Carol, Erica and Alexa Bring the Colorado Incline to It's Knees, or something like that...

Another Halloween - 2019 - We Miss the COS Pumpkin Patch Kids

We Love Babysitting Elsie, LC, Elora!

Papa tired her out on the organ...she has a natural talent - perhaps from her great grampa.  Nana is watching her now.

Rex and Shelley Drop In For a Nice Visit

Always fun to have friends show up at your door for a visit.  This week it was our good Rapid friends Rex and Shelley.  We enjoyed the Nashville country life - way more than our 2200 bed times should have allowed us to.  They are visiting Dolly as we speak, but will be back for one final 3rd & Lindsley outing as we attend the Sisterhood Band Concert.  (Carol and I saw them at the Opry awhile ago - they were young & talented invited guests.)

There is no doubt that we love our children's friends, both in Nashville, Clarksville, Germany, South Korea and DC...  We have taken a liking to Meg & Eric's good friend Ray - he is a wonderful artist, song writer and we hear a great dad on top of it.  (He also has a very lovely, sweet wife.)  Ray had some great talent on his show this week and we were there to enjoy it.

Leave it to a woodworker to sniff out another woodworker.  We had just left the 3rd & Lindsley Show when Rex spotted a woodworking shop crossed the street.  Well we dropped in, Rex dropped a few (ok, more than a few maybe) bucks and he left a happy man.  We proceeded to downtown where we all dropped a few more for overpriced drinks, but great music!

Went to the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky With a Friend

My friend walks the walk as he has been there.
No longer a Corvette owner... but writes about them!
(Does that count?)

The first Corvette logo that was nixed as the American Flag was not allowed to be used in this marketing manner.

My buddy Steve and I have had several vehicles on Route 66.  None of them were corvettes.  Based on rental rates, the past will relicate/dictate the future.  (Hop into the CRV Dude.)

This double yellow Corvette caught my attention.

This would be my Road Trip choice of Corvettes.
It also matches my age - Dayzsha Voo...

Ouch... you heard about the Museum cave-in a while back no doubt.  It swallowed a million dollars of beautiful cars in 10-minutes time in the middle of the night.

Haven't Been There, Haven't Done That.. but Looks Kind of Cool.

All 25 Cupboards are In!! Thanks Goodness as I am down to 8th grade weight.

For those who know, no explanation needed.

BTW, I forgot to mention that the 15 cabinets that we took out and replaced with the 25 new ones went into the garage.  They are done too I think - although who knows what Erica has up her sleeve now that she has had some time to mull it all over.

Anyone in the Nashville Music Scene Looking for a Younger Keyboard Player

She may be young but she is exceptionally gifted - coming from a family of gifted organists.  (Well actually "organist".)  Her name is Papa's Prodigy and she has an excellent manager that holds her dear as she plays.  (He also manages her bank account.)   She works at Nashville Union Scale of course but also requires that several extra expenses be considered.  (Consider all you want but there is no negotiation.  "You want this baby, there is no maybe.")  

Management Staff:  Requires a back up, one that needs to understand musical small hand chord positions.  Engagement Fee:  Frequent Hot Meals are Required - Daytime Dry Nurse available with hot meal warmup experience.   Wet nurse also available for overnight tours.  Contact Backup Manager for more information:  "No baby talk... no babble, we walk-the-walk and excel at Scrabble".  (This makes absolutely no sense but it rhymes - we might just write a country song around it as mailbox money is cool.)

Costume Changes:  Many costume changes required - depending on the length of performance and the guttural activity of the musical session.  (Low bass tones tend to excite the cerebral cortex area LC4 - sometimes resulting in spontaneous explosive brain/finger musical runs - always appropriate to the musical theme but sometimes resulting in a thigh dipe dripper (depends).  Talk to Management Staff should you somehow want any more specific information on how this *hit happens.

Old Friends, Special Friends, Always Old Special Friends!

Only one guy in Gallatin that knows where all the hot old cars in town are and he took us there.  Thanks Deryk!

My friend Jim is also a Vintage Car Mag Author.  He just might write an article about Glen Campbell's old T-Bird with a Corvette engine in it.  Here he is giving it a cursory inspection.

Behind every moderately successful man is a brilliant, successful woman.  Well, we claim these two!

The girl on the left we call Arm.  The one on the right we call Candy.  We take them everywhere people might see us!

Bill Monroe at the Ryman happy to see us.

Thanks for coming for a visit Jim and Deb.  Lets stay in touch!

Dreadlocks in a Flat Spin

Triage Hospital In A Can

We went to "Family Day" at the Army Triage Hospital that Michael and many others set up in the dust bowl at Fort Carson.

I call it a Hospital-in-a-Can.  The whole hospital can be shipped by container and this month long exercise proves it.

Carol and the Boy working with the gas man to try to save the Teddy Bear.  Q wanted to get close to the action but when the gas man offered to use him as a demo, it took Carol to keep him from hiding under the operating table.

Several wings - A, B & C, of hospital beds.  Amaya asked what the funny shaped pink pans were... she found out and was grossed out to think you would have to "do that" in your bed.

"Ocho had a Ouch!!" - Last night a front moved through COS and the very strong wind blew part of their tent down.  They managed to fix it by putting the sidewalk on top of the collapsed portion to keep it down but it was apparently very exciting.  Plus they lost their electricity.  Oh isn't this fun!

The real action starts the day after Family Day.  All the troops have their assignments, they have their SOP's written and the "simulation begins."  I suspect that the first copters will arrive with the boys that need attention at dawn.  No one but the upper staff knows what surprises they will pull on the troops.

Amaya waving Goodbye to Daddy.  After several hours in the dust bowl, we are ready to go back to the car, go home to wash up and enjoy the peace that these Army Folks provide us.
Thanks you all!!

Loyd and Maxine and the 1941 Studebaker Champion

Well, it certainly looks like you and Loyd ran into each other today.  
How is that Studebaker running today?
Like a Champ or like a Chump?

Josephine Mueller Eaton, Wife of Orville, My Grandmother Feeding Chickens

Photograph as found on the Find-A-Grave Website - posted by Gone Too Soon.

This photograph, taken in 1975 and found on Josephine's Mother's Find-A-Grave memorial
says that this is the Sarah (Hern) Evans Mueller Homestead.  Intriguing to think that the
 obviously vibrant homestead shown in the picture has been reduced to a vacant farmhouse
with an old windmill creaking in the wind.  Life happens however doesn't it.  Of course,
the picture of Josephine and the chickens could have been taken at a different place -
perhaps still thriving and bustling.  

My sister found this picture and had a beautiful canvas made.
I told her that I would like to do the same thing and promptly
forgot to follow up with her on how to get a copy of it.

I found the top picture just today, it is posted in Josephine's
Find-A-Grave Memorial.  Gone Too Soon - a Memorial sponsor put the following caption on it.  I do not know the location or the date.  It is truly a spectacular picture and I am proud to have it.

"The picture was taken at the Sarah (Hern) Evans Mueller Homestead that Josephine (shown) and Orville lived on."

F Robert Kalthoff - USAF Veteran and Thunderbird Friend and Supporter

I found three signed pictures for F. Robert Kalthoff and bought all of them as I could not believe that the Kalthoff estate thought they should not be given to a family member.  I did not want to see these pictures go through the rest of life as orphans.  They now hang on my wall, near the USAF Academy.  I found them, saved them and now treasure them in memory of Bob, Air Force Veteran and proud Broadcasting Supporter of the of the USAF Air Shows.

The Name Seamore Lives On In the Oleson Family

Matching Person (from family trees)

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• Malcolm Seamore Oleson
• Oleson Family Tree

Matching Person details

Spouse:	Bernice Eileene Harford
Father:	Frederick Lewis Oleson
Mother:	Minnie Everline House
Children:
Birth:	21 Apr 1915 Faulk, South Dakota, USA
Death:	13 May 1989 Seattle, King, Washington, USA
Residence:	1920 Tamworth, Faulk, South Dakota, USA This is An Ancestory Link that I found for Malcolm Seamore Oleson.  It is the first time that I see that Fred and Minnie named Malcolm's middle name after Minnie's Dad, Wilbert "Bill" Seamore House. I am partial to this fact since my middle same is the same as my Fathers: Eugene.

US 13th Census, 1910: Fred Oleson: Street Address: City Jail

This is clearly a bit funny.  Fred was 27, working as a bridge iron worker and living in a boarding house with many others.  The street address is show as: City Jail.  Attaboy Fred!!

Fred Oleson Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014

Name:	Fred Oleson
SSN:	503-40-2118
Last Residence:	South Dakota
Born:	19 Oct 1883
Died:	Feb 1963
State (Year) SSN issued:	South Dakota (1955)

Unlike the present circumstance, apparently if you want to access a deceased person's social security number you can.  Here is the SSN for Grampa Frederick Lewis Oleson

WWI Draft Registration for William Oleson of Miranda, SD

The WWI Registration was found for Fred's brother by scrolling through the list.  He is listed as single and living in Miranda, SD.  I believe that he did serve in the service - will do more research.

Note that he clearly signed his paperwork as William Oleson.

Who is Myron Johny Oleson and Sister Susy? Lucy? Oleson

Interesting WWI registration.  When scrolling through the Oleson registrations, I found Myron Johny Oleson that lists Fred Oleson as his employer.  He lists his sister, that lives in Miranda, SD as his nearest relative.

After further review and additional information noted, Myron, the Oleson family's youngest boy, was living in Miranda, as were many others in the family with Susy being the "Census listed - Head of the Household."  Anna, the oldest in the family was already married and had left the house after both parents died.  Susy and Fred apparently took over taking care of the younger ones.

Fred Oleson: WWI Draft Registration and Rejection Due to One Eye Blind

I personally never noticed that Fred had no vision in his left eye until I saw a note on one of his pictures questioning whether he had full vision at the early age of his picture.  From the same note, it was noted that he lost his sight due to the piercing by a piece of steel.  It is not clear when or where that happened.

Interesting notes on his draft registration.  Note that he spells his last name two different ways:  Oleson above and then he spells wife's name "Minnie Olson" down below.  When he signs the final time, it appears that he reverted to Frederick Lewis Oleson.

Dr. E.H. Thayer described Fred as Medium Height, Medium Build with one blue and one black eye.  (Black no doubt the blind eye.)

Ruby and Vernon Sjolquist Visit Mitchel in 1962 from Fargo, North Dakota

Picture Postcard of Malcolm Sent to Aunt Elsie in Nebraska (Minnie's Sister)

Oleson Family Christmas Picture With Glen on Furlough

This family picture was taken while Glen was on furlough, according to the back of the photograph.
Left to right back row:  Duane, Aunt Fredericka, Loyd, Fred, Marie, Minnie, Gladys, Glen with Marvin and Janice up front.

Glen's uniform looks like Air Force or perhaps Army Air Corp.

Minnie Oleson Sent This Postcard Picture to Elsie, Her Sister in Miranda

Josephine Eaton with Opal and Jessie Evans and Family

I am not sure how the Evans fit into the Family plan.
Will watch for more evidence in other pictures.

Fred Oleson's 65th Birthday Party With Family Attending

I know the names of some of the family attending Fred's party and I will fill in with more as I find a picture that identifies them.

From left to right... Marie and Minnie, Chester Johnson with daughter Carlene behind him.  Fred with Rachael Bierman's one year old baby Karen on his lap.  Maxine Oleson behind him. Another Bierman to the right of Fred and the baby.

Misfeldt girls and unidentified boy in front of tall Duane Oleson.
Marvin Shaw with eyes in the air wondering when he will get to eat cake.  Unidentified dark haired woman with glasses behind and to the left of Marvin.

There was another picture taken at this party shown below that shows the entire group of attendees, minus the photographer.
See the attendee list on the back of the picture.