tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15736166725140521592024-03-14T07:16:26.964-06:00GRAND LIFEFamily HappeningsGrand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.comBlogger284125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-37498698207903114752012-03-20T19:50:00.004-06:002012-03-20T20:21:36.363-06:00RICHARD C. DASTRUP ******* I HOPE YOU RECEIVED THIS LETTER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/q0SzglcQigc?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">Date: 2 years ago ?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Dear Mr. Dastrup:</div><div class="MsoNormal">If you are “the Mr. Dastrup” that taught choir at Orem High School in Utah in the late 50’s and early 60’s then you are the one I’m looking for. If not, please disregard this strange letter.<br />
I had two teachers that made a very positive impact on my school years and you were one of them. The other was a grade school teacher who passed away before I could express my thanks to her. O.K. she lived into her 90’s so I guess I have to accept all the responsibility for not thanking her. You can’t wait around forever to be thanked. Anyway, I thought I would give it a shot to see if I could find you and thank you for being such a good teacher. <br />
There isn’t a Christmas that goes by that I don’t find myself singing along to “The Messiah” on the radio, a CD, or in church. My husband was actually very impressed to discover that I knew the entire “Messiah” as well as “Requiem” which as I recall we would sing at Easter. You first admitted me to choir in the 10<sup>th</sup> and 11<sup>th</sup> grade and then allowed me to be in Acapella Choir my senior year. This was a real feather in my cap during high school because you were known to be very discriminating O.k. I also made Tigerettes my senior year but I think I was a “mercy” vote-in because I had tried out for cheerleader 5 times (varsity and junior varsity) and never made it. Anyway—loved to sing and being in Acapella and Choir allowed me to do this loudly with quality people. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Many years later as a young mother I joined the Women’s Choir in my church. You can imagine my surprise when the leader of the choir informed me that “I couldn’t carry a tune” and it might be best if I sat in the audience. This was the first time I had been told I couldn’t sing. And you know what, I think she was right. I truly believe I’m tone deaf. In fact, I’m amazed at how badly I sing. </div><div class="MsoNormal">I can only assume that you in your generous and kind way saw a young girl that wanted to sing and had no talent and so you put strong people on either side of me and let me sing as loud as I wanted. For this I will be eternally grateful. I had the great fortune to marry well and not only is he handsome but he has a great voice. You guessed it---he won’t join a choir, or sing in public. Says he can’t read music and I tell him “neither could Frank Sinatra”. I also tell him that in his next life I’m going to have the beautiful voice and he will be tone deaf because he didn’t use it in this life. </div><div class="MsoNormal">So to close, thank you for fostering a love of music and singing that might never have bloomed if you hadn’t been so generous. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-70552241755798554142012-01-10T17:41:00.000-07:002012-01-10T17:41:24.585-07:002ND IN A SERIES OF TEASERS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's late, the water's cold and I'm old---lucky the hot tub pool is up and running.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-26775790499369299312011-10-14T19:32:00.001-06:002011-10-14T19:56:34.158-06:00WHOOP'S <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I used the phrase to a Dr. today and he said "I've never heard that phrase before". How do you get through college and X number of years in medical school</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">and not know Shakespeare. Whoops, its first quoted in Paul in his letters to the Corinthians. Keep in mind, I didn't go to college</span>.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-81992395727493325492011-09-10T18:25:00.001-06:002011-09-10T18:25:58.781-06:00TOMBSTONE TALES 2011<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandson of Ted James Sr. of the Grand Lake Lodge </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patience Kemp grew up in Grand Lake. Thanks to her we have the Historical Society.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful fence around family plot.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dave is so cool and it's so fun to hear him tell historical stories.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Judge Wescott-- 1st white man to spend a winter in Grand Lake. This grave<br />
was probably moved 2-3 times so lets hope he's really here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portraying Mrs. Pettingill. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our wonderful neighbors when we bought our property. Still have furniture that they gave us.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">P.G. Smith. Father of Gracie Eslick of Eslick Cottages</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what I'll have to do since Dad won't bury me here because "it;s too cold".</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matilda was old enough someone should have known her last name.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-19652040911853278002011-07-25T20:18:00.000-06:002011-07-25T20:18:26.093-06:00OTTER POPS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzkXkBQzmIgwMa6AG5KPS9W9btwJFhksMde9egCuN27-J5lC0GvGNmkikMhI1KLThC_nPzf1Cg01_Q7SdQSN4wcPqkiCdoh0LD5DFXjyjxCrxJooAK8dJOC-Vhh3OSNeV6bT4LsDMqrt1/s1600/a-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzkXkBQzmIgwMa6AG5KPS9W9btwJFhksMde9egCuN27-J5lC0GvGNmkikMhI1KLThC_nPzf1Cg01_Q7SdQSN4wcPqkiCdoh0LD5DFXjyjxCrxJooAK8dJOC-Vhh3OSNeV6bT4LsDMqrt1/s320/a-1.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="blsp-spelling-error">Everything's</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">go'in</span> to be just fine. Found a Whole Food's Market.</div><br />
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Finally made it to the <a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/">"New Museum</a>" </div><br />
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<div align="center">on the Bowery.<br />
It's kinda like the Guggenheim only taller,</div><br />
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<div align="center">and downtown-----but.......<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601197976932832562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrC-FIEIWmE35hngdpZOb8Vcgbf2rgODj8eeFFwAE7edRt2VS2DPvu8UbDOUOVMBOYqJIP_K2j21B-KkjM-9TN6G-mHAUj70vWOZ3DOBvmqFOS78_P7V4arZ-WnL4-YYhHN5734fCTDo9t/s400/ny11.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 310px;" /><br />
if you donate enough money they let you </div><br />
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<div align="center">paint the elevators any color you want.</div><br />
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<a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601198402632665426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLmqC4vWUctNaUcU2PjPcz0b1nxeNe2Oo3E0FVfi3bTWvVuzgnICByOFuCZl_E6PMPEwUhOfffBtK5k8ngRJTqzEPKPfhul0aRZmtjY1vDE4YOZpqEFRn1q_j3dH0XpxHAWiHcktNdEfs1/s400/ny+9+benglis.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 125px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 160px;" /></a>These are huge and take up a whole wall in a dark room.</div><br />
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions">Current Exhibits</a></div><br />
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This is huge and multi-layered. I said to the guard "my grandson made one of those</div><br />
<div align="center">with 4 cans of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">playdoh</span> the other day". Very seriously he said "How long did it take him".<br />
I replied "20 minutes, he's 3". He stroked his beard, looked at the floor and didn't say a word. It was then that I knew he spoke limited <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">English</span> or had a really bad </div><br />
<div align="center">sense of humor. Or maybe not???</div><br />
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601198794237050466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4desevaDfkLpSrAfK9AFi3DV9Ljdrf2rga1iR61jW0k86D6dTP2K4iY1uEckzZ-ALKb04rI-Pqloni3GSz-KcYau7LIkuAVaoApnlxvI3IF9kLLAvxsFjxmAQQTBOQIvzjUhAb9vcXd5/s400/ny+benglis.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 196px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 160px;" /><br />
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But I did love this painting. It is huge, about the size of our living room windows.<br />
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At Last---a Graffiti artist with a sense of humor<br />
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Now this is truly <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">scary</span>. We didn't just run onto this place---we</div><br />
<div>actually went looking for it. I had read a piece in the Times about<br />
it and thought Dad might enjoy it.</div><br />
<div></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601196593475016466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQW3D32dp1x2YF4YmrWZYsV0r6rYBEy2KvR2GB_V6H5U67bFisRrCaJBpe4WGT3O_FR3VrJj57hxd0t-k5kI97SGpc7YwFozo6x8Vk6F3IwGBK-L4Gmth-fabXbxnYpvIips6zXMMllIb7/s400/ny16.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /> This is the guy who guards the door when Billy won't be back<br />
for an hour. "No, you can't go in" but we still came too close<br />
to trying to bring a large "Dr. Pepper" tin sign<br />
home with us.<br />
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<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYu3w9OSVz5ZznMGTsYPQGnXxLNYHQcVE_7r7v8_HnwuXYCNWXCXW39z6OFX7k25xUp_JZAqj3AE3YgD0jVzWaxgQcXDKknKiM_thzoAj7r2s2d5lnED5fL7wK6K7zwIQ_rgbs-wNrrBBj/s1600/ny15.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601196798639872546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYu3w9OSVz5ZznMGTsYPQGnXxLNYHQcVE_7r7v8_HnwuXYCNWXCXW39z6OFX7k25xUp_JZAqj3AE3YgD0jVzWaxgQcXDKknKiM_thzoAj7r2s2d5lnED5fL7wK6K7zwIQ_rgbs-wNrrBBj/s400/ny15.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a>No Idea What This Is Suppose To Be........<br />
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601197145938581378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzdM1OsiiaUpZKlFtlBO53ytQdnrjFXxSVIo2QfE90k7y6HkaHf_xG-I4JueXyqPWV0uHKrL3ST6o_d3z13gAjapZa-DVMCkTd78AAl-5zrLAD42UZR84-lyfYqfxywgtlgq7DCdHvmRaF/s400/ny18.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /> If This Steamer Trunk Could Talk...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCvMFHEZ0lBgzOlsSXPvdoQiSrqz_776DXw72OtP6RnIs64kPvKW8NiO7dCzcllsAqPP-f1N7f2UCw3RmvgnU8zzi4SkxVydn8793GNFt4DvYDWzqwZJQLFxpxv1pHiT4XogCysLflVVpV/s1600/ny17.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601196328149451010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCvMFHEZ0lBgzOlsSXPvdoQiSrqz_776DXw72OtP6RnIs64kPvKW8NiO7dCzcllsAqPP-f1N7f2UCw3RmvgnU8zzi4SkxVydn8793GNFt4DvYDWzqwZJQLFxpxv1pHiT4XogCysLflVVpV/s400/ny17.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>This on the other hand---It's bad enough that the dog is stuffed</div><br />
<div>but it has blood on it's mouth, dripping from it's tongue and<br />
on it's paw. It's just gross.<br />
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<div>Notice how I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">segway</span> right into something more pleasant.</div><br />
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<div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601195811769831682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrcy1W6xNXc_z_YT19i0GjhzZZ_WujlZASvfoQk3XbcEz2Yrc1Zd86vGF4bbG8WIZrSgRN_qoqCAaKSqBckwjuXO1ev0OBwoJAlFaUzRFD193_dZaWZ_Fzvf0WyyF53mIpC4c3fRyPEu0Q/s400/ny22.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><a href="http://www.boweryboogie.com/2010/07/hua-mei-bird-garden-in-sara-d-roosevelt-park-video/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Hua</span> Mei Bird Garden</a><br />
<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601195621202697730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZlLbP3VxDzQ3XSPeEUdWh1epjXaMsmXv-QoGdUjDgeAlNmQJunAXBAUhxwaE5y8_IHJ7Ni0frtOxYC5S6uo12hZTwexUqt_GkHilKqa9Ml0gOW9d04ILH9Cp9cs3Bh3ajQU7tIDQvF9ki/s400/ny23.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><br />
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Dad picked this dress out for my 16 year old brain.<br />
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601194595461775778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNrT9qwuNJhyS5khKR8SAjBBQMil7NnegHKR_sC2QteLjQLhC0YbsAYUf-5O7fqczkAUgxo58YQ-eW_XIMjPRpTTXWoFn1x7Hlc0mFM4hE8msNQvMO8gB30irYU4KCFLKzeeFoNis3nDW5/s400/ny-3.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /><br />
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Two cute Elders in Sara Roosevelt Park. One from Carlsbad, Calif and</div><br />
<div>the other from Mexico. It was the one from Carlsbad that was complaining<br />
he couldn't find good Mexican Food in New York. We directed him to<br />
Tortilla Flats on West 12<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">th</span> Street. I wish he'd been more impressed than</div><br />
<div>he seemed to be</div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601194352538358722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibCLuxjKhyphenhyphen0a5IUq9oFKRPINE9_CukEsA_5CTm9M0nExDHhq-MckUPQHblbTBaXlfBh7I0TIkmYMyBM-ncmBeON9E-FbxmjYKgR2kedcmqPryzL5TYQM6LwteIO6F9TyegppmBx7gl7DPz/s400/ny24.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></div></div></div></div></div></div>New Blog is: <a href="http://roseytosey43.blogspot.com/">http://roseytosey43.blogspot.com/</a></div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-64016628798553459562011-04-29T19:26:00.016-06:002011-04-29T20:11:12.551-06:00NEW YORK CITY DAY 1 PART 1 2011<div align="center">Evidently Google objects to 70 + photo's in one posting so this is our</div><br /><div align="center">first day, no order to anything but over 11,000 steps in a little </div><br /><div align="center">over 4 hours. So much for taking it easy on this trip.</div><br /><br /><div align="center">Liz Christy's Memorial Garden<br />It's great but locked up tight. They must work<br />on it on weekends.</div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmq8K1DiOroVDONRscoWu2jOVvMDLxOl_7zXlnpT06hhSMP0M_ndIpWYBTa_wcwN6rCoBZimo6jGNlpWmkTBNTFaE_UKZHWt6RKjrqdFcwyXrlyp2Hs3_PEhUA_xlPvMOo9dC4QowjXuhf/s1600/ny-20.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601187090527269282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmq8K1DiOroVDONRscoWu2jOVvMDLxOl_7zXlnpT06hhSMP0M_ndIpWYBTa_wcwN6rCoBZimo6jGNlpWmkTBNTFaE_UKZHWt6RKjrqdFcwyXrlyp2Hs3_PEhUA_xlPvMOo9dC4QowjXuhf/s400/ny-20.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Found my Kitchen Aid but it doesn't come in Yellow-- </div><br /><div align="center">If they don't have one of these in the "Book of Mormon" play</div><br /><div align="center">they missed a good one.<br /></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfv9U8zmevNClIlOyO_9oDx66EgpD8160crTQLn5Iq24cPTYe8HhzzKCNc81A6_2OTeh1ZKX9UxYvRZbfJc-jbURBtslTIEVzid1nWIff5HFkSxdyalDXMiRAjTl0r_tQFvPg4HA-ZP6F5/s1600/ny-14.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601186585222047682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfv9U8zmevNClIlOyO_9oDx66EgpD8160crTQLn5Iq24cPTYe8HhzzKCNc81A6_2OTeh1ZKX9UxYvRZbfJc-jbURBtslTIEVzid1nWIff5HFkSxdyalDXMiRAjTl0r_tQFvPg4HA-ZP6F5/s400/ny-14.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />We're sure we witness'd our first "large" drug deal in this doorway.</div><br /><div align="center">Man yanks open door and man standing outside hands him a</div><br /><div align="center">wad of rolled up bills about the size of a pint bottle. Man outside</div><br /><div align="center">is yanked inside and door slams. All this as we are walking past </div><br /><div align="center">on the sidewalk.</div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmvp-PuhcOsAUY8SR275BVsWBt0OQ6rXERQOhrQo5kFcZQDRKIE-TOtlMs3HW6mCQNvh9jh-joIZflYlKLBAcrS0yOSFlXfakbLT-CXbsWJHGztus2FqJCMO2BVsSpQm9I75PL7Msb-AAF/s1600/ny-21.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601186233024029282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmvp-PuhcOsAUY8SR275BVsWBt0OQ6rXERQOhrQo5kFcZQDRKIE-TOtlMs3HW6mCQNvh9jh-joIZflYlKLBAcrS0yOSFlXfakbLT-CXbsWJHGztus2FqJCMO2BVsSpQm9I75PL7Msb-AAF/s400/ny-21.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Look who has their name on the Star's trailer on a movie shoot.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnZSOuEEfssaUVWAnpDfv29SVcSi2jT5o56rjvpg0o58ObfCyge6aOUW0RjjnRLPLw7mnw_qmzcXjmvxRNkCA8zwDfh48zRmyR7GkDTk9iSBzVQaVJewJ-Js2mhEo9NdZEJwaJ8mwhBF-O/s1600/ny-28.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601185927308683842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 273px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnZSOuEEfssaUVWAnpDfv29SVcSi2jT5o56rjvpg0o58ObfCyge6aOUW0RjjnRLPLw7mnw_qmzcXjmvxRNkCA8zwDfh48zRmyR7GkDTk9iSBzVQaVJewJ-Js2mhEo9NdZEJwaJ8mwhBF-O/s400/ny-28.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Any time you see alot of trailers lining the side of a street,<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRTIuwu4eaLBRZWE0cVjWs-tVS2_5vJCyz2p47BO3rmOT49XYYV68MhBd7Of8p7twKAojiS0l-DiT_tqYEsGTEmKr7GWCz-useUzyvB96jPdlokW744UKiLc8jkn9oNoinJv-en9DbHkD/s1600/ny30.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601184391786360962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRTIuwu4eaLBRZWE0cVjWs-tVS2_5vJCyz2p47BO3rmOT49XYYV68MhBd7Of8p7twKAojiS0l-DiT_tqYEsGTEmKr7GWCz-useUzyvB96jPdlokW744UKiLc8jkn9oNoinJv-en9DbHkD/s400/ny30.jpg" border="0" /></a> a catering truck with expensive goodies laid out, about 50 men</div><br /><div>standing around doing nothing, and miles of electric cable </div><br /><div>you can be sure you have stumbled upon the filming of a</div><br /><div>"movie" or "t.v." show. This is a pilot of a new t.v. show</div><br /><div>called "Girls". The story of a bunch of young girls </div><br /><div>making their way in New York City. What a novel idea,<br />can't imagine why no one has thought of that before????<br /></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqf292R-fP1KfA6qEYeKhqS4p-h2eIP3lMiSbzhhC1H2cezEn1dZcnNw96g_TRBkCS3p8j71DnK8qFRJA1VoHArHh4LkG4vvajf-Pn1N92DTg6u1OEr47ZA7stVcOKiA16FmqKPfXoeGA_/s1600/ny31.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601184095244135858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqf292R-fP1KfA6qEYeKhqS4p-h2eIP3lMiSbzhhC1H2cezEn1dZcnNw96g_TRBkCS3p8j71DnK8qFRJA1VoHArHh4LkG4vvajf-Pn1N92DTg6u1OEr47ZA7stVcOKiA16FmqKPfXoeGA_/s400/ny31.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Old Marble Cementery<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNASnm-UjhJcdZ75gGWAIY_xgues9ZzmTXF73Vo_bz8Ztr8TVlTmgoGXtHVC5RinrBZQddkbjwI6RAjOk3gb2vgyt7s_YjL-H-E9MWbiIrGL89PLCVZZ1KfW56ZG8Di4BgSZQO2Ft5sNh/s1600/ny36.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601183676406675474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNASnm-UjhJcdZ75gGWAIY_xgues9ZzmTXF73Vo_bz8Ztr8TVlTmgoGXtHVC5RinrBZQddkbjwI6RAjOk3gb2vgyt7s_YjL-H-E9MWbiIrGL89PLCVZZ1KfW56ZG8Di4BgSZQO2Ft5sNh/s400/ny36.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />There are two of them a block apart.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5igTZ8wAApjMqYaW_OmR8JpONZZqyE43AGnIi9yhk2KysPp4GiTyxk7oTcuwAIagKSucMqOEDt_swWWYKw5WdgnP36DtNd1Qiggbv8j4njl37r1t6fLtWj3S-eNV8eo6EcmBmFKSl0x7n/s1600/ny39.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601183196860194994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5igTZ8wAApjMqYaW_OmR8JpONZZqyE43AGnIi9yhk2KysPp4GiTyxk7oTcuwAIagKSucMqOEDt_swWWYKw5WdgnP36DtNd1Qiggbv8j4njl37r1t6fLtWj3S-eNV8eo6EcmBmFKSl0x7n/s400/ny39.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Cute family out walking their paper mache' snowman.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-fBm09Q8Gab48IP3fQmCf5CVLKXx70-hvJ1LDfilGqwvsCfEsq3223zlA9XDqbYhBnsatTgWKiVmIOqqTXTBa6TZ98OAXCuIN4LkGb4jN_3EMstfk3jT21hrYSWCzrS3yq1lOFaC10ZNu/s1600/ny41.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601182915691642994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 314px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-fBm09Q8Gab48IP3fQmCf5CVLKXx70-hvJ1LDfilGqwvsCfEsq3223zlA9XDqbYhBnsatTgWKiVmIOqqTXTBa6TZ98OAXCuIN4LkGb4jN_3EMstfk3jT21hrYSWCzrS3yq1lOFaC10ZNu/s400/ny41.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Cooper Union Building--- Part of NYU.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipo5f-GTeZN7l3youYpLEIw00X-DAQyaq55Qnb5z64hboWcctjdWKUDfjrh93xsXtBVIaW4e_RWZY0DOiSesQdUqaLphFrmigGqzngUuyTe0NMB2UdNIyyd3vU9Rb5aMHpUDzXkWGmqRv9/s1600/ny45.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601182624735560610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 243px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipo5f-GTeZN7l3youYpLEIw00X-DAQyaq55Qnb5z64hboWcctjdWKUDfjrh93xsXtBVIaW4e_RWZY0DOiSesQdUqaLphFrmigGqzngUuyTe0NMB2UdNIyyd3vU9Rb5aMHpUDzXkWGmqRv9/s400/ny45.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Brunch---We shared and Dad ate most of the fries.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkSLekD9562QjlpI0FFuT2bpDjjDTLBgZ488tQaq8AS3_e8EWUgllamkjy0z3LX0PJig5lG6j-lVg0cTKp0QovnhQXJ2DDYROphwAyuqOl5sbwAjwQkWR89R_omP-e4UROCEuryajMMv5/s1600/ny46.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601182346947052034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkSLekD9562QjlpI0FFuT2bpDjjDTLBgZ488tQaq8AS3_e8EWUgllamkjy0z3LX0PJig5lG6j-lVg0cTKp0QovnhQXJ2DDYROphwAyuqOl5sbwAjwQkWR89R_omP-e4UROCEuryajMMv5/s400/ny46.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I call this "New York Tile". If you see it you know where you are.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVXX1l_Kid_LLqTMu2ALqxZAnNchYmnNTaIwtY0LzzpK4P1QPxkFB2G1mmZeGd0x0B-lx02oOQUq_iO9twiDhEY7GrADU1KkIKppmBcvd9E09uxQ6D0Js3SlwuM4OJZYEuaP9l_eLGd1Zd/s1600/ny47.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601182143653288194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 281px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVXX1l_Kid_LLqTMu2ALqxZAnNchYmnNTaIwtY0LzzpK4P1QPxkFB2G1mmZeGd0x0B-lx02oOQUq_iO9twiDhEY7GrADU1KkIKppmBcvd9E09uxQ6D0Js3SlwuM4OJZYEuaP9l_eLGd1Zd/s400/ny47.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /></div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-53662178316050562392011-04-17T19:47:00.003-06:002011-04-18T21:50:35.522-06:00ITS IN THE JEANS<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilerE7L562fqKkNTiDcDUKU4LENw_pyAl1BGEHVmFF4HYI8UPhd_SqggMZMGYEaWa6L8-EElkrW2UYsvAcX1VQCmOEc2jBgageyb1rOTnwQrdE0cY4ENErPbpe9hJuzapgOU73LiJ14_6W/s1600/jeans+blog+2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596763229067788642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 99px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 132px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilerE7L562fqKkNTiDcDUKU4LENw_pyAl1BGEHVmFF4HYI8UPhd_SqggMZMGYEaWa6L8-EElkrW2UYsvAcX1VQCmOEc2jBgageyb1rOTnwQrdE0cY4ENErPbpe9hJuzapgOU73LiJ14_6W/s400/jeans+blog+2.jpg" border="0" /></a>O.K.-- it's been 9 month and 40 pounds and my daughter 's are right!<br /><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><div align="center">It's time to shop for new jeans.</div><br /><br /><div align="center">Hate to shop. </div><br /><br /><div align="center">Wight House Shop having sale-- try on size 10 ---They Fit!!! Holy Cow-- </div><br /><br /><div align="center">look at price $100.00 -- </div><br /><br /><div align="center">are they out of their mind. </div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div align="center">Nobody pays $100. for a pair of jeans. Go to major Thrift Store and buy 5 pairs of jeans at $5 -$6 a piece. Good buy, but they don't look like the one at the Wight House. All the time I'm thinking how cool it would be if I could</div><br /><br /><div align="center">get into a brand that one of my daughters used to wear. </div><br /><br /><div align="center">One daughter had a thing for Girbaud, another had a pair </div><br /><br /><div align="center">of Lucky Jeans.</div><br /><br /><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596740839160921346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhBdJtXrao18A79D0m113Y31Uqx7WS1ymO5_so9GSrflZnmQrLtHB3mA8RteyehNYGrVdmf7iEYBt4UsFW_mMxNXR3yH8WFtjb-OUNxFCN4J0ShTDdRPCpO7h05QmLfsFu-i_jr5KOtmKF/s400/jeans-2.jpg" border="0" /></div><br /><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><br /><div align="center">Neither seemed exactly up my alley. Go back to Wight House and hand over the American Express for a</div><br /><br /><div align="center">great pair of expensive jeans and then I look at the tag------</div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596742422112535554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2V7uC_zMwMjeE6LOPp2YWo3w3WMw8YdaCrpvEoay1klSq9tp9vWNc15PqjA8GWm6mULhdp6H495jpGOLuLPxUnbLi7YnS2kfWGF_I3W4F2iW0ZT-yjtuRVQcZkjS-wUIBGqAxpfLVWrN/s400/blog-jeans.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div align="center"></div></div><br /></div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-39220649935772981652011-04-08T15:49:00.003-06:002011-04-08T15:55:49.942-06:00GETTING READY FOR 1ST NEW YORK TRIP OF THE YEAR<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUnPR9Higi1KG2ACyoXwKo0K21QGOKoq3vj6OfxvgKwGSpwE5WPjciBTuz7uFqS6f9e_PjmZl8p3S0_r6TKhXYHP1d0A9FNdeWUegZdQ3MUT1prQqvBlRDnXsNzolVk1D1vfCgesy_s8iI/s1600/CHOCOLATE+EGG+CREAM.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593333550979455698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 175px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUnPR9Higi1KG2ACyoXwKo0K21QGOKoq3vj6OfxvgKwGSpwE5WPjciBTuz7uFqS6f9e_PjmZl8p3S0_r6TKhXYHP1d0A9FNdeWUegZdQ3MUT1prQqvBlRDnXsNzolVk1D1vfCgesy_s8iI/s400/CHOCOLATE+EGG+CREAM.bmp" border="0" /></a>Making Egg Creams for 111 Years, Even on Passover </div><br /><div align="center">By Barry Joseph</div><br /><div align="center"><a title="Courtesy of H. Fox and Company" href="http://forward.com/workspace/assets/images/articles/fox-4711.jpg" rel="blog-lightbox" jquery1302299480177="2"></a>Courtesy of H. Fox and Company</div><br /><div align="center">David Fox has a problem with his rabbi. I sit across from David, at his office desk, in the family factory <a href="http://www.foxs-syrups.com/">H. Fox and Company</a>, deep in Brooklyn. David’s family founded the company and for the past century it has manufacturing a wide variety of flavored syrups. Today, however, I am only interested in one, Fox’s U-Bet chocolate syrup, which is widely regarded as the essential ingredient for the classic egg cream, once described by Mel Brooks as “the opposite of circumcision” as it “pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.” It is only Hanukkah, but the time has come once again, as it has for more than a hundred years, to ready his plant to produce the Passover batch. Fox’s U-Bet is used all around the world, and year-long; Passover is no exception. Kashering the syrup for Passover is no small task. First the ingredients need to change. Only real sugar will do for replacing the corn syrup, producing something a bit sweeter while maintaining the smooth, round taste that distinguishes the syrup from other brands. But sugar is expensive. “Yet we don’t charge more.” Why not? “We are the only chocolate syrup that I know of that’s kosher for Passover,” he explains. “We just don’t think it’s the right thing to do.” Next, the vessels need to be kashered, the whole processing line from beginning to end. Everything is sanitized, sterilized, and boiled up. It takes an entire day to prepare, a lost day of production. The 36,000 square foot factory, once up and running, will produce 2,000 crates on a good day, each containing a dozen bottles. And of course, you need a rabbi to oversee it all. Fox’s rabbi has been with the company for 45 years. “He’s not in the OU,” David explains, referring to the Orthodox Union, one of the largest and oldest kosher certifying agencies in the country. “But he is extraordinarily versed.” Fox’s rabbi, however, is not the problem. It’s everyone else, he says. It’s a society whose values are different from the world in which U-Bet was first born. H. Fox and Company was founded in 1900, by David’s grandfather, cooking syrup over an open flame in his tenement house in Brownsville. But he was more than a syrup entrepreneur. He was also a gambler. One day he traveled to Texas with an eye on an oil well investment. The well was dry. While he failed to pick up a fortune, he picked up the phrase: you bet it’s good! Originally the label read ‘Fox’s U-Bet It’s Good.’ Over the years it became simply Fox’s U-Bet. The syrup has been touted by Jerry Lewis, Rob Reiner, and even Mel Brooks in the pages of Playboy, amongst others. The rest is history. David is approaching his 69th birthday, running one of the two or three syrup companies left in the New York metropolitan region. His son, Kelly, has since joined the business. But when David first worked professionally within the company, there were three to four dozen competitors down the block, it was a different time, when the rabbi’s word was all that was needed to assure consumers a product was kosher. Now when some people hear that Fox’s U-Bet’s rabbi is not with the OU, preventing the syrup from carrying the more stringent OU heksher, or kosher mark, they inevitably ask David why they don’t change their certification. “Because we’ve been working with a man who has been with us almost 50 years,” he tells them. “He’s grown with us. He’s part of our family. I don’t think it’s the way we should run our lives.” David’s pride in his product is about more than quality and values. With egg creams, he tells me, “I don’t think it’s only a taste sensation.” It is something more, much more. “I think the concept of going in and ordering an egg cream brings back a lot of memories. It puts them back into a different time.” For David, that is a time when nothing was better than an afternoon spent with a Spalding and a broom, playing stick ball. “It may only be for seconds, but they lose themselves.” With every bottle of syrup purchased and egg cream mixed, a company is supported that embodies a way of being in the world held over from an earlier era, maintaining a family-run business which proudly stands against the tide of history, refusing to fire it’s rabbi. “At the end of the day,” David tell me, “when you die, all you’re left with is your name, your name and what it represents.” Barry Joseph writes occasionally for both the Forward in print and on this blog. He is currently working on an upcoming book called “Give Me Seltzer.” For more on the project, Barry invites you to join the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/seltseronfacebook">Facebook group</a> and visit the blog <a href="http://www.givemeseltzer.com/">Give Me Seltzer</a>. </div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-54857901947561448442011-03-26T11:29:00.000-06:002011-03-26T11:32:14.688-06:00YOU GOTTA LOVE KIRBY<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/51498430-80/church-holtz-kirby-class.html.csp">http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/51498430-80/church-holtz-kirby-class.html.csp</a>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-50796099217151848512011-03-13T21:05:00.000-06:002011-03-13T21:05:00.400-06:00DAY AT THE MUSEUM<div align="center">Could someone please get the forklift. Grandma would like to get off.</div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir2ZlNCTFU0j5UcAPUWTxRQhlsIlkG1Aerz-aso0noMLLapaC-svIfsb-b7t1MSCcjtY-ypFyVSXfmkYMWp5dm5piQcXZkekX2AsylGXMz04c-g0Ubts99_ROIo-KaNHlvlPNClK24z6bv/s1600/a-museum-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582670562729426082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir2ZlNCTFU0j5UcAPUWTxRQhlsIlkG1Aerz-aso0noMLLapaC-svIfsb-b7t1MSCcjtY-ypFyVSXfmkYMWp5dm5piQcXZkekX2AsylGXMz04c-g0Ubts99_ROIo-KaNHlvlPNClK24z6bv/s400/a-museum-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLBFVGDO0Lmp0r2cbrLuLuJQPDQKj67sU9oMkP7HgyS8HjPejnruTRU9ciBU2aXsFnsygeUDDgheTC5zoISxnOc1_VULimN90KA5yf3v-yYrc60bqVI_xo91RCtLvILaPQn8Y_62T41Tum/s1600/a-museum-2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582670297912438674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLBFVGDO0Lmp0r2cbrLuLuJQPDQKj67sU9oMkP7HgyS8HjPejnruTRU9ciBU2aXsFnsygeUDDgheTC5zoISxnOc1_VULimN90KA5yf3v-yYrc60bqVI_xo91RCtLvILaPQn8Y_62T41Tum/s400/a-museum-2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXpvxg2D9mJbkoDLDzuIPcC48ci3NbJxTVsgoKjyOTqMaYcVWAydUh83TYQZZYljad1VXxFLXf7dKePumW2sjyMU5AmPA7FPP_2JnTWLNKECfKxvbHOAB9E5k8nnnD9IEIdDUhSJLfwUoG/s1600/a-museum-3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582669987681386738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 366px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXpvxg2D9mJbkoDLDzuIPcC48ci3NbJxTVsgoKjyOTqMaYcVWAydUh83TYQZZYljad1VXxFLXf7dKePumW2sjyMU5AmPA7FPP_2JnTWLNKECfKxvbHOAB9E5k8nnnD9IEIdDUhSJLfwUoG/s400/a-museum-3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpdvdvY5A8JWOSq9cgfL32Ij0FZ0KJuBRnzs_JJsOdxohxwG4NPOYNAm15tCPQnc-4IARE4TXfawJ8pv9Y_RojcdN_kaFAcmShwS_XVEtYnV4dEadTv4lL1t0PHnpYR9EJKovLcaEwHbbU/s1600/a-museum-4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582669737389629506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpdvdvY5A8JWOSq9cgfL32Ij0FZ0KJuBRnzs_JJsOdxohxwG4NPOYNAm15tCPQnc-4IARE4TXfawJ8pv9Y_RojcdN_kaFAcmShwS_XVEtYnV4dEadTv4lL1t0PHnpYR9EJKovLcaEwHbbU/s400/a-museum-4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4NPOTBKqdoaCBJlNL5NIyRfT23QfEy_Qiwtpb2RI1Bm4oBUPAQ1gnAm-KA9SRpwCDLaPH6qv0Tc_MU-g29IfCjXneEkG9XgE391aMx8YqDqTNXUDYq_0NZ5f7KVU4ngf8UGV8HpPNKogq/s1600/a-museum-6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582669472365780930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4NPOTBKqdoaCBJlNL5NIyRfT23QfEy_Qiwtpb2RI1Bm4oBUPAQ1gnAm-KA9SRpwCDLaPH6qv0Tc_MU-g29IfCjXneEkG9XgE391aMx8YqDqTNXUDYq_0NZ5f7KVU4ngf8UGV8HpPNKogq/s400/a-museum-6.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />If your imagination is good enough, anything can be a train.<br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvTUmdZ1W0NNoz50WfbQfliS7msqIfr4s4olrVrBk8l99IpklHqKhmDECn19hRbmFV-wLx_gWq0khJxrVGmCPGd8btKSnwX5G8c6oExzcKorHgKjHVrgzYRfN6dU9tBVBVok0FXkQleVTR/s1600/a-museum-7.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582669083531270434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 106px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvTUmdZ1W0NNoz50WfbQfliS7msqIfr4s4olrVrBk8l99IpklHqKhmDECn19hRbmFV-wLx_gWq0khJxrVGmCPGd8btKSnwX5G8c6oExzcKorHgKjHVrgzYRfN6dU9tBVBVok0FXkQleVTR/s400/a-museum-7.jpg" border="0" /></a>Great Day, thanks Grandson<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieB5YecmVyYWnhz_OPliu3PgRVjUnHgHhWbRUaWEOIG_LG72wl22RrbB9sjqqmfjOKFNviA9ZElwYRUtagj1CI_yWEh3k-3bjR8o5Fjly-97Fw7EaCxnlPB3Y9E93nDcZJwXqsN9rTnH1y/s1600/a-museum-8.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582668881955924818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieB5YecmVyYWnhz_OPliu3PgRVjUnHgHhWbRUaWEOIG_LG72wl22RrbB9sjqqmfjOKFNviA9ZElwYRUtagj1CI_yWEh3k-3bjR8o5Fjly-97Fw7EaCxnlPB3Y9E93nDcZJwXqsN9rTnH1y/s400/a-museum-8.jpg" border="0" /></a></div></div></div></div></div><br /></div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-70705877547533496232011-03-10T20:50:00.004-07:002011-03-10T21:05:03.222-07:00OUR NEW EAGLE SCOUT<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582667395737707794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtA8hZnsACJyPiNvA8fdNOSxZ22FtBCAlXgVwtRlw8VNRmo33acrNp4tH3cQr-kHNWyljbrqzsdgqjjapaDz7q4vSiJfLR40c4rB6s4ZFoeUn1Zgo2v4tOvR96A4gIFrRNlDYizay9ceq0/s400/a-matt-1a.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center">Congratulations Terrific Grandson</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB8-5I2PUGlLIyOYkr14s92nrt6qmBcfJAE7O7K4ExlT2WPA3zKcGKyKaTrjVVcGsuwRBKj0seBmc6luldI7PDhnTBJuIPJPxkfkMeIvkhx0v6YfLbFp1wCOfmF0W43lbSkeysvCJRPvO5/s1600/a-matt-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582667939638672434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 367px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB8-5I2PUGlLIyOYkr14s92nrt6qmBcfJAE7O7K4ExlT2WPA3zKcGKyKaTrjVVcGsuwRBKj0seBmc6luldI7PDhnTBJuIPJPxkfkMeIvkhx0v6YfLbFp1wCOfmF0W43lbSkeysvCJRPvO5/s400/a-matt-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaz2fkWIIp4KXBRhCYt4gKzlfBxPNsSkpi5yRqHwVpxHQRY_TO0GfpG4yAkwPtm_sJVF38eqIeyOLtpO6ndZrwtQQ736wFJXTlm1EmCkgin9QB49lkd6WfxgSsuzHCNR3GyoXwGWmwoMnO/s1600/a-matt-2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582667749999826994" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 346px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCyJ6AApLr48EKBGRlBlY3RhPRUCyN_J-kAwMDj1nlacG7PgJFVHqZ7JZRrPMjB_vfno5LulqJzAFSRg7KM27826iovte0Qj16J5w5PZnV_Bf-j5NcRvG91AyvCyxkXmN_khyphenhyphen6idFj2d7P/s400/t3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579696491115628978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 319px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrvIRpAxE8KYZ1V6h4M3eIsZrT9MPmVMSCV3sNpC_JmtXO27aGAZ0gyNXMwJvSIZ3sHTAIXMaV9-Wo9HFxt5Xovv3_m7RUzCBDXGHH0xXrvrlElIDYgedpJfTHkb-rfT0h9GiupfqFp9-l/s400/t2.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhpNiSyqGvSxiTCGU5yXJX6bjo_8ODiRyCu2P1iVogKehQghzxAQkF_iU5OOQCGyfQaVjZZ9x_5XhO8toLP-747khGAe6e7M9bqKSnlEZ29DNzS3CUMZNG_5ICIAk1iDN3YkwyLHerodM/s1600/t1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579696366544046946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 319px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhpNiSyqGvSxiTCGU5yXJX6bjo_8ODiRyCu2P1iVogKehQghzxAQkF_iU5OOQCGyfQaVjZZ9x_5XhO8toLP-747khGAe6e7M9bqKSnlEZ29DNzS3CUMZNG_5ICIAk1iDN3YkwyLHerodM/s400/t1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-80327733911419200152011-03-01T23:37:00.003-07:002011-03-01T23:43:45.215-07:00JANE RUSSELL<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrwICjAj8RjgHedy69KhFnwv3JIx-r6OcbyG1aRHhghjlCN57urroZ5v2MkH6v5Z1USbFtSsjcTOkYpAdd50xQ2X_44MhAOdiZIlTaOI6345kwOVD1NDhQCzqRgG1maym3ABgy27pR6l6f/s1600/jane-russell64024.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579369054539411138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 234px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrwICjAj8RjgHedy69KhFnwv3JIx-r6OcbyG1aRHhghjlCN57urroZ5v2MkH6v5Z1USbFtSsjcTOkYpAdd50xQ2X_44MhAOdiZIlTaOI6345kwOVD1NDhQCzqRgG1maym3ABgy27pR6l6f/s400/jane-russell64024.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center">Jane Russell was a standout because she never let the fact that she</div><div align="center"> embodied sizzling sexuality ruin her life. She was smart, grounded, and a real lady who steered clear of the tabloid hell that sent many another “bombshell” to a miserable fate.</div><div align="center">I loved her in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and I thought her best match in a leading man was Robert Mitchum. They had great chemistry. </div><div align="center">You gotta love a winner, bless her memory. </div><div align="center">She was a class act and my favorite movie star from the age of 8.</div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-75004731588926445342011-02-26T10:37:00.002-07:002011-02-26T10:42:36.191-07:00PIONEER YURT 2011<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1rgACotU0QfSEpG4ymD9c7IMkj18ijcAeIZm6mL8S1cieBgK4pkvI9odd_5cycDwqOb19HgFiYGSvDDZJaafIjB8KXpR12rQg6Y8gN4nJpqQ3gfqAlig1TkCsznLpYR_Qermg9OAZKb4/s1600/tim+yurt+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578054873663475330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ1rgACotU0QfSEpG4ymD9c7IMkj18ijcAeIZm6mL8S1cieBgK4pkvI9odd_5cycDwqOb19HgFiYGSvDDZJaafIjB8KXpR12rQg6Y8gN4nJpqQ3gfqAlig1TkCsznLpYR_Qermg9OAZKb4/s400/tim+yurt+1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center">Amazing to realize one of these people have our genes.</div><br /><div></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4KLtLAi9sM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4KLtLAi9sM</a></div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-75918882410683914162011-02-18T21:38:00.004-07:002011-02-19T07:17:55.100-07:00MAX G. PITCHER<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglz0e4A0VjkkPZhuYaWCgqA6xJGthm6SaaXTulYs6CBOorBhRm5iaebF2ipIQUiBOxC_iTqcY2wvtYKEf2xsXYzIK5wAv2ycF0-SrBTmZdcd1opIhTW_hU4CHQzudo5f_RpotrscfOnBC2/s1600/max+on+wagon+train.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575255759740436498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 343px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglz0e4A0VjkkPZhuYaWCgqA6xJGthm6SaaXTulYs6CBOorBhRm5iaebF2ipIQUiBOxC_iTqcY2wvtYKEf2xsXYzIK5wAv2ycF0-SrBTmZdcd1opIhTW_hU4CHQzudo5f_RpotrscfOnBC2/s400/max+on+wagon+train.jpg" border="0" /></a> Lost a dear family friend this week. We owe him a lot. 40 years ago, if Max hadn't been looking for a better location for a mountain hide-a-way and found it in Grand Lake then <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Runyan's</span> wouldn't have followed him and bought the lot next door and we wouldn't have followed the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Runyan's</span> and bought the lot up the road and then <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Simcox's</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Hileman's</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Damstedt's</span> etc........ </div><div align="center">How do you thank one family that has added so much to your memories. Cabin memories,</div><div align="center">Denver memories and Alpine memories.<br />Diana and I pregnant with beautiful daughters at the same time. By the way Diana, you are one of the most gracious and kind people I have ever met. Called by Max to be Primary President because he liked the way I taught Tom in Sunbeams. Steve and his Primary Graduation----Steve, please forgive me for being so hard nosed. As you know I've lightened up a bunch in the passing years. Marcia offering me her spare room if I couldn't afford a room in New York on my necessary trips there. Shauna, watching you take over the duties of the oldest daughter, much like I have done with my Mom and Andi--no words can express how much I appreciate and love you. You constantly amaze me.<br /></div><div align="center">Last summer was so special to spend time with our grandchildren and your grandchildren at the cabin. They are the third generation that love and call Grand Lake home. Watching them all play and interact was a gift we'll always remember.<br /></div><div align="center"></div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-42661617793113647332011-02-13T16:10:00.010-07:002011-02-13T17:56:49.294-07:00WHAT AM I ? ? ? ?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifiZNrRHTPfak70l4gCVZDXhmQLOGoa3rh-Cwf9COk35L4ZhugFejHs54_DB50TjpVUNkXYyWGIshGSqq5x2R51Ha5G71gzh4b4JyMKntm_MgkNxXBddyFaEu1jR3csJeyputMsuOkQnl4/s1600/gemini+sign.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573341366014152770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 127px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 130px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifiZNrRHTPfak70l4gCVZDXhmQLOGoa3rh-Cwf9COk35L4ZhugFejHs54_DB50TjpVUNkXYyWGIshGSqq5x2R51Ha5G71gzh4b4JyMKntm_MgkNxXBddyFaEu1jR3csJeyputMsuOkQnl4/s400/gemini+sign.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center">OR<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJjxRLP6ncUWmAACrGlfQbK4wA1dcYpX_1i1ZFn7sW9T3qhQD-f2WmV4FF7JRpE92YkKmYVYg7GflLyF1y3ylsnh_zvnIcyjba1FS5p7CEv7Gyhdk2k6HnxotzijvUGRi7YG5OwE2GZz1u/s1600/taurus+symbol.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573341157776213106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 125px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 130px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJjxRLP6ncUWmAACrGlfQbK4wA1dcYpX_1i1ZFn7sW9T3qhQD-f2WmV4FF7JRpE92YkKmYVYg7GflLyF1y3ylsnh_zvnIcyjba1FS5p7CEv7Gyhdk2k6HnxotzijvUGRi7YG5OwE2GZz1u/s400/taurus+symbol.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center">About a month ago my daughter-in-law commented "My horoscope sign has changed". I replied " That can't be, someone didn't proof read the paper very well before it went to press". Well today in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/fashion/weddings/13FIELD.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper">New York Times</a>, sure enough, there is an article about the shifting of the axis, alignment of stars, something about gravity, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">yada</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">yada</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">yada</span></span>. So I hopped on the<a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/13/horoscope-hang-up-earth-rotation-changes-zodiac-signs/"> Web </a>to find out "what I am now." I have always been a Gemini and now I'm a Taurus. If you know me, you know that makes a lot more sense. But still, I've always been a Gemini--- I'm not sure I want to change. Then there is the Chinese Year of the Whatever. Is this affected also. In the past according to the Chinese thingy dingy, my husband and I were the only two symbols that<em> should never marry!</em> Uh, going on 47 years. Except in cross checking I discovered that those two symbols have now changed also and suddenly we are compatible <em>but I'm inclined to be independent and need space often, </em>which is right on. What the !!!!! </div><div align="center">But at the end of the article somebody named Ms. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Biehl</span> said "This so-called new information about the Earth's wobble has nothing to do with how Western astrology works. The Western zodiac does not use the constellations. And as a result, no one's astrological sign has changed". </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">I think I'll resolve the issue by remaining a Gemini and reading the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Taras</span> horoscope. Or maybe I'll just choose the one I like best that day. </div><br /><div align="center">For sure, I'm not going to tell my Mother that her sign has possibly changed-- she's 87 and that would really throw her for a loop.</div></div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-5217198316056009232011-01-10T10:12:00.005-07:002011-01-10T10:35:27.356-07:00I WANT TO GO HOME<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLacjN5SoEXll8qGMdPL4yXEQI9NwALQUzFAULlzkejlvTLhf65jTSUgw3dEbq9pZM6BHUpZCijt0aLsTpBefhUdHN6lk02w7Y0fKXlyRcEt41AE8yg2ajHjHSapmKKCFqgkSInxkFzSEE/s1600/dorothy+shoes.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560607997511449282" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLacjN5SoEXll8qGMdPL4yXEQI9NwALQUzFAULlzkejlvTLhf65jTSUgw3dEbq9pZM6BHUpZCijt0aLsTpBefhUdHN6lk02w7Y0fKXlyRcEt41AE8yg2ajHjHSapmKKCFqgkSInxkFzSEE/s400/dorothy+shoes.jpg" /></a> 1. Find a really ugly pair of red shoes.</div><div align="center">2. Get a little dog to squeeze- my mothers yappy little thing will do.</div><div align="center">3. Click my heels and repeat three times---THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NEW YORK</div><div align="center">THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NEW YORK</div><div align="center">THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NEW YORK</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Worked for Dorothy, I'll give it try.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86-PhEnMHVUwnc-FxdGlBSrvuPGOQ5LVVOUcdaIgH_jl7V4m0UTkQFizMlaWkmVttF41-HZRPoMU1DMICyiM_vJXBuf1NF8Q0KnTe3RObLfls30QTsdKjXVOewlfeyau-m3T5lYKxVqiM/s1600/i-love-new-york.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 37px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560606553549542114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86-PhEnMHVUwnc-FxdGlBSrvuPGOQ5LVVOUcdaIgH_jl7V4m0UTkQFizMlaWkmVttF41-HZRPoMU1DMICyiM_vJXBuf1NF8Q0KnTe3RObLfls30QTsdKjXVOewlfeyau-m3T5lYKxVqiM/s400/i-love-new-york.jpg" /></a> </div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-7099887259218806692011-01-09T22:33:00.003-07:002011-01-09T22:35:58.581-07:00MEET ANNIE<div align="center">Hubby bought me a "Happy Place".<br />I named her "Annie". She's wonderful.</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaia-GvWurYItHi9sMUDG76TBdcioPDK-1OsPl6XfM8_ZpQsGoaiOvwAicqj204vN0_GMXMcrHFd_3EMbVT9ZvjKpt18qxY3E3Z2tbgnhvlhqXVbKBWAGaFs9-t7-GEzdthsm3ZVROysJZ/s1600/annie.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560426402211207234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 329px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaia-GvWurYItHi9sMUDG76TBdcioPDK-1OsPl6XfM8_ZpQsGoaiOvwAicqj204vN0_GMXMcrHFd_3EMbVT9ZvjKpt18qxY3E3Z2tbgnhvlhqXVbKBWAGaFs9-t7-GEzdthsm3ZVROysJZ/s400/annie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-85988680547372373162011-01-09T21:26:00.005-07:002011-01-09T21:52:50.040-07:00I HOPE I KEEP MY SANITY<div align="center">Our children like sports. O.K. maybe "sports" is a lite explanation.<br />Extreme sports is more like it.<br />Our son is not the skier in the photo but he did finish this race and</div><div align="center">at one point, he was in this very spot.<br />Please, just give me strength.<br />The same time he is doing this I am sitting in a class to </div><div align="center">get a concealed weapons permit so I can hike in the mountains of</div><div align="center">Colorado in the summer alone. The bears don't bother me but</div><div align="center">we're beginning to have a mountain lion problem.</div><div align="center">Anyway, the instructor was a Glenn Beck/Bill <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">O'Reilly</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">wana-be</span> ex-police officer/military<br />and after 4 hours of this, I had only been home 10 minutes when</div><div align="center">I made a dash for the bathroom and threw-up.<br />We do extreme sports a little differently.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_QZMoZ4lmUlR5n9EGVS05SQ_QZ4w00AMA8IpMzRMEj_ydHxBIdlo1ZlnVAZtMseaVNSAbABxzxaqebLIIR2UFijbFJ0B1VbFxyjMCN6Lh8P8aZ7JBqM9HqOQ9oP_l_bC-8HVmN13JQAOh/s1600/TIM+JACKSON+HOLE.bmp"></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560409660151019090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_QZMoZ4lmUlR5n9EGVS05SQ_QZ4w00AMA8IpMzRMEj_ydHxBIdlo1ZlnVAZtMseaVNSAbABxzxaqebLIIR2UFijbFJ0B1VbFxyjMCN6Lh8P8aZ7JBqM9HqOQ9oP_l_bC-8HVmN13JQAOh/s400/TIM+JACKSON+HOLE.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.powdermag.com/features/news/skiers-in-tights/">http://www.powdermag.com/features/news/skiers-in-tights/</a> </div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-21330594040598146532011-01-07T21:55:00.004-07:002011-01-07T22:10:39.919-07:00WEIRD DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559677030396703810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 133px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 190px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKxwHh-3RATaLS7dL5uvLpolYkC18Un2x-lOzA2IDJii8AkdH_oNDK9xmFOJoC45C4hNht78rAmK4inaqTRI95KhY_9INUQtAAfzO8aBNnL2m7ROD5nUOgJanTeasP_nlAjg0qJC-u8D3k/s400/doctor-789.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div align="center">Had yearly appointment to get prescriptions renewed today. I got to Dr's office, checked in and sat down to wait. A few minutes later the nurse came out and called my name. I started to get up but an older lady across the room from me also got up and said “that’s me”. She had barely arrived and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">hadn'</span>t even got her coat off. I tried to get the attention of the nurse and tell her that she had the wrong person but she <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">didn't </span>see me and closed the door. I sat back down and thought “ I’ll just wait and see how long it takes them to discover their mistake”. I waited a few minutes and then got up and walked over and picked up the lone remaining chart on the top of the counter waiting for the Dr. The 6 year old receptionist looked up and said “You can’t look at that, it’s confidential”. I was looking at the chart name by now, to point out that the previous patient and I had the same first name but not last and they might want to rethink using both names when they usher patients in to see the Dr. The first thing I noticed on the chart was that they had misspelled my name and started to tell them that the spelling was wrong but pronounced the same when the 6 year old receptionist whispered to me “we know, we took the wrong patient back and we’re trying to correct it now. “ It was about this time that I began to process that my chart was back in the room with the lady with the “same” name as me and I was holding her chart------except her middle name and last name were the same as mine. Her middle name was spelled exactly the same as mine which is an unusual spelling for a short middle name. I’<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">ve</span> known for many years that there was someone in this small town with the same first and last name as me but had no idea about the middle name. That we would turn up at the same Dr’s office, on the same day, with the same appointment time is weird.</div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573616672514052159.post-53470605565368718922011-01-07T20:26:00.003-07:002011-01-07T21:31:36.302-07:00WHAT AM I MISSING HERE???<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQxlloUgJZSVTd8mVMkRRdA3lixVEUe3S6SCrn9rFeGX7i6QZyRNOMTABgiz0ZfJUTQYOaassNwg0isXE4gn_ceGUq24AgMuJ-W5Zu2Y7u71qxUtICqrREnT0gxp8uGTQDFBOsF-vHPMw/s1600/Fran-and-guests.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559651543377910098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 275px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqQxlloUgJZSVTd8mVMkRRdA3lixVEUe3S6SCrn9rFeGX7i6QZyRNOMTABgiz0ZfJUTQYOaassNwg0isXE4gn_ceGUq24AgMuJ-W5Zu2Y7u71qxUtICqrREnT0gxp8uGTQDFBOsF-vHPMw/s400/Fran-and-guests.jpg" border="0" /></a> O.K.-- story starts out that Fran(middle-red outfit) is having a party for herself.</div><div align="center">Not a birthday party but to celebrate the fact that she has</div><div align="center">lost 100 pounds during the last year. Hey, I'm all for that.<br />I've been on every diet known to mankind and then some.<br />At the end of the article it mentions that she has had "body</div><div align="center">contouring prodecures and subscribed to a serious exercise regimen" and</div><div align="center">mentions both of the Dr.'s names that supervised such.</div><div align="center">I wouldn't have thought anything about this pat on the back that</div><div align="center">Fran was giving herself if it hadn't been for the middle part of the</div><div align="center">article where it tells us what Fran's occupation is.</div><div align="center">Fran is a Clinical Nutritionist and a Naturopathic Physician.</div><div align="center">She has also written several health, diet and recipe books.</div>Grand Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01237731075374393687noreply@blogger.com0