I was born in Redfield, South Dakota on November 14, 1951!
I can remember many, many things about my life there. However,
for the sake of brevity I will not comment. If you want to know more
details, let me know and I will fill you in. As a tribute to my birth city,
I bought two coffee cups the last time we visited. One for me, one for
my dad. (He said that he would like one too.)
I would love to have this safe in my basement. It is now a safe
remnant of a bank in the back room of a restaurant. Oh me, oh my,
in its heyday I wonder what kind of treasures it held?
Ok, in absence of the other one, I would take this one.
How much more excitement can you have? We go for a short afternoon
road trip and we run into a small out-of-control-in--our-minds-at-least fire
of major proportions. Oh wait, that farmer just threw a match.
The thing that I remember about this trip from Brady to Redfield was Loyd
telling me which power lines had specific voltages. I am an engineer, I am impressed
with my father. Alway have been. "He is a wonderful people person."
I actually have no idea. I am working in Gwangyang, Korea, and have no idea of where we
took this picture. It is a very traditional, very friendly, very typical,
family picture. However, Carol has historically taken the high road to make all
it work and I appreciate it. I have flaws and she has an eraser she attempted to use "often".
I have no idea how this picture of little Addy ended up in this grouping.
However, I am not going to delete her! She is a wonderful, special little granddaughter.
She told Carol the other day that she thinks that she has the most loving family
that she knows of. Now that is a pretty special comment! She is wearing, by the way,
special magnification glasses that a coin collector needs to evaluate high value
coins. The only thing missing in Papa's collection of coins is the "high value" part
of that collection! (In other words, I will sell you one of my collectable half dollars
for 51 cents. Text me, e-mail me, I will let Addy know you want to buy!)