December 24, 20178 yr Yosemite was on our plans. Tennesee? Thats the other side of the USA! thats a bit too far of a drive for us.
December 24, 20178 yr Author We just had a friend stay with us on Tuesday night from Tennessee. He was traveling to the other side of Pennsylvania....which reminds me of that song "There's no place like home for the holidays". Part of the lyrics are "I met a man who lives in Tennessee and he was heading home to Pennsylvania and some homemade pumpkin pie."
December 27, 20178 yr I remember a song, with the line, " I'm a number one fan of the man from Tennessee." ( Elvis?)
December 27, 20178 yr "Please Come to Boston" by Dave Loggins The Wikipedia page suggests that the "man from Tennessee" was Dave himself.
December 27, 20178 yr Author The last 24 hours have been crazy here in Erie County Pennsylvania. The city of Erie got 55 inches of snow in 24 hours and was the #1 story on every national news network. Here in the rural southern part of the county we only got 15 inches. That is the opposite of how it usually goes. A typical bad storm here sees us getting 30 inches and the city (north of Interstate 90) getting less than 10. This is called "lake effect" snow. Hey Meadowmfn doesn't Interstate 90 head into your neck of the woods? I think it goes from Seattle to Boston.
December 27, 20178 yr Wow, that's a lot of snow. In the last 24 hours, I went bowling for the first time in over two years. The bowling alley is only across town, but I just never think to go there. Today I was part of a group of 10, and came second overall (none of us were great bowlers, so that's not saying much).
December 27, 20178 yr Author Am I correct in assuming all the terminology is the same over there? Strike? Spare? Split? If you get three strikes in a row is it called a turkey? How many pins do they use in metric bowling? (just kidding about that last one)
December 27, 20178 yr We certainly use the terms strike, spare and split. I've never had three strikes in a row, so I don't know about turkeys . Metric bowling obviously uses 10 pins - how many do you use?
December 28, 20178 yr Yup, we even use that terminology for bowling over here. I remember going bowling at a friends birthday party a few times as an 8-12 year old. It was so strange, you go bowling and see strange words like strike, and spare having no clue what they mean. The only association we had with those that any time you got a spare or strike it would play a short film on the electric scoreboard. Split is also split in Dutch.
December 29, 20178 yr Not too much excitement in the last 24 hours. I was working on building a model of a Visitor Laser Jeep from the 1984 TV series 'V'. I had picked up 3 Monogram 1/24 scale Jeep kits. 2 are being built as the Jeeps from 'V' and one will be Daisy's Jeep. I watched a couple of episodes of MASH this evening with my wife. MASH is another favorite TV show of mine.
December 30, 20178 yr I've just been busting my butt all day going down my " To Do List" One of the few days I actually got everything accomplished!
December 30, 20178 yr Author I got Charlie Daniels autobiography for Christmas and started to read it today and can't put it down. I was delighted to see he went to school in Valdosta Georgia for a little while....not very long though since his family traveled a lot. I need to look into these dates a little more. Let's see Charlie was born in 1936 and was in first grade in Valdosta. Sonny Shroyer must be pretty close to that age.....even though he doesn't look it. It would be cool If they knew each other.....long shot I'm sure.
December 30, 20178 yr Author Just looked it up. Sonny was born Aug 28, 1935 and Charlie was born Oct 28, 1936. I'm not sure if they had kindergarten then but it's neat to learn two of my favorite celebrities in the world might have played on the same playground as little tikes. I'm pretty sure Sonny was there then. As far as I know he's a lifelong Valdosta resident.
December 31, 20178 yr Author It's also amazing that Uncle Jesse was only 15 years older than Enos in real life. I'm already half way through my Charlie Daniels book. He made a few mistakes when he was younger but today he is definitely worthy of respect. What an amazing life!
January 2, 20188 yr Author Had a nice lazy day today before heading back to the old grind tomorrow. Just trying to keep warm in these arctic conditions. 2017 was good to me. I am one lucky redneck who is very appreciative.
January 3, 20188 yr I haven't done anything today....somedays you just don't have it! You know what I mean?
January 5, 20188 yr Today I did most everything I needed to get done. Just a couple three things to do this weekend and next week!
January 6, 20188 yr Author We have one more day of single digit temperatures to go then it's a week of warm weather. My wife has a pretty severe case of pink eye. I've never had it but it's pretty contagious so we'll see what happens. I have to work all day tomorrow so I won't get to watch any NFL playoffs.
January 7, 20188 yr Author Georgia is in the Division I national championship football game on Monday night and now the Atlanta Falcons have advanced to the NFC title game with a chance to play in the Super Bowl. I always root for teams from Georgia because I live the Dukes so much. The only time I won't is if they're playing Pittsburgh teams.
January 8, 20188 yr Today I went to church and laid down and went to " The Land " ! It's what I call my version of Hazzard county! In my head...lol! Got up in time to go back to evening service but it's still freezing cold, despite them claiming we're gonna warm up! Edited February 18, 20188 yr by Hobie Harkins
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