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A sixties kind of guy remembering the past and the lessons learned. I'm passing on what I've mooched from from life in hopes of sparking memories and helping others. It's just my life as best I can make it.
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MOWING THE YARD AND PLAYING WITH GRAND-BABIES!
As usual, Judy and I picked up Lily from Wee-Pre-School yesterday, and had a ball eating at Chick-fil-a and playing blocks on the screened porch. It was a beautiful day with plenty of sunshine, giggles, and funny little sayings! We then got a ca...
MONDAY’S GRANDCHILD
Judy and I look forward to Mondays ‘cause it’s the day we get to pick Lily up from her church’s “Wee Pre-School”! As excited as we are, she sometimes is less than enthusiastic, sometimes hanging her head with her lower lip sticking out, or...
NIGHT ON THE TOWN WITH COREY AND JOE BONAMASSA
My mom is home now and seems to be doing well, but last Tuesday night she was still in the hospital getting over pneumonia complicated by asthma. Tuesday was a rainy, foggy, and kind of chilly evening in Knoxville, Tennessee, but Corey (my son) and I...
A LOVELY DAY IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD
I visited my mom this morning and stayed until after lunch. She is doing well now and her appetite has been changed by the Prednisone her pulmonary has put her on. This steroid should help clear her lungs of fluid and inflammation. I’m hoping to...
HANGIN’ WITH MY PARTNER
Corey and I hit Wild Wings in Knoxville today to watch Tennessee play Georgia…great game! We finally put a balanced attack together and came up with 45 big points! Our team is young with a new coach, but as the games tick by the experience c...
A WINGS RUN WITH THE BOYS!
My son called me Monday and invited me out to Wild Wings with him and his two college buddies from Middle (Doug) and West (Justin…wearing cap) Tennessee. It seems Doug, especially; always insist Corey’s “old man” come along. We have all ...
A WILD WINGS RUN
School is out, but Corey is still tying up loose ends, but he decided to relax a bit and called me Friday to see if I wanted to hit Wild Wings for lunch...the question goes without asking...YEAH!On the way, I got a text message from Jeff, who seems t...
WHITE MEN CAN JUMP!
Corey and I challenged each other to a dunking contest Saturday and surprised ourselves at how high we could jump. We jumped around like young fools who had just ate jumping bean chili! What incredible “ups” we made, and the intensity of our ef...
I AM SO BLESSED
Years ago, I was watching season 1, episode 6 of the TV series "ROOTS", where the character Toby, played by John Amos, went outside with his newly born child. He lifted the child to the starry sky and proclaimed, "Behold, the only thing greater than...
MAKING CHRISTMAS SHOPPING FUN!
Corey had a lot of Christmas Shopping to do Saturday, so he called me and asked me to go with him. As I’ll explain in my next post, I don’t shop for anyone but the grandkids, but I don’t ever miss an opportunity to be with me son. I’ll even...
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
There is already one special gift under my Christmas tree, and it will keep on giving for a long, long time! Lily has been, up until the last few months, very shy around strangers, and Judy and I worked hard at not taking it personally. We kne...
THE KNIGHTS ATTEND THE “OBAMA CLEARANCE”
Like millions of gun owners have been doing in their own areas, we attended the local R. K. Gun Show at the Expo in Knoxville, Tennessee. Everyone was calling it the “Obama Clearance”, and the place was packed, but most of the buying seemed to b...
IT’S A GIRL!
Corey and I had great hopes that his and Tia’s next child would be a boy…you know, carry on the family genes and all that macho stuff…even though we’ll love a little girl just as much! Tia and Corey left Lily in our charge Thursday (10...
COREY CELEBRATES 34 YEARS
This past Tuesday evening Judy and I met Corey, Tia, and Lily at Wasabi’s to celebrate his birthday. The meeting was arranged by his mother, Connie, as is always the case. Also attending was Gary, Connie’s husband, her father, Dub and his d...
LILY COMES TO VISIT
We had a nice leisurely Saturday, including a good visit with Tia, Corey, and Lily. Lily was all over the place, investigating new surroundings as a child will do. I went to the basement and dug out some old toys of Katie Bug’s for her...
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO REMEMBER A SOLIDER
Do you remember The War of 1898? Me either, but I do remember The Spanish-American War, some battles of which were fought in the Philippines where Pvt. Johnson served. This was the war for the generation of Patrick Hayes Johnson, born in August o...
LILY TURNS TWO!
We celebrated Lily’s 2nd birthday today (Saturday). The storms that raced across western and middle Tennessee blew themselves out by the time they reached the Cumberland Plateau, and just let us have some much needed rain. By party time at 4, t...
THE DAYS OF BONDING – PART THREE
Actually mine and Corey’s entire relationship has been one big bonding experience. Every time we get together we cram every experience we can into the short time. I have never tried to be Corey’s father, just a good buddy with whom he could le...
THE DAYS OF BONDING – PART TWO
Corey was fourteen, so the act of killing his first deer might be considered his “rite of passage” or his “coming of age” event, but, in all honesty, he did not transition, or enter his liminal phase, a period between withdrawing and re-ent...
THE DAYS OF BONDING – PART ONE
Corey and I used to spend the fall and early winter months in the woods of Tennessee, hunting, exploring, building hide-outs, and playing hide-and-go-seek – Rambo style! I have always loved being in the woods and I did my best to pass that fondn...
SATURDAY IS JUST ALRIGHT
Corey called to say he needed a make day for missing getting together Tuesday, so we made a date for Saturday. You remember I was with my mom and he had to take Lily back to the doctor, so we agreed Saturday was the perfect time. So, I called Ron...
MORE WEST TENNESSEE DUCK HUNTING
I posted the shot below on “The Silverbacks” a few days ago, but Corey has since sent additional shots of the trip to Crockett County, Tennessee to do some “Duck Blasting!”My son Corey (left) and his college buds Justin and Doug can hardl...
WATCHING LILY GROW
Corey and Lily met us at Calhoun’s At The Marina in Lenoir City Wednesday. Calhoun’s normally serves a huge buffet on Wednesday and Fridays, but through December the 22nd they are serving on Thursdays as well. What a spread!Corey's mom, who no...
