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04/03/11 09:13 AM #2159    

 

Connie Morgan (White)

Happy Birthday Gary!!!!!!!   I hope you have a great day, followed by a healthy, happy year!

Thanks for maintaining this site.   It helps so much for the Class of '68 to remain close and to be able to communicate easier.

I hope this pretty day finds all of you well.   My ankle is much better, thanks for the well wishes.

Diane and Dick - I am glad you had a good, safe trip.

Have a good week all.  


04/03/11 04:32 PM #2160    

 

Diane Harris (Moore)

I can't think of a single way to improve upon Connie's post, so I'll just say "ditto". Glad your ankle is better, Connie.

Gary, Dick and I both join Connie in saying "Happy Birthday". As time goes on, each birthday becomes more special than the one before. I hope you get to spend time with those beautiful women in your life-wife and daughters- and your grandchildren. If so, then you have had a good birthday.

Have a good week everybody.

04/03/11 09:07 PM #2161    

 

Ross Dudley

gary that cat joke is funny

04/04/11 11:09 AM #2162    

 

Donald Chandler

Gary... Hope you had a great birthday up in the mountains. 

Liz is scheduled for KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY tomorrow morning (Tuesday, 4/5) at 10 am at St. Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta. This is a procedure that has been delayed for months because of the other health issues she has had to deal with.  If all goes well, she should be home by Thursday and begin a six to eight week recovery with lots of physical therapy. We would be grateful for your prayers that all goes well.  And if any of you have any wisdom and advice to offer her "nurse" (me)... I would appreciate it. :-)

Great to see you on the Forum, Ross!  We look forward to hearing more from you soon.

Have a great week, mates.


04/04/11 11:20 AM #2163    

 

Jimmy Willis

Morning Mates!


We're coming to you from Beautiful St Simons Island! The weather
is great! I'm just setting out on the deck watching the ocean roll
in. The food has been great. Barbara Jean's crab cakes! Fish, oysters
Crab legs man this is great. Wished I could do it forever! Anyway
Sorry bout missing your birthday's Ladies. I really hope you guys had
a great weekend!

And was that Ross I saw on the responses awhile ago. Great that
you joined us Ross! How's Pam and the young-uns! Sorry I missed
you guys when I was by your place couple weeks back! Wished I
could have caught your Dad while I was there! Maybe soon! Anyway
good to hear from you, come on back!

Don, the Braves are looking Great(So Far!). Maybe this is the year!
Nice mix of players. Great balance What you think?

Got to run guys. Going to starbuck's! Best coffee on the Planet!

Later On!

04/04/11 07:09 PM #2164    

 

Diane Harris (Moore)

Gary, from the looks of the photos I saw on facebook, you had a great birthday weekend, and you deserved it.

Ross, it was good to hear from you. I'm glad Gary's joke flushed you out. Give Pam a hug for me.

Jim, I can almost feel the island breeze of St. Simon's blowing across my cheek. Lucky skunk, you. Have fun.

Donald, please let your sweet Liz know that we'll be thinking of her as she has surgery tomorrow. I pray all will go just as it should. I have not had knee replacement, but have had personal experience with people who have. Tell Liz that doing her rehab will be key to recovery, even though it will hurt at first. I am sure she has the fortitude to do what she needs to, and she no doubt has the best aide available--you. Please let us know how it goes.

Having April showers here tonight. Downpours, actually.

04/04/11 09:21 PM #2165    

 

Donald Chandler

JIM... you must be in heaven, man!  Fresh seafood, beautiful weather, Starbucks coffee, and a little Braves Baseball on TV.  Can't get much better than that.  Our Braves do look pretty good,  three out of four so far... and on the road too.  GO BRAVES!  By the way, Jim... is it true that you are headed over to Augusta National on Thursday to play a round?  Now that would be heaven!  Enjoy the rest of your vacation!

Thanks, Diane, for the prayers and the good words of advice for Liz.  I will pass it along.  She is really looking forward to getting this done so she can get some relief from the pain.  She is determined to do whatever it takes.  I may need a little "patience" myself, but I'll keep you posted on my "patient". 

Come on Ross... we want to keep hearing from you.  We have lots of fun here on the Forum... trading stories and jokes and lies... and going through good times and bad times together.  Say hello to Pam for us.  

Enjoy your week, mates. 


04/06/11 10:33 AM #2166    

 

Gary Grice

Hi, ho, Hi, ho, its back to work I go, but I ain't singing all day long, Hi, ho, Hi, ho!  Here I am back to the old grind stone.  Really had a great weekend.  I got involved with Facebook while away only because my Blackberry functions well on that venue and not so well to this website.  For those not on Facebook, Sherron and I went to Helen for our anniversary (35th) and had a great time.  Went horseback riding and just tootling around north Georgia.  The weather was great until Monday night.  It got pretty scary as our cabin was located almost on the top of a small mountain and pretty exposed.  The wind and rain was so loud, we didn't sleep much.  Lost power about 5:00 AM but restored within the hour.  We headed out about 9:30 and encountered a utility truck about halfway down the mountain attending wires laying everywhere as the result of a downed tree.  A little further along we saw where another tree had been cleaned up after having fallen across the road.  One of the cabins had a tree leaning against it as well.  Its always good to get back home.  Don, glad to hear Liz is progressing - hopefully to a very speedy recovery.  It certainly was good to see that Ross had posted as well.  I guess I'll just have to come up with more CAT jokes!! Jim, I hope you are recovering from that sunburned tongue that I know was hanging out while you lounged on the beach.  Little Black Bikinis will do that to a man!  In the mean time, I came across this ad from somewhere in our past.  It was so encouraging, no longer being skinny, I thought it was worth sharing.  I hope you all have a very blessed day and rest of the week.  Later.



04/07/11 08:37 AM #2167    

 

Gary Grice

Greetings and salutations!  From yesterday's posting, we fast forward to what really happened.  Have a great day.   Later.



04/07/11 12:08 PM #2168    

 

Jimmy Willis

Morning Mates!

Gary I just went back and read the Cat joke! Now that was funny!!!

I had to leave the room myself!!!

Anyway, I'm Back! We got in at 11:00 last nite. Had a 8:00 A.M.

meeting. Man it was Great to get away! It wouldn't do for me to win

the lottery! I could get lost real easy!

Anyway, while I was gone Ya'll almost let the whole World blow away.

Man, can't leave you guys alone for 4 days! WHAT'S UP WITH THAT!

And Don you let the Braves lose TWO IN A ROW! Anyway, I'm back

now everything can go back to normal! PLEASEeeee!

Later

 


04/08/11 08:36 AM #2169    

 

Gary Grice

ITS FRIDAY, ITS FRIDAY!!! I hope everyone has a very blessed weekend.  Later.

1. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.

3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.

4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated in an algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.

5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.

6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.

7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, ‘You stay here; I’ll go on a head.’

14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger.. Then it hit me.

15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’

16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, ‘No change yet.’

17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

18. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

19. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

20. A backward poet writes inverse.

21. In democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.

22. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

23. Don’t join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!

 


04/08/11 09:13 AM #2170    

 

Dick Moore

Good morning to all!

It took a while to catch up on all the posts (and to stop laughing at many of the one-liners Gary posts).

Gary, I don't know what it is about our upbringing but we laugh at the same style jokes.  I haven't seen your collection of "over 50" jokes (and am not sure I want to see the "over 60" versions....) but I found them to be hiliarious.  

Ohio is toying with spring.  The grass is very green and needs to be mowed but the rain and cold weather is getting in the way.  Rumor is that this weekend will warm up and be good mowning weather.  We had a great time in GA last week visiting family. 

I'm happy that baseball is blooming down there.  I was in Cincinnati yesterday--right across from "The Great American Ballpark".  On the radio on the way home one person who lived in some very expensive condos near the ballpark, was complaining about the fireworks they shot off after wins or home runs.  He wanted them to stop because "it frightened his dog."   The DJs ripped the poor guy to shreds. 

Here's to a great weekend!

Dick

 


04/08/11 04:07 PM #2171    

 

Gary Grice

Mute button


04/11/11 10:14 PM #2172    

 

Connie Morgan (White)

Hello friends:

Jim, I finally got  a check in the mail to you today to go on the flowers for Roy Nation.   I sent $50.   Please let me know how much we owe you.   There is still some in our fund.   I am so sorry it took me so long to get a check to you.

Hi Ross...  It  was good to have you check in.   Sure would like to hear more from you.    Also glad to hear from you Dick.

Don, how is Liz doing?

 Gary, I've enjoyed the jokes.

Did you golf fans enjoy the Masters??

I hope you are all enjoying the Spring (even with the pollen).  I for one am so glad to not be having cold weather.

I sure would like to see y'all.    Wondering if folks could come for a Sunday afternoon gathering  this Spring? or is things are just too busy?    We will definitely plan on the fall if you can't come now.    Just let me know.

Take care dear friends!

connie

 


04/13/11 11:10 AM #2173    

 

Gary Grice

Kind of quite around here as mother nature tries to figure out if it Spring, Summer or Winter. I trust everyone is doing well.  Anywho, here's a little something to help you while away your time.  Enjoy.  Later.

 

Camouflage Cat ...... 

That Rottweiler never would have found this cat!   Can you?

Camouflage cat


04/13/11 01:43 PM #2174    

 

Jimmy Willis

Gary

That's one invisible cat! It amazing how nature enables some animal

to just melt into their surroundings. That cat is hid perfectly up against

those rocks.

Don are you OK? Haven't heard from you lately. 

Connie , I really wish you would keep that check. You could use it for

supplies for our next get togather. How bout I tear up the check. And

you use the money for that?

It's so nice this afternoon. Think I'll take the rest of the afternoon and

go play a round of golf.

Later Mates

 


04/13/11 03:11 PM #2175    

 

Donald Chandler

I'm ok, mates...

But Liz is keeping me hopping... doing my nursing duties, taking care of her at home after her knee surgery.  She had the surgery last Tuesday and was released from the hospital late Friday.  She's doing really well with the therapy and exercises.  And a Physical Therapist is coming in to see her three times a week.  She is also on one of those Constant Passive Motion (CPM) machines for six hours each day (three sessions of two hours each).  Those machines are really great... she can keep her new knee in motion even while she sleeps!  Medical technology is amazing.  I'm doing my best to keep her fed and haven't had any complaints thus far.  And I did a pile of laundry yesterday too.

Jim... over the weekend between my nursing duties, I did manage to catch a little Braves baseball and some of the Masters.  I did enjoy the Masters... I didn't want Tiger to win, but he did make that final round exciting.  I was kinda hoping that they would end up with a bunch of those guys tied at 10 under and go into a sudden death playoff, but it didn't happen.  Now the Braves... last night was a fun game, beating the Marlins after losing the two series against the Brewers and the Phillies.  Finally some HITTING!... but it could be a pitcher's duel tonight.  By the way, Jim... if I "let the Braves lose those two games" while you were on vacation, did YOU let them lose those three after you got back home?... just askin'... :-)  And hope you have a good round of golf if you play hookie.

Got the tax returns mailed today!... nobody in line at the Post Office!  We're getting back a small refund on the Federal and broke even on the State.  Now I have to pay the accountant.  In case you didn't know, tax time is one of my least favorite seasons of the year.

Gary... I had a tough time finding that cat too.

Connie... I agree... it would be fun to see everyone again.  Maybe after Liz's knee heals?  :-)

And today I wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to THOMAS JEFFERSON!  Thank you for the Declaration of Independence.  May we never forget that FREEDOM is not free.

Enjoy the rest of your week mates.  Reporting live from the Chandler Rehab Center, this is Nurse Don.


04/13/11 11:34 PM #2176    

 

Diane Harris (Moore)

Howdy all. Our weather is acting like me--can't make it's mind up. Cold one day, warm the next.....just the capriciousness of April I reckon.

Gary, I never did find the stupid cat, and that's 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Are you sure there was a cat there, or was that just a joke to take advantage of my fake blondness?

Connie, you asked about the Masters. Yes, I watched it off and on, mostly for the pretty scenery. I am not a golfer, but even I appreciated a few of those putts. Jimmy, I looked for you in the gallery.

Don, you are such a good, sweet husband. So glad Liz is coming along as well as she is following surgery. I would like to get me two of those machines and let them run all night on each leg. If she ends up with an especially shapely leg, please let me know, and I might invest. Please give her our love.

Calling it a night. In the words of my dear Mama, who told me this every time I left the house, "Be sweet" y'all.

04/14/11 08:13 AM #2177    

 

Gary Grice

Morining all!!!  Quick day today.  I will spend my afternoon in a meeting on RETIRING!!! My current target date is July 1, 2012!!! I am apprehensively excited.  Yes Diane there is a cat - not even I would post a picture without a cat .... though that would be funny.  If you want to continue looking - STOP READING NOW - Look at the green bush or vine growing up the wall.  Now look down the picture to the short rock wall.  START READING AGAIN.  Now having saved another damsel in distress, I can jump on my might steed and with a Hi Oh Silver ... oops!  Wrong hero.  Well I guess I can get back to doing nothing.  Hope everyone has a blessed day.  Later.


04/14/11 08:35 AM #2178    

 

Gary Grice

Okay, a few quickies to brighten your day.  Later.

A small boy was lost at a large shopping mall.

He approached a uniformed policeman and said, "I've lost my grandpa!"

The cop asked, "What's he like?"

The little boy replied, "Crown Royal whiskey and women with big butts."

The Cop almost fell over, he was laughing so hard.

*****

Recently I was asked to play in a golf tournament.

At first I said, ‘Naaahhh!’

Then they said to me ‘Come on, it’s for handicapped and blind Kids.’

Then I thought..

“Damn, - I could win this!’

*****

My husband came home with a tube of K Y jelly and said, 'This will make you happy tonight.'

He was right. When he went out of the bedroom, I squirted it all over the doorknobs.

He couldn't get back in.

*****

A lady is sitting at home when the phone rings. "Hello," she says.

"Hello," says the male voice at the other end. "I bet you'd really like it if I came around, ripped off your blouse and bra and panties, then threw you to the floor and made hot, sweaty love to you"

The lady replies, "From one 'hello,' you can tell all this?"


04/14/11 11:11 AM #2179    

 

Gary Grice

I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to post these Yogi Berra quotes.  They are priceless whether you appreciate baseball or not.  Thank you Yogi for ALL that wisdom!!!  Later.

1. “It’s like deja vu all over again.”

2. “We made too many wrong mistakes.”

3. “You can observe a lot just by watching.”

4. “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”

5. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”

6. “If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be.”

7. “If you don’t know where you’re going, you might end up some place else.”

8. Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: “I really didn’t say everything I said.”

9. “The future ain’t what it use to be.”

10. “I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”

11. On why he no longer went to Ruggeri’s, a St. Louis restaurant: “Nobody goes there anymore because it’s too crowded.”

12. “I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”

13. “We have deep depth.”

14. “All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”

15. When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

16. “Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.”

17. “Never answer anonymous letters.”

18. On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: “Thank you for making this day necessary.”

19. “The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”

20. “Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.”

21. As a general comment on baseball: “90% of the game is half mental.”

22. “I don’t know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.”

23. “It gets late early out there.”

24. “Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?” -Carmen Berra, Yogi’s wife. “Surprise me.” – Yogi

25. “It ain’t over till it’s over.”


04/15/11 11:14 AM #2180    

 

Donald Chandler

OK, Gary…  since you brought up one of my all-time favorite philosophers, Yogi Berra, I feel compelled to share my “Yogi story”.  For any of you not interested in Yogi Berra, or baseball, or my stories, please fast forward to the next post…

Yogi has always been one of my favorite characters, even though he was and is a New York Yankee.  His full name is Lawrence Peter Berra.  My next door neighbor for the last 26 years is also named “Lawrence,” and a Yogi fan too.  In 1989 Yogi wrote an autobiography called: “Yogi: It Ain’t Over” (see #25 on Gary’s list).  As part of a national book tour, Yogi came to my favorite bookstore at the time, Oxford Book Store in Atlanta, to sign his book.  My neighbor Lawrence decided to go to the book signing, and so did I.  I have a photo of Yogi from the signing but will refrain from posting it unless one of you really wants to see it.  Anyway, I discovered in the book that Yogi came up to the majors as a rookie in 1946, the next to last year for All-Star Yankee pitcher Spud Chandler (1907-1990).  For you who have never heard of him, Spud grew up near Commerce, Georgia and was a star on the Georgia Bulldog Football team (1929-1932) before he was signed by the Yankees to a baseball contract when he graduated from UGA.  Spud was also my father’s third cousin.  He played with Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio, and when Yogi came up as a rookie in 1946, Spud was the first pitcher to pitch a game with Yogi behind the plate as the starting catcher.  The year before he died, Spud was interviewed for Yogi’s book and in one chapter he recalled Yogi's first days on the team: "Yogi came in and it so happened that the first game Yogi ever caught, I pitched.  I told Yogi, 'You won't have a tough time catching me.  Just be in position.  That's all I ask.  I know what the story is.'  But me and Yogi had a problem.  See, his little fingers was so short that he got down and gave the signs and they were hard for me to see and he accused me of crossing him up.  I said, 'Yogi, I haven't crossed you up.'  He said 'Yes you did.  I gave you a curveball sign and you gave me the fastball.'  I said, 'No you didn't.  I didn't see but one finger.'  So we was in the dugout, see, and I says, 'Get down and give me a curveball sign.'  And he got down and I says, 'Yogi, look down there at the way you're givin' the fingers for the curveball sign.  Your fingers ain't spread.  They're frozen together.  You've got to separate them a little so I can see two of those little stubs that you're puttin' down.'  And we got along real good after that."  And Yogi went on to become one of the greatest catchers ever, and a Hall of Famer, and a national legend.  I wish I had known that story when Yogi signed my book, I would have asked him about giving the finger to Spud.  And even though I did get meet Yogi, I never had the opportunity to meet cousin Spud.

Speaking of baseball, our Braves aren’t doing very well, Jim.  Maybe they’ll get it going against the lowly Mets this weekend.

Diane... Liz is still making progress.  I'll be sure to let you know how her leg does with the CPM machine... maybe I should do before and after photos.  :-)

Have a great weekend mates.   


04/15/11 02:29 PM #2181    

 

Gary Grice

GREAT story Don!  My Yogi (close encounter) story isn't nearly as interesting but I feel compelled to share it anyway.  I WAS a Yankee fan way back when Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Yogi Berra were in their hay day.  It must have been about when I was in the 6th grade at Gaines School.  I was a bus safety patrol and in return for our services, we were treated to a trip to Washington, D.C. and marched in the Cherry Blossom Festival Parade.  Our tour bus driver shared with us that a few days earlier he hauled the Yankees around on his bus and "Yogi Berra sat RIGHT THERE" pointing to where I sat.  (It ain't much, but its the best I got.)  He said Yogi was even funnier in person.  I would love to see that picture.  Glad to hear Liz is recovering  - no marathons in the near future though? Just got off the witness stand.  Unlike Perry Mason - nobody confessed to nothing!  I hope you all have a blessed weekend!!! Later.


04/15/11 05:43 PM #2182    

 

Jimmy Willis

Lowly Mets! You can't get much lower than them Braves right now Don.

I know its early but this is becoming serious business!!! Know what I

mean?!*^#@

Anyway, have a great weekend Mates!

 

Later on!


04/16/11 08:49 PM #2183    

 

Kathy Carter (Campbell)

Hi Friends,

Haven't checked in for a while.I've really had a hard time about the loss of Inez and have been down, so just have'nt wanted to communicate w/anyone, couldn't even talk to my sisters on the phone.Doing better now.

The treatments from the chiropractor have reallyhelped me a lot, having much less pain, for which I am so grateful!

Sorry I missed your b/day Gary. From what I read you had a good trip to Helen.

Jim, you really made me envious telling about Saint Simons,wish I could go.

Gary, my sides were bursting from laughter when  read the Yogi Baera comments. I found the cat. She is sitting, looking into the camera, reminds me of my cat.

I'm still praying for Inez's and Roy's families. I do think about Inez often and remember the times I went to her house, or she came to mine and spnet the weekend when we were just girls. I know that Pee Wee misses her too.

Hope you all have a good Easter if I don't check back in before then. 


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