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    Eating breakfast with the " homeboys" in Swarthmore PA.

    goldylocks I know that but its great to see 70-80-90 yrs old still having a discussion over breakfast My raquetball crew on Fridays after we play have a similar get together and shoot the bree'zs over breakfast. But these guys all bleed Orange for their beloved Longhorns and me my North Texas...
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    Eating breakfast with the " homeboys" in Swarthmore PA.

    In Swarthmore PA. at the local diner with all Eagle and Phillie fans having breakfast Every year I come up to visit my daughter and family in Swarthmore, I have 2 grandchildren that are Phillie fans like their grandpa but also Eagle fans who I hate because I'm a NY Giant fan. As soon as I walk...
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    Sports Cards

    lol I know Its in an 3 inch acrylic clear holder and never ever turn it around Its look like mint condition ..but your right Never turn it around . How are you doing Keyser? Hope all is well with you
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    Sports Cards

    Big time collector many many baseball cards football and hoops . But have a 1953 Mickey Mantle that I put silly putty on the back of it When a card collector see's it he lights turns on Perfect cut even white no creases . Looks mint condition until he turns it over . In 1969 in college I put...
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    Sky is hazy in Austin Texas

    death total now 97 dead from flash flood . Many children still missing My raquetball buddy's daughter was a camp councilor at Mystic camp for many years... The director and his wife of the Christian camp were also killed trying to save the children . My buddy knew both of them very well. The...
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    Sky is hazy in Austin Texas

    one of my all time " Chuck " stories was he was coming from bombing Haiphong a seaport in North Vietnam. The navy would bomb them from air craft carriers off the coast There was no pursuit or anti aircraft dangers to the navy planes. Coming from the Air bases in Vietnam they were subject to...
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    Sky is hazy in Austin Texas

    The sky has been kinda grey or over cast here in Austin But yesterdays newspapers explained why It is? . Its the Saharan dust from Africa crosses the ocean and hitting the Texas coast . Damn Saharan Dust .. I know I have been in Austin the past few years and in NY we always had the Canadian air...
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    Moving

    sorry for your loss ... Good luck out there in Fargo
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    Lite the Tower Texas National Softball Champoins

    I have been drinking the Kool aide .After being here in Texas for the past few years although not a " longhorn" fan because of the Mean Green North Texas allegiance last night the Texas tower was lite after their softball team beat Texas Tech for the national Champoinship . I did win some money...
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    Mount Etna erupts in Scily

    Back from babysitting ... Taramino is a big time tourist attraction for Sicily Beautiful city on the Mediterrian overlooking Reggio { mainland Italy and Mt Etna next door. We ate lunch there when I was staying with my cousins in Reggio. The returants in Tararmini have German menu's at every...
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    Mount Etna erupts in Scily

    In Scily Mt Etna erupts sending a fiery show all over Scily... Calabria and southern Italy . Hot lava was seen flowing down the mountain . I bring this up because a few years back when I revisited Reggio on the mainland if you look across the Straits of Messina you can see Mt Etna and its white...
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    Memorial day

    think it went through Its funny watching it now. And what I remember more then anything was the p&J sandwiches and Kool aid with very little Sugar. And I always think of the relatives of the 4,000 us soldiers that were killed in Italy during WW2. Did the relatives ever come to Italy to pay...
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    Memorial day

    Every year I post this on memorial day ...hopefully it went thru .. if it didn't can someone come in this post and re=do it its in you tube florence american cemetery flight of honor thank you.. Have told this story many times here... lived about an hour from Florence at camp Darby in Livorno...
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    Habemus Papam We have a Pope

    An American Pope. What were the odds.. unreal A Villanova graduate . I called my best friend who graduated from Villanova yesterday and his sister in law went to school with Robert Provest now Leo the 14th. Watching the Cardinals in the Sistine chapel nominating and voting on the new Pope...
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    The Derby

    #7 Luxor Cafe A Japenese Horse import
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