HOWARD’S DAILY CHRONICLE
NUMBER 29 VOL 6
JANUARY 31ST 2008
WEATHER; WARM, MED. HUMIDITY, 43/69 DEGREES
GAS PRICES DOWN A LITTLE TO $2.71
GOT MY HAIR CIT TODAY THEN WENT TO SHERMAN AND PICKED UP SOME 22 LONG “BIRD SHOT” THAT I USE TO KEEP DOGS OFF OUR DECK. THE DOGS AREN’T SO BAD BUT THEY CHASE OUR CATS AND EAT ALL THE FOOD! I WAIT TILL I CAN GET A GOOD CLEAN SHOT AT THEIR RUMP! AS I SAID BEFORE, I VERY SELDOM HAVE TO SHOOT THE SAME DOG TWICE!
MOM CAME DOWN WITH AN UPSET STOMACH THIS EVENING. I SURE HOPE IT’S NOT A REOCCURANCE OF WHAT SHE HAD ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO?
MY FRIEND OUT IN CALIFORNIA, BILL MASON, WENT IN THE HOSPITAL THIS MORNING TO HAVE A “PACEMAKER” PUT IN! HE HAD OPEN HEART SURGERY ABOUT 2 YEARS AGO AND HE WENT IN FOR A CHECK UP LAST MONDAY HIS HEART/PULSE RATE WAS DOWN TO 40 WHICH IS A LITTLE LOW FOR SOMEONE AS ACTIVE AS BILL IS! HE DRIVES FOR THE STUDIOS AND SOMETIMES IS ON A SHOOT FOR 2-3 DAYS AND I’M SURE YOU ALL KNOW HOW YOU EAT AND REST WHEN YOUR PUT IN A SITUATION LIKE THAT, SOMETHING LIKE BEING ON A DEER HUNT IN A DEER STAND AND CAN’T MOVE OR MAKE ANY NOISE AS LONG AS IT TAKES TO GET A DEER! THE LAST ONE HE WAS ON BEFORE THE WRITERS GUILD STRIKE HE HAD TO SET IN A PARKING LOT AND HAUL THE EXTRAS UP AND DOWN A HILL IN A PEOPLE MOVER! THIS SHOOT WAS AT A LOCATION ON TOP OF A HILL IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, I DON’T KNOW THE NAME OF THE HOSPITAL WHERE IT TOOK PLACE BUT IT LASTED 3 ½ DAYS!
WHEN I TALKED TO BILL YESTERDAY HE WAS KIND OF GLAD THEY’RE DOING THE PACEMAKER NOW INSTEAD OF WHEN THE WRITER STRIKE WAS OVER, HE WON’T MISS ANY CALLS WHILE BEING LAYED UP!
ONE FUNNY THING MY MOM TOLD ME ABOUT INVOLVING MY GRANDPA MAHONEY; IT SEEMS HE LIVED DOWN THE STREET FROM WHERE WE JUST MOVED INTO! HIS CAR WAS A1925 MODEL T COUPE! NOW GRANDPA LIKED HIS IRISH WHISKEY AND SPENT TIME WITH FRIENDS IMBIBING IN IT! WHEN HE CAME HOME FROM THE FRIENDS HOUSE HE WAS ON CLEON STREET AND HAD TO MAKE A SHARP TURN IN HIS DRIVEWAY THAT WAS ON THE CORNER OF CLEON AND HESBY! FOR AS LONG AS HE LIVED THERE HE NEVER ONCE SUCCESSFULLY MADE THIS TURN ALWAYS LAYING THE CAR ON ITS SIDE! HE’D CRAWL OUT AND CALL TWO OF HIS SONS, MY DAD AND THE YOUNGER ONE CHARLES TO COME AND PUT THE CAR BACK ON ITS WHEELS WHICH THEY DID! CHARLES BEING ON THE L.A. POLICE DEPT TRIED TO GET HIS LICENSE PICKED UP BUT THEY SAID THEY WOULD HAVE TO CATCH HIM IN THE ACT OF COMMITTING THE CRIME! THEY DID HAVE THE RESOURCES TO PUT A POLICEMAN NEAR THE INTERSECTION JUST TO CATCH HIM! HIS OLDER SON JIM MANAGED TO DO SOMETHING TO THE ENGINE AND GRANDPA COULDN’T GET IT STARTED SO HE WOULD WALK TO HIS FRIENDS HOUSE! I UNDERSTAND THE NEIGHBORS WERE RELIEVED HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO DRIVE ANYMORE! A FEW OF THEM TOLD HIM TO CALL AND THEY WOULD TAKE HIM TO HIS DOCTORS APPOINTMENTS, HE SOON DROVE THAT IN THE GROUND BY CALLING FOR THEM TO TAKE HIM TO HIS DRINKING BUDDYS HOUSE!
I NEVER DID HEAR HOW THEY SOLVED THE PROBLEM? I THINK THEY PUT HIM IN A NURSING HOME WHERE HE DIED IN 1935!
THAT’S “30” FOR THIS ISSUE. I’M FEELING A LITTLE PUNNY MY SELF!
HOWARD
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