Nashville Grand Old Opera

Well, we have traveled south and ended up in Nashville, what a place, we have been here a few days and are enjoying the sights.

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Anna Mae and I on Stage at the Grand Old Opera at the Old Ryman Theater.

This is some of the many displays we looked at.

Howdy Partner!!!

My Nashville Sweetheart !

Operyland USA ! ! !

Looks like 2 Country Music Stars!!!

Back Stage at the Ryman!!

My Grand appearance on state where I sang and played "I saw the Light" !!

We had a wonderfultime in Nashville and this area but its time to head further South. Hope everyone is doing OK and getting ready for the Winter.

Never Forget, Remember the Vets !!!

Fall is here

Well, fall is coming to Northern New York, we are lucky as we are still staying up in the 70's for temps and some sunny days, we were supposed to get rain for the last 2 days but it didn't come, instead it was warm, shorts and t-shirt weather.
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We have been doing pretty good, Anna Mae had her tests, cat scans, CT scans and others and has had some medications changed, her back is not all that great but then again neither is mine, we make a good pair !
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Well I see by the TV ads we are gearing up for another election, I am so sick of Politicians, most of them either Democrat or Republican are full of crap and self centered!!
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Well it looks like winter is coming, this picture was taked several years ago, it was in February, it was just a MILD -24 BELOW ZERO, I had on my rabbitt fur cap, long johns, insulated flannel lined pants, insulated top, wool shirt, LL Bean Jacket and thermal heated gloves.
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This is a far cry from the Picture above, I have been going out and doing some Treasure Hunting, I check out areas where people were a long time ago, like old rural schools, churchs, play grounds and cemetaries, it's fun and you find all sorts of things.
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Jonathan was home from Portland for a nice visit, him and Anna Mae are standing in front of our Morning Glory which did really well this summer.
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This is the Morning Glory in bloom, in the afternoon when it is out of the sun the flowers close up.
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This is one of the nicer blooms from the Morning Glory, If it had a place to climb it would have made it to probalby 10 feet tall, they don't like you to too much outside here for some reason but I do have a corner to use and the garden was great this summer.
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While out and about we came across this fence post and cut off utility pole dressed up way out on some back road.
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The soft maples are shedding at a fast clip right now as you can see, this is our view from our living room.
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This is our Soldiers and Sailors Monument Park, this area is one of the prettiest in the Village of Carthage for color on the fall leaves.
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Glad everyone is doing OK, Glad to see Ken is Home, Janc and Sherry are Home, Johnny is OK and BRB is OK, Jimmy is still crooning in Florida and the others are all right.
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. Let us not forget our Servicemen and Women and Veterans, Past and Present.
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Another Season

Well, the Geese are starting to head south as we can hear them psaa overhead, the leaves are turning brown, yellow, red and fall to the ground, the days are3 getting shorter and we turn the page to a new season. We are supposed to have a FROST on thursday this week.
We just celebrated our 22nd Wedding Anniversary, this was on Sept. 2nd.
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I want to wish Jack and Sherry a happy 55th and understand they are going on a cruise. I got a new laptop fopr the traveling and wwas going thru some old photos to transfer, I put most of the ones from the old puter on Data Sticks so as not to take up so much room but there are some I like to look aqt now and then.
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The above picture is of my 60th Birthday taken with my Honey in Key West on my 60th Birthday.
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The above picture is of our close friends marty and Penny and one of our all day Euchre Games.
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In 1981 I was fishing the Chesapeke Bay and would have had a Record Sea Trout except while reeling it in something ate the back half off. Fish this size no longer exist in the bay as they were over fished.
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This is My Legionnaire of the Year Award from the American Legion.
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This is one of my favorites, my Northern Pike caught up in the Adirondack Mountains.
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This was one of my finer moments when I was given my "Sailor of the Month" at Naval Station New Orleans.
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In this picture I looked like a little Boy.
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This was one of my first Guitars I had, wish today I had it back, $$$$$$$ !
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Hard to believe but I really was a "Little Boy" !
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I was lucky to have this picture taken, it is a picture of me as a baby and my Mothers Mother, My Great Grandmother.

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Well I hope this will post, for some reason my posts to my blog do not go thru, after I hit publish they go and I cannot find them so somewhere there out there!!

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If you cxan read this hope your cruise is a Great One Jack and Sher.

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Keep up the Singing Jimmy, Take care everyone.

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Done forget our Veterans.

New Puter

Well it looks like the "Old Dell Dimension 4400" crapped out, have not been able to get to many sites, email or other places, I finally unhooked it after getting the dreaded "WHITE SCREEN" and then nothing but balckness, I have hooked up the Lap Top I bought for traveling amd will see if I cam get this to working, it is different but will see.

I could not even leave comments on posts soill see what is happening here.
wish me luck !!!

Still around

were getting lots and lots of rainy cold damp weather, then it turned HOT, really hot and dry, first the farmers could not get into the fields to plow and then they dried out enough so they could.

Anna Mae is stillgetting the i njections in her lower back for pain relief and has had 6 shots on each side of her lower spine, that was 2 weeks ageo, she just had another set of 6 shots injected into the spine with some relief, she goes in 2 weeks and this time they will inject a material *(Liquid) that is 80 degrees warm, it will coat the areas where the pain originates, (Hopefully). I know the shots hurt her and they are black and blue because I see them when I take off the Banfages!

We are going camp[ing!!!! We have always had a place on Lake Bonaparte, we were there for 25 years and we are eager to get back into some camping so we dug out the tent and gear, heading out monday for 3 days in the woods.

I have started back playing the guitar and trying to pick back up on the Banjo, I am still having some trouble after the stroke with co-ordination but the guys I played with tonight didn't have a prob;lem with me not being able to finish some songs because I either got too tired or a little conmfused.

It was a great night, we played up in Philadelphia at the methodist church for a group tonight and it was well received.

Please keep our Service men and women in your prayers.

Glad to see the "SHIPS LOG" back out on the road, and also Jimmy;s "AREA 51" is very busy also.

Is spring coming,

I hope spring is coming, we still have mised our weekly fishing trip for 2 weeks now and hope we get going on this, Well, we hadf a nice day today, it was warm and sunny, got up into the 60's so we went outside and worked in a little corner of the building weeding, digging and re-planting the Iris and the Hens and Chickens and believe me they were root bound. . . . . My Honey, Anna Mae re-planted what we dug up, they don't do much here for delicate work but we were lucky and had permission to work in this area. . . .

Hope this sign is not going to prove to be true !

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Well, hope everyone is anxious for spring, bet Jack and Sher are glad their back in warmer climate.

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.Jimmy can send me up some of that Florida heat he is getting now, but can not complain, Okeechobee is nice and I found the local Coffee Bar where all the badges and hired guns hang out !!!

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DONT FORGET OUR VETERANS !

COLD Spring

I am sick of waiting for the Ice to go out so I had Anna Mae get a picture of me, I am cutting out a strip in the creek where I can drop a line and hopefully catch a trout, I have lost some weight since getting home as it is a struggle in the cold ! . . . This picture below is just before we left Florida taken over at Post St. Lucie, I don't think anyone noticed that I forgot my trunks and went in with my Tidy-Whiteys on ! . .

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Well, April in going to be busy catching up on Doctors appointments, dentist, and ENT, hopefully will start getting warm soon !

COME ON SPRING !!! . Let keep our service men and women in our prayers, now that we are involved in another conflict with a nut job !!!

We are home !!!

We are home from Florida, It was nice all winter, BUT we are back to the Frozen Tundra's of the North Country !

ON THE ROAD

WE ARE ON THE ROAD !

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Sunday Morning at 5AM we are on our way to Florida!

Still Alive

Well, It has been a rough December, I went into the Hospital on December 3rd for heavy anti biotics for my Diverticulitis. While there my Honey Anna Mae went into Watertown and had her first shot into the spine for pain relief.
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Then on December 7th I was rushed by Ambulance to Crouse Hospital in Syracuse for emergency surgery, the day was windy, snowing and Interstate 81 was 1 lane traffic, the normal 1 1/2 hour ride took almost 2 hours. The roads were so bad my wife had to stay in Carthage and drive down the next day.
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They had to thicken my blood so I was taken off blood thinners for a couple days then I was prepped, and my surgery took place at 10 PM on December 9th. Surgery took 2 1/2 hours, I was in recovery for 2 hours and back in my room at 3AM and was I ever in PAIN.
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They removed over a foot of my large colon and reconnected it, I spent some time in bed hoooked to a cathater and finally was let up still in agony but unhooked and started to try to walk which was a trip!!!
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Released from Hospital, made it home, lots of bed rest, sore and tired. Take short walks inside in the Halls, doing better, Hope everyone is having a great Christmas Holiday.