HOWARD’S DAILY CHRONICLE
NUMBER 1 VOL 6
JANYUARY 4TH 2008
WEATHER: COLD, MED HUMIDITY, 22/40 DEGREES
Well, A NEW YEAR AND A NEW CHRONICLE!
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS EVE WERE GREAT EVEN THOUGH MOM AND I STAYED HOME AND WATCHED ON TV!
CHRISTMAS WAS EXCEPTIONALTHIS YEAR, MY DAUGHTER PEGGY AND HER SIGNIFICANT OTHER PAUL CALVERT WERE HERE ALONG WITH EVERYONE ELSE EXCEPT COLLEEN AND DICK WHO WENT TO SAN ANTIONIO TO BE WITH HIS FAMILY AND I UNDERSTAND THEY HAD A VERY GOOD TIME! THEY CAME HERE ON THE 27TH, OPENED THEIR GIFTS AND VISITED WITH MOM AND I FOR A WHILE!
MOM AND I GOT PLENTY OF NICE GIFTS FROM EVERYONE, PEGGY AND PAUL GAVE US A MARBLE TOPPED HEATER/TABLE FOR THE DECK! IT WAS DOWN AT KELLYS’ AND WHEN I TRIED TO MOVE IT I KNEW RIGHT OFF THEY DIDN’T BRING IT ON THE PLANE WITH THEM! KELLY, PAUL AND KERRY MOVED IT IN OUT OF KELLY’S TRUCK! THEN KELLY USED OUR TWO WHEELER TO MOVE IT UP ON THE DECK, IT SURE IS A GOOD THING MY RAMP THE VA GAVE ME WAS THERE OR I DON’T KNOW HOW WE COULD HAVE GOTTEN IT UP ON THE DECK? PROBABLY ONE PIECE AT A TIME! THE WEATHER TURNED BAD JUST BEFORE NEW YEARS DAY SO KELLY SAID HE’D WAIT TILL IT WARMED UP TO PUT IT TOGETHER! SINCE IT’S A WOOD BURNER WE’LL BE ABLE TO ROAST HOT DOGS AND MARSHMELLOWS ALONG WITH OTHER THING WHEN IT’S PUT TOGETHER. AND ALSO USE IT TO HEAT US WHEN IT DOESN’T GET REAL COLD! TIM’S SUPPOSED TO BRING US SOME BAMBOO CURTAINS THAT ROLL UP AND DOWN TO HANG ON THE DECK!
SHANNON HAD TO BE AT BAYLOR HOSPITAL IN PLANO THIS MORNING AT 9:15 FOR A TEST TO SEE IF SHE HAS ANY BLOCKAGE LEADING TO/FROM HER HEART! SO MOM AND I GOT UP AT 6:00 AND PICKED HER UP AT 7:00! WE GOT THERE AT 8:35! EVERYTHING CHECKS OUT OK, NO BLOCKAGE BUT SHE HAS TO HAVE FRIENDS AND RELATIVES TAKE CARE OF KONNER FOR TEN DAYS SINCE SHE CAN’T LIFT ANYTHING FOR THAT LONG!
MOM AND I ARE DOING FINE BUT I HAD TO TAKE HER TO LANA’S YESTERDAY BECAUSE HER RIGHT LEG WAS HURTING SOMETHING AWFUL! I KNOW SHE WOULDN’T HAVE ASKED ME TO CALL LANA IF SHE WASN’T HURTING BAD! AFTER THE ADJUSTMENT SHE SEEMS TO BE DOING FINE AND WALKED ALL OVER BAYLOR TODAY, I’M THE ONE WHO ALMOST HAD TO SET DOWN BEFORE WE GOT BACK TO WHERE THE CAR HAD BEEN TAKEN AND PARKED BY THE VALET (FREE)! HOW ABOUT THAT?
I’VE BEEN TRYING TO PUT SOME OF MY EPISODES DURING MY YOUNGER DAYS TOGETHER TO PASS ON TO YOU READERS OCCASSIONALLY, HERE’S ONE I THINK YOU’LL ENJOY;
DICK CLARK AND I GOT JOBS DELIVERING BLUE PRINTS AND PACKAGES ALL OVER HOLLYWOOD AND LOS ANGELES FOR RED ARROW ONE SUMMER! WE RODE THEIR HARLEYS WITH A SIDE HACK (A 51/2 FT.L X 2 FT.H X 2 FT.W BOX WITH A LID ON A FRAME AN AXLE AND A WHEEL HOOKED TO THE SIDE OF THE BIKE! THIS BOX LOOKED SOMETHING LIKE A CASKET! THE FRAME FLEXED AT THE MOUNTING POINTS IN A TURN AND LET THE BIKE LEAN! ONE DAY DICK GOT DONE EARLY AND I ONLY HAD 3 DELIVERIES IN SANTA MONICA SO WE DECIDED HE’D RIDE IN THE BOX AND WHEN I GOT DONE WE’D GO TO THE BEACH AND DO A LITTLE GIRL WATCHING AND SWIMMING! EVERTHING WENT FINE, THE WHEEL SPREAD WAS PERFECT FOR RIDING ON THE RAIL ROAD TRACKS DOWN THE MIDDLE OF SANTA MONICA BLVD. AND MADE FOR A REAL SMOOTH RIDE TILL WE CAME ON A SWITCH THAT WAS NOT CLOSED! THE BIKE KEPT GOING ON THE TRACK BUT THE WHEEL ON THE SIDE HACK GOT CAUGHT IN THE SWITCH AND RIPPED THE SIDE HACK OFF THE BIKE AND IT WOBBLED ALL OVER THE PLACE THEN STRAIGHTENED OUT AND HEADED FOR THE CURB! THERE WERE TWO LARGE POWER POLES ABOUT 10 FT. APART THAT SUPPORTED SOME GREAT BIG POWER TRANSFORMERS AND THE SIDE HACK HEADED RIGHT BETWEEN THEM WHERE TWO OLDER MEN WERE STANDING! THE SIDE HACK HIT THE CURB AND BOUNCED OVER IT AND PINNED THEM TO THE WALL OF A BUILDING! NOW REMEMBER DICK CLARK WAS RIDING IN THE BOX AND HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON AND WHEN THE SIDE HACK STOPPED HE OPENED THE LID AND STOOD UP, THE TWO MEN FAINTED, WE FOUND OUT WHEN THEY CAME TO THAT THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A FAST DELIVERY CASKET SERVICE AND THAT DICK WAS A DEAD BODY IN THE BOX!
WE CALLED THE BOSS AND TOLD HIM WHAT HAPPENED AND HE SENT THE TRAILER AND TWO GUYS TO HELP LOAD THE BIKE AND SIDE HACK! WE BOTH GOT A WARNING AND PROMISED IT WOULDN’T HAPPEN AGAIN! I HAD TO GO ALONE AND DELIVER THE 3 PACKAGES I HADN’T DELIVERED! DICK FOLLOWED ON HIS NORTON AND AFTER OUR GIRL WATCHING AND SWIMMING I TOOK THE HARLEY BACK AND GOT MY TRIUMPH AND WENT BACK DOWN TO THE BEACH AND DID SOME MORE GIRL WATCHING THEN WENT HOME! IT WAS JUST A SUMMER JOB AND WE WERE SORRY WHEN THE SUMMER ENDED, WE REALLY HAD A BALL RIDING THOSE HARLEYS, I NEVER WANTED TO OWN ONE BUT THEY WERE FUN TO RIDE! DICK RODE A NORTON AND I HAD MY TRIUMPH!
THAT’S “30” FOR THIS ISSUE.
HOWARD
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