HOW POOR WERE YOU---IN COMPARISON?

I ran across these and thought you might want to use them next time the "So Poor" stories start:

"I was once so poor I didn't know where my next husband was coming from."

                                   ----Mae West

"I started out with nothing and I 've still got most of it."
                                    ----Groucho Marx

"I was so poor, the lady next door gave birth to me."
                                     ----Lee Trevino

"I never had a penny to my name; so I changed my name."

"I was kidnapped by the mafia and they cut off my right hand little finger and included it with a ransom note to my folks. My father sent back a note that said, "I demand more proof!"

                                      ----Rodney Dangerfield

"My family was so poor that Blues song writers used to come to our house when they experienced writer's block."
                                       ----Otis Lee Crenshaw 

"We lived in such a poor neighborhood our paper boy had his younger brother ride shot gun with him."

"We lived so far back in the sticks we could not pick up the Grand Old Opera on our battery radio until Tuesday night." 

We were so poor on Saturday night we drew straws to see who got to used the Number 2 Wash Tube bath water first."

            ----Glenn C. Peck (Vanity still haunts me!)




TOTALLY UNRELATED: I ask that you help me increase the number of people reading the Blog. My long absence has all but stopped regular visits to the Blog. I'm alive and well and want to keep at this, IF there are enough readers.

Here's a possible way to help: Email not only our classmates, other former PCHS students, and friends and family with the link to the Blog.

HOW TOUGH WAS PCHS---IN COMPARISON ?

I'm always looking for quotes that I can use in ministry and this Blog. Also, they help me keep my grand kids laughing: Here's a few on how tough some schools were:

"I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."

                               ------Tallulah Bankhead

"I wont say our school was a tough school, but we had our own corner. We used to write essays like What I'm going to be IF I grow up!"

                                                              ----Lenny Bruce

"In our school you were searched for guns and knives on the way in and if you didn't have any they gave you some."

                               ----Emo Phillips

"In our school we had such few students we didn't have a class clown, we just took turns."

        ----Glenn C. Peck (Vanity is a horrible thing!)

TOTALLY UNRELATED: I ask that you help me increase the number of people reading the Blog. My long absence has all but stopped regular visits to the Blog. I'm alive and well and want to keep at this, IF there are enough readers.

Here's a possible way to help: Email not only our classmates, other former PCHS students, and friends and family with the link to the Blog.

FIFTY YEARS LATER--ANNIVERSARY !

THIS IS A VERY GOOD, AND I THINK FUNNY, STORY! FEEL FREE TO SHARE WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

A couple celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary by returning to their Honey Moon hotel.

The wife said, "Honey, when we were first married you stroked my hair." The husband immediately started gently stroking her hair.

She continued, "Honey, when we were first married you cuddled next to me." The husband immediately started cuddling next to her.

The wife was so pleased with her husband's prompt response she said in a low voice, "Honey, when we were first married you nibbled on my ear." The husband immediately got out of bed.

She asked, "Where are you going?"

He immediately replied, "To get my teeth!"

TOTALLY UNRELATED: I ask that you help me increase the number of people reading the Blog. My long absence has all but stopped regular visits to the Blog. I'm alive and well and want to keep at this, IF there are enough readers.

Here's a possible way to help: Email not only our classmates, other former PCHS students, and friends and family with the link to the Blog.

 

SINCE GRADUATION IN APRIL 1959

I am not a prophet or the son of a prophet. However, I can make some educated guesses. This Post is a brief compilation of my guesses. Am I right?

1. Some of our classmates and their families have experienced great pain and sorrow.

2. Some have experienced unparalleled joy at the birth of children, grandchildren, and even great grandchildren, and their many achievements.

3. Some classmates have remained close to their birthplace while others have had many different addresses in our great nation and world.

4. Statistically, some classmates have had to deal with addiction in their family. This is very, very hard to deal with. If possible, guide them toward recovery.

5. Some classmates have had to live with the reality of their children or grandchildren living alternate lifestyles.

6. All of us are coming to terms with our own health problems and our own mortality.

7. Our generation, as a general rule, have placed high value on the marriage vows.

8. All of us cannot change a thing in our past. The film has been developed. We can, with the Grace of God, change how the story will end.

DO SOME OF THESE APPLY TO YOU?????

FIRST SATURDAY IN MAY

Put a Kentuckian in prison, at the bottom of the ocean in a sub, on the crest of Mt. Everest, or on the International Space Station and he or she will quickly identify the significance of the first Saturday in May as the Run for the Roses---The Kentucky Derby!

The Derby is billed as the fastest two minutes in sports. Dreams are realized or shattered. Fortunes are won or lost. Names are pushed to the forefront or forever lost in obscurity. Owners and trainers offer not excuses or brag too much if their mount wins or looses.

Large hats adorn all the female race observers. TV talking heads and rail bird touts have it all figured out until the track announcer says "They are off!!" Horse racing in general has steadily lost fans. Indian casinos with off track betting have had an adverse impact on attendance.  I have only been inside one track---Phoenix Downs. You get to see the drunks at the track that are not shown on TV. I am told the infield at the Derby has serious drinkers and partially clothed females.

My Dad who knows nothing about horse racing becomes an expert on the First Saturday in May.  

I REALLY REGRET ......

Have you ever said to someone, or yourself, "I really regret.........(Fill in the blank)"

What follows is, in my estimation, one of the most interesting Post that I have made. Please read the entire Post.

By a chance of providence I opened a book of poetry that I keep by my bedside and it opened at the following poem:

 "Tears, Idle Tears"  --Alfred Lord Tennyson

   Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

   Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.

   Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awaken'd birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.

   Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

1. A recent survey of senior adults produced the following items, by percentage of most mentioned:

   a. Education  32 %--regrets for not continuing or regrets for studying the wrong subjects

   b. Intimacy   15 % (Use your imagination here!) 

   c. Spiritual Issues   1.2 %  ---the low ranking of this item among senior adults really shocked me.

2. Another survey of adults 19-103 years of age revealed different regret rankings than the one above: (Youth must have it's day!)

    a. Romance   20%

    b. Family Issues   16 %

    c. Education     13 %

    d. Career      12 %

    e. Money    10 %

    f. Health     6 % 

3. What follows is something most people never think about. What do people who are dying regret? (In order of most mentioned)

     a. Being more true to myself rather than others expectations

     b. Didn't spend so much time at work

     c. Courage to express feelings

     d. Stayed in touch with friends

     e. Let myself be happy

(ALL RESEARCH FOR THESE PERCENTAGES VIA WEB)

We cannot spend the rest of or lives looking in the rear view mirror. But we can make some changes in the time we have left.

Please ask a classmate to start, or continue, reading the Blog !!!!

    

 

 

THE REAL WORLD

This Post is to remind all of us that no one is above or beyond temptation. It also says we have a spiritual obligation to pray for people living in THE GREY BAR HOTEL (Prison).


TV and the movies often get the violence in prisons very close to the real world. What is absent is the smell, the cat calls, screams, and even crying. Also not shown are the few precious photos prisoners have of their family. For some the photos are all that keeps them going. The homemade tattoos catch your eye: Some are for gangs, others for remembering dead friends and family members, some even attempt to tell a prisoner's life story.  It is not known how many get serious skin infections from this Jail House Tattoo Parlor. 

Known Child Abusers are held down and given a facial tattoo that lets others know of his past. Many never live out a year. Prisoner's are very proud of their kids. Children are but a few things that still has value to the prisoners.

Also not shown on TV and the movies is the GED and other in house education programs that fills time and helps get some ready for release. Most first time criminals do not have a high school diploma. Each prison (State & Federal) has a very large law library. Those permitted to use the library probably would make a good lawyer. Mostly they study the appeals and parole process and even prepare draft briefs for their lawyers.

I must also mention that chaplains play a key role in the lives of many who are locked up. The chaplains are very, very special ministers. In the lock up many find Christ and try to help others do the same. They are swimming up streams because the gangs have such strong appeal.

Hopefully, the readers of this Post have never been incarcerated or have family members beyond bars.


Sadly, I currently have four church members behind bars. It is my firm belief that IF Jesus could return without notice he would go the prisons first!

WELL, IT MIGHT HAPPEN.....

PLEASE EMAIL OUR CLASSMATES AND LET THEM KNOW I AM STILL MAKING POSTS

Maybe we didn’t get the updated info on some of the songs we loved. Here is my version of what might have happened:

BLUEBERRY HILL became a nuclear waste dump that glowed at night. Could be seen 30 miles away!

The HEART BREAK HOTEL was closed by the Health Dept. because a HOUND DOG carried in a bed bug infestation!

LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND lasted until the BP oil platform disaster covered them!  

PEGGY SUE continues to make an annual Feb visit to an Iowa cornfield and places a single red rose on the exact spot where the music died.

WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN’ GOIN’ ON became the official theme song for the U.S. Earthquake Monitoring Center!

CHARLIE BROWN continued to smoke and is near death but he makes trips to schools to warn kids of the dangers of smoking.

WAKE UP LITTLE SUZIE did wake up is now a national ad executive for a national mattress company.

YOU SEND ME was adopted by the US Apollo astronauts as their official motto.

HONEY COMB became a breakfast cereal that kids love and moms hate.

LONG TALL SALLY signed a long term WNBA contract with millions of dollars in endorsements.

BLUE SUEDE SHOES became a standard part of wedding tux outfits.

A WHITE SPORTS COAT is part of the uniform for male health inspectors.

That’s enough for now. Maybe more later!

"REPORTS OF MY DEATH ARE GREATLY EXAGERATED!"--Mark Twain

After surviving a Perfect Storm this Blog is once more alive and well! Brief “weather report”:

1.   Our family has recently experienced two major medical emergencies. (Comment---911 is very, very fast in Shawnee!)

2.   Desktop computer is still in the process of being relocated. Laptop will not connect to internet. Broadband modem stopped working.  It was replaced by an ATT provided modem/WI-FI combo. I have enough working to revive the Blog. Can’t keep my classmates waiting!  (Vanity and pride are a constant enemy of the Soul.)

3.   Extremely hot weather---30 days over 100 degrees---and several large wildfires in OK and our county has kept us glued to the TV. Many, many homes destroyed. Dollar loss immense, so far just one fatality. Emotional loss beyond estimate!

AS I REPORTED IN AN EARLIER POST, “THINGS THAT HAVE NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE HAPPEN ALL THE TIME !”

"GONE WITH THE WIND"

As I prepare this post, the all-time great classic "Gone With The Wind" is being shown on TCM.


Here's a couple of true related stories:


1. At Purdue, I was friends with a young (16 year old high school grad) genius from Ruth, KY. He went to see the movie while at Purdue and when intermission came, he thought the movie was over and left! This super star became a VP with IBM!


2. Also at Purdue, I had a very good friend who I asked to come visit me during the summer. "Just ask anyone in Jennings Co., they will give you directions." The very night he came, I had taken my wife-to-be to see the movie. I got home around 1:30am. There was my friend talking with my Mom and Dad. I was embarrassed and my folks were upset at me. My friend said he asked a number of people where I lived. Finally he found a person who gave directions. He said, "You must be pretty good because the sheriff had never heard of you!"

BLOG HACKED-----All Clear Now

I have spent close to a month putting the blog back together. Good to go.

WOW ! What Spiritual Insight !

A woman in the community where I pastor came to know Christ. She had a long, long history of drugs and trouble with the law. What a change Jesus made!!!!


She recently told me, "I was walking around Lost and now I am working hard to be missing!"


On the surface this may she not seem to make sense. But think about: She was Lost, separated from Christ. On her way to a real Hell. Then she met the Master and now she is awaiting His return to take His church away!!!!!

• In over 30 years of ordained Christian ministry and many years of study, I have never heard a more concise, profound, and meaningful statement of the change Jesus has wrought.

"Jesus Loves The Little Children Of The World"

During research for a recent sermon I discovered some frightening statistics about our children. It should break our hearts and demand better performance by our child protection agencies. Consider:

* A report of child abuse is made every 10 seconds

* More than 5 children die everyday as a result of child abuse 

* About 80 percent of abused children that die are under 4 years of age

* 50-60 percent of child deaths due to maltreatment are not reported as such on death certificates


* 90 percent of child abuse victims know their abuser


* Child abuse happens at all sociological, ethnic, cultural, all religions and levels of education


* 30 percent of abused and neglected children will later become abusers of their own children


* 80 percent of 21 year olds that were abused have at least one psychological disorder


* Estimated cost of child abuse and neglect 2007 is $104 billion


* 1/3 to 2/3 of child maltreatment involves substance abuse


* Parents who abuse alcohol and other drugs are 3 times more likely to abuse their children


* 2/3 of people in treatment for drug abused reported being abused or neglected as children


* 14 percent op all men in prison were abused


* 36 percent of all women who were abused as children are 59 percent more likely to be arrested as a juvenile, 28 percent more likely to be arrested as an adult, and 30 percent more likely to commit a violent crime


* 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 10 boys will be sexually abused

You Don't Say !!!!!!

DURING OUR JUNIOR OR SENIOR YEAR WE ATTENDED THE ANNUAL CAREER DAY AT NORTH VERNON H.S. THE GUEST SPEAKER WAS TO BE A HIGH LEVEL REP FROM GREYHOUND BUS COMPANY. HE COULD NOT MAKE IT; SO HIS SPEECH WAS READ BY SOME LOWER LEVEL GREYHOUND SUIT. THE RESULT WAS AMAZING!


It was apparent that he had never previewed the speech. He would stop from time to time and express amazement at what he was reading. Few paid any attention. Both students and the speaker were very glad when this torture came to an end. 


I cannot remember the subject of the speech. I did remember the bus ride home. Guess I always will.

MEMORIAL DAY 2012

ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT GETTING OLDER IS---GETTING OLDER!!!!

ANOTHER GREAT THING ABOUT GETTING OLDER IS  BEING ABLE TO BETTER APPRECIATE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE GUIDED, MOLDED, AND SHAPED OUR LIVES. 


OUR TEACHERS AND FELLOW STUDENTS WOULD BE HIGH ON ANY LIST. MOST OF OUR PCHS TEACHERS HAVE ANSWERED THE LAST ROLL CALL. SADLY, SOME OF OUR FELLOW CLASSMATES HAVE GRADUATED FROM THIS LIFE.

I AM THANKFUL TO ALMIGHTY GOD FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SHARED FOUR YEARS, AND FOR SOME, 12 YEARS WITH YOU AND OUR DECEASED CLASSMATES.  


MEMORIAL DAY 2012 IS A FITTING DAY TO REMEMBER ALL OF OUR TEACHERS AND FELLOW CLASSMATES.

BOILED OKRA---A BIBLICAL SIN ??

Each region of the this great nation has their favorite food: Cajun, BBQ, Seafood, Chinese, Tex-Mex , etc.


Here in Oklahoma BBQ, Steaks, and New Year's Day special meal of black eyed peas, onions, cornbread, and mustard greens are considered foods of passage.

Oklahoma has the best fried catfish on the planet.Almost every garden has plants of OKRA. I can handle the deep fried and crisp pickled OKRA. I cannot stand boiled OKRA. It is slimy and nasty. Some say bread or tomatoes will make it better. No way Jose!!!           

Somewhere in God's Word there must be a verse that warns a person not to put anything in their mouth they cannot control!!!!!  


To illustrate the point:A woman threw a large uneaten pan of boiled OKRA into the air for two dogs to eat. All of it went down one dog's mouth and throat. The lucky dog turn to the other done and asked, "Has she tossed anything yet???????????"

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOG !!!

In May we celebrated one year of this Blog. Interesting stats:


Posts:   119


Pages Viewed:  1906


Keep reading and I'll keep posting. Real good stuff coming.


Thanks to all!!!!


Glenn <><

EXTRA ! EXTRA ! EXTRA ! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Brief Geography Lesson:  Find Shemya, Alaska on your computer. It is a 4 x 2 mile rock at the western most end of the Aleutian Islands. During WW II this small island was a major factor in defeating the Japanese during their 1942-43 occupation of some islands in the Aleutian chain.       

In 1967, I served a one-year remote, unaccompanied tour of duty on this treeless island that GI's simply called "The Rock." (We would tell newbies there was a pretty girl behind every tree!) My job was the most demanding, yet the most interesting I experienced in a 20 year career.

Satellite TV was still a dream. We did receive the Armed Forces Radio Network. Mail planes often could not land due to very high winds or fog so thick even Superman had to walk!We once went 6 weeks without a mail plane. ( Ditto a food plane. We eat a lot of frozen liver!  For old times sake, I am tempted to order liver and onions in a restaurant and tell the server to scrap off the liver!) Even in good flying conditions, newspapers  would be 10-20 days late. I missed the letters and newspapers more than the fresh food.

I received two newspapers: A free subscription to the Chicago Tribune and the North Vernon Plain Dealer. (I once tried to get a job with  editor/publisher Dick Mayer.) Maybe I was born a newspaper junkie. During 20 years of moving I have read most of daily papers from our major cities and many international editions. 
 
In spite of very little money, my Dad subscribed to the daily Louisville Courier-Journal and the two North Vernon weekly papers, until he and Mom moved to North Vernon. Even today, my brother buys the Columbus, Madison, North Vernon, and the Louisville newspapers for our almost 97 year old Dad. Maybe we have printers ink in our DNA! 

Every now and then everything seems to go just right. My evidence follows:


At 11pm, Shemya time, I met a high ranking DOD official at our mini base operations building. He immediately opened his brief case and gave me a Washington Post that had the current day's date on it. He  had left Washington, D.C. around midnight and as he prepared to board, he bought the early edition of the Washington Post. The flight to Seattle was on time; the flight to Anchorage was on time, and the flight to Shemya was on time. Because Shemya was 7 hours behind Washington, D. C. and perfect connection I held a newspaper with the current date on it!


For a few brief and wonderful moments I felt I was back home with my wife and special daughters. One was born while I was at Shemya. I saw her for the first time in mid-December when I had completed my one year of remote service.

ho bout them reds

WARNING FROM 80 YEAR OLD MAN !

An 80 year-old man in our church told me as I celebrated my 70th birthday, "When you get to 80 you will find everything either Drops, Drips or Droops!!!

Great Early History of Paris Crossing

Visit this site: http://www.ingenweb.org/injennings/pariscrossing.html

"GET UP PECK---WE GOT 'EM CORNERED!"

Ronnie Harrison

'Hello Country Bumpkin!"

As mentioned earlier, I was a very good friend with Leland Matthews. His father was serving as North Vernon postmaster during most of our PCHS years. As a result,he was well connected with members of the Indiana legislature. In fact, he was a former State Senator himself.


One Friday night Leland took me to the home of the State Senator. Mom and Dad were gone and the house was filled with teenagers, mostly from North Vernon. Leland's friend, son of the State Senator was very cordial and friendly. As we walked to the large living room the son pointed out Dad's stamp collection valued at over a million dollars. I was already impressed; however, this comment sealed the deal.


It was here I saw and heard my first Hi-Fi (Not stereo). Wow! What a sound. I clearly recall "Honey Comb" (Jimmy Rogers) was playing as we walked in. Leland introduced me around. For what ever reason an attractive girl came over and we chatted. Looking back, she must have thought I sounded like a visitor from another planet. I felt intimidated, but she was so pretty. I didn't care. She wanted to know where I went to school and how often I came to North Vernon.


She tried to help me dance. Didn't do bad on the slow songs---not so good on the fast songs. We sat and talked until the get together broke up around midnight. I saw no booze or any PDA. I never saw her again, but she is still in my "Country Bumpkin" head. When I hear "Honey Comb" today I recall that night. Maybe like "Slingblade" she liked the way I talked and I sure liked the way she looked!


(Sad Note: When Pat O'Conner was killed on the first lap of the 1958 Indy 500 things started downhill for this family. They had some business connections with Pat. Leland told me the stamp collection had to be sold and they even had to have their phone removed.)

PRODUCTS THAT WOWED ME !

During my Lovett and PCHS days many new products entered the market. Several had been invented years before but became available during our grade school and PCHS days. Here are five that stand out for me:




1. Saran Wrap.  This stuff was magic. I think this product was advertised on an early "Doctor" show. Maybe Ben Casey. I think my Mom only bought one roll. It was clingy and hard to handle. I still think it is magic


2. Papermate Ballpoint Pen.  This was introduced while in I was grade school. Cost was like $1.95 (Lots of money then) Never had to sharpen this wonder of wonders.


3. Portable Radio. The early ones were very large, but you could listen to your favorite radio station anywhere. I never had one until my Junior year at Purdue.


4. Kool-Aide. Before this miracle drink hit the store shelves, there was a Tang look-a-like sold by the Watkins Man in those funny looking station wagons. The Kool-Aide package cost $.05---just add sugar. Today there are over 100 flavors. Forty percent of Kool-Aide sales are to minorities.


5. Johnson Century 21 Closed Face Spinning Reel. The spinning reel was invented in France and were all open face---subject to all kinds of backlashes and line mess ups. This reel was the grandfather of the Zebco 33 and other closed face spinning reels.
This reel changed the way we fished the Great Graham Creek forever.


Our kids and grand children do not know how lucky they are!!!!

WALKING ON!

The Native American culture is vastly different from "white eyes" culture and each tribe or Nation differs from each other. This Post is not a critique of their long and rich tradition. Perhaps at another time I will give you more of my impressions, This Post deals with the way some tribes and Nation deal with death. There are about 200 tribes and/or Nations in Oklahoma. I am personally familiar with about 10 of them.


One Nation, The Citizens Potawatomi Nation lists obituaries in their newspaper under a heading---Walking On. I personally like that term because the Bible tells us that physical death is not the end.


Some of the more traditional tribes and/or Nations have funeral ceremonies without a church or chapel. Graves are for the most part all hand dug.


Many light a campfire from the time of death until the burial. A Wake can last a few hours or until the next sunrise. Some burials consist of what we would call a Christian service followed by an Indian ceremony.


When the body is placed in the grave, and Elder or Chief directs a cadre of men with shovels to start filling it in. Older men, women, and children are provided a handful of dirt from one of the shovels which they sprinkle into the grave.


Let me be very clear---some of the most Christ -like and dynamic Christians are Indians who have broken from the traditional Indian ways. I pastor several of those wonderful people.


There is much I do not understand. What I do understand is the stereotype of Indians is for the most part very, very wrong.

BREAKING NEWS: YOU DO NOT OWN TIME !!!

Special Springtime Wedding! V 2.0

(Note: This revision contains a validated true account)


THE REVISED AND TRUE ACCOUNT


I recently heard of a pastor who was on his way to a Friday night wedding rehearsal for a Saturday afternoon wedding. On his way he received a cell call from his brother who asked where he was going. The pastor told him about the wedding and rehearsal.


The brother remarked, "Will there be a rehearsal dinner?"
The pastor replied, "I sure hope so. I haven't eaten all day."


The brother continued, "You'll be eating those big ribs, big hams, fried chicken, biscuits and gravy; all the while I'll continue sipping on this day old coffee and eating this baloney sandwich."


The pastor tried gracefully to end the conversation and get on down the road. "See you later, have a great evening," said the pastor. He hung up before the brother could reply.


The wedding rehearsal started a bit late but went very, very well. The pastor had the rehearsal dinner upper most on his mind, make that his stomach.


After the rehearsal, the pastor went into the church's Fellowship Hall area and quickly saw there was no rehearsal dinner. After saying goodbye, he headed to the nearest McDonalds where he bought a big, dollar Dr. Pepper and a dollar double cheese burger. (When you pastor a rural church it is Chicken one week and Feathers the next. This was a Feathers week!)


The wedding on Saturday went very well. The bride was as pretty as a model on the cover of Bride Magazine. In fact, the pastor remarked that in several decades of ministry he had never seen a more beautiful bride! He further stated that she possessed a regal outward and inward beauty. 


What makes this wedding even more remarkable is at the end of the service the Bride's 2 year-old nephew drove a small battery operated car from the altar to the door with the sign "Just Married" on it and several Pepsi cans trailing behind!The pastor remarked that he had never seen anything like this before.


The Groom is a great fellow who somehow survived a previous disastrous marriage. His daughter and her two boys will make a solid Christ-centered home.


The pastor told several people at the wedding he was not a betting person, but if he were he would put the entire farm on the chances of this marriage making it.


 A TRUE ACCOUNT !!!!!

SPRING FEVER !!!!

SPRING FEVER




I’m not real sure where it all starts
Maybe in my brain, maybe in my heart


Nothing seems to lessen its wonderful impact
Giddy, lazy, nostalgic, how strange I do act


Why do I long for the outdoors, yet I want a nap
Flowers, fishing, baseball, just give me the map


Don’t call the doctor, I’m OK for sure
Thirty days of April is my only cure


----- Glenn C. Peck


(This time of year is tough on me. It was during this time of
the year when my cousins and I started fishing the Great Graham Creek in a serious fashion.  Fishing worms were easy to find; it was warm enough to seine the branches for minnows and crawdads; the farm crops were just coming up and we didn’t have much farming to do. I was saddened about 8 years ago when we were in Indiana and I bought a fishing license and associated fishing laws; the fish in the Great Graham Creek are not safe to eat. Runoffs from fields that have been sprayed with herbicides and plant growth fertilizer are the culprit. Some of you know who is responsible for this.


Robert Redford’s “A River Runs Through It” was great. If I made a movie, it would be “The Great Graham Creek Runs Through Me” One of my deepest regrets is my grandchildren do not have an opportunity to have the same great growing up experiences that I had. Maybe God let me eat dessert first!


Just a little reflection and I can hear the Rain Crows (actually mourning doves) in the day and the whippoorwills at night. The smell of honey suckle blooms and the melody of frogs at night were part of who I was and who I am.


The night sky was the best of all. City lights have limited my observing. Dark observing sites are rapidly disappearing.  Meteors streaking through the sky (sometimes called Falling Stars) made my heart to race and to feel the power of a Thrice Holy God.)


Thunder outside my 9 year old grand daughter’s bedroom reminds me I am in Oklahoma. I love Oklahoma, but miss Indiana this time of year. Sure do miss my Mother also.


PS: My NOAA Weather Radio just sounded an alarm!

Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?

In the USAF we had an expression that we used to describe why something had not been done--OBE. Translated: Overcome By Events.


The Blog has been silent for several weeks: I have had two funerals and two weddings. I got the income taxes done 1 1/2 hours before the Post Office closed. Arranged for Home Health Care to come help my wife. End of year school activities (3 schools) and arranged for a new weekly house keeper to help me with the washing. And rural church to pastor. Not complaining or whining. Just telling it like it is.

You life may be just as hectic--but God will provide Grace for the journey.


Will do better.  I promise!

DICK CLARK---Rock 'N Roll Pied Piper Dead at 82

DICK CLARK'S IMPACT ON ROCK 'N ROLL CANNOT BE OVER STATED.  HIS DEATH YESTERDAY HAS BEEN WIDELY AND ACCURATELY DESCRIBED BY EVERY TV STATION.  AS A RESULT,I WILL TELL ONE DICK CLARK STORY I REMEMBER FROM MANY YEARS AGO:

Dick Clark has often been called the World's Oldest Teenager. He was asked by a TV reporter what he did to remain so young looking. Dick replied, "I have it in my contract that the camera must back up another foot after each of my birthdays."

Dick Clark----R. I.  P.

TV Questions That Still Bug Me !

Inquiring Minds Want To Know:

1. Did Howdy Doody pull some strings to get

WELL, IT COULD HAPPEN !

Kings Island is probably a place known to all readers of the Blog. What follows is an extraordinary account told by one of the Nation's best known evangelist. I have heard the story three times in person.

My evangelist friend, Ernie, and wife Wanda were spending a day at the park which is just north and east of Cincinnati. After waiting in line for two hours they finally got to board the coaster that makes a complete loop of 360 degrees. After much pleading, Ernie got Wanda to sit in the first coaster car.

This part of the story must be understood before going on. In the middle 70's women wore wigs of all shapes and colors. Wanda had a wig on this fateful day.

 The ride came to the loop. Wanda and Ernie were in the first car and was upside down when Wanda's wig fell off into the trailing cars that had not started the loop. Ernie claims a fellow yelled out , "A Head ! A Head!!!" Another rider shouted out," Somebody has been decapitated!"

After hearing the part about someone being decapitated, another rider (probably from Kentucky) yelled out, "Yeah, somebody has had their head cut off too!!!!"

IMITATION MAY NOT BE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATTERY

I recently discovered several sites have lifted portions of my Posts and inserted them as their own. Because my Blog is not Password protected, there is no way to stop this.


Please check the URL of any Posts claiming to be from me. You can forward a single Post or the entire Blog to others without any problem


Somewhat Related topic: In Grad school, my major professor said when one student steals from another it is call Plagiarism. When one student steals from several others it is call a Term Paper. When a students steals from over 50 others it is called a Thesis!!!!!

"It's Friday, But Sunday Is Acomin'" ---Black Preacher

Dr. Tony Campello wrote a book by that title; he used the title from a sermon preached by his black pastor.

MY UNOFFICIAL HISTORY OF ROCK 'N ROLL: Introduction Part 1

There are hundreds of books and thousands of Internet sites that chronicle the history of Rock 'N Roll. My Posts will deal with the subject from a PCHS student's perspective. The Class of 1959 experienced the birth and the Golden 1955-1959 years.  As I have remarked before: "I was there when it happened and I guess I oughta know."


This introduction starts in a plain, unpainted,cinder block hamburger joint in McKinney, KY. The only teen hangout in McKinney was owned by a second cousin (Dad's side) and a first cousin (Mom's side) was one of his best customers. My first cousin provided this account of what happened when Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" 45RPM was placed on the nickle a play Juke Box. 


By the second day, the record was no longer intelligible! The groves were worn smooth. This is a real example of the impact of a single song upon the youth of America. Rock 'N Roll was born (Most music historians agree with my assertion.) Alan Freed an East Coast DJ, coined the term "Rock 'N Roll." (More about Freed in later Posts)


I heard the song a couple of times on the radio before attending a 4-H Youth Camp in Versailles, IN. The night time recreation was dancing (if you can call it that) to Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock." The song was electric, exciting and seemed to say how we felt but could never tell anyone, especially, our parents. 


In addition to the mesmerizing impact of the song, I was smitten by a pretty, very, very pretty girl from a North Vernon 4-H Club. She had a heart-melting smile, dark brown eyes that seemed to twinkle when she winked, and an inviting low voice that resonated on my heart strings. She had the grace and charm every 14 year old boy dreamed about. Did I mention she was several years ahead of her female peers in physical development? Hollywood can put a glow around the leading lady. For one magical week,I saw the glow around her!


After camp was over, we exchanged a few letters and both of us turned Life's page and continued our road to adulthood.



 The next part of the Introduction will answer the question: "Why did Rock 'N Roll burst upon the American scene during our PCHS days?"

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NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKN' ABOUT !!!!!!!!!

Class of 1959,You Are the Greatest !!!!!!!!!!!


Thanks to all for the response to my plea for help.


Hello, to all new readers. You can jump into the Posts anywhere or you can start at the oldest and read forward. As I have mentioned in other Posts, the Blog is in a very large way autobiographical. The topics covered are many and varied. 


We have a saying out here on the Prairie: "Come see us; we'll treat you so many different ways you are bound to like one of them!!!!! The Blog is in that same spirit.


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There is an old Ernest Tubb recording that expresses my gratitude: "Thanks, Thanks A Lot." 

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The Roots of Rock N Roll will start very soon!