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Is It Just Me? 2008-06-13 04:04:52 Is it just me, or do you see a problem with these commercials? I don't know about you but if my Mom brought some chicken to my friends and I while we were watching TV or playing games and we all started standing up on the couch, my Mom wouldn't have stood there looking at me. Even if I was singing her praises I think she would have whacked me with her slipper. If nothing else she would have told m
A Big Day For Jessica 2008-06-14 15:18:31 Yesterday was a big day at the house. It wasn' exactly a "Big Ball In Cowtown" as sung by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, but it was a big day nonetheless. It was Jessica
's birthday. And in 2 weeks it will be Scott's birthday. I have a few pictures below of the going's on.Jace watches as Jessica opens her presents. That's Dad, Scott, sitting just past Jessica.Debra and Ray Barone even stopped by Read more:Big Day
Picture Monday, June 16, 2008 2008-06-16 04:00:01 While I was looking through the old pictures last night I came across an old program from 1932. I enjoyed looking at it and some of the advertising within. It is from the Colorado Springs area and was for a presentation of "The Wives of Henry the VIII". On the inside cover there is an advertisement for concerts at the City Auditorium. Prices ranged from $.75 to $2.00. I imagine that $2.00 was qui Read more:Picture
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Is That History Peering Back At Me? 2008-06-17 04:00:01 History is all around you. Even in a book of old "money" that I would look at and dream about as a small boy. I was going through some of the old pictures over the weekend and came across some things from my Grandfather Horst. When he and my Grandmother came to the US from Germany he brought his collection of Notgeld along. Before he passed away he gave it to my father. Before my father passed awa Read more:History
Easily Amazed As Well As Amused 2008-06-18 04:10:19 I always like summertime. It seems that it is the time that I can catch up on things that take a lot of time to do. I decided that today would be an excellent day to wade through bookmarks and various on-line accounts. One thing led to another and ultimately I accomplished nothing. I started out at Ancestry.com and discovered that my niece, Kari, in Houston had been doing a lot of research on the Read more:Easily
Yummy For Your Tummy 2008-06-24 04:00:01 I spent some time last night watching the Food Channel in HD. Watching food in High Definition just inspires me. So I have decide to share a one of my favorite recipes with you. Are you ready? Go get your apron and goofy little chef's hat and let's get to work.This lip smacking treat is Kool-Aid Pickles. Take one large jar of dill pickles and drain the brine. Use whole pickles for a better effect. Read more:Yummy
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Picture Monday, June 23, 2008 2008-06-23 04:07:22 Whenever I go through the pictures in the comfort of my La-Z-Boy, I always come across a picture and I think, "Why did we take a picture of THAT?" So I collected a few to show off today. Maybe you can figure out why we took a picture of that. A lamp. Obvious enough. But why? I took that picture in high school. I guess I fancied myself a budding prize photographer. But a lamp? Why? This one isn't m Read more:Picture
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What Is It About Today? 2008-06-22 14:11:05 What is it about today? Well on this day a lot of interesting people were born. For instance, this date in 1903 brought into the world Carl Hubbell, former pitcher for the NY Giants; and John Dillinger. Both men were wanted in their time but for vastly different reasons. This was not a very good for Hollywood though. On this date in various years the world lost many fine performers. A few of those Read more:Today
Free Saturday, Sort of 2008-06-21 11:42:20 I wanted to take this opportunity to remind you of a few things on the blog site. First, I want too urge you to visit the "Giveaway of the Day" each day. The link is always near the bottom of the left sidebar. Each day they offer free of charge quality software downloads. I have picked up some very useful programs in this way. Just recently I have downloaded and installed "Macrium Reflect" which i Read more:Saturday
If Spiderman Can 2008-06-20 18:42:09 What is it about dreams that lets everyone be a superhero? Last night I was having the strangest dreams. In one dream I had I was driving along the highways in some unknown large metropolitan city. As I was zooming along I was in one of the right lanes and needed to be in the left lane because I was coming to a split in the highway. I couldn't change lanes because there was someone in the lane I n Read more:Spiderman
A Grave Situation 2008-06-19 04:00:06 I mentioned yesterday that I found a goodly portion of my family tree on ancestry.com courtesy of my niece Kari Horst Nilsson. Well now to add to the story, yesterday I was looking up some information on the Internet Movie Database and from there ended up going to findagrave.com. This lead me to posting pictures of the headstones of my family on the site for Oakwood Cemetery in Waco. I then decide Read more:Grave
Picture Monday, July 7, 2008 2008-07-07 11:31:25 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 pi Read more:Picture
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What Won't They Do For Science? 2008-07-06 14:48:06 I was searching last night for sugar-free recipes. As one thing led to another I eventually looked up Splenda. This then led to Sucralose. Person that I am I was intrigued when I saw a page that promised to detail it's history; so I clicked and read.Wow! It turns out that the discovery of Sucralose was a total accident. According to an article on Shapefit.com, two scientists working for Tate & Read more:Science
Wham-O, Just Because I Like the Way It Sounds 2008-07-05 13:57:14 Slept late. Tested my blood sugar and it was 160. YIKES!!! It happens most of the time after a birthday party. I didn't really party, I just stayed up late and ate later than normal.Yesterday afternoon Julie got a brilliant idea. "Let's go to Toys-R-Us and buy a Slip-N-Slide for Jace." So we packed up and went to Toys-R-Us in Waco. Pitiful. Pitiful. Now understand, for whatever reasons, I just don Read more:Sounds
More Notgeld - Installment 2 2008-07-03 04:00:01 In my posts Is That History Peering Back At Me? and More Notgeld - Installment 1 I have shared some scans of a portion of my Notgeld collection.Today, instead of new scans I am going to share some more information I have found while researching Notgeld. Richard Holmes has a lot of great information on Notgeld, as well as informative links, on his web-page German Inflationary Notgeld 1922 - 1923.Ri
And Now The Weather--No Wait! 2008-07-03 01:33:29 Many people say that my daughter Julie is related to me. When they say this they are meaning that she is very much like me. It seems that I tend to do things a lot like her. Or more precisely, she does things like me many times. We can be watching TV and hear someone say something that is less than intelligent and both of us will often comment about it at the same time.Last night we were watching
The Not-So Magic Jack 2008-07-01 04:00:01 Last night I was watching TV when an ad came on. The ad was designed to be like a sales pitch on some shopping network. The sales pitch was for the Magic
Jack; a USB device that turns your PC into a phone and allows you to make "free" phone calls. After listening to this 5 minute commercial I decided to look it up. Hey, there wasn't anything else to do that late at night.When I made it to the Magi
Picture Monday, June 30, 2008 2008-06-30 04:00:04 Today I am highlighting some pictures from Chris's side of the family. Yesterday was Chris's Aunt June's birthday so I decided that this would be a great time to post some of her family pictures. Aunt June is Chris's father's sister. She currently lives in Moberly, Missouri. So get ready. Here we go!The picture below is a picture of the old home place in Nevada, Missouri. It looks like it was a cr Read more:Picture
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My Meal - $159, The Donkey Story - Priceless 2008-06-29 04:02:47 I apologize for the extremely late Saturday morning post. In fact, it is so late I couldn't even make it a Saturday evening post (No relation to the other one). It has to be a Sunday morning post.I went to the Ryan's Buffet for lunch yesterday. It was part of a Defensive Driving class. I went so that I could get 10% off my insurance. I also went to have a ticket dismissed. The ticket was for $225. Read more:Donkey
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DUHHH! 2008-06-27 19:32:15 Do you know what happens when you're working hard and trying to pull a new blog together and trying to post on another? You forget stuff. Guess what I forgot. Yep. I told the world about my new blog, but I never left a link to it. I was checking the blog traffic this evening and realized several people were clicking on the screenshot hoping to get to the blog. No such luck. I forgot to link to it.
More Notgeld-Installment #1 2008-06-26 12:57:07 Below are a few scans of more of the Notgeld that I have. The samples below are quite interesting. They are both printed on linen, front and back are sewn together. the work is actually quite good. I am not certain where these are from. It is hard to read some of the print since it is very small. The first image is very interesting. Do you notice the American flag? The man in front of the flag is
Meet Rory 2008-06-25 04:00:01 Meet Rory my new partner in crime. She's not really new, she's two years old. Julie got her two years ago from an animal place in East Texas, but that's another story that I'll let Julie tell sometime.I know that she looks calm and relaxed in the picture, but she is not always that way. Sometimes she acts like she just got an injection of ultra-caffienated Starbuck's coffee. She darts and runs and
More Notgeld #3 2008-07-22 04:00:03 This issue of More Notgeld will pay homage to the former German colonies. These examples of Notgeld was issued by Neustadt in April 1922. I have a total of 8 pieces in this series. I will devote today's post to 4 pieces and then show the last 4 pieces tomorrow. Germany was a late comer to the colony and empire building game. These colonies were a part of the German Imperial phase. 75 Pfennig Obve
Picture Monday, July 21, 2008 2008-07-21 04:00:58 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 t Read more:Picture
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Happy Birthday Lance! 2008-07-20 17:03:00 I would like to take this opportunity to wish my brother a HappyBirthday
. 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 els Read more:Lance
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Can You Spot It? 2008-07-19 07:06:15 You may remember from an earlier post that Julie and I went to the public library here in town. One of the books that I checked out was Hidden Secrets by David Owen & Antonio J. Mendez. The book is "A complete history of espionage and the technology used to support it", so says the cover. Thus far I have found it to be a very good read.The one thing that bothers me about this book and many oth
Drving Friendly 2008-07-18 04:00:04 Traffic drives me crazy! At least crazier than I already am.When I go to work I I like to get on the road and move. What happened yesterday morning? I went down our road and made it to the access road. That's where the fun began.Traffic was backed up. Really backed up. Since the construction began on the highway by the house things are beginning to get interesting. In order to help facilitate tra Read more:Friendly
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