http://we3.zoomshare.com/2.shtml The Ins and Outs of a Travelin' Man: Blog Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:01:08 -0500 http://we3.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/d231e5084b7ddc015a1326a9bca6051d_48838b74.writeback Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:01:08 -0500 ...You are stuck with me AGAIN! Dad hasn't asked me to fill in this time but I saw the tally of postings piling up and decided to let you have a new space. Aunt Pat is bringing Dad his laptop later on and he hopes to get up here this coming week and at least peek in to see what is going on with everyone. He is in good hands here in the hospital - and of course is trying to get all the nurses to run off with him. I don't have a lot more to add, so I'll hand it back over to all of you. Hope you're all having a good weekend. http://we3.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/9848ae0b0e9b648962db3ebac49802be_4877a267.writeback Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:11:51 -0500 I have been asked to step in for Dad and let you have a fresh page to start your weekend with. Aunt Pat called me midday on Dad's behalf asking I come out here so - here I am! Now... what to say? I am not so used to this. But I guess it is a good time to start fresh. After all, that's exactly what Dad is doing in Monroe and what I will be doing here in a couple weeks when I skip town and wander for a while. I hope everyone has a good time out here in our sandbox this weekend. You probably won't see Dad, Lynn or I for the next little bit in here. Dad is getting settled in of course, while Lynn and I are going to spend the weekend together and see what we can get into so he can live vicariously through us. What's everyone else going to find to do with themselves? I hope it's fun whatever it is - fill us in on the details! http://we3.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/6ed8e74f97f18174d39a633e23d0e0d3_4872cab1.writeback Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:02:25 -0500 And hope I get able to do a better job of bringing you the saga of recovering with Pat and John and all your kind words. Stay tuned and have fun out here in the meantime. That keeps a smile on MY face. http://we3.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/08b7994ef4cace5be74f4a9345467c6a_486e13f9.writeback Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:13:45 -0500 Always fun for shut-ins to look out and see great friends and family having fun romping and playing in the backyard I have built. Watching the bees and birds and weather is okay, but to see real folks having fun with each other is even better. ***** I look forward soon to getting out here for some straight sharing with you folks who I have kept locked out now for a few months. Will get my feet on the ground in a week or so courtesy of my sister, Pat, and her husband, John, in their home a few hours from here while I begin rehabbing this old body for its next life. ***** Catch ya' along that trail. Always nice to have you in the saddle with me. Thanks for the ride. http://we3.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/ed3599cf7d2cec37c883fde9b6fcae18_48699004.writeback Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:01:40 -0500 Flip your last riddle answer around, score big, and move on to a new riddle for Jess in this clean sheet on the sandbox clothesline. You just can't read your own writing, or write your own reading. You are a mess. A mess I love. http://we3.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/5c1e07ed58461a80e38e4d11cac4498f_485d05e2.writeback Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:45:06 -0500 These longest days have been some of my dimmest as my body has been in the shop four times as long as Fran's 'puter. Have tortured Lynn and Anne with something perhaps neither fatal nor finite. They have served above and beyond. ***** I look in here once in a while to see how the sandboxers are doing. Nice to see friends at play. Catch ya' along the trail again when I get back on the horse. Smile at a stranger today. http://we3.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/83e5d4626bd3bab362f5437185f1166f_4851b939.writeback Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:03:05 -0500 The high point of my day so far had been in just simply contemplating upon my deceased mom's 98th birthday ... and then today's mail brought my own "birthday" card. This was from the poet laureate of my CRAK (Committing Random Acts of Kindness) Patrol. It might be the first time in our long friendship. Maybe heard my chassis grinding, my muffler bleating, or my wheels wobbling with flat tires. Whatever, the message sure picked me up just the way good friends always do. ***** The front of the Hallmark card reads "For a SPECIAL FRIEND -- In our lives, if we're lucky, we'll have all kinds of friends. And although we appreciate them all for different reasons, there are some we come to cherish. You, without a doubt, fall into this last category. You are the friend who never, ever bores me, the friend I am always glad to see and who never lets me down. You are that special friend who knows I'm far from perfect and accepts me anyway. We've shared a lot, good and bad, and you've proven you can be counted on." ***** The inside of the card continues, "All these things and so many more come together to make you more than just an everyday friend. You're a lifetime friend." ***** So, you ask, where does the poetry come in? Well, that's handwritten on the post-it note that covers the HAPPY BIRTHDAY at the end. This message says, "Bob When I read this card, while looking for some else, I though of you instantly. Hope it catches up with you somewhere along the path of 'the Traveling Man'." ***** Now that's some pretty powerful poetry to my ears. How about yours? ***** Also a belated get well wish to good friend Dave Guss who had an appendectomy today. Dave has always been there for me, and this is the closest I can come to being there for him right now. I know he understands and is happy to have wife, Sharon, tending to him in my absence. Get well quickly, Big Guy! http://we3.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/66ba9e8421113efcb8f97942e62eaf2a_484d1fa6.writeback Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:18:46 -0500 That would be Anne, Lynn, and David (see mystery guest photo album to your left). Yesterday they took Asheville apart and, hopefully, put parts of it back together again. But I will let them tell that story. Make yours a grand day. http://we3.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/360666119f2378438a75e41d540e783b_48472b76.writeback Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:55:34 -0500 Right out of the blue he walked in on me. I was just languishing under a Brevard tree for some shade, and he recognized my camper, saw the door open, and found me gasping in the heat on my bunk. In fifteen minutes we had more than made up for three years of missing by days and hours all around the country -- Oregon, Florida, Nashville, points in between. Last time together was in Chilliwack, BC. Too long. But we will catch up again in just the same fashion next time, too. And it is never too soon for either of us. Can you guess who the mystery man is? Dumped two pictures of him to the side -- one in shades in case his agent disallows private pictures of celebrities. HA HA Best thing that has happened to this old Travelin' Man in weeks. ***** So check the photo album, identify the dude, then look up his link on this website -- perhaps he is playing soon in some area of the country where you are or have friends who want to go hear the best in blue grass. And, after the concert, go up and shake hands while telling the big lug I sent you. If he isn't worth the money, I will refund your ticket price. http://we3.zoomshare.com/2.shtml/ff937539d25c468756f1fb2fcb5d7d80_4842fc48.writeback Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:45:12 -0500 Just got back in wifiland for the frist time in forever. Rumor is that I am fighting some occult pain and seeing the world through narcotic eyes between visits to docs and hospitals. Truth is that I am doing it all with a stiff upper lip. Why? So you can get another good chuckle by imagining my silly puss with a lip full of rigor mortise. Add that image to your own neat accounts that gave me laughs this Sunday in the library parking lot. Your reward is a cleaan sheet to muddy until I rise again. I am soooooo proud of each of you for carrying on and for carrying me with you. Thanks. Happy June!