I just noticed that I got a BLOG comment from a MissaSpoon. Let me fill you all in on just who MissaSpoon is. Way back in 1966, that's right 40 years ago. I was in a special program in Georgia where they let kids at the age of three attend preschool. We were taught as if we were 5 year olds as a study to see if 3 year olds could catch on to "Higher Learning"
Let the photos in this post help you to decide if it worked.
Anyway that is where I met MissaSpoon. Now of course that is not his real name, he made up that name while He , myself and two other buddies and my father took an unplanned road trip to Canada while we were in the 8th grade just so we could say that we had been there. We stopped at every road side attraction and tourist trap along the way, we got in a lot of trouble at school because we skipped school to do the trip. They were going to expel us from school the day we got back but my father reminded the principal that all of the kitchen equipment at the school lunch room was on loan from one of my dad's restaurants and all talk of expulsion just kind of disappeared. It was one of the best trips of my life. My children and I now do the same thing once or twice a year, flipping a coin when we get to a fork in the road as to weather we will go right or left. We are leaving on one of those on Tuesday this week just for fun. The kids are out of school all next week so now is a good time to go. ( Since I do not own any restaurants)
But back to MissaSpoon. For 40 years we have been best friends. He was in my wedding I was best man in his. I was there at the hospital for the birth of his son, and he was at the hospital for the birth of my son. And so on. We have done all of that teenage stuff that they make movies about. ( But NOT Brokeback Mountain) We lived to tell about it.
Anyway, in his post he asked "Will there ever be a MudWog Post" or something like that. No there won't. MudWog is a made up character that only lived in the letters that MissaSpoon and I and my girlfriend Wanda would write to MissaSpoon while he was stationed in Korea when he was in the US Army in the early 1980's.
The two photos in this post were taken around 1980 when he and I both attended a small private school in Morrow, Ga. It was on 50's day and he came as a nerd. We all asked him why he did not dress up. Anyway, I found these photos this last December and added the titles to them and sent them to him for Christmas.
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Ha! I would say that it's quite obvious to anybody that knows you that any 3-year education you received was quite wasted. Another fine example of our hard-earned tax dollars going down the tube.
That said, I love the new site. Now that you've raised the bar, I have to go out and update my own site. But don't hold your breath, I'm in a little bit of a transition myself.
The joke, of course, is that nothing ever changes until you take a photo of it ... at which point, changes start happening. Nothing dramatic, mind you. But changes none-the-less.
But all-is-well... in fact, I must say that many of the changes occurring around me are decidely for the best. Particularly with regards to a new English lady that has made her way into my life. In many ways, America has been conquered by Britain. But that's a whole 'nother story...
Take care and we'll talk soon.
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