HOWARD’S DAILY CHRONICLE
NUMBER 14 VOL 5
DECEMBER 14TH 2007
WEATHER; COOL, LOW HUMIDITY, 49 DEGREES
11 MORE DAYS TO GO! I’M GETTING ANXIOUS AND I’M SURE SOME OF YOU ARE, NOT FOR ME BUT TO SEE THE LOOKS ON THE LITTLE ONES FACES WHEN THEY RIP OPEN A PACKAGE, THAT’S PRICELESS!
YESTERDAY DECEMBER 13TH WAS MOMs AND MY 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY! WE CELEBRATED BY GOING TO LUNCH AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT WE GO TO QUITE OFTEN!
WENT IN TO MY CHIROPRACTOR AGAIN TODAY, THE FIRST THING SHE DOES IS CHECK THE ANGLE OF THE FEET. TODAY AS I GOT OUT OF THE CAR MY LEFT KNEE FELT LIKE IT WAS GOING TO GIVE OUT JUST LIKE MY RIGHT ONE HAS DONE, BUT THEN IT WAS OK! I GOT IN THE WAITING ROOM AND SHE CAME IN AND TOLD ME TO GET ON THE TREATMENT TABLE THAT SHE WOULD BE BACK IN A MINUTE WHICH I DID. WHEN SHE CAME BACK THE FIRST THING SHE DID WAS CHECK MY FEET AND WENT DIRECTLY TO MY RIGHT KNEE, I DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING AT THE TIME BUT WHEN SHE WENT TO MY NECK AND SHOULDER I ASKED HER HOW SHE KNEW MY RIGHT KNEE WAS ACTING UP SHE LOOKED AT ME AND SAID FROM THE FEET, YOU KNOW THAT HOWARD, THE FEET TELL THE STORY ABOUT THE WHOLE BODY, THAT’S WHY I KEEP GOING BACK TO THEM AFTER WORKING ON ANOTHER PART OF THE BODY TO SEE IF WHAT I HAD DONE CORRECTED THE SITUATION SO I CAN GO TO THE REST OF THE PLACES I HAVE TO CHECK TO HAVE A GOOD SESSION AND CAUSE THE BODY TO START THE HEALING PROCESS THAT YOU NEED. ALL I DO IS HEAD THE BODY IN THE DIRECTION IT NEEDS TO GO TO START THE ACTION! PEOPLE THINK CHIROPRACTORS CAN HEAL THEM WHICH IS AN OLD WIVES TAIL! A CHIROPRACTOR FINDS THE PROBLEM AND SHOWS THE BODY WHAT IT NEEDS TO DO TO CORRECT ANY PROBLEMS IT HAS SO YOU FEEL BETTER! NOTHING MORE NOTHING LESS! I’VE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY MY CHIROPRACTOR NEVER ASK ME HOW THE TREATMENT WENT? DO YOU FEEL BETTER? SHE’LL KNOW IF THE TREATMENT IS WORKING BY CHECKING THE ANGLE OF MY FEET FROM ONE SESSION TO THE NEXT! I’M FEELING BETTER, MY NECK STILL HURTS A LITTLE AND, I FEEL LIKE I’M WALKING BETTER AND DON’T SEEM TO BE DRAGGING MY LEFT FOOT LIKE I WAS! I’LL KNOW BETTER TOMORROW!
MOM WENT SHOPPING FOR MORE STUFF TO MAKE GOODIES OUT OF WHILE I WAS IN THE CRIROPRACTORS OFFICE, I HAD SOME CHOCOLATE COVERED CEREAL AND PRETZELS TONIGHT, MMMMMM GOOD!
WE FINALLY HOOKED THE RAMP LIGHTS UP TO THE TIMER NOW WE JUST LET HI-TECH TAKE OVER AND DO THE WORK!
TIM’S GOING TO COME UP SUNDAY TO DO SOME THINGS TO THE DECK ROOF, WE NEED TO STOP THE WATER FROM THE TRAILER ROOF FROM DRIPPING ON THE DECK SO I’LL PICK UP SOME 18 OR 24” FLASHING TOMORROW TO DO THE JOB!
WHEN I WAS 9-10 YEARS OLD I USED TO GO OVER TO THE OCEAN FROM OUR PLACE IN THE BIG CAMP GROUND IN NEWPORT BEACH. IF THE SURF WAS UP I’D SWIM OUT AND CATCH A WAVE AND BELLY SURF TO THE SHORE! I TRIED SURFING ON A BOARD BUT FOUND OUT I WASN’T BIG ENOUGH TO HANDLE THE BOARD SO IT HAD TO BE THE BELLY SURFING! I SEE THESE PEOPLE SURFING ON THE BOARDS AND WOULD LIKE TO HAVE HAD THE CHANCE WHEN I GOT BIGGER TO TRY IT BUT AT THAT TIME I GOT INTERESTD IN CARS AND GIRLS (IN THAT ORDER)!
WE DIDN’T HAVE WATER SKIS BUT WE DID HAVE A BOARD CALLED AN AQUAPLANE, YOU STOOD ON IT AND HELD ON TO A ROPE, THE BOARD WAS TIED TO THE TOWING BOAT! ONE SUMMER I WAS IN SAN DIEGO VISITING A FRIEND AND WE WENT TO A PLACE CALLED “HALF MOON BAY’ FOR A BEACH PARTY! MY BUDDY HAD AN 18 FOOT CHRISCRAFT AND WAS PULLING PEOPLE AROUND ON AN AQUAPLANE! WHEN I GOT ON IT HE WOULDN’T BRING ME IN, HE JUST KEPT CIRCLING, MY LEGS WERE GETTING WEAK AND I YELLED AT HIM TO TAKE ME TO SHORE WHICH HE DID, HE LET THE ROPE LOSE ON THE AQUAPLANE AND I COASTED TO SHORE, WHEN I STEPPED OFF THE BOARD BOTH OF MY LEGS FOLDED UP AND THEY HAD TO HELP ME TO THE FIRE! DON BEACHED THE BOAT AND CAME UP TO THE FIRE AND ASKED ME IF I WAS OK? I TOLD HIM IF HE EVER DID THAT TO ME AGAIN I WAS GOING TO WHIP HIS ASS THEN WE ALL LAUGHED! I WAS SO COLD THE GIRLS HAD WRAPPED ME IN BLANKETS AND WERE HANDING ME CUPS OF HOT BUTTERED RUM! MAN DID I GET SICK I THINK I LOST EVERYTHING I’D EATEN FOR THE WEEK BEFORE! THEY TOLD ME I MISSED THE BEST PART OF THE PARTY BUT NEVER TOLD ME WHAT IT WAS AND I DIDN’T CARE! TO THIS DAY I CAN’T EVEN STAND THE SMELL OF RUM!
I’VE MENTIONED MY BROTHER-IN-LAW HERB DAVIS, WELL I HAD TWO OTHER BROTHERS–IN-LAWS, MY OLDEST SISTERS HUSBAND DICK KLEEMEYER AND MADELYNS HUSBAND CHUCK REID! DICK WAS A TRUCK DRIVER AND HAD A CHRYSLER 72 SERIES ROADSTER I HAVE BEEN TOLD WHEN DICK KLEEMEYER TURNED THE CORNER ON TO OTSEGO STREET (HIS CAR HAD OPEN EXHAUST) THE MOTHERS WOULD RUN OUT AND DRAG THEIR KIDS IN THE HOUSE! FOR SOME REASON HE MADE SOME LOWERING BLOCKS FOR THE CHRYSLER OUT OF OAK, EVERYTHING WAS FINE TILL HE TOOK MY SISTER AND ME TO CRESTLINE TO PLAY IN THE SNOW, ON THE WAY BACK DOWN THE MOUNTAIN ALL OF A SUDDEN THE CAR SWERVED TO ONE SIDE AND DICK SLAMMED ON THE BRAKES THEN GOT OUT TO SEE WHAT WAS THE MATTR, ONE OF THE BLOCKS HAD GOTTEN WET AND CAME OUT OF THE SPRING MOUNT! HE AND MY SISTER WALKED BACK AND FOUND THE BLOCK AND DICK CRAWLED UNDER THE BACK OF THE CAR AND JACKED IT UP AND PUT THE BLOCK BACK IN, HE CHECKED THE U-BOLTS ON THE OTHER SIDE AND THEY WERE LOSE SO HE TIGHTENED THEM ALL UP LIKE THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN, HE SAID LATER HE HAD FORGOTTEN TO RECHECK THEM!
CHUCK HAD BEEN A BOMBARDIER/NAVIGATOR IN THE ARMY AIR CORPS DURING THE WAR! DICK WENT IN THE NAVY RATHER THAN BE DRAFTED IN THE ARMY, HE WAS A COXSWAIN ON AN LCVP (LANDING CRAFT FOR VEHICLES AND PERSONEL)! HE CAME ASHORE ON AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC NAMED IE SHIMA TO LET A SQUAD OF MARINES AND A WAR CORRESPONDENT NAMED ERNIE PYLE OFF WHEN THE GIs ON THE BACH SAW ERNIE THEY STARTED YELLING TO HIM ABOUT HOW THE WAR IN EUROPE WAS GOING AND WHEN WOULD THIS WAR IN THE PACIFIC BE OVER BUT BEFORE HE COULD GET 50 FEET FROM THE LANDING CRAFT A JAP MACHINE GUN OPENED UP AND CUT HIM IN HALF! NEEDLESS TO SAY THE MARINES TOOK CARE OF THE JAP MACHINE GUNNER! ERNIE IS STILL BURRIED ON IE SHIMA WITH DEAD MARINES ALL AROUND HIM! HIS FAMILY SAID HE WOULD BE HAPPIER TO BE WITH HIS FRIENDS SO THEY DIDN’T MOVE HIM TO ARLINGTON CEMETARY THE GOVERNMENT HAD GIVEN SPECIAL PERMISSION FOR HIM BEING A CIVILIAN TO BE BURRIED IN ARLINGTON!
CHUCK NEVER MADE IT TO ENGLAND BEFORE THE EUROPEAN WAR ENDED AND BOMBARDIER/NAVIGATORS WERE PLENTIFUL FOR THE PACIFIC WAR SO HE WAS DISCHARGED AND MADE A CAREER FOR HIMSELF AT THE GENERAL MOTORS PLANT IN VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA!
THAT’S “30” FOR THIS ISSUE.
HOWARD
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