From The Past

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

The Littles

After posting about wanting to write a children's book for my Great-grandbaby Marianna ( Go to Gonna Have To Write Her One ), I decided to try. So this is what I have been doing for the last half-hour. Following is what I came up with for now. It is a story of my childhood. I was the third child... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 6, 2013

The Way We Were

I can still see it in my mind, as it was the first time ever I saw it, spooky in it's emptiness, waiting, waiting, waiting for objects no longer needed but too precious to discard. I can still see it in my mind, as it was the last time I saw it--thirty-plus years later, so full of dusty memorabilia... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 4, 2013

Nope! Didn't Think It Would

Just checking in to see if my Rainy Day Pondering came back. Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Rainy Day Pondering

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Sunday, September 29, 2013

How Long Have You Been Drinking Coffee?

"Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike...What day is it? What day is IT?" Just in case you didn't know already, September 29 is International Coffee Day. That means something to me. I've been drinking coffee since I was a wee thing. Of course, in those days, my mom and dad put lots of milk and sugar in mine. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

After All These Years

I found my lost family....well, at least I found how to contact them. Last time I spent time with them was in Portland, Oregon. After Son #3 and Grandson Phil's mother were divorced, she took the other three boys (Phil's brothers) and ran to New York City. Then they moved to Seattle, WA where the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Mamasan

There is one photo of Mamasan in the photo album of his US Navy days, kind of off to the side and non-conspicuous. She didn't like to have her picture taken. All business, Mamasan was a woman in a position of authority. She was in charge of the favorite bar of Son #1 when he was off-ship and had... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

From Out Of Nowhere

Great-grandbaby Marianna has two darling older cousins--Megan who is nine and Tyler who is seven. They have been without their daddy for almost five years. He was killed in action in the war in Iraq. Matt was great at writing letters to his Wife, Lana, and also to his children who couldn't yet read... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Deer Me

We see a lot of deer around here in Missouri, but I've never seen one with a basketball stuck on its head. It doesn't seem to be hurting it, but it surely is funny looking. I didn't take this pic. It was taken down in Bentonville, in the area where my Dad always went deer hunting every November. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 23, 2013

For As Long As I Can Remember

I love the old, old hymns. One of my favorite reason that I don't watch TV all that much is because, if there is no music playing, I can sing as I do anything else. What I usually sing is what my Mother always sang--old Christian hymns. She often sang the following, because it was my Dad's favorite.... Sign in to see full entry.

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