Where’s The Snow?

Did I not just put out a short newsletter asking where the snow is? Oooops.

And it’s cold too. It’s currently 28 degrees and it normally drops another degree or two before 7am.

Well, I think in my next newsletter I’ll ask where the palm trees are. Maybe a couple of them will shoot up in town somewhere.

Donation Goals 2012 – 2013

If you have noticed, our donation goal for 2012 is a bit aggressive. NO, it has nothing to do with greed. All of our donors may be rest assured that YOUR donations go to the bills we pay and software we need to continue running indexwa.org. The year 2013 will be even more aggressive and then we can curtail after 2013.

That said, the reason for being so aggressive for the next two years is: our computer is on its last leg so to speak. Oh, it runs great but has been in use for 6 years but we know the CPU will give up soon (from experience we know this).

Are we asking you to buy us a new computer? Indirectly, yes. We use our computer 85% of the time to run our site, blog and forums. Our computer runs 18-20 hours a day and some time 24 hours a day. We just lost our good monitor ($265.00) after 3 years of use so we are back on our old monitor which requires a squinty eye to work.

To view our current computer / cpu configuration, click HERE. Our goal is to double everything you see. We calculate around $1,600.00 to do it correctly. (We order parts piece by piece to make sure we are getting what we want and what we pay for).

Our cameras are costly too however, since it’s our hobby, we never ask for donations for our camera equipment even though 99.9% of the photos on our site and blog come out of one of our best cameras. We even shoot photos events for non-profits or the fire department or what have you, no charge. We always try to give back to the community.

Donators have extra features in our forums too. We have a Donor Group, VIP Group and a VIP+ Group. The VIP+ Group requires something special from a Donor, but we keep that a secret. You’ll know what that secret is once you are in the VIP+ Group. It varies from user to user.

Thanks for reading.

New Year’s Day Peace Walk in Index

From: Caroll Cochran

PLEASE join me in a New Year’s Day peace walk in Index Washington to raise energy and awareness for peace and prosperity for ALL!

Meet at 1:00, Old Fire Hall. Rain or shine, bring a sign!

Help Block Censorship on The Internet.

This is a must sign PLEASE. If SOPA passes, the USA will no longer be a leader in the Internet War. http://fightforthefuture.org/.

Please sign this. I did and have not yet been spammed. Click on the Email congressman if you don’t want to call. The letter is ready to go.

Don’t be afraid to leave your honest information, otherwise the letter is not valid.

Thanks for supporting this.

Over FOUR MILLION Hits in 2011

Thanks to everybody who made this possible. We achieved over 4,000,000 hits this year.

Looking back to 2007 we had 200,000 hits for the year and it grew a bit in the following years but this year exploded!

Thanks again and if you’d like to see the stats, click HERE.

Happy New Year.

Ed & Dottie

Photos: Destruction of The Wes Smith House

Following are some photos of the destruction (demolition sounds too harsh) of the historical Wes Smith house, beginning to end.

While photographing over time, I was fortunate enough to meet Dave Smith, Wes Smith’s son.  We had a great conversation.  We feel that the conversation was more of a private meeting, so that said, we will not go into details of the why’s and who’s of reasons for the house being torn down.  We just feel it was a confidential discussion and would feel it’s a breech of trust to post the information.

It is a sad day indeed and the full size photos have already been transferred to the Index Historical Society’s hands.

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The Index Wall News Paper

The Index Wall (formerly the Index Eagle)  folks have published their first News Paper and it’s out now for FREE.  Soon you’ll be able to subscribe to the digital Index Wall for a small charge which is yet undetermined or you can buy it where it’s sold, for a small charge to cover their costs.

They have given us permission to publish their first Index Wall right here on IndexWa.org.  You’ll need a PDF reader to view it.

Click HERE to view or download it to your computer.

Photos: Index Cookie Exchange 12.10.11

The Town of Index Annual Cookie Exchange took place yesterday at 2:00pm.  I did not have the “umph” or get up and go (my get up and go, got up and went) to attend.  It was my wife’s assignment to snap a few real quick photos.

Below are snapshots from the Cookie Exchange.  Thanks to everybody for sharing with me, the cookie monster (I’ve heard David Meier does a good job eating cookies too).

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Thanksgiving Message from IndexWa.org

Wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving. We hope you can have time with your family and friends.

In this negative world and economy, please give thanks for what you do have, especially for our soldiers in harms way. Pray that they come home safely.

We are thankful for you, our readers and site visitors for being a part of our lives.

Ed & Dottie Boress – IndexWa.org

November is Upon Us: Stay Tuned

With November in full swing (wind, rain, a few dabs of slushy snow, snow on Index Wall off and on) it’s time for the weather watch.

Stay tuned to IndexWa.org (RSS Feed is a good way to remain updated) as we will once again begin posting the Weather Alerts as things roll in.

So far, so good. We read somewhere a while back that January is the wettest time for Index but in our book it’s November. Maybe the claim to January is from the snow.