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08/04/09 09:54 AM #894     Johnny Leon Morgan Guys, The building that burnt down was in the video. It was right after the pic of the old safeway building. There are lots of changes happening in Vinita right now, and one of our classmates will have a say in the outcomes. Lynnda is on the city council. Vinita is lucky to have her in this role. I urge each of you to get involved locally and also to update us on what you have done. I know since we moved to the country by Miami I don't know as much about Vinita as I did when we lived there and I taught there. The rest of you don't be afraid to brag a little on yourselves and let us know what are some of the things the Class of 69 has done. Mr. Sooter is gone but I know from listening to him at church he was proud of our group. LET US KNOW AND LET US SPREAD HOW WELL WE HAVE DONE;;;; Johnny PS Example: Jay Fimple (class of 69) was a leader in starting the little league soccer program at Vinita. Bruce president of his PTA

08/04/09 10:32 AM #895     Lavanna M. Hawkins (Morgan) JOHNNY, I DON'T BELIEVE IN BRAGGING ON ONESELF, BUT I WILL TELL YOU HOW THE LORD HAS LED ME INTO SOME WONDERFUL EXPERIENCES. LAST FEB. I WAS ELECTED SECRETARY OF OUR CHURCH BOARD. ALSO I HAVE BEEN ELECTED THE SECRETARY/TREASURER OF OUR ALLIANCE WOMEN GROUP. I ALSO DO THE ANNOUNCEMENTS EVERY MORNING AT OUR CHURCH.I LOVE BEING IN FRONT OF A GROUP AND SPEAKING AND I CAN GIVE THAT CREDIT TO MRS. DUKE IF SHE HADN'T GIVEN ME THE CONFIDANCE WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER I NEVER COULD HAVE DONE IT NOW. MY X-HUSBAND TREATED ME LIKE A DOOR MAT BUT MY LORD HAS TREATED ME LIKE A QUEEN AND ALL MY PRAISE GOES TO HIM.

08/04/09 11:55 AM #896     Johnnie Wayne Johnson Paul-- LOL...yeah I kinda ran in the closet and hid for awhile. Had a bunch of tests...med tests...my doctor wanted me to go thru (shakes his head) Just finished them up last week. The verdict: I am as alive as the next person and looks to stay that way for awhile--provided I eat only rice cakes morning noon and night and only drink distilled water, quit smoking, no beverages that have any taste whatsoever, etc etc...yeah right. ROFL Sure! I can do that! Just not gonna! LOL Lavanna--We just got tapped really hard and Jan's ability to recoup was diminished...so you know...you play it by ear, one day at a time. On the good side, I got or will be getting shortly a brand new hearing aid. YEah!!!! A new digital that will let me talk on cell phones...maybe! LOL It will have a bluetooth connection ability and new bells and whistles. So I am excited about it and cant wait to get it...$3000 dollars later. LOL Johnny-- Greetings ol'friend! Good to see your shinning face. Accomplishments: hmmm. Thats a toughie. We moved around so much...never did get involved in the community that much. Now, not sure I want to out here! (chuckle) About the only major acheivement that I really care about is 5'3" inches tall, dishwater blonde hair, graduated from highschool (her final grade 4 A's and a C) Flight Commander for JRROTC Flight 944, currently enrolled in CSUN headed for a BS degree in Marine Biology! HOT DAMN! I am proud of this girl! She has done it all and kept her integrity, her ambition, and intellect intact in Southern California. THAT is an accomplishment! Lets see...acheivement--bragging rights...acheivement--bragging rights,(weighing it out) AW HELL! Yes I am a proud daddy! But the endless nights and days worrying, reading, nurturing, quizzing, testing, battling, arguing, poking, prodding, GROUNDING, and finally... Turning Loose (sigh)for 18 years...yeah that qualifies. (smile) Hugs to all John

08/04/09 11:56 AM #897     Johnny Leon Morgan Lavanna, Congrats, always glad to hear fellow 69ers doing stuff Bob McSpadden once told me the more you do the more you get criticized. I thought it was a pretty good saying which I tell to encourage others to keep on doing til they get the job done and don't listen. John, A job well done, she sounds like she has her act together. I hope someday she will realize DAD is pretty cool. AND quit smoking as I lost my brother Bill to lung cancer 15 years ago (he was a heavy smoker)

08/04/09 12:16 PM #898     Johnnie Wayne Johnson Carla: LOL...yeah...LOL I hear ya! I hope no one takes me too seriously! I joke and tease about getting older. Truth be told, I probably worry about it more than anyone and use the teasing to ease my own fears. But on the good side...I wouldnt trade it for what these kids are going to have to face. I am quite content with the way I look, feel and dress (overalls. the only thing fit over my belly now...LMAO) The only thing I miss is my wife! She is still working and if I had here home everyday...I would be in heaven! 4 years, 6 months and a wakeup...she will finally be able to chuck the 9 to 5 crap and come home. Oh, we wont have a lot of money...but as we are finding out in these times...dont need a lot of money to be happy. I look at you, Mary Ann, Judy, Steve, Paul, all of you and remember what we looked like, that mental image is all I had. Some of you...I would recognize on the street...the majority...no way! LOL Bruce, Steve and Victor I would recognize...Mary Ann...maybe Judy...Fran of course. But the rest of ya..not a chance (chuckle) Then to look behind the wrinkles that we all have and to see the "life" that is there...compare that with the child that you knew...WOW! Thats a mind-blower! That will slap ya right in the face. Whenever we do get back there, I will make this promise: I will look you up and we will share. That I promise. Hugs John

08/04/09 12:26 PM #899     Paul Ray Wever Johnnie - talk about unrecognizable. What's with the beard? Afraid that one of us will bump into you on the street?

08/04/09 12:39 PM #900     Johnnie Wayne Johnson Johnny, Ooooh, I would love nothing better that to have never started. Sorry to hear about your bud. I dont know...I guess I must like it. Because everyone tells me "if you really wanted to quit...you would" Personally, I dont think that is really true..but... You have heared the expression: "old soul in a young body" I could brag all day..and all night for that matter. But I do so long for today's teenagers to wake up and finally get "it". Sam is not alone. I know a few out here that have it all together and we as a nation, as a people and as humanity in general do so sorrowfully need them. I will take the time, energy, and monies to make sure they get every chance that they can to succeed. Sam grasps concepts quicker than any of my kids. She can listen to what your saying (or preaching in my case...teeeehee) and not only apply it, but understand it. Its incredible to watch her eyes light up. For those of you who are teachers...yeah I know what drives you to get up every morning and go to work...and it aint the money! LOL Kudos to you all! Without getting to much on my soap box, our educational system out here, K-12, SUCKS! You as a parent absolutely MUST fight for your child...everyday...constantly vigilant on every front. Its pathetic! People who are supposed to be educators have been reduced to or started out that way...assembly-line workers. They get no support from their peers, very little support from the parents and thought of as a step-child from the State. Pityful! Its a wonder we have any teachers out here at all...in whatever mode they are in. Ok ok ..I am done...ROFL!!! Love ya all John

08/04/09 12:46 PM #901     Johnnie Wayne Johnson Paul: Rolling On Floor Laughing My Ass OFF! ROFLMAO!!! I love it! Good one Paul! No, I am so damn ugly that if I didnt have the beard...my picture would shatter your monitor...LOL My wife and daughter, bless their naive hearts, asked me to shave it off. Since they had never seen me without other than my grad pic. So I did. It took maybe 20 seconds and they both said at the same time, "Grow it BACK!" LOL You live out here with me...you and I need to get together. I think Connie does too...like really close. One of these days, I am going to rattle her door. Paul, lets do this...honestly. We can meet half way some where or I can come to you or whatever...but lets start the dialog.

08/04/09 02:15 PM #902     Johnnie Wayne Johnson Jan-- You know...(refills his pipe) I have always had a wanderlust to see Montana. How soon did you say that bedroom was gonna be finished? (giggle) We arent always going to counting our pennys and I do have setting next to the house a 35 foot motor home. Now my understanding of when I bought this thing, that it came equipped with a homing device for your house....LOL Hugs John

08/04/09 02:31 PM #903     Johnnie Wayne Johnson Mary Ann, (dusting the dirt off) You dont want to stop around here too long! People start to get ideas and the next thing you know..LMAO! No love, very much alive and well. I will share a good story with everyone tho. They have a new test to see how much oxygen your body is getting while you sleep. This consists of a contraption that slips over your finger when you go to bed and when you wake up in the morning it has recorded all these "numbers" at intervals during the night. Of course its like being tethered to the wall if your one of those that tosses and turns. The doctor reads the numbers and decides if you need a "further" test. THIS one involves you going to a "sleep center" and spend the night in a strange bed, strange surroundings, and just try and go to sleep (must obtain REM sleep...which I did...barely) NOW this test you are wired up like a freight train baby! I mean you have more wires to you than your VCR. LOL Then somewhere in the middle of the night this attendent hooks you to a face mask and increases the air presure within the mask to see if you oxygen levels increase. (lights pipe, takes a small puff) Its a trip! At the very end of the test you are given a two page questionaire that is meant to describe the "quality" of sleep you got that night. ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!! Obviously, I was "dreaming" about all the wires, being wakened every two hours, an uncomfortable pillow and the hard as nails BED they had me in...obviously LOL

08/04/09 04:27 PM #904     Johnnie Wayne Johnson Mary Ann, Got called away and didnt finish. We havent heard the results of these latest tests. The unit they are trying to sell is a relatively new concept on the market for COPD patients. My doctor has one he uses every nite and swears by it. My understanding is that I will most likely have one soon. If it works...fantastic...but you are tethered to this thing and I tend to roll around..so we'll see what happens. I absolutely laughed in this poor attendents face when i started reading this questionaire. I felt bad about it later but she seemed to take it in stride. The questions were just so "stupid" given what you just went thru...duh!!! Like: Did you sleep better than normal?" or how about: "how you rate the quality of sleep you got compared to that when you are home?" Now one of us here needs a reality check! ROFL!!!! TWO PAGES OF THIS NONSENSE! Jan got to sleep with me...well...she got to lay there. She didnt sleep at all that night. I was glad she was there. Supposedly I made it to REM sleep twice that nite. Could have fooled me...LOL The trip home was nice though. We stopped and tail-gated breakfast outside a McDonalds. Got to see the sun rise together...that was nice! hugs John

08/04/09 04:54 PM #905     Johnnie Wayne Johnson Since I didnt attend the reunion and everyone else is talked out...I am going to continue to "rattle" on. (grin) Just saw the reunion flic from Saturday nite. Wow! Now i can put "movement" with some of those pics...teeeheeee. Bruce-- First of all you making a speech must have made history! Secondly, the fact Paul got EVERYTHING else BUT, tends to make one a little suspcious. Like maybe had some alt motive...hmmm? LOL I am sure it was just an oversight. Far be it for me to spread discontent. (giggle) My daughter, bless her heart, decided to bring daddy into the 21st century music on the net. I briefly caught the Moodly blues in Tuesday Afternoon on a TV commercial and just had to hear the rest of the song. (for those of you know I am deaf...that was not a mistype...:)) So she showed me how to get tunes off the net...and managed to get a very poor quality rendition of the song. I immediately jumped in the car and went to Best Buy. When i got home, I threw the DVD disc in the computer, cranked up the surround sound in the computer room (like you can hear it outside, in a hail storm, in YOUR house, with the pillow over your head, TWO BLOCKS away. ROFL!!!!) OH Oh it was incredible! I must have sounded like I was having an orgasm, because wife came into the room to check on me. LOL I FOUND MUSIC! It brought back SO SO many memories. So, I jumped back in the car and went back to Best Buy and got Steppenwolf, Blood Sweat and Tears, Three Dog Night. OMG...it is like being on drugs without the drugs. I mean its better than the "little purple pill" they give you after surgery. OHHH What a trip!!!!!!! So immediately come to mind some familar faces...Connie (no I didnt forget our brief romance) or Daisy, or Linda Ann...Hi Fran. (chuckle) Those were good days. 51 chevy pickup (held together with bailing wire...kept the gum for when Buck would pull me over) LOL Gas was 17 cents at Coppedges. Sneaking into the Rodeo meant climbing some fences or working your way in...sometimes both! (same with the circus that used to come to town) Music, so how many of you still play the old toons?? John

08/04/09 08:32 PM #906     Linda Ann Young (Birkes) Johnnie Johnson you have more to say than any woman I know,lol. I listen to the oldies and the country classics. That is great news you had about the new hearing aides.

08/04/09 09:41 PM #907     Lavanna M. Hawkins (Morgan) JOHNNIE JOHNSON- SPEAKING OF THAT CONTRAPTION YOU WILL HAVE TO WEAR WHILE YOU ARE SLEEPING. MY FRIEND HAS SLEEP APNEA AND HE WENT THROUGH THE TESTS. HE STOPPED BREATHING OVER 200 TIMES IN THE 2 HOURS THAT HE DID SLEEP. THEY STARTED HIM OUT WITH THAT CONTRAPTION BUT HE HAS CLOSTROPHOBIA JUST AS I DO AND HE COULDN'T STAND IT COVERING HIS FACE. IT COVERS YOUR WHOLE FACE AND HE PUT IT ON MY FACE AND I COULDN'T BREATHE. SO THE DR. HAS HIM NOW ON OXYGEN AT NIGHT WITH JUST THE NOSE PIECE IN HIS NOSE.WHEN HE TAKES NAPS IN HIS RECLINER YOU CAN SEE HIM STOP BREATHING FOR AS LONG AS A COUPLE OF MINUTES. HE'S SUPPOSE TO HAVE IT ON AT ALL TIMES WHEN HE THINKS HE MAY DOZE OFF. BUT WITH HAVING SLEEP APNEA HE NEVER KNOWS WHEN THAT IS. I HOPE IT ALL WORKS OUT FOR YOU BUT IF YOU CAN'T TAKE HAVING THE MASK ON JUST ASK FOR OXYGEN WHEN YOU SLEEP IT WILL BE ALOT BETTER AND WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE.

08/04/09 10:50 PM #908     Johnnie Wayne Johnson Linda Ann, LOL...Who me???(looks around innocently). Most the time now that Sam is working...there is no one around the house but the cat. I have tried having conversations with her before and its meow this and meow that. I tell you she just full of herself...LOL Hugs John

08/04/09 10:58 PM #909     Johnnie Wayne Johnson Lavanna, they have some different masks now...but you still tend to get closed in. I have never stopped breathing at night...but they are concerned over the oxygen levels that i take in. They tend to get lower once i enter REM sleep. All caused by the COPD no doubt. Then there is the RLS or Restless leg syndrome that will wake me up two or three times a night (so Jan tells me). So they are saying the brain is sending signals to wake the body up because of the lower oxygen levels. I am tired all the time because I dont sleep thru the nite. Yadda Yadda Yadda. I will wear it if it gives me back my get up and go...thats fine. I was on Oxygen when I was having my cluster headaches last year ...so i am no stranger to that either. Dont particular care for it..but... At this point, no one really knows whats going to happen. Wait and talk to my doctor sometime in the next week. John

08/05/09 12:35 AM #910     Janis Ann (Jan) Dirickson (Marshall) As a good (older) friend once said, "Don't let em fool you, those "Golden Years" you hear about, well they're a little tarnished." Funny how fast old got here isn't it? I use to laugh at "old people" taking about aches and pains and now I find that I ARE ONE. Shouldn't 40 yrs have taken longer? Night all..

08/05/09 10:07 AM #911     Bruce Evans Well Jan, an even older better friend of mine said: "60 is the new 40". Haven't you heard? I think it is so cool that Paul's videos have brought our class even closer together. Those who missed it can still share. And Johnny J, Mary Ann came up to me during Saturdays party and said: "Bruce, Judy said you were going to give a speech". I thought it was a joke! But, I told her to give me a few minutes and I would come up with something. Then completely unannounced I stood up and call for attention and delivered "The Speech", short and sweet. A small part of the fun.

08/05/09 10:10 AM #912     Lavanna M. Hawkins (Morgan) I AGREE WITH YOU JAN, I WAKE UP EVERY MORNING HURTING SOMEWHERE ON MY BODY. IF I DON'T GET UP AND MOVE AROUND RIGHT AWAY I CAN'T HARDLY MOVE. ALONG WITH MY OSTEOPEROSIS AND MY BURSITIS IN MY HIPS I HAVE FROZEN SHOULDERS. ONE I WENT FOR THERAPY YEARS AGO BUT IT WAS SO PAINFUL FOR THE OTHER I JUST DO THE EXCERSIZES AT HOME (WHEN I THINK OF IT).DEFINITLEY NO GOLDEN YEARS HERE!

08/05/09 11:53 AM #913     Johnnie Wayne Johnson Bruce: And a fine speech it was too! Off the cuff is sometimes the best. Certainly most sincere. Good job, Bruce! And dont you just love to get "volunteered" at the last second. LOL. Like you say, "part of the fun" John

08/05/09 04:01 PM #914     Paul Ray Wever Bruce - again my apologies for not capturing your "moment". It happened so quickly, I just didn't think to grab my video camera. And it definitely wouldn't have happened when it did if I had not told Judy that it was past my bed time and I had to drive to Tulsa for an 8:30 a.m. flight out the next morning.

08/06/09 04:59 AM #915     Johnnie Wayne Johnson (sneaks back to his closet and quietly closes the door) LOL Now I feel bad for even mentioning. LOL (cracks the door open and pokes a tiny white flag) teeeheeee! Only humans could have this much fun, 1500 miles away at 2am. LOL Nite all Johh

08/06/09 10:38 AM #916     Lavanna M. Hawkins (Morgan) JOHNNIE- YOU HAVE DEFINITELY BEEN TALKING TO YOUR CAT TO LONG. I THINK YOUR LOSING IT OLE PAL. I KNOW HOW IT IS THOUGH, I LIVE ALONE AND ALL I HAVE IS MY LITTLE DOG TO TALK TO AND SHE DOESN'T TALK BACK, SO IT'S LIKE I WALK AROUND TALKING TO MYSELF ALL DAY. THAT'S WHY I CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY MORNING TO TALK TO HUMANS THAT I CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH. I KNOW YOU DON'T LIVE ALONE BUT WITH YOUR WIFE BEING AT WORK ALL DAY YOUR STILL LONELY FOR HER. I HAVEN'T FOUND "MR. RIGHT" YET I'VE FOUND PLENTY OF "MR. WRONGS" THOUGH. ALL OF YOU WHO ARE HAPPILY MARRIED ARE VERY FORTUNATE. I GET SO TIRED OF WAKING UP TO AN EMPTY APT. NO ONE TO FIX BREAKFAST FOR OR COOK A MEAL FOR SINCE MY KIDS ARE GROWN AND HAVE MOVED ON. ANYONE OUT THERE FEEL THE SAME WAY I DO? IF YOU DO, I UNDERSTAND. THIS HAS BEEN MY LIFE SENSE 1991, THAT'S A LONG TIME. BUT I JUST KEEP HAVING HOPE AND FAITH IN THE GOOD LORD THAT THE FUTURE WILL BE BRIGHTER AND TAKE ONE DAY AT A TIME. THANKS FOR LISTENING......

08/06/09 01:40 PM #917     Johnnie Wayne Johnson Lavanna, Yeah...the cat and I get into some interesting discussions!! (grin) Most of the time its concerning her food and when SHE thinks she should be feed. Also, about the caliber of the hired staff these days (cats dont have owners...they have staff). I tell her to take it up with the union rep...but she just rolls her eyes, yawns and goes back to sleep. LOL hugs John

08/06/09 01:44 PM #918     Paul Ray Wever Johnnie - you've got it all wrong, you don't own a cat - the cat owns you and keeps you trained accordingly.

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