Monthly Archives: July 2010
Knight and Day…
Today started off with another take-it-easy morning around the rig. Then, around 11 Jan heated up a batch of her delicious chicken spaghetti and garlic bread.
Then around 1pm we headed out to a nearby theater to see ‘Knight And Day”, the new Tom Cruise / Cameron Diaz spy movie We both enjoyed it. It was nice for a change to see a movie that all the best parts weren’t given away in the previews.
We had tried to call Fred and Susan before the movie, and tried several times more after…all with the same results. The call would ring once and then hang up.
I tried calling another number and it worked fine, so it wasn’t us.
So, not being able to reach them, we drove over to their house. Susan was there and Fred arrived a few minutes later. They had been having phone problems since last night. On their end, it would also ring once and then quit.
After talking for a good while, we headed out to eat at a Mexican restaurant called Cuco’s. Turned out to be pretty good. Much better than other Alabama Mexican food I’ve had.
And again we spent a good bit of time talking after dinner. With Fred and I it seems like we started back up right where we left off 32 years ago.
Fred and Susan
We said our goodbyes at the restaurant about 7:45pm and headed back to the rig for the night. I still had some stuff to do before we leave for Birmingham tomorrow morning.
We plan on spending 2 nights in Birmingham and then 3 nights in Athens, AL before heading up to Louisville, KY for The Rally.
Quote of the day:
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.
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Old Homes and Old Times…
After a relaxing morning, we headed out about 1 pm to check out Montgomery, and how it had changed in the last 32 years or so since we lived here.
We left in December 1978 when we moved to Houston when I went to work for NASA. We moved here from Birmingham in December 1974 when I went to work as a Broadcast Engineer at WCOV Ch. 20 and Jan had a job at Jackson Hospital.
We first went by Jackson Hospital so Jan could look up old co-workers, including Kathi Wilkes, who we were planning to get together with for dinner tonight.
Leaving the hospital, we drove over to our first place in Montgomery, these apartments on Burbank Dr.. We lived in the bottom floor unit just to the left of the entrance way.
They still look very nice, although when we lived there they were out in a big open field. Now there’s so much around them, they were hard to find..
After a year we moved into this house on Matterhorn St. It still looks very good, too.
Nearby was Chris’ Elementary School, and it stills looks very nice, too.
A few months later, we bought our first home, here on Brookwood Dr. A little run down, but not bad after 32 years.
Montgomery has changed so much we never really got our bearings here. Thank goodness for the GPS. Otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to find anything.
Our trip down memory lane done, we headed back toward the rig, stopping off at Walmart for the usual stuff, and the Post Office to mail a letter.
Then it was back to the rig for an hour or so, before heading up to Prattville, about 20 miles away to meet Kathi and her husband Whalen for supper.
They said the Longhorn Steak House was good and, boy, were they right. Not only were the steaks great, but so was the conversation. We spent almost two hours talking over old times. Here’s Kathi and Whalen.
On the way home we stopped off at a Books-A-Million to look for some books and magazines.
Then it was home for the night.
More tomorrow…
Quote of the day:
Stop, Drop, and Roll will not work in Hell – God
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