Such A Local Loss of An Officer

Emotional Funeral Held For Slain Bardstown Officer

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/22456776/emotional-funeral-for-slain-officer

BARDSTOWN, Ky. (AP) – Hundreds of people lined the streets of Bardstown and packed into a church for the emotional funeral of a police officer fatally shot on a highway exit ramp.

The coffin of 33-year-old Jason Ellis was draped in an American flag Thursday for the 1 1/2-hour service. At least a half-dozen speakers took to the podium at Parkway Baptist Church.

The crowd included Ellis’ wife and two young sons as well as police officers from across Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.

Bardstown Police Chief Rick McCubbin told mourners that Ellis was a fun-loving jokester who dressed as an elf at a town Christmas party, and he was proud of his work taking drugs off the streets with his K-9 partner.

Ellis was shot to death early Saturday morning on his way home from work. Police said he got out of his cruiser to remove debris from the roadway when he was killed. An investigation was ongoing. A $100,000 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest.

Members of the University of Kentucky and Lexington Police Departments stand with the casket for Bardstown Officer Jason Ellis on Thursday, May 30, 2013. (AP Photo)

Police officers salute as the body of slain Bardstown Police Department officer Jason Ellis is brought into the Jefferson County Government Building on May 25, 2013, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo)

This was such a moving story and such a local loss that I had to share it with my readers.

Thank you for reading.

Tammye Honey

May 25, 2013
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Weekly Photo Challenge: In The Background Of My Yard

As the Average person looks at this photo, They see a citronella candle sticking out of a bush. A lawn with a series of trees.

What I see when I look at this photos is besides a shrub that needs to be trimmed is a sunset that is over Kentucky as I am standing in Tennessee.

On a regular basis I can sit and look out my window and watch a storm front pass over our area and head straight into Kentucky past those same trees, totally missing our area.

Huge bolts of lightening in the night sky that pass by that small space lighting it up as if it were day. This night it was calm, the cloud formation was so beautiful as the sun was setting over the horizon over the state of Kentucky.

In the Background: The places that we pass through day after day, or even once in a lifetime, leave in their small way, echoes and traces of themselves upon us. But so often when taking self portraits or pictures of friends, the places themselves become a soft blurred mush of indistinct semi-nothingness, the limelight stolen by our smiling faces. In today’s challenge, let’s turn the tables. Take a picture of yourself or someone else as a shadow, a reflection, or a lesser part of a scene, making the background, or — as in the example above — the foreground, the center of attention. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/weekly-photo-challenge-in-the-background/

What do you see in the Background? Do you have photo’s that capture more than what is just present? Would love to hear.

Tammye Honey

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April 13, 2013
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Daily Prompt: Organizations I Chose To Be Beneficiaries

Daily Prompt: Charitable

by michelle w. on April 13, 2013

You’ve inherited $5 million, with instructions that you must give it all away — but you can choose any organizations you like to be the beneficiaries. Where does the money go?

Wow with that amount of money it was a tough question.

1. Mike Fest 2013 (Would set it up so each year a recipient would receive a set amount). This year is Wounded Warrior Sgt. Keith Hale.

https://layedbacklife.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/daily-prompt-mikefest-history-and-today/

2. Paws with a Cause Local Chapter Max’s Hope

https://layedbacklife.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/give-a-shout-out-to-our-local-organization/

The other charities I would have to think about for a bit and ponder. My reason for this is that I have a problem with Administrative fees. With these two that I have chosen, the money goes directly to the cause at hand for what is intended.

Perhaps if I just split between the two that would be enough to keep MikeFest and Max’s Hope going for years to come.

Have a Blessed and Happy weekend and stay safe.

Tammye Honey

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March 25, 2013
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Daily Prompt: Idyllic Community

Daily Prompt: Idyllic

by michelle w. on March 25, 2013

What does your ideal community look like? How is it organized, and how is community life structured? What values does the community share?

I must sound like a broken record on this one. Were we are located gives us a touch of the country while being right next to Clarksville, Tennessee and Ft. Campbell, Kentucky so we have the best of both worlds. Till I woke up this morning.

We have snow…what is this? It is New York State weather. Not normal Tennessee weather. I borrowed these pictures from a friend who took them last night and this morning.

We are not supposed to have hail dropping on our daffodils.

What is up with snow? Yes I know we can still see the ground but the black ice is incredible.

http://www.cityofclarksville.com

http://www.campbell.army.mil/Pages/CampHome.aspx

While Clarksville and Woodlawn area offer all the schools, hospital and shopping that one needs, not to mention places to eat and visit…oops I just did lol.

Ft. Campbell is a city within itself. It has it’s own schools, hospital, shopping, restaurants and things to do.

The community where we are is small and quiet. When our dog Trina was frightened and ran away for a day, the community came out to help find her. People actually stopped to ask if we were looking for a child.

She came home just as it got dark (she is afraid of the dark and was hungry. First thing she did was check her New Box of Milkbones to make sure they were still there.

What is your perfect community? Do you live in it now? Would love to hear…

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Thank you for reading Check back with Michelle to see who else has posted their article during the day.

Tammye Honey

July 11, 2012
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Tennessee Sky At Night

Just as it started to become dusk I decided to follow the yard and take pictures randomly… I do not claim to be a photographer and I am only using a Casio Exilim Camera so this is what I came up with to describe my back yard besides peaceful.