Author: Steve

 

Happy Birthday, Dad.  Born in 1910; 110 years ago, today.  He’s been gone a long time; 52 years; only lived to 1968.

 

He and Mom were there at Travis Air Force Base outside of Sacramento in 1966 to welcome me back from overseas and drive me home to Long Beach in the De Soto.

 

And for our wedding.

 

 

Fifty years.  Our golden anniversary.

 

We enjoyed our fiftieth anniversary so much, such a milestone, we couldn’t imagine topping that, so we have continued to celebrate it every day since.  Today the is 1,460th daily anniversary of our fiftieth wedding anniversary (fifty-four years).

 

Morning coffee on the deck, inside if it’s too cool outside (not lately), a daily salute.  Happy anniversary.  Staying golden.

 

 

 

The sorghum is fruiting.

 

Beans are looking good.

 

Sugar cane.

 

 

The onions have been harvested and bagged.

 

 

 

We have a smart TV with apps for VUDU, HULU, and Netflix.  We want to watch Amazon Prime, but our TV has a few years on it and Amazon Prime wasn’t a thing when the TV was installed.

 

The fix is easy.  Buy an Amazon Firestick, plug it in, and voila.  Amazon Prime.  But I have a logic problem with that.  Our TV is fully capable of running apps.  Why not download an app for Amazon Prime and watch what we want without spending the extra money to buy an extraneous piece of hardware to bypass what the television can already do?

 

The problem is, my logic isn’t getting us anywhere.  Even with YouTube I can’t figure out how to download a new app onto our old TV.

 

 

 

At the Louisville house.

 

We put that pelican weathervane on the roof probably twenty-five years ago.  Nancy, who still lives in the neighborhood, just updated us with this photo.  After all these years, even as the house has changed hands, the pelican still stands.