Sunday, November 04, 2007
We had a beautiful sitting...
Phil has done a wonderful job landscaping his yard... complete with an Oklahoma flag flying in the background. I think I have one that flew over the capitol somewhere.. both OK and US flags that have... might need to find them... haha.. and put them to use ...
In 1969 -
In 1969, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no child proof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not tomention, the risks we took hitch-hiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with out car seats, booster seats, seat belts or airbags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer, no Internet or chat rooms.......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! And we settled our differences by ourselves.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them! Why back then, we would look our friends in the eyes to talk with them about things.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! And we got spanked - hard - if we got in trouble!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 30 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
Can you imagine growing up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
I am sharing this so my kiddos will know how brave and blessed their parents were. or maybe NUTS! - but we survived and lots of us changed the world in many ways.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.
We had no child proof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not tomention, the risks we took hitch-hiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with out car seats, booster seats, seat belts or airbags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer, no Internet or chat rooms.......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! And we settled our differences by ourselves.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them! Why back then, we would look our friends in the eyes to talk with them about things.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! And we got spanked - hard - if we got in trouble!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 30 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
Can you imagine growing up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
I am sharing this so my kiddos will know how brave and blessed their parents were. or maybe NUTS! - but we survived and lots of us changed the world in many ways.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
We went over to Phillips last evening to celebrate for the 38th time his birthday....
Which officially is here on the 6th, this coming Tuesday just after 8am... twas a nice clear day like this past Saturday was here, in the old Stillwater Hospital that used to be just north of where Tiger Drug was, when the lad arrived. What a joyful day it was. No - he did not have the beard when he was born contrary to popular belief. And if memory serves me right, he could not walk on water back then, but if you would of asked me, I would have answered - yes he could!
In that year, as I remember, a rather tall slim cat from Miami Oklahoma.. wherever that was... played football at OU and became a Heisman Trophy Winner... wow, Oklahoma Football was KING! and this Steve Owens guy did it in a big way!!! Another thing I remember was True Grit came out in the summer of 1969, not sure the month, maybe June or July, and it was all the rage. Course with Vietnam... it was timely... Nixon became President - We all were some hopeful, yet in the end would be so shamed by him, or his people. Oh.. OU #8 lost TX #2 that year 27 to 17.
A little ole one-eyed fellow, who dropped out of school without finishing the 8th grade, was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1969. His name is synonymous with aviation and in OK. he is known a pioneer in Aviation and also as the pilot of the plane that crashed killing another famous Oklahoman, Will Rogers, in an Alaska plane crash. His name, Wiley Post.
Another band that seems to have influenced our lives, one way or another, released their album, The Monkees Present, that had "Oklahoma Backroom Dancer" among other songs on it. I think it was the first and last for a long time, before being reinvented...
Another band called it quits that was a lot bigger deal, and had a profound effect on history... the Beatles in Jan of 69 make their last public performance giving an impromptu concert on the roof of the London recording studio.
A man from Oklahoma, Weatherford, who wore a funny suit to work in made it to the The Guinness Book of World Records traveling at the highest speed ever attained by man -- 24,791 statute mph. Thomas Stafford did it in 1969, during the re-entry of the Apollo 10 space capsule.
but most of all I remember as the second life-long event that helped mold me (after the birth of my first son), this:
On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body.
Six hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining), Neil A. Armstrong took the “Small Step” into our greater future when he stepped off the Lunar Module, named “Eagle,” onto the surface of the Moon, from which he could look up and see Earth in the heavens as no one had done before him.
He was shortly joined by “Buzz” Aldrin, and the two astronauts spent 21 hours on the lunar surface and returned 46 pounds of lunar rocks. After their historic walks on the Moon, they successfully docked with the Command Module “Columbia,” in which Michael Collins was patiently orbiting the cold but no longer lifeless Moon.
My life changed forever I thought, but on November 6, 1969, I would be shaken to the core! Holding something that I had helped create... in my hands for the first time, trembling with excitement, eyes full of happy tears, amazed that the ball of flesh in my hands was breathing, so blue eyed... I will never forget holding each of my children for the first time, but I must confess, the first time I had ever held a child, an infant, was my first born. I will never ever forget how profound that was. The event truly shook me to my core being, my soul!
Another musician that was tearing it up on stage played in Denver that year.... and I remember reading that no one ever did things to a guitar like he did that night! He had taken the old rule book and threw it out the window... and influenced music forever!
Lots of footprints from 1969... the most important are those of my first born!
Now ... one last thought... There were no cell phones in 1969. There were no home computers let alone laptops! No blogs! and ole Al Gore, that bag of wind who has yet to tell us the truth about anything, had not invented the internet yet! sigh!
there were no calling plans from phone companies, only tv was free and by antenna, and on and on.
Happy Birthday Phillip Shane Moffat!
Friday, November 02, 2007
Jon...
Jon had test at hospital yesterday and we are hoping for good results today. Nothing new other than he did ok getting through the test... and he is now waiting on Dr. office to call with results... More as we learn it...
Again.. these photos are from our life long friends and former neighbors, Lawrence and Sharon Robinson
Lawrence and Sharon Robinson are friends of ours who have a beautiful home near Boomer Lake in Stillwater. Our kiddos and theirs grew up together.
In this photo... It looks like the monster died, so now... everyone can come out of hiding.. and life can return to normal.
Many many thanks to Sharon and Lawrence for sharing these photos with us...
In this series of photos.. provided by Lawrence and Sharon Robinson...
Austyn was trick or treating... at their home... I think this ole scarey monster spooked a lot of folks on Halloween.. haha...
Now the rest of the story... haha...
Missy can be seen on the saddle in the bottom of this series of photos.. we were a bit nervous for her... (Craig, I can here that sigh over here!!!) She rode the horse like a trooper... while half the place sang happy bday!!
As we were leaving, one of the nice waitresses asked me to be sure and NOT come back for MY b'day.. since I would "break the horse" .. haha.. no not really, well, ok maybe??? ... haha..
Enjoy the day!!
course the star of the show.. was little Reese....
He's a cutie... He, I am sure, will have the beauty of his mother and the wisdom of his father... or at least, let's pray for that.. haha....
I did not take my camera... oh be quite.. you're not helping me tell this story gasping like that.. haha.... so used my cell phone.. I thought the photos were all black so didn't look till I put on computer.. so Missy, these are the best I have.. it does capture the moment.. haha... two kiddos messing around... I wonder where their hands have been??? HEHE
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