The Queen is dead. How ….
The Queen is dead. How will life go on without a queen? Saying King Charles just doesn’t have that official sounding ring as does Queen Elizabeth.
What really sounds strange is to think at the time she became queen, I was living at Camp Stoneman, California, getting ready to leave for Goose Bay, Labrador, where I would spend the summer of 1952.
It gets a bit hard to believe that at 96 she is able to get up in the mornings, get her hair done and dressed to go out and meet the public. I’m not nearly as old, and my hair, which I still have the most of, isn’t a big problem. But getting dressed in a suit and tie just doesn’t appeal to me. Just give me my blue jeans and I’m set for the day.
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Talk about getting dressed up, you should see this place. Lawns were mowed a day early so they will look just right for Sunday, the first day of the weeklong celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Clark County Rehab and Living Center. Do you think the men who laid the cornerstone which reads, “Dedicated to the Cause of Humanity”, had any idea the building would still be standing 100 years later and still following through on those words?
I’m thinking it should be mandatory for all newly elected County Board members, especially those assigned to committee responsibilities, to visit the institution and see the goals of those 100 years still being fulfilled.
There didn’t seem to be a thing that wasn’t done to make everything looki tiptop. Randy Cook was pretty busy with his little green tractor and trailer making sure things were right and he even brought Tami up a couple of days just to let her give everything that special “woman’s touch”.
I even did my part. I had a bad chip in my windshield and they came Friday to replace the whole windshield. They are talking rain showers tomorrow so I’ll even get to see how nice the wipers work on it.
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It was sad to read the obituary for Henry “Shorty” Aumann. I wonder how he ever picked “Shorty” up for a nickname? When I read the word “mesothelioma” I just knew something wasn’t right. I didn’t even need a dictionary, the computer had the answer.
When I read that a fund of $30 billion has been set aside, you know lots of people have been affected. And those people were just trying to help their neighbors and friends and people they worked for by adding insulation to their homes. Years ago a relative of Florence’s was found to have it. It was no big surprise, he was in the insulation business.
I wonder if Lois has a record of all the homes Shorty was involved with? I know my daughter Jackie told me it was 18 years ago when he built their house.
I called him the Cadillac of builders, but maybe that isn’t far enough.
Let’s just say he was truly a craftsman. There is one story I love to tell about him. We hadn’t been in business long and the TRG’s growth was stressing us out for places to work. So we brought in Shorty and explained what we needed. He did some measuring and understood what we needed and that was it. He went home and built the light tables and cupboard we wanted.
When he brought them in they fit like a glove, just like that’s where they were intended to go. The last piece was a large flat top cabinet we laid our printing sheets on to get a special coating before we “burned” the image of the negative of the newspaper page. There was a shelf below which held the new plates before we used them. Thinking security was best, Shorty had installed a brace just to make sure it was steady. Well, we had to take that brace out so we could slip the bundled 100 new plates just waiting for their turn. Just one very minor change in all the work done.
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I’m just not sure what’s with some of our Minnesota relatives. Florence has a nephew who used to go by the name of Charley or just plain Chuck. Jackie is up visiting them at Twin Falls right now and informed me this morning he is to be known as “King”.
Then his sister lives just out of Northfield in the town of Dundas who is what you call a huge “Viking” fan. This morning she had to bring up the game Sunday between the Packers and the Vikings. I simply told her it is like Donald said, “If we don’t win, there is fraud”.
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Thinking ahead I got to thinking, maybe I won’t have enough to write about to fill the space. So I looked up some special things that happened on Sept. 14th.
In 1901, President McKinley was shot. In 1935, the German Swastika was adopted for the German flag by Adolph Hilter in Nuremberg.
In 1951, Purdue University developed the seedless watermelon.
In 1959, the first manmade rocket hit the moon.
In 1966, the new minimum wage was $1.40 an hour.
In 1964, there was no World Series due to the baseball strike.
