A Blog and Web Site About The McDougall Family
Jefferson County schools have been having a series of Spelling Bees. Clancy School, being part of the Jefferson County school system, was no exception. Our daughter Desire’ made it to the finals for Clancy School and was invited to the County Spelling Bee in Boulder. Tonight (Thursday) was the night. The family piled into our […]
Read MoreI regularly read the posts on ARRL‘s (The American Radio Relay League) website. One of my favorite authors is Gary Hoffman, KB0H. He delivers a very humorous view of our sometimes perplexing hobby of Ham Radio. Read Gary’s March article on the ARRL website to get a glimps of the sometimes comical way others looking […]
Read MoreThis past weekend, our Church had a conference “A Heart After God” with Heather Clark. Heather is a 12 time recording artist, itinerate worship leader, and author. What an awesome time we had as Heather challenged us to worship our Lord with all our might. Visit Heather’s website to listen to some of her music; […]
Read MoreThe Clancy School second graders went to the Elkhorn Rehabilitation Center in Alhambra and did a patriotic show for the residents. Alia did a wonderful job at being “The Statue of Liberty”. Check out the photos in our Picture Gallery. Here is Alia reciting her lines as “The Statue of Liberty”. Give me your tired, […]
Read MoreI spent this last weekend with about a dozen men from our Church and about 400 men from around the state. We were in Butte, MT for our annual “Men’s Advance.” We used these couple of days, worshiping our Lord, learning, listening, and having great Christian fellowship with other men. Our speaker this year was […]
Read MoreRod Dinkins, AC6V (SK)(ARRL.org) AC6V, who has one of the largest Amateur Radio web sites is SK. His site is listed under Favorite Ham Radio Links on my Favorite Links page. His site is www.AC6V.com. See more about AC6V at ARRL’s site.
Read MoreMy family and I moved to our current QTH (location) November 2004. Our new home had a lot of extra space in which we could build some needed rooms. The area was an open space of about 26? by 50?. We made the first 16? of the 50? area into a nice family room. With […]
Read MoreIf you are interested in Homebrew (home made) electronic equipment, you should listen to “Soldersmoke“. It is a podcast done by Bill-N2CQR in Rome, Italy for Amateur Radio operators interested in homebrew electronics. I got mentioned in the latest episode, episode #77. I was traveling for my job along the Gallatin River near Big Sky, […]
Read MoreCarol, here is the key to my heart. I could not let Valentines Day go by without expressing my love for MY valentine, my lovely wife Carol. We had a romantic, candle lit dinner under dim lights. We then slow danced to some very romantic music. And where were all of our great children? They […]
Read MoreLast weekend, our family took a trip to my parents in Butte where we have our taxes done. While there, a conversation came up of my childhood curiosity with electrical things. At an early age, I was told, I would take tail lights off the cars and take doorbells on the house apart. I remember […]
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