s out of town, our daughter and son are just a few minutes away at their respective homes.  This week, though, they’re still in Florida enjoying the beach.  Strange feeling to have them so far away.

One quick cute story.  No, make that three.  On Sunday morning, Sunshine woke up early and RT asked her if she wanted to go to church.  She looked at him as though he was crazy.  RT said something about God being everywhere, and she replied, “No he’s not.  He’s at church in Nashville, Tennessee!”  Four year olds are very literal.

Later, she was sitting next to RT on the sofa, and she felt his stomach and proceeded to ask him if he was expecting a baby.  When he replied that he wasn’t, she answered as she rubbed his stomach, “Yes, you are.  I can feel the head.”  I hasten to add that while RT might have a little bit of a stomach, he is not overweight at all. 

Third story.  Hmmm - all three stories are about Sunshine!  We visited a shopping area along the beach that had a “Bears on the Beach” store - which is a make-your-own-teddy-bear place (Like “Build A Bear Workshop”).  I let both girls select and dress a teddy bear to keep.  They each named their bears.  Sweet Stuff named hers Gabriella - from “High School Musical.”  Sunshine named her Sarah Grandma Carol.  To her “Grandma” is just part of my name, and she was honoring me.  Such sweetness!