Daily Archives: July 5, 2010
Happy Anniversary to Us…
This is a 43rd anniversary for my beautiful wife Jan and myself.
No, not the regular one. That’s not until September.
Today, July 5th, is the 43rd anniversary of the day Jan and I first met in Titusville, FL. We were both working at an amusement park called Florida Wonderland. She lived nearby, and I was down in Florida bumming around for the summer. It took some work to get her to go out with me. She thought I was a stuck-up frat boy in a red sports car.. I thought she was gorgeous.
Here she is in 1975 with our two year-old daughter Brandi.
Of course, she always forgets this anniversary, and i have to remind her. I guess her first impression of me was even worse than I thought.
But it all worked out fine in the end.
Today we drove over to Gina’s about 12:30 so could finish up the deck project. And by about 4:30 pm everything was wired up and tested.. And it all worked perfectly.
A little later we headed back over to the Italian Garden restaurant, and, as usual, it was delicious. Jan had a pizza this time, Gina had the spaghetti with red clam sauce, and I had the Chicken & Shrimp in a bacon-dill cream sauce. All of this with their great fresh hot bread.
Heading back to Gina’s after supper I finished up some last minute repairs on some things, and then we headed back to the rig for the night.
Yesterday, I had a teaser about this sculpture on US 290 a couple of miles west of Johnson City, TX.
It turns out that the bull sculpture entitled “Marathon” is part of the Benini Galleries and Sculpture Ranch about 5 miles off the highway.
So here’s a sample of the diverse artwork.
“Marathon”
“The Blue Saint”
The next two are actually wind sculptures that rotate, whirl, and twirl in the breeze.
“Rancher Memories”
More tomorrow…
Quote of the day:
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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