Hello everyone! I have been a busy boy this month, and yesterday, July 4th, I turned 10 months! Happy Independence Day! I watched fireworks from DC on tv, while wearing my USA shirt. I have been traveling around this month, first to Maine and then out to Washington State for my Auntie Heather's wedding. (I'll soon have those pictures up for you to see). I was such a good traveler, impressing both Mommy and Daddy and all the people who were traveling with me! Here I am at a park in Maine, enjoying the sun. I am so happy warm weather is here! My days are numbered here at my first home in Porters Lake. I have made many good friends and will be sad to say "Goodbye" to them.
Today, July 5th, I am blessed with a new friend, Finn Nicholas Duncan, born to Julia and Clancy. Welcome Finn!
Also, I would like all of my family and friends to keep my neighbor Alex's Mommy, Shelley Jeffries, in the their thoughts as she and her family go through some rough times with a recent diagnosis of a cancerous brain tumor. They have been so generous to us here and if you would like to help them out, you can visit the following website. There is a program that was initiated by Stanford University to apply all the “spare” computer time around the internet to solving huge problems and the one they have targeted is protein folding. This is a key element in a number of diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s to name just a few. Take a look at http://folding.stanford.edu/ to see what it’s all about and then if you’re interested in supporting it, download the software (http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/Folding@Home503.EXE ). If you want to join our team to see what we’re all contributing, then enter 78519 as the team number. Imagine how you’d feel if you knew that you’d had a hand in helping to eradicate just one of those.
