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From Amazon
I ordered “The Flame Alphabet” by Ben Marcus.
Black Friday Special From Amazon
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and pause a moment to reflect on the blessings you’ve received. I hope you ask each around your table, “What are you thankful for?”
I am thankful for my health and my wife’s and our family’s health; for the love of my wife, Beverly, and Ralph the dog. I am thankful for my yellow bus job and the checks each month from social security. I am thankful for two great daughters and two great grandkids; that we all have a home that is warm and there is food enough for us all. I am thankful for over 23 years of sobriety. I am thankful for friends who put up with all my s–t and seem happy to have me around.
And We Are Back!
Thanks for bearing with me. I procrastinated about paying my web hosting bill to
and got cut off. Won’t happen again. Glad to be back up.
“Have No Truck With”
I said to my wife that I didn’t want to have any “truck” with those two. She said “Truck?”
Sometimes, I think these words I come up with up with are from the Okies or maybe the Ozarks, so I looked the phrase up:
have no truck with
Have no dealings with, as in The doctor said he wanted no truck with midwives. This term was first recorded in 1868, although truck in the sense of “dealings” dates from the early 1600s.
I guess the phrase has been around for awhile.
$7 Billion Spent On Halloween
Halloween has gotten to be big business. I’ve learned recently that Americans will spend at least $7 billion this year on costumes, candy, decorations and outdoor lighting. Yes, that’s right. Some homeowners are no longer content with the pumpkin on the porch or skeletons and black cats in the window. Now they are lighting their bushes and homes with orange lights. Here’s a picture I took from the Yellow Bus in Forest Heights.
Personally. I’m inclined toward nature’s displays of the season:
Francis W. Landfair R.I.P.
My Dad died last night about 4:00am from lung cancer that spread, they said, from his lungs to bone and brain. Saturday morning he was bright and cheerful, no real pain, but later that day he crashed and needed morphine regularly. He said he was dying. He was 90. We hoped we could celebrate one more birthday party on December 4th.
Pat, his regular barber on 42nd and Sandy, offered to come by the house and give him a haircut. I picked Pat up in my car. After Pat’s work, we joked that he had the looks of George Clooney and he would need a stick to keep the girls away. Dad bragged that his only son came over and read the 23rd Psalm to him just like he did to me when I was little.
1: The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2: He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3: He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
4: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5: Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
I’ll miss you, Pop!
From Amazon
I just added two of these books to my wish list!
