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If you have known us for very long you have no doubt met “Blue Steel”. Blue Steel is our 2002 Ford Excursion land yacht. When you have as many kids as we do you need some room to move around. Blue Steel has been to Colorado twice, the beach more times than I can count, and has cranked every time that we ever asked her to. Other than gas, oil, and tires there is almost nothing that we have done for her; though she does take A LOT of gas which this last summer was not very much fun.
We are very grateful for Blue Steel and the service that she has provided to the Nelson family. We have prayed over her more than a few times to thank God for providing such a wonderful and reliable car for all the kids and Catch. Today, Blue Steel reached a milestone in her life and flipped 100,000 miles. We will celebrate tonight as a family.
Cindy we LOVE the fan!
President-elect Barack Obama calls it “the largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s.” New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg compares it to the New Deal — when workers built hundreds of bridges, dams and parkways — while saying it could help close the gap with China, where he recently traveled on a Shanghai train at 267 mph.
Gov. Phil Bredesen says Tennessee has close to $1 billion in road and bridge projects that are ready to go and may qualify for the massive public-works stimulus package proposed by President-elect Barack Obama. “We have here in Tennessee, just in TDOT (the state Department of Transportation) about $850 million in programs that we could go into contract in less than 180 days,” Gov. Bredesen said. “So once all the work is done you can actually put people to work. I know other states have similar lists.” Hoping to jump-start the nation’s recession-stricken economy, the Democratic president-elect is devoting a major part of a several-pronged recovery strategy to what he calls “shovel ready” infrastructure projects such as roads and bridges. Mr. Obama also is calling for spending to modernize school buildings and make government buildings more efficient.
HT: Times Free Press
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