We had a wonderful day today. We have had so many visits in the last month and got to see so many friends and relatives it has been a joy. We got to visit with Libby from Joplin, we saw our kids from Springfield for a visit. Our favorite nephew Patrick came from New York and brought his girlfriend for a visit as they were vacationing 2 weeks ago and today was Frances and Shannon with their kids. Frances and Shannon were co-ops from 1995 that worked with me and Dale Murry in the Litton days. I hadn't seen her in over 20 years and just reconnected with her over Facebook a short time ago. Her 18 year-old daughter looks just like Frances when I met her some 23 years ago. Samantha (their daughter) is going to Missouri Rolla, the same university Frances and Shannon graduated from. History does repeat.
Joyce and I have had so many great friends in our life and so many visitors in bygone days, but so often times change, people move away and that is just life. We miss those times and those people. The list of all those people would fill pages after pages. We are hoping our great friends Kevin and Kathleen from California might stop by in a month or so as they cross the country. For those of you who have met Kevin you may not remember his name as Kevin, but rather as "The Large Child" a nickname given him by our old workmate Mike Myers.
I posted about Mike back in 2007 and while it is a longer post than my normal ones it is a good story even though you may never have heard of him (God rest his soul) "The Story of Mike" he was quite a character.
Today's song in my head is, "I want to be around to pick up the pieces" by the great Tony Bennett. It is a terrific song and as always I do not know how that one popped up this morning.
Joyce and I have had so many great friends in our life and so many visitors in bygone days, but so often times change, people move away and that is just life. We miss those times and those people. The list of all those people would fill pages after pages. We are hoping our great friends Kevin and Kathleen from California might stop by in a month or so as they cross the country. For those of you who have met Kevin you may not remember his name as Kevin, but rather as "The Large Child" a nickname given him by our old workmate Mike Myers.
I posted about Mike back in 2007 and while it is a longer post than my normal ones it is a good story even though you may never have heard of him (God rest his soul) "The Story of Mike" he was quite a character.
Today's song in my head is, "I want to be around to pick up the pieces" by the great Tony Bennett. It is a terrific song and as always I do not know how that one popped up this morning.
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