I "POaST" about my Life --- 1962 ...

I now live in Arizona....

One of the very few FAMILY pics I have with all of us in it 1962 a family vaca to Mexico the only vacation I know of that we all went on, and it was probably just a day trip or maybe a weekend to the border town El Paso!

My Donkey - Chilibeans!  Phx Stable 48th st. and McDowell

When we first moved to Arizona Judyann was complaining that she didn't want to go to church with strangers!
I of course responded to her positively cuz I like people so much with the comment;  "strangers are just people we haven't met yet!"  I am pretty surprised at my outgoingness when I was young!  Daddy was barbering at Luke Air Force Base and Mom quickly got a job at Willis Linen Supply.

Japanese Gardens on Baseline in Phoenix
Daddy Me and Tom  (guy on right?? - it's his donkey!)

The Fashion!

One day in Day Care I fell off the merry go around and was sent to the Hospital diagnosed with Acute Hepatitis.  I was unconscious for 24 hours. The doctors and nurses were surprised when I was cheerful as soon as I woke up.  Mom says I told them "thank you for helping me" immediately!!!

In March Timmy came home from Fort Bragg.  He was headed out to Language school in California down by San Diego his first step to being a Green Beret.

Timmy 

Timmy - Green Beret  - on the job!!

We bought a horse riding stable in Phoenix Daddy named it The Double T Riding stable and tack Company!!! It was the first of many long years spent in a family divided between Mesa and Phoenix and later Tempe town too!  

Phoenix Riding Stable 48th Street and McDowell
Me and Mom, Daddy and Tom behind Judyann

The Family and the Relatives;

Blanding Utah at Grandma and Grandpas

1962 Tom and Lyn Lyman Family

Don Smith Family

THE WORLD AROUND ME;

The Beatles

Although I did not see West side story til much later This is it's year!

The Rolling Stones

Music was changing, media would never be the same!!!

31 Days of 31 Christmas' - 2000

Merry Merry and a HO HO HO!

31 Days of 31 Christmas' - 1993

31 Days of 31 Christmas' - 1992

I am grateful for "U" - United States of America

I am grateful to live in the United States of America.  My brother in-law used to get annoyed when people said they were in America like Mexico wasn't!?!?!  I miss him. Cheers Tio Jorge!

So I always say The United States of America.  

And then there are my family members who willing and draftedly have fought to defend our United States of AMeriCa

And what about September 11 the unity felt after that tragic day was Amazing....

After this past election (2012) people keep trying so hard to point out the differences and that we aren't United, how sad is that - does anyone not remember the Civil war and that more people died in that war than all our other wars combined?  History. 

Who wants to be living in a country divided, I sure don't.  
Again I quote; "A HOUSE DIVIDED FALLS".  
God be with Us.