My crew coming back from a successful ASW mission against the bad guys back in the day. We flew the flag when we had done what we were supposed to, and it usually pissed the Skipper off… I got ‘counselled’ … Continue reading
Category Archives: TBT
Do you remember??? Playing pickup baseball games in the summer without adults anywhere around? Record players… and the little inserts you had to put in the 33 and 45 records? And how many of us had one of these play … Continue reading
I can’t do any better than this… And I DO remember my parents talking about some of these things, in 1957. We had a black and white TV, with three channels, and it was only turned on after supper for … Continue reading
Who remembers… And they had camping gear and other stuff too, but I never got any of that… sigh… There was a competitor too… I ‘think’ this was probably one of the first attempts at a ‘loyalty’ program by grocery … Continue reading
A couple of ‘torture’ implements for those old farts out there… Bonus points if you remember the shift pattern… LOL And something ‘some’ of us grew up with… And yes, it still works! Son-in-law uses it in the very small … Continue reading
Busy doing stuff, so you get old stuff… Who remembers??? And how many remember playing with one of them on car trips? And rotary dials… or earlier… And what ‘odor’ do you associate with it??? 🙂 … Continue reading
Good times, and bad times… At places like this… Not so good in places like this… But I don’t regret it at all… I would do it over in a heartbeat. But I sure would have liked a quieter work … Continue reading
Beta reading for another starving author… Go read the folks on the sidebar, or watch the libs/deep state melt down again as yet another plot to impeach Trump comes to nothing… … Continue reading
Things kids today don’t know… And how many of us remember these??? I don’t think my mother EVER bought the Chinese one, but I’m pretty sure I had the other three… sigh… Brings back memories, including the heartburn suffered from … Continue reading
You know you’re old if you have ever done this… Sigh… There are days I MISS being that kid, whose biggest worry was a date for the weekend, enough money to put six or seven gallons of leaded gas in … Continue reading