Nostalgia

As I told you on Monday, I spent part of my weekend rummaging through old pictures. After finding the pictures I posted on Monday, I found pictures of myself and the kids when we went camping in the Florida Everglades. That is a story in itself as I often muse about the survivor shows on television. I was doing things like that as a teenager with the exception that there wasn't a television crew filming it and I didn't have the luxury to yell cut if I ran into an alligator. Perhaps I'll tell you some of my Everglades camping and fishing stories in the future. In the interim I'll show you a few pictures from that trip today.

Additionally I have scrapbooks that I began in my early teens that were centered around stock car racing in the Miami area. I was involved in stock car racing as well as go kart racing most of my teenage and early adult years. I have driven race cars and go-karts and I follow the sport closely today. As I was browsing the scrapbooks, the first thing that I realized was that the newspaper articles were yellowing and the pages were beginning to crumble from age.

I have decided that I would begin scanning all of my old family pictures, my old racing pictures and the newspaper articles into my computer. Today, I'm posting a some of my racing photographs as well. Some of the Miami area race car drivers went on to become national champions and were often seen racing on television. It's going to be a lengthy task, but at least I'll be able to save the memories and the images on my computer and later transfer the to DVDs.

It's Hump Day and I hope to be able to stop by AREA 51 to see my pals. I'm not completely sure if I'll go tonight as my left foot has been giving me problems from my last late night soiree. We'll see...

This Date In History: 1777; France officially recognizes the independence of the United States. 1788; During the Russo-Turkish Wars, a Russian army, commanded by Marshal Grigory Potemkin, captures the city of Ochakov on the Black Sea.

1903; Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright Brothers make the first powered aeroplane flight in history. 1967; Australian prime minister Harold Holt vanishes in mysterious circumstances while swimming off Cheviot Beach in Victoria.

Picture Of The Day: It's a eclectic post today with my Everglades camping trip with the kids and some of my racing photos all mixed together. But as you know, I'm not one to always march to the same drumbeat as the others, so please excuse today's mess. There are many stories going through my mind as I make today's post, all stemming from finding the three pictures I posted this past Monday.

Birthdays: Joseph Henry, American physicist 1797, John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet 1807, Ford Madox Ford, novelist and critic 1873, Arthur Fiedler, American conductor 1894, Erskine Caldwell, American novelist 1903, Willard Frank Libby, American chemist 1908.

The Hits Just Keep On Coming:

One morning a woman and her baby were taking a bus. As she entered the bus the driver says, "Wow that is one ugly baby." The woman, deeply hurt, just continued on the bus and found a seat next to an elderly man. The man asks "What's wrong ma'am? You look mad." She replied "I am. That bus driver just insulted me."

The man replied, "You shouldn't take that from him. He's a public worker and should give you respect. If I was you, I would take down his badge number and report him. The woman says, "You're right sir I think I will report him." The elderly man says, "You go on up there and get his badge number and I'll hold your monkey for you."

That's it for today my little tinsel toes. More on Friday.

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