Dude is looking good!

McCord started lifting weights in highschool when he was on the football team. He had been going to the gym for some time and back in the day, (12 years ago) we THOUGHT he was a bundle of muscles. Little did we know that he could get MASSIVE!

Our little grandson (about 1 then) couldn't say McCord or Cord . Cord was very intimidating to this little grandson and thinking it was funny, he would make him say his name. The only word he could utter sounded like DOOO--OOOD'. (intonation upwards at the end) We thought it was so funny that almost everyone started to call cord DOOOOD' after that. very affectionate. very dude-ish. Cord really actually liked it...better than his other nickname from when he was little.-- Cordy bordy which soon turned into CUMBA...which he still hates to this day. (side story...my mom couldn't remember the name McCord and would always call him McCoom or McComb, hence the word Cumba).

Mike, Jana and I all went to Gunnison yesterday (July 5) to visit Dude. We got to CUCF at noon as the inmates are fed their lunch at 11:00 a.m. Cord said if people don't have commissary to eat from, they would starve because they feed them again at 4:30 p.m. and the rest of the night they get nothing. Also, the fiscal year began again July 1, so he said the past few weeks were pretty skimpy eating as their food budget was gone. Cord would say, Um there are two sections of the tray that are empty!! The kitchen crew would reply...Yep.

McCord was in great spirits and we laughed away our two hours. He was telling us how there is a Tribunal (like on Survivor) if someone messes up in there or disobeys, then they have to go before the tribunal and be sentenced to so many hours scrubbing with a toothbrush and no one can acknowledge them as a person. One of his friends lent a CD to someone in another area. That was a no-no and he is scrubbing 3 hours a day for 3 months!

Cord is enjoying his "summer break" from the rules. He purchased a CD player and now has to save up for cd's of his own, since he can't borrow from anyone now. He usually sleeps in and then eats lunch and goes to the mini-yard. If he goes outside to the big yard, he has to be there for 2 hours where there is no shade and he gets bored out there, so usually he just works out in the mini-area.

He is counting down to his release date in April 2011. He said he has 40 more weeks and our daughter Ashlee, reminded him that that is a full term pregnancy and you know EVERYONE knows how FAST that goes by!

Prayers and thoughts welcome.