Experts

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., in 1977

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French military strategist and future WW1 commander, in 1911

"[Man will never reach the moon] regardless of all future scientific advances."
Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the Audion tube and father of radio, on Feb 25, 1967

"[Television] won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century-Fox, in 1946

"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
Decca records rejecting the Beatles, in 1962

"For the majority of people, the use of tobacco has a beneficial effect."
Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, as quoted in Newsweek, Nov. 18, 1969

"This 'Telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
Western Union internal memo, in 1876

"The earth is the center of the universe."
Ptolemy, the great Egyptian astronomer, in the second century

"Nothing of importance happened today."
Written by King George III of England on July 4, 1776

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles H. Duell, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, in 1899

Sleeping Beauty pen

My children Shari and Jeff, and their son, Gabey, went to Disney World and bought me this Princess Aurora pen for my Sleeping Beauty collection. I also like this picture they took of the three fairies.

Old War Poster

Here is some good advice!

Wonderful words

I remember the most wonderful words I ever heard in my life. It was by my doctor when I was trying to give birth to my third child. I had been induced, and the pain was so bad they couldn't give me the spinal shot which I had with my first two. The nurse said I pinched her. They laid me down on the delivery table and I remember being as stiff as a board. Then I heard the words. I heard the doctor say...
"Give her gas". They put the mask on my face and I breathed in something that smelled so pretty. I forgot about the pain. I was out in a couple of seconds. When I woke up, I had a beautiful baby girl, Shari!

Paul Hunt

I saw these on Lallee's blog. Watch these if you like to laugh.
Uneven bars

Balance beam

Floor exercise

Fireworks lamp

I don't know what the real name of this lamp is, but I call it the fireworks lamp.

Grandpa Frank and his Model-T Ford

Grandparents Day

Today is Grandparent's Day. Here is a picture of my grandparents. I love this picture because all of them are together in one picture. That is Frank and Mary, Pearl and Steve. Frank is my step-grandfather. My real grandfather, Wasil, died in the 1919 flu epidemic. My grandmother, Pearl, died when my mother was expecting me. Mom said they weren't sure exactly why she died, but she thought it was a result of a fall down stairs. Grandpa Steve was in the Austro-Hungarian Army. He spoke several languages so he was an interpreter. I heard that he decided to marry my grandmother when he saw her in the next door back yard, drying her hair after washing it. I think it is so amazing that when you look on the map my grandfathers lived about 100 miles apart, with mountains between them. Grandpa Steve came from Uscie Gorlickie in an area called Lemko in southern Poland, and Grandpa Vassil came from Packanovo in western Ukraine. The mountains are the Carpathian Mts. We are Carpatho-Russyn. Not Polish, not Ukrainian, not Russian. There are similarities, of course, but the mountains made them different and separate. Grandpa Steve became a citizen of the U.S. in 1928.

Purple Pierogi

Did you ever have a purple pierogi? I had this at The Great Lakes Brewing Co. They used purple potatoes.

Champ

This is the only picture I can find of our dog Champ. I remember the kids found this dog wandering around with no home. He was old and had a bad smell, but they loved him. He sang (howled) when Shari played her flute. He was smart as well as talented. When he laid on the couch, he made the couch smell bad. One day I caught him on the couch and I chased him off of it and told him to never get up on the couch again and he never did.

A Hundred Years Hence

I am reading a book "The Rockefeller Women". John D. Rockefeller Jr. was born in 1874. When he was 11, on Feb. 13, 1885 he wrote this essay. He got a couple of things wrong, didn't he?

"I think that, in a hundred years, balloons will be made so large and strong, that people will travel in them instead of in cars and steamboats; and that they will go twice as fast. Women will have a right to vote, and may be presidents. There will be no manufacture of liquors as a drink, throughout the United States, and consequently fewer jails and policemen.
Earthquakes will be frequent and destructive. The western part of the United States will be as densely populated as the eastern. Wars will be no more. Foreigners will be educated before they can vote. Indians will become civilized and intelligent. The center of the earth will be explored, also the North and South poles. Engines will be driven by electricity.
It is to be hoped and expected that the people of our country will be wiser and better and therefore happier than now."

Are we wiser and better and happier?

Beautiful Boy

This song is for my boys. Bob my son, Jeff my son-in-law, Andrew, Gabey, Giddy my grandsons, and Mike my nephew. I think it's ok to say little boys are beautiful.

Close your eyes
Have no fear
The monster's gone
He's on the run and your daddy's here

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Before you go to sleep
Say a little prayer
Everyday in every way
It's getting better and better

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Out on the ocean sailing away
I can hardly wait
To see you come of age
But I guess we'll both just have to be patient
'Cause it's a long way to go
A hard row to hoe
Yes it's a long way to go
But in the meantime

Before you cross tht street
Take my hand
Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Before you go to sleep
Say a little prayer
Every day in every way
It' getting better and better

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Darling, darling, darling
Darling ________
John Lennon

GREEN
Fall is coming, and the trees are starting to turn. As pretty as the colors are, I sure am going to miss the GREEN.
GREEN trees, GREEN grass. sigh. About half the year the trees are bare. Not pretty. I really love to see the GREEN trees with a background of blue sky.

Goosey, Goosey, Gander

When my children were little we would play a game. I would recite this nursery rhyme.

"Goosey, Goosey, Gander,
whither shall I wander.
Upstairs, downstairs,
and in my ladies chamber."

Then I would change the last line.

"and in my ladies kitchen. "
or
"and in my ladies living room."

You can take turns, each coming up with a different place for the goose to wander. Try it with a child you know.

New book

How silly of me. I forgot to include the new book.

Comic books

I collect vintage comic books. I just got another Little Lulu comic book on e-bay. When I was a little girl, I loved reading comic books. I read all kinds but especially I loved Little Lulu. She and her friends were my friends. I also liked Archie comics. I would draw Betty or Veronica and design new clothes for them. And of course I love Blondie and Dagwood. Their comics are just as good now as they ever were. Just go to www.blondie.com

Primal Scream

I had an unusual elementary school. It was shaped in a square with two floors. The gym area was in the middle of the first floor with classrooms all around it. The second floor had classrooms all around with a walkway and railing so that you could look down and see the gym. The school isn't there anymore. They tore it down to build a freeway. I remember one day in the first or second grade I had this urge to scream. I can't remember why I did it, but I screamed and you know what the teacher did? She put me outside the classroom to sit on the floor. I have had dreams where I wanted to scream about something but it wouldn't come out. I think that's why roller coasters are so much fun, you can scream all you want to!

Birdbath

When I was in New York City a few years ago, while in the Trump tower, one of the shops had an adorable birdbath. It cost more than I wanted to spend. Oh, I really wanted it. A little while later, I was shopping in a gift store here and found this one. It was much more reasonable. I don't even remember what the first one looked like.

Let's give a cheer for

Since we are still in the third week of August, let's celebrate National Air Conditioning Appreciation Week. How did our ancestors survive as long as they did without air conditioning? Are we spoiled, or what?

Find It

That's the name of this game I got for my birthday. It has lots of little objects in it and you spin it, twist it, and shake it to find all the items in it. The list is on the top. You can't read it, but it has things like a safety pin, button, spool, marble, etc. There is supposed to be a penny in it, but we can't find it. This will keep you occupied for a while!