We are just finishing up the 2018 Christmas Holiday Season. Wow! 2018 came and went fast. I did not get much written for my projects. I hope that changes in 2019. I did get more research done on a couple things I am working on…
My daughter gave us our first grand child in June and life has been hectic since…
But, a joyful hectic life. What a joy to be a Grandpa! Best job ever!
So… May the new year of 2019 bring joy and happiness to your life.
Enjoy life: read more!
I just took delivery of my first box of copies of our newest book, Grandma’s A Snowbird. Cover is simple, but looks great. It is on Amazon and Kathleen will have copies at the Olympia (WA) Market on most Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. Most Saturdays she is at the Hartstine Island Market (Shelton, WA). This coming Saturday, June 3rd, she will be at the Olympia (WA) Comics Festival for independent writers and artists at the Olympia Center, (222 Columbia St NW, Olympia, WA), 11 am – 4 pm. This is just down the street and over a block from the Olympia Farmers Market. See you there!
I spent Thursday through Sunday working on my front porch. Put up the guard rail and such. Our latest book, Grandma’s A Snowbird, has made it onto Amazon for sale. I ordered a few copies for Kathleen’s art shows at the Olympia Farmers’ Market, the Hartstine Island Market, and the Olympia Comic Festival next weekend.
Now, about Memorial Day (today). This is the Day we honor all those who made the ultimate sacrifice serving this great country in both wartime and peacetime. I am lucky in that I can’t think of any of my family who served in the Armed Forces who didn’t come back. There were a few high school guys who didn’t make it, though.
My wife’s godfather “Uncle” Roy McCotter was a remarkable gentleman. He was an officer in the Navy during World War II. During the last part of his career he served with my future father-in-law George E. Bein. Uncle Roy was in the Philippines when the Islands fell to the Japanese. Uncle Roy survived the Bataan Death March and time in captivity in a Japanese forced labor slave camp in Japan. Although he survived, a part of him died during captivity. Many, many of his fellow Americans (and Filipinos) perished in the march and in captivity. We must never forget the hells of war, especially when we surrender and lose…
I was stationed aboard the USS Nimitz (then CVAN-68, now CV-68) just after commissioning. While I didn’t work on the flight deck (I was a computer/electronics guy) I did know a few flight deck personnel. Unfortunately, I did know the first fatal casualty on the flight deck, Airman Craig Hinkle, killed in an accident with an aircraft being launched. What were the chances, with all the hundreds of guys working on the flight deck that I would know the first accident victim? Or any victim for that matter? Fast forward a few years and I am down in sickbay getting my physical to muster out at the end of my six years. My physical exam was cut short by a flight deck emergency… an unfortunate accident of a flight deck crewman getting sucked into an A-7 jet engine. I did not know him, but I got a close up view on the gurney of the mess that created.
My final words: I thank God I was able to serve my country and return safely. And I honor all of the families who have had to give up their loved ones who sacrificed their lives so we can all live in freedom in the United States of America.
Our latest book, Grandma’s A Snowbird, is now available in 8×10 paperback book form on Amazon.
My latest book, Grandma’s A Snowbird, is at the printer awaiting cover approval. The inside story and illustrations are complete. Release date soon!
I just finished the interior of our newest book, Grandma’s A Snowbird. It is about a little girl (or boy) who is having tea and cookies with Grandma and discovers that Grandma and Grandpa are turning into snowbirds… Lots of double plays on words… It is illustrated by my artist daughter, Kathleen. It will be at Amazon…………soon.
Just a reminder of my first book Seeking God: Understanding the Bible and Christianity, published in 2016, is still available on Amazon.
Click here for the book.
“I found God. I wasn’t really looking for him. It didn’t happen at any place I would have expected to find Him. It just happened one day. It was kind of easy. Not like a friend of mine who found God in a street gutter. Or a guy I read about who found God in a bowl of soup. I didn’t have to lose everything and be at the bottom of my life physically or emotionally. Amazing things can happen when you least expect it. Here then, is my story as I discover amazing things about our Creator and learn to discern what is and what is not God”
ISBN-13: 978-0615662152
ISBN-10: 0615662153
The picture at the top of the page is an edited/cropped version of one of my daughter’s, Kathleen A. LeGault, oil painting originals which I called “Bear Valley”. The original has two bears in the lower part of the picture. Go to her website, http://www.KathleenLeGault.com to see some more of her artwork and ceramics…
So, in the beginning we had a blog spot… then that morphed into a website, then we decided that a real blog would better serve our needs: a place to announce our new works: both in progress and as they are published. When I say the royal “we”, I guess I really mean me, Edward F. LeGault, or just Ed LeGault, the (non-royal) writer. My daughter, Kathleen A. LeGault, is a professional artist and my co-conspirator on illustrated books we write and publish together.
Serenity Valley Publishing 