Sure, now that I told ya who she is jump on the band wagon, Al. Remember, you're talkin' to a guy who, when told Fergie had a number one single on the pop charts replied...Really, I had no idea any of the Royal Family were singers.

Leave me to my '60's rock and roll, old time country, GRIT TV and MeTV, thank you very much...and get off my damn lawn.

 

Mick, last year my g'daughter wanted me to carve a JOJO pumpkin.....wasn't gonna happen. Why can't we come up with something like that and make a few billion?

 

I'll post before reading this time.

House that burned had a family with 6 kids, had some real young ones, too. It went fast, if they'd been asleep in the early morning hours, could have had a real tragedy. A neighbor set up a go fund me page with more information, and there's a similar one on facebk. Kids are unharmed, the rest can be dealt with. Just two adults, lot of kids, traditional American names, not one of those multi-generation families in one house things.

One of my daughter's best friends since they were 8 lost her husband last night. Long time fighting an aggressive cancer, lot of surgeries, only survived the last couple years because he got on experimental treatments at Mayo Clinic. Yesterday at his request the hospital set up a special exception to the covid rules and let his wife and 3 kids visit. They took his ventilator out, he got to say goodbye, and died with his wife beside him. I really like him, and his wife spent a lot of time at my house growing up. I knew it was a matter of time, but hoped they would have one more Christmas together. He was supposed to go home again yesterday, but something went real bad real fast, and his wife got the call that he wouldn't make it this time. This year has sucked in so many ways. If my daughter has a healthy baby, her house addition gets finished without problems, and we're all still healthy then, I'll feel blessed.

 

Al, sadly neither of us are pre-pubescent teens (although at times we act as such) with a great marketing department and no talent.

 

Wow, Mike, things like that bring real perspective.

 

Evening, guys.
That's a tough go of things, Mike.

 

You should feel blessed either way moldy.

 

Today is a good day, to be alive !

 

That comment released a memory. Didn't go to SERE school, but did get a late night ride in a Huey with a hood over my head, felt like we flew a lot of circles. Landed in a clearing in the woods, hood off, given a map, guy told me the circle was where my "unit" was, go there, and they left. Parting words were, if the Huey searching for you, and he knows where you are now, finds you, you failed. Of course they dropped me where I had no choice but to get soaking wet trying to get to my "unit". I do not feel like I missed an opportunity not going to that school, I've talked to guys that did.

 

Eavning all. Thanks for the update Mike. Very sad indeed. Hopefully some good will come out of it. A tragedy can bring out the best in people.

Have a couple friends that did SERE school. Sounded crazy hard but my friends that went are some tough SOB's. Sadly one of them got valley fever after doing 27 years Airborne. Dam shame.