Happy Anniversary to us

Today is 25 years to the day that Kate & I first met.

Boy how time flies!

We both agree on where we met..

And that Kate was the one who made all the "moves"

And that a couple of hours (and many beers) later that I was singing "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" to her and her friends.

We made a date that night to get together the next day..  and we did.

After that our stories diverge...

I say she stalked me…Tracked me down, roped and hogtied me.

 She says I just kept showing up near her neighborhood.

 

Well do you know the music from the movie Titanic?  You know - sung by Celine Dion?

Just change the words a bit…  

Now imagine this tune while you read on:

Near…  Far… I must find his car….

and I'll stalk him wherever he goes…..

I would be driving down a road…  look in my mirror...

and what would I see?

Then a day later…   I'm somewhere else minding my business…

I check my side mirror before I change lanes….

 

 

 

Couple of days - somewhere else later I'm looking in the other mirror...

 

 

This happened more times than I can remember.

Coincidence?   You be the judge. 

 

Either way… I think I got the the WAY better end of this deal.

Happy anniversary Kate!

 

Ps.   If you notice a change in the style of this post (the pictures do no enlarge for instance) it's because I am testing a new off line blog editor.

I can create posts and add pictures without needing a web connection and then save them to upload them later when I have web access.  

All the formatting etc is done off line.

We will be blogging this way when we go to Alaska next summer so I wanted to play around with it now.

Memorial Day 2013

For the last several years my Memorial Day Post has been from

somewhere on the road traveling thru this amazing country of ours.

It has always added just a touch of something extra to my appreciation of the day.

Knowing how much has been sacrificed by so few,

that so many of us can enjoy the bounty.

Today, while home, my thoughts still turn to those who passed before.

Its been said that a Veteran is someone who has written a blank check...

payable to the United States of America in any amount up to including my life.

As we pass about in our day to day life...

Upset over some minor mishaps

Or upset about the tax check we might have to write to Uncle Sam...

Think about the hundreds of thousands who willingly have written

the ultimate check.

There are hundreds of US Military Cemeteries all over this country and

in foreign lands.

Today I leave you with the US Military Cemetery at

Omaha Beach - Normandy France.