Category: My Family
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American Spirit
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I was listening to the song, “The Battle of New Orleans” by Johnny Horton the other day. Actually, I like the version with Eddy Albert singing better, but Mr. Horton was a history teacher and wrote several songs (Does anyone have his album?) like this including “The Sinking of the…
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Perfume
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Unless you are a fan of the Doctor Demento Show you have probably never heard a song that says, “Rental cars are really great/driving over speed bumps at a hundred and eight…/you can crash it/you can smash it/’cause it’s only a rental car.” We had to rent a car since…
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Savannah Melody Is Here
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I received a Savannah Melody in the mail today! Scarbrough Gardens sent it to me free because they are grandparents and thought little Savannah’s story was wonderful. Woo-hoo! I ran out and planted it right away. The instructions were so easy Carter could probably follow them! We will find out…
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Update and Abigail’s Birthday
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Well, last night Margaret called some of the daughter’s friends’ numbers in her cell phone. She spoke with the boyfriend, who swore he hadn’t heard from her. Margaret said, well I would have expected that if you hadn’t heard from her that you would call me back to see if…
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Why Fathers Get Grey Hair
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Margaret and I went up to the college to pick up Elizabeth. She had called and said she would be done in ten or fifteen minutes. I park, with the intention of waiting for her to come out, but Margaret decided to go in and check on her. She had…
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More Alien News
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Now, I do not know what newspapers you have in your town or area, Here we have 3, 4 if you count The Independent, the free liberal paper (the Denver liberal paper you have to pay for.) but I have discovered a journalistic source of news that is definitely “The…
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Strange Incident
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An incident happened with my dad that I thought was somewhat strange. I do not know if you will recall my talking about my dad’s brother, Herbert, http://herbthiel.blogdrive.com/archive/19.html for whom I was named. Well, while he was here I printed of the web page that I think one of my…