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A Christmas Message From Our Family To Yours, CHRISTMAS 2008

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Picture Monday, August 4, 2008

More pictures from the album that Chris found in the closet. The first set are posted on Picture Monday, July 28, 2008.

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I'm Ba-a-a-ck!!

Well if you're still with me I want to apologize for the unintentional hiatus that I took over the weekend. It seems that the "perfect storm" of events took place this weekend and kept the blog from carrying forward.

There were several reasons for this happening.

First, I just got tired of my computer anti-virus just working half-way, and my mal-ware scanners just working half-way. So I decided I would devote my time to solving it. This meant running scans until they froze and determining what caused them to freeze or hang. Then I had to either isolate, solve, or remove the problem file, agent, Trojan. etc. as the case may have been. Long story short, this involved countless scans that ran into two days and various procedures to correct them but it was successful and all scans run beautifully and now they report a clean machine.

Second, school days are approaching. that meant we had to look for school supplies for our grandson Jace. That's not any fun when everyone else is doing the same thing and it's 105 degrees outside, the truck is hot and then you go into the stores and they're hot also. Add to that, we could not find all the supplies at one place. AAARGH!!

Third and final reason, I was just plain tired. Messing with the computer and hunting for school supplies will just do it to you!

As if that were not enough, About the time I finally finished fixing the computer Sunday night, a freak summer thunderstorm moved into the area. Along with it there was a lot of lightning and strong gusty winds. Apparently, the winds blew a limb or something across the lines and we lost our cable, phones, and Internet. I couldn't' log on to post so I went to bed.

Once again, thanks for hanging in and we're back on line for ya.

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Picture Monday, July 28, 2008

Chris was going through the closet the other day. She came across a couple of picture albums for me to see. One of them belonged to my grandparents from Germany. I have posted a few pictures from this album here today.

The first picture is the cover of the album. I included this so that you could get a feel for this album which is probably close to 80 years old as are most of the pictures inside. Cool huh?

Now I don't know who most of the people in the pictures are except occasionally I can pick out my grandfather and grandmother. For this reason I will simply show the pictures and keep the comments to a minimum.

My grandfather, Alfred Horst is the good looking chap with the tie on above.

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Picture Monday, July 21, 2008

Yesterday was my brother's birthday. In his honor I am including some pictures of him from days gone by. The first two pictures are of my sister Michal Ann, my brother Lance, and myself. I am the youngest. It is obvious who my brother and sister are. At least to me it is. Both pictures were taken in November 1958. I was 2 years old. My brother and sister are older.

The picture below was probably taken in the early 1960's. Lance is the tallest, my sister is next, and I am the shortest. I am still the youngest of the three even though I am now older than I was in the previous pictures.

You may wonder why I have the Lance Snacks logo and vending machine above. When our family went on vacations and had to stop for gas we kids would always want a snack. Often times there would be a Lance machine, rack, or jar at the station. Since my brother was older he would tell me that I couldn't have any of the crackers because they were his. Since I was the youngest, I would believe him. After all, his name is on them.

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Happy Birthday Lance!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my brother a Happy Birthday. Lo these many years ago he was born. I personally do not remember it since I wasn't born yet. I came along a few years later.

I can remember a lot of things that my brother helped me with since he is my big brother. He always helped me clean up our bedroom. When he cleaned he put away all of his things and put everything else on my bed. Thanks for the help Lance.

I admired him a lot also. I always liked doing things with him. I remember the time that he and his friend Don decided to go down the "creek" to where the interstate highway was being built. They told me not to follow or go with them. I didn't listen. I followed and always stayed a healthy distance away in case I had to run away quickly. I had a lot of fun that day. My big prize was a gigantic lump of clay that was dug up at the construction site.

My brother also taught me how to take apart Black Cat Firecrackers and repacking it to make a small explosive. We did this a lot and had a lot of fun doing it. The neighbors didn't like it though.

I had a lot of fun with my brother when we were younger. I think he had a lot of fun too. Mainly because I would believe anything he said. After all he was my big brother. I remember the time that he told me about the part of the stove top where the pilot lights were. He said that even though there was small flames under there, it still wasn't hot. He said it was safe to touch. I believed him. I shouldn't have that time.

Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LANCE!

PS, Could you please send me your e-mail addresses? I lost them all when I replaced the hard drive a while back.

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Picture Monday, July 14, 2008

Ahhh, to be a kid again. The pictures below are pictures of Chris's dad. Yes, that's right, my father-in-law. These pictures were taken at a much simpler time when it was certainly fun to be a kid at least. I'm sure that these pictures were taken at the local park in Nevada, Missouri which was his hometown.

Look how the kiddos are dressed. Was it a Sunday afternoon some years ago? Maybe the boys just dressed a lot better in 1930's when they went to play in the park. It looks as if it must have been a shirt and tie affair.

Looks like the girls dressed up to play in the park also. One of them even donned a hat for the occasion.

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Picture Monday, July 7, 2008

These good gentlemen are the Main's. More precisely, Bob Main's family on Chris's mother's side. Starting in the lower right section is Bobby's grandfather; lower left is Bob Main's father; upper left is Bobby's uncle; finally at the upper right there is "?". Sorry! That's what it says on the back of the picture.

The next picture is Myrtle Norris. This is Chris's grandmother. Chris says that the picture was probably taken around 1918. I like the hat. Wouldn't the women of today look grand wearing hats like that now? Nah, I really didn't think so either.

Myrtle again. Looks like June and Virginia in tow.

Look at this mischievous lad. Looks like he can't wait for the picture taking to end. Must have important things to do. Oh this is a picture of Chris's dad, Henry, when he was but a lad.

My, my, my. Look at him now. Well, not really now, but then. You know; when this picture was taken about 9th or 10th grade.

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