Howie, Since others may not know about the duck thing, I'll tell you here. It was started by Joyce. When she first saw you, you had a little hair at the back and she said you looked like a duck. Funny how some things you don't forget. I guess it was never mentioned to you. Take a look at the picture taken of you at the hospital and you'll see the hair that she was talking about. Hard to believe that I have a son whose 37, when I haven't reached middle age yet. Talking about age, funny, I just came across pictures taken at Dad's 60th birthday party with his siblings. I plan to take them to Bertha's tomorrow and show to his family. Looking forward to Thanksgiving with my family that will be here. We'll be busy as we plan to decorate the house for the 13th.
Margaret

Howie might wish he was 35! If my memory serves me correctly, it was 1966 when I left Elizabeth City and picked up Mama and Gloria at Gloria's home in Joppa to drive to Norfolk to see the little fuzzy headed duck. It was a proud day for us all as we welcomed the first grandchild into the family!

Tis the season to be busy, fa,la,la,la,la,la,la,la,la. Did I get all the las in? I'm not all that busy except in my brain. Gotta get it out of my brain and into my feet before too long though. Just can't seem to get them in gear.
Hope things go well with your career moves, Chris. Thanks for blogging us the news. Gotta go and get the payroll done.
Did Bertha's blog get cut in half for anyone besides me? When I read it, it ended at Amber went to a...but when I signed in with my password, I could read it all. Go figure.
Howard, hope you have a great birthday. Keep up the good work in school--you, too, Cortlyn and Mandi!

Free for a minute

Well, things have taken an interesting turn in the whole future military career thing. Talked to an Air Force, yes- AirForce, recruiter today. It appears that they are doing this experimental thing where they are taking prior service Army folks with less than 12 years service. However, I have to get out of the Army first and show him my discharge papers to verify I got out on a Honorable discharge and my re-entry code. Yeah, it'll be tough changing to Air Force cause they are definitely not as "Hooah!" as the Army, but standard of living is better than the Army and I wouldn't be deployed nearly as often as I have been in the Army. And, we've decided that if the Air Force thing doesn't work out, I can always go next door to the Army recruiting office (the one I worked at while I was home from Korea) and come back in, even if I need a waiver (although I shouldn't). That place was waiver central when I worked there and they have the same Station commander who I was on good terms with. So, as of December 20th, I'll be a free man, well for a couple of weeks or so. Well, that's it for now, other than Cortlyn is still on the A-B honor roll and Mandi got all smiley faces on her progress report. We're very proud of both of them. Waiting to see someone else post on blogger or is everybody really busy?