Oh my, what an impressive and fantastic trip down memory lane. You, my friend, have more memories (and photographs) dan Methuselah!
Thanx fer sharin'!
Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Three
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Oh my, what an impressive and fantastic trip down memory lane. You, my friend, have more memories (and photographs) dan Methuselah!
Thanx fer sharin'!
I'll tell you how old I am now and how old I was when shingles hit me but you have to promise not to tell anyone else.
Chicken pox at 10 years. Shingles at 70. Presently looking for a Viking ship at 76.
my lips are sealed! or as Winchester on MASH said when he was drunk.......my lips are seals! lol
Love the album,Willie
Fran, it seemed for a long time you were not around, and I missed you .. maybe you were around and I just did not see you .. who knows .. I am just so glad you drop in now, which is all that really matters anyway .. and thanks, glad you liked it .. I almost decided to not post it because it felt like maybe I was bragging or something .. and although as most know, I am not a Religious Man, I do try and avoid the 7 deadly sins .. Pride being one, considered the worst of all .. at least that's what the Nun's beat into me ..
I'd never heard of shingles until I started seeing the commercials, & then my Aunt got them at about the same time. She was in her late 70's & caring for her husband who had Alzhiemers. She was in the hospital for weeks & then in rehab to get her strength back after that. She still has little flare ups now & then. Her husband pased away about a year after that, & now she's been in an Alzheimers unit herself for about 3 years. My Mom got the shot after her sister had them. I asked my Rhuematologist about it & he said not to get one. I guess because of my immune system. He told me not to get a pnuemonia shot, too, but does have me get a flu shot every year. I ask about the shingles & pnuemonia shots every year anyway.
That is beautiful! Congratulations on one more thing done, & one step closer to moving!Another one..
Willie, that was a great tribute to all those you have known-- and so many have passed on.
I agree-- autobiographies can be an ego thing. My book has almost no autobiographical content. Just think it is difficult to do it right.
I agree-- autobiographies can be an ego thing. My book has almost no autobiographical content. Just think it is difficult to do it right.
That was awesome, Willie! And it's not bragging. We all lived their music. You got to work with it!
Watch it girlie - I'll be sending Iffy after you if'n you don't behave.
Mike .. one of my favorite past stories on a previous thread was Janet and you tooling around America in a VW Microbus when you were kids .. (I hope my memory on that is still accurate) ... Creaks and groans .. ?? I've got plenty .. after spending Sunday working all day in the yard, Monday I felt like dogfood on a shingle and had to break out the heating pad / ice bag / TENS unit .. then, to add the icing to the cake, even though I have never been very prone to allergies, I now am for some odd reason .. and so, my nose needs it's own drain .. and my throat feels like coarse sandpaper ..
We'll have that drink .. you remember I threatened a couple years ago to drop in as a houseguest .. ?? Keep on your toes ..
Yepper - you remember that right. We had a $20/day budget ... 1/2 went for gasoline for the VW bus and the other 1/2 for food & miscl. stuff. It was a 3+ month sojourn taking us wherever we felt like heading next and staying until we felt like leaving. Met a lot of characters on the road and rescued a dog. I remembering being in Vancouver and striking up a conversation w/ this old man. He was just looking out over the bay and said he'd left Vancouver for the wilds of the Yukon as a young man and this was his first trip back in like 50 years. He looked like a dazed deer in the headlights trying to make sense of all the hubbub around the city.
.. at least that's what the Nun's beat into me ..
Oh no - not the Nuns. That's what I said to my Mom each summer when it was off to religious summer school. My Pop wouldn't let Mom send us to Catholic Schools, so each summer we had to talk religion classes. I was so, so scared of those ladies in black.
Just an amazing and well done video, Uncle Willie. Do not EVER make us beg for you to continue a story. That is so wrong! (My begging was not expressed publicly but matched that of others.)Fran, it seemed for a long time you were not around, and I missed you .. maybe you were around and I just did not see you .. who knows .. I am just so glad you drop in now, which is all that really matters anyway .. and thanks, glad you liked it .. I almost decided to not post it because it felt like maybe I was bragging or something .. and although as most know, I am not a Religious Man, I do try and avoid the 7 deadly sins .. Pride being one, considered the worst of all .. at least that's what the Nun's beat into me ..
Willie, thank you so much for sharing that with us. Just wonderful, and I agree with David's wow!
Yep Yep, been a long time. Ran into trouble with data allowance limits...hoping the new software won't be as hoggie! Great to see ya!
Wow, that was wonderful Willie. All those people you worked with, and what you did with the montage. Awesome. I also love what you did with the S&G song America. Always been one of my favorites and the pictures just say it all. Being fairly new to the porches, I enjoy everything you say and do and consider you a highly respected friend. Sometimes it is hard to put real feelings in mere words.
Getting older, I have lost several good friends. No, the pain never goes away, it just finds a place to reside and peep it's little head out from time to time. Those times I just let myself remember, shed a tear or two, then put it back into it's place and move on. Til next time.
Matt, that shower is beautiful!! We have plans to do a similar thing with our master bathroom shower, just time and money needed...
We will get there someday. 
Getting older, I have lost several good friends. No, the pain never goes away, it just finds a place to reside and peep it's little head out from time to time. Those times I just let myself remember, shed a tear or two, then put it back into it's place and move on. Til next time.
Matt, that shower is beautiful!! We have plans to do a similar thing with our master bathroom shower, just time and money needed...
We will get there someday. 
Willie, thank you so much for sharing; so enjoyable and what a priceless memory for you and now for us!
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