Can you believe I sat ….
Can you believe I sat outside the other day when it was 90 degrees?
Actually it wasn’t that bad as I stayed in the shade and there was a breeze.
Got to get at my suntan somehow. Today was a little more pleasant. Hope I can keep up my habit of getting out and getting some fresh air.
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The stranger I wrote about last week is no stranger anymore. It turns out to be Randy Cook. It’s hard to believe so many years have gone by and now he claims to be retired from working 40 years at Northside Elevator. I guess the grind at the mill hasn’t been too hard on him. Maybe Tami might have had a hand in keeping him looking so good.
After he left and went to work, at what he calls part time, he and his Northside shirt and John Deere lawn tractor made a pretty nice scene as he went around picking up twigs and branches that had fallen off some of the trees during the night.
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I’d been getting a bit impatient with the trees and shrubs not getting any sign of leaves yet. I made another trip to Loyal last week and was pleasantly surprised the minute I got over the overpass and headed south on Cardinal Avenue and May flowers and what I call marsh marigolds were in full bloom in the ditch and along the roadside.
Some of the farm fields look planted, but I’ll have to wait until summer to see what comes up. When I was a kid it was generally oats and corn, but today some of the crops have got me confused. Maybe I need to take some ag classes and try to keep up with the times.
It is only a bit over 17 miles up here from Loyal, but for some reason I had recorded 58 miles on the odometer. Well, it is just natural I had to drive out by Roehl’s Acres to see if there is any sign of Farm Technology Days coming. Not yet, but in less than two months it will have come and gone by now.
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Today was a special day here at the Rehab and Living Center. It was Friday and years ago when Florence was here it was enjoyable every Friday to have some live music which is attended by many of the residents, many of whom couldn’t or can’t care for themselves. I think a couple of weeks ago was the first time and today there was a special entertainer. It was Red Higgins and his wife Lisa Marie. His home is northwest of Medford, but he spends a lot of time in Nashville.
They were certainly the crowd pleasers. He was a bit late getting set up and didn’t cheat on his assigned hour of playing, but even went beyond that. I need to point out, I currently live in the Rehab section, but the majority of those in attendance aren’t here for rehab. It is such a blessing to know we have a place in Clark County that can and will care for them.
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I don’t know if this really came from Danny Meyer or not, but his name was on Facebook, so he will get the credit.
Doctors have just identified a good food that can cause grief and suffering years after it is eaten. It is called “Wedding Cake”.
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Last week I had told you about the two books I had read or were reading. One was about World War II stories written by Tom Brokaw. The other was about Dick Bong, the war ace who had shot down 40 Japanese planes. He was brought back from the Pacific because they thought it was too dangerous for him to stay there.
Then he was assigned to test flight a new jet fighter plane being built by Lockheed. He was killed just before World War II ended when the F-80 jet he was testing crashed when he was going to take it on another test flight.
Bong was from the small community of Poplar, which is just south of Superior. Sad as it may seem there was not enough money raised to build a permanent place for a P-38, the plane Bong flew to be displayed for the public to see and commemorate the sacrifice he made for his country.
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I’m still in the book reading business and next out of the box was one called, “What A Year It Was, 1948. I don’t know if I bought it, or got it as a gift. Anyway, 1948 was the year I graduated from high school and it is quite interesting to read what the news was that year. Harry Truman pulled a big upset by defeating Tom Dewey for President. It was also the year the Southern Democrats formed what was called “Dixiecrats” in opposition to Truman’s Civil Rights movement.
Two new senators were elected to Congress. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Lyndon Johnson of Texas.
Probably one of the big stories of 1948 was the announcement of a thirty million dollar event called the March of Dimes to fight infantile paralysis.
President Truman ordered the draft to continue but ordered the military to begin integration. I would see this firsthand three years later when I was drafted.
The United Nations General Assembly met for the first time at Flushing Meadow, New York.
Studebaker and Hudson captured 18 percent of the domestic auto market.
The McDonald brothers opened a new hamburger stand in San Bernardino, California, selling 15-cent hamburgers.
And like I said, I graduated from high school and the world hasn’t been the same since!
