Wrightwinger And the peace that comes from always knowing where the phone is located when it rings!
June 9 at 19:04 EST .
Safetydude My cellphone ringtone is 'old telephone' and sounds just like that one did. It's a sound that I can hear without any difficulty, not like the electronic chirps and tones that most people have on their 'phones.
June 10 at 16:43 EST .
Eagles Dominion Dude... that's the tone I have set for calls from the Mrs.! I don't think that having been together for over forty-one years has anything to do with it?! ROFL
June 10 at 18:46 EST .
Wrightwinger ED, at least it isn't " Yakitty Yak! " as a ringtone...;- )
When I was in high school, in North St.Paul, MN(about 30 minutes from the Wisconsin border )we had to cross into WS in order to buy or drink beer ie:real beer. MN was 21, except for 3.2, and WS 18 for 'real beer'. One of our favorite places was a bar and dance hall named 'Dudley's Dam' 'Best By A Dam Site', in Somerset, which was about another half hour north and east of where we would cross into WS, so we would drive an hour each way just to buy beer, dance and(shush )score with the 'chicks'. One Saturday we're up there and there's a live band. We had no idea who they were but it turned out to be the "The Trashmen" up from Minneapolis. I think everybody got lucky that night. Good nite' y'all. Happy Fathers Day To All.
Ole buzzard I was just reflecting on the weather in Northern Illinois where I grew up. This past winter was very much like the one we had in my junior year of high school. On the farm, getting the fields ready for planting usually started in early to mid April, and corn was planted by May 15th, and soybeans by Memorial Day. That year, we weren't even able to get into the fields until the first week of June! As you can imagine, we had a lot of lost time to make up for, and there were a lot of 18 hour days on my dad's John Deere G for this lad. When the rush started, I was a pudgy little fellow at 5'6" and 185 pounds (I had to put my hands out to tell if I was walking or rolling ). In two weeks, I was down to 155. The work that was normally done in six weeks had been done in four, and by the end of June, the weather had dried up so much that we were putting water down with the soybean seeds instead of liquid fertilizer!
May 26 at 09:44 EST .
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Balogreene You know Buzz, I don't know when you were a Junior in High School, but I remember the winter of 81-82. If it was Thursday, there was another foot of snow. The week of my grandmother's birthday (Jan 7, 1982 ), it was 20 below, without the wind-chill. I had half the rooms in my rented, post-WWII house blocked off, and slept on the couch. I vowed to leave the Chicago area before the next winter.
I was in Albuquerque for Labor Day.
May 26 at 21:14 EST .
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Balogreene Oh, yeah, that was the year it snowed two feet on April 15.
May 26 at 21:14 EST .
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Ole buzzard I remember that winter. I was living in Kenosha, Wisconsin, then, and that was my Reserve weekend. Just about everybody had to get their cars pulled into one of the hangars or shops to get them thawed out before we could go home.
May 27 at 07:34 EST .
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Rake King If we truly are suffering from Global Warming wouldn't you think we would be breaking every high temp on record. Well we aren't even making a scrath on that. As you above recall certain winters or summers proves there were hotter and colder spells in the past, and with deeper snows,more tornados, hurricanes, and other happenings.
My personal opinion is weather changes are more the result of a recent time of sun spots and solar flares off the sun. To think lowly man can alter the earths weather is a bit overboard.
Linder The school year for our grandchildren is winding down. Brings back memories of those days when the sweet freedom of summer was so near. Andrea ...(3rd grade ) is spending the night with us so that she can ride her bike to and from school tomorrow....like the town kids do. She lives ten miles away and rides the bus. Her parents know where she is every instant....how times have changed.
May 23 at 23:30 EST .
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Eagles Dominion I was fortunate enough as a kid growing up that my family had a cabin on the lake. Every summer when we finished school we loaded up the car and moved to the lake for the entire summer. Dad would drive the extra 60 miles round trip everyday just so we'd enjoy (I know he enjoyed it as much as we did )the summer out of town! LOL
May 24 at 11:18 EST .
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Surfhut Linder, the sweet freedom of summer is so beautiful. I remember those days from my childhood.
Very happy Andrea gets to ride her bike to school!
May 24 at 18:52 EST .
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Ole buzzard Growing up on the farm, there was always work to be done, but it was enjoyable work. Just being away from the rigors of school was freedom enough.
May 25 at 10:35 EST .
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Mike PHX Man...our poor grand kids! I remember summers at the "crick". Fishin with my Dad at "the Pond"...huntin' in "the Timber"...good times...
May 25 at 16:42 EST .
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Linder Gramps informed me that this was the last day of school for granddaughters Sydney and Molly and so I texted them to validate the day. Syd will go into the 8th grade and called me back to relate what a fun day she had had....a movie down town and a cook out. Molly will go into the third grade and had the best news in her phone call. Her teacher next year will be her mother. What a lucky little girl! Our daughter-in-law is a good and caring teacher who has stood up to the teachers' union and maintained her independence.
May 28 at 22:00 EST .
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Balogreene For a gift today, I was given two wonderfully amazing gifts. A baseball autographed by Sweet Swinging Billy Williams, and a coffee mug from 1969 with the Cubs Battery's autographs, Ferguson Jenkins, Randy Hundley, Ken Holtzman, Rich Nye, and more. I remember when you got those at the gas station (or something like that ). I'm pretty sure we had the whole set. I'm told they are now selling on eBay for decent money.
May 19 at 00:40 EST .
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Ole buzzard I'm jealous!! But who can ever forget the swoon of the 1969 Cubs? That is the stuff of baseball history.
May 19 at 11:24 EST .
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StarFire My Mother, 1942 in Columbus, MS reclining on my dad's Army Air Corps jacket. Miss them both greatly.
May 12 at 16:50 EST .
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Rake King Star-fire: Does she have those things they called "rats" in her hairdo? I have photos of my mom and aunt with those things in their hairdo...what an awful name to give to that product.
May 15 at 09:27 EST .
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StarFire No, R.K. Mother didn't need a rat. Her hair was dark and thick through all of her 85 years.
She married my dad just before H.S. graduation in 1942. They were both 17. He joined the Army Air Corps and left for Basic trining. He returned on leave in time to accept his diploma. He also accepted diplomas on behalf of his fellow servicemen who could not return home for the ceremony.
Mother and Daddy were home-town, high school sweethearts during the depression and into WWII. They were married over 66 years before Daddy passed away. Mother followed less than a year later. It was a true "greatest generation" love story.
May 15 at 10:41 EST .
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Linder Sixty-six years! Amazing and sweet! You were blessed.
May 23 at 23:43 EST .
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Rake King Thought all of you who typed on manuals, to have an electric enter the scene, this would bring back some memories.
May 11 at 19:07 EST .
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Surfhut Sure does! Wonder if she's holding a steno pad.
May 12 at 07:13 EST .
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Ole buzzard Sure is, Surfie! Enlarge the picture, and you'll see the vertical line down the center of the page and the spiral binding at the top of the pages.
May 12 at 08:09 EST .
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Surfhut I buy all the office supplies at work. People thought I was crazy when I bought steno pads. Had to educate them into the wonders of taking notes all day about whatever, then flipping the whole thing over when the pad got full and writing on the clean back sides. Oh! What a concept!
May 13 at 19:42 EST .
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Rake King All you "Remington Raiders" (Army typists circa 1955-57 ). would have given anything to have had one of the above.
May 15 at 09:30 EST .
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Linder Gramps claims the only reason he passed typing in HS was because he could repair malfunctioning machines. The teacher appreciated his ability and he passed.
May 23 at 23:54 EST .
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HopeandGlory My hubby has one of these sitting in his home office . . . the grandkids love it.
May 31 at 16:21 EST .
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Surfhut After work, I sat on my patio for a bit. Two little girls (sisters ) were out in the warm air and slight wind with bottles of bubbles. They were having so much fun, giggling, chasing bubbles, playing with each other. Reminded me of childhood with my sister.
A stranger came by the other day with an offer that set me to thinking.
He wanted to buy the old barn that sits out by the highway. I told him right off he was crazy.
He was a city type, you could tell by his clothes, his car,
His hands, and the way he talked.
He said he was driving by and saw that beautiful barn Sitting out in the tall grass and wanted to know if it was for sale.
I told him he had a funny idea of beauty.
Sure, it was a handsome building in its day. But then, there's Been a lot of winters pass with their snow and ice and howling wind.
The summer sun's beat down on that old barn till all the paint's Gone, and the wood has turned silver gray.
Now the old building leans a good deal, looking kind of tired.
Yet, that fellow called it beautiful.
That set me to thinking. I walked out to the field and just stood there, Gazing at that old barn.
The stranger said he planned to use the lumber to line the walls Of his den in a new country home he's building down the road.
He said you couldn't get paint that beautiful.
Only years of standing in the weather, bearing the storms and Scorching sun, only that can produce beautiful barn wood.
It came to me then. We're a lot like that, you and I. Only it's on the inside that the beauty grows with us. Sure we turn silver gray too... And learn a bit more than We did when we were young and full of sap.
But the Good Lord knows what He's doing. And as the years pass He's busy using the hard weather of our lives, T he dry spells and the stormy seasons to do a job of beautifying Our souls that nothing else can produce.
They took the old barn down today and hauled it away To beautify a rich man's house.
And I reckon someday you and I'll be hauled off To Heaven to take on whatever chores the Good Lord Has for us on the Great Sky Ranch.
And I suspect we'll be more beautiful Then for the seasons we've been through here... And just maybe even add a bit of beauty to our Father's house.
May there be peace within you today. May you trust God that you are Exactly where you are meant to be.
And..................I do sincerely Thank God for my wonderful friends and Family who care about me even though I show signs of weathering!
Surfhut Today would have been my big sister's 65th birthday. So many memories. SusieQ, baby I love you, SusieQ. See you in Heaven one fine day.
April 4 at 20:48 EST .
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Rake King I am an only child. While given much "stuff", I never knew the love of a brother or sister. That's why my wife and I agreed we would have 3 children....that "they" could.
Surf, she is making a place for you.
April 5 at 09:12 EST .
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Surfhut I'm one of 4. I know and hear about people who don't get along with their siblings as adults. My brother, little sister and I are very close.
SusieQ had twins. They are polar opposites yet adore each other. Bro had 1 child and he loved being the only. Little sis has 2 who, as young adults, don't like each other at all.
I only had one child. He loved being the only while growing up. Now that he's a young adult, he thinks he wants 5 kids because he feels he missed out.
Life is interesting!
April 6 at 09:19 EST .
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Rollingcow There's three of us and both of my brothers are still with me (one lives here in the Barn so he's really with me ). We were only able to have one child as well, but he and Mrs. Calf have almost 4 little ones who bless our lives every day. I just love the delight on the faces of the Calf and his lovely wife every time they announce they are expecting a new baby. Just think of the rewards when your son marries and starts on those five babies for you to spoil. Mrs. Cow
April 6 at 11:28 EST .
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Surfhut I remember when the Calves were expecting Miss Charlotte and we had a "name the baby" thread on the Coffee Klatch. Sure would be fun to have another name the baby thread.
June 9 at 08:02 EST .
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