I finally got the gang together ..... whew!
..... some of them couldn't find their instruments
..... then when we finally got set up in the auditorium
..... they couldn't locate the microphone
(I think they lost it on purpose ...so I couldn't sing)
..... then the drummer didn't show
..... so, I had to take over on drums!
(didn't even have time to fix my hair.)
Everything technical in life rarely goes perfectly it seems.
But here we are.....wishing Ronni Bennett
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! ! !
Visit "Time Goes By" and wish Ronni a Happy Birthday.
Showing posts with label Birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birthday. Show all posts
Sunday, April 07, 2013
Thursday, April 07, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RONNI BENNETT
SPECIAL BIRTHDAY WISHES
TO RONNI BENNETT
WITH WISHES FOR MANY MORE YEARS AHEAD !
YOU CAN ANTICIPATE AN EXCITING DECADE
BEGINNING WITH THIS YEAR.
If visitors here haven't already...
stop by "Time Goes By" and
leave a few good wishes for Ronni.
TO RONNI BENNETT
WITH WISHES FOR MANY MORE YEARS AHEAD !
YOU CAN ANTICIPATE AN EXCITING DECADE
BEGINNING WITH THIS YEAR.
If visitors here haven't already...
stop by "Time Goes By" and
leave a few good wishes for Ronni.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
FAMILY TOGETHERNESS
Baby up date here delayed due to this Grandmother having technical function glitch. My computer guru consultant's attention has been necessarily focused on family expansion he describes in an email with pictures he sent the day after the big event. (I edited slightly in interest of privacy.)
“Helloooooo people!
“Announcing some big doin's! Much has changed in the last 24 hours. The universe has expanded approximately 3.8 billion miles. Roughly 27.1 billion snowflakes settled on our Great Lakes State’s city. And future poet, adventurer, philosopher, X-gamer, and animal companion, grandson, snuck into this world via secret hatch.
“His being, like that of the collective family, is one of infinite mystery to be revealed slowly over decades, perhaps centuries. But some secrets are evident:
• Length: 19"
• Weight: 7lb 3oz
• Eye color: blue
• Health: excellentandregular (Grandson), irregularbutexcellent (Mother),
excellregular (Father)
• Complexion: sunburst (Grandson), milky (Mother), briskywinter (Father)
• Temperament: calmsleepyalerthungry (Grandson), calmsleepyalerthungry(Mother),
mellowloopyalertishhungered (Father)
• Cuteness: immeasurable (Grandson), pinchable (Mother), eh (Father)
“Much remains to be discovered, but initial clues indicate vast treasure.”
"The 14 Minute Old Man"
"The Man"
Hair color announcement with picture is yet to come.
“Helloooooo people!
“Announcing some big doin's! Much has changed in the last 24 hours. The universe has expanded approximately 3.8 billion miles. Roughly 27.1 billion snowflakes settled on our Great Lakes State’s city. And future poet, adventurer, philosopher, X-gamer, and animal companion, grandson, snuck into this world via secret hatch.
“His being, like that of the collective family, is one of infinite mystery to be revealed slowly over decades, perhaps centuries. But some secrets are evident:
• Length: 19"
• Weight: 7lb 3oz
• Eye color: blue
• Health: excellentandregular (Grandson), irregularbutexcellent (Mother),
excellregular (Father)
• Complexion: sunburst (Grandson), milky (Mother), briskywinter (Father)
• Temperament: calmsleepyalerthungry (Grandson), calmsleepyalerthungry(Mother),
mellowloopyalertishhungered (Father)
• Cuteness: immeasurable (Grandson), pinchable (Mother), eh (Father)
“Much remains to be discovered, but initial clues indicate vast treasure.”
"The 14 Minute Old Man"
"The Man"
Hair color announcement with picture is yet to come.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
MILLIE'S BIRTHDAY TODAY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MILLIE ! ! !
This tune is for you, Millie: "Chattanooga Choo Choo" being sung by Frances Langford with the Modernaires in the movie "The Glen Miller Story" starring Jimmy Stewart.
Keep blogging!
Visitors here can click on this link: "My Mom's Blog" and wish Millie a Happy Birthday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF1JnbISh9Y&feature=related
This tune is for you, Millie: "Chattanooga Choo Choo" being sung by Frances Langford with the Modernaires in the movie "The Glen Miller Story" starring Jimmy Stewart.
Keep blogging!
Visitors here can click on this link: "My Mom's Blog" and wish Millie a Happy Birthday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF1JnbISh9Y&feature=related
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Almost Forgot ..... A Special Occasion
My mail arrived containing an envelope that clearly looked and felt like a greeting card of some sort was inside. I wondered to my self what was the occasion that would prompt a card? I carefully slid the letter opener along the envelopes flap, removed the card and read the words that answered my question .....
H A P P Y
B I R T H D A Y !
Why, yes, I realized, I am another year older.
The sentiments inside the card brought tears to my eyes as I knew they were heartfelt personal expressions from the sender.
Do others tend to forget their birthdays, too, as they've gotten older, I wonder?
Of course, the day rarely goes unnoticed by others who care about us so we aren't likely to completely forget the day, and I don't want to. That card arrived yesterday, the day before my birthday which is today, so I'll have all day long to celebrate.
Last year at this time I was visiting my son and his wife. We drove to northern Michigan where we enjoyed dinner with his wife's parents. Coincidentally, my daughter-in-law's mother's birthday falls on the same date as mine, or is it that my birthday falls on the same date as hers? A dear friend who lived in Florida and I also shared the same birth date.
I passed on a last minute opportunity suggested by friends a couple weeks ago for a long desired repeat of a driving trip my husband and I took years ago up the east coast to Maine during peak fall colors. My friends flight east leaves today. Maybe another year. We'll enjoy their photo journal after they return and we experience one of our laughter-filled weekends together.
You may check WeatherChannel.com for fall foliage maps across the United States. Some lovely fall photos can be seen on that web site, also.
Time for me to start celebrating. This song holds special significance to me. I initially heard this musical arrangement at my then very young daughter's first dance recital. I think I'll listen to it again today.
Kool and the Gang's YouTube video can't be embedded so I'll have to click on this link to "Celebration."Why don't you join me?
H A P P Y
B I R T H D A Y !
Why, yes, I realized, I am another year older.
The sentiments inside the card brought tears to my eyes as I knew they were heartfelt personal expressions from the sender.
Do others tend to forget their birthdays, too, as they've gotten older, I wonder?
Of course, the day rarely goes unnoticed by others who care about us so we aren't likely to completely forget the day, and I don't want to. That card arrived yesterday, the day before my birthday which is today, so I'll have all day long to celebrate.
Last year at this time I was visiting my son and his wife. We drove to northern Michigan where we enjoyed dinner with his wife's parents. Coincidentally, my daughter-in-law's mother's birthday falls on the same date as mine, or is it that my birthday falls on the same date as hers? A dear friend who lived in Florida and I also shared the same birth date.
I passed on a last minute opportunity suggested by friends a couple weeks ago for a long desired repeat of a driving trip my husband and I took years ago up the east coast to Maine during peak fall colors. My friends flight east leaves today. Maybe another year. We'll enjoy their photo journal after they return and we experience one of our laughter-filled weekends together.
You may check WeatherChannel.com for fall foliage maps across the United States. Some lovely fall photos can be seen on that web site, also.
Time for me to start celebrating. This song holds special significance to me. I initially heard this musical arrangement at my then very young daughter's first dance recital. I think I'll listen to it again today.
Kool and the Gang's YouTube video can't be embedded so I'll have to click on this link to "Celebration."Why don't you join me?
Friday, October 09, 2009
Special Dates Bring Memories
This has been a significant annual date to me for more than forty years -- over half of my lifetime. Remembrances from other years of this day have kept slipping into my thoughts ever since this month began. This is the important date when our family celebrated my husband's birthday, the date I lovingly remember and on which I prefer to focus rather than that other date on which he physically departed this life.
This date has threads to other times that join in my thoughts to this one. One such date that always enters my mind is when we wed, so I usually have similar memory triggers earlier in the year when that month arrives. I recall how we conspired to keep secret from family, friends, and co-workers the fact we were getting married that evening after we each finished work. Ostensibly, we were going on separate unrelated vacations that happened to coincide. I didn't know until later that he had confided to his best friend our plans, because the friend came from out of town and always stayed overnight on that weeknight at my husband's apartment.
This mutual friend of ours, my husband's long time best friend, commuted some distance every day from northern Ohio to central Ohio to perform with the musical quintet on the live television show where my husband and I met. This was the one night a week when the friend's schedule allowed him to stay overnight and not have to make that long drive from his home to the studio for an early morning air time. My husband told me later he couldn't just give our friend the key and not explain why he wouldn't be there. I thought, I probably could have. But I realized he had a lot of history with this friend since they had met in college about fifteen years earlier; were bound also by their professional connection in my husband's various jazz musical instrumental and vocal groups. My local relationships didn't have the same depth of time as his, having existed for only three or four years beginning when I moved to that city.
After we returned from our honeymoon trip we learned that friend had confided our wedding news to another of their close friends, a casual friend of mine. This illustrious group had all been bachelors together as I mentioned recently in this link to my "Route 66, Music, Memories" piece noting they had shared a cross country driving trip. Only on returning from our honeymoon did we learn how precariously close we had come to being subjected to the humor and whims of these friends vivid imaginations of how best to welcome us back to our apartment on our wedding night. I had already moved my belongings to my husband's bachelor abode so we both could immediately begin living there. Spending our wedding night in what was now our apartment was the plan, then we could leisurely leave whenever we pleased the next day for an extensive driving trip to include Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
I'm still not sure to this day how or why these buddies managed to restrain themselves from instigating some of their hastily planned mayhem during the time we were being wed. They even resisted initiating any pranks while we were gone on our trip. Maybe they were afraid they wouldn't have adequate time in our apartment before we returned following the ceremony, since they didn't know whether or not we had additional plans that night. We did, and went out to dinner after saying our vows. Also, they might not have wanted to risk us catching them in our apartment. Should we arrive unexpectedly a lot might have been happening between the bride and groom once the downstairs only entry or exit door was closed and we were climbing up those stairs. They might have thought about the possibilities and determined the experience might best not be shared among so many of us.
They're really quite wonderful guys so maybe they had compassionate feelings. Still, there's always the possibility they might have been intimidated by how I might react since they didn't know me nearly as well as they did my husband. Come to think of it, maybe, pure and simple, they didn't want to antagonize my husband. We never knew. I'm sure they spent some enjoyable hours plotting what they might do, trying to figure out if they could get away with it. To this day I'm not convinced they ever admitted all they had in mind. They had great fun sharing with us a few commonplace activities they had resisted initiating, including short-sheeting our bed and removing all the labels from the canned goods on my husband's kitchen shelves.
The memory threads from my husband's birth date lead to additional highly significant memories. These select annual dates in differing months are the ones in which our children were born. We shared events unique unto themselves surrounding our babies births that were separated by a few years in different states on opposite sides of the country. We were, indeed, such ecstatic parents -- this couple that had been so busy living life that for many years they had made no time for marriage and had never seriously contemplated bringing new lives into this world.
So, this date my mind is filled with episodic laughter, my thoughts are flooded with many memories and my heart is overflowing with love. I think of our children and now grandchild. As tears fill my eyes to the brim, I am so proud and grateful they and their families are in my life. Somewhere I think their father knows we're thinking of him with much love.
This date has threads to other times that join in my thoughts to this one. One such date that always enters my mind is when we wed, so I usually have similar memory triggers earlier in the year when that month arrives. I recall how we conspired to keep secret from family, friends, and co-workers the fact we were getting married that evening after we each finished work. Ostensibly, we were going on separate unrelated vacations that happened to coincide. I didn't know until later that he had confided to his best friend our plans, because the friend came from out of town and always stayed overnight on that weeknight at my husband's apartment.
This mutual friend of ours, my husband's long time best friend, commuted some distance every day from northern Ohio to central Ohio to perform with the musical quintet on the live television show where my husband and I met. This was the one night a week when the friend's schedule allowed him to stay overnight and not have to make that long drive from his home to the studio for an early morning air time. My husband told me later he couldn't just give our friend the key and not explain why he wouldn't be there. I thought, I probably could have. But I realized he had a lot of history with this friend since they had met in college about fifteen years earlier; were bound also by their professional connection in my husband's various jazz musical instrumental and vocal groups. My local relationships didn't have the same depth of time as his, having existed for only three or four years beginning when I moved to that city.
After we returned from our honeymoon trip we learned that friend had confided our wedding news to another of their close friends, a casual friend of mine. This illustrious group had all been bachelors together as I mentioned recently in this link to my "Route 66, Music, Memories" piece noting they had shared a cross country driving trip. Only on returning from our honeymoon did we learn how precariously close we had come to being subjected to the humor and whims of these friends vivid imaginations of how best to welcome us back to our apartment on our wedding night. I had already moved my belongings to my husband's bachelor abode so we both could immediately begin living there. Spending our wedding night in what was now our apartment was the plan, then we could leisurely leave whenever we pleased the next day for an extensive driving trip to include Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
I'm still not sure to this day how or why these buddies managed to restrain themselves from instigating some of their hastily planned mayhem during the time we were being wed. They even resisted initiating any pranks while we were gone on our trip. Maybe they were afraid they wouldn't have adequate time in our apartment before we returned following the ceremony, since they didn't know whether or not we had additional plans that night. We did, and went out to dinner after saying our vows. Also, they might not have wanted to risk us catching them in our apartment. Should we arrive unexpectedly a lot might have been happening between the bride and groom once the downstairs only entry or exit door was closed and we were climbing up those stairs. They might have thought about the possibilities and determined the experience might best not be shared among so many of us.
They're really quite wonderful guys so maybe they had compassionate feelings. Still, there's always the possibility they might have been intimidated by how I might react since they didn't know me nearly as well as they did my husband. Come to think of it, maybe, pure and simple, they didn't want to antagonize my husband. We never knew. I'm sure they spent some enjoyable hours plotting what they might do, trying to figure out if they could get away with it. To this day I'm not convinced they ever admitted all they had in mind. They had great fun sharing with us a few commonplace activities they had resisted initiating, including short-sheeting our bed and removing all the labels from the canned goods on my husband's kitchen shelves.
The memory threads from my husband's birth date lead to additional highly significant memories. These select annual dates in differing months are the ones in which our children were born. We shared events unique unto themselves surrounding our babies births that were separated by a few years in different states on opposite sides of the country. We were, indeed, such ecstatic parents -- this couple that had been so busy living life that for many years they had made no time for marriage and had never seriously contemplated bringing new lives into this world.
So, this date my mind is filled with episodic laughter, my thoughts are flooded with many memories and my heart is overflowing with love. I think of our children and now grandchild. As tears fill my eyes to the brim, I am so proud and grateful they and their families are in my life. Somewhere I think their father knows we're thinking of him with much love.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Birthday Greetings -- Millie
H A P P Y
B I R T H D A Y !
M I L L I E
89 year old Whitey Thomas, former member of the Glenn Miller Army Aircorps Band (trumpet and trombone) blows strong in this YouTube video.
Stop by "My Mom's Blog" and wish Millie a Happy Birthday:
http://mymomsblog.blogspot.com/
B I R T H D A Y !
M I L L I E
89 year old Whitey Thomas, former member of the Glenn Miller Army Aircorps Band (trumpet and trombone) blows strong in this YouTube video.
Stop by "My Mom's Blog" and wish Millie a Happy Birthday:
http://mymomsblog.blogspot.com/
Monday, August 18, 2008
Birthday Wishes for Millie Garfield
H A P P Y
B I R T H D A Y ! ! !
" M I L L I E "
May your day be special
with family and friends.
Lucky eights: 08/18/08
Looking forward to sharing
many more birthdays with you !
(Visit Millie at "My Mom's Blog")
B I R T H D A Y ! ! !
" M I L L I E "
May your day be special
with family and friends.
Lucky eights: 08/18/08
Looking forward to sharing
many more birthdays with you !
(Visit Millie at "My Mom's Blog")
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Happy Birthday, Ronni Bennett
Monday, April 7, 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY !
RONNI BENNETT
May your special day be filled with happiness
May you have many more years of joy filled birthdays
Readers Here:
Visit "Time Goes By" and leave Ronni a birthday wish.
Visit "Blogging In Paris" and see Ronni's interview on public radio's "Brian Lehrer Live" last week.
Added Later:
Ronni's interview (audio & video) on public radio's "Brian Lehrer Live" can also be seen on "Time Goes By" 4/7/08 post.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY !
RONNI BENNETT
May your special day be filled with happiness
May you have many more years of joy filled birthdays
Readers Here:
Visit "Time Goes By" and leave Ronni a birthday wish.
Visit "Blogging In Paris" and see Ronni's interview on public radio's "Brian Lehrer Live" last week.
Added Later:
Ronni's interview (audio & video) on public radio's "Brian Lehrer Live" can also be seen on "Time Goes By" 4/7/08 post.
Friday, October 19, 2007
HAPPY 108TH BIRTHDAY, OLIVE !
Three Centuries of Living
(Added U.S.A. 10/20/07)
Krystyna: Even though it's the 21st in Australia, it's still the 20th in the U.S.A., so we can keep celebrating Olive's birthday here. Just happens to be my birthday, too, so I can continue celebrating for her as well as myself. Coincidentally, my mother was born the same year as Olive in 1899. Boggles my mind when I stop to think these ladies lived in the nineteenth century AND twentieth century AND NOW Olive is living in the twenty-first century! We can all only hope we continue to have as much fun as she appears to be having as we travel through these elder years. I'll bet Olive will even appreciate belated birthday wishes.
OCTOBER 20th 2007
Birthday Greetings to you, Olive --
Congratulations on being the oldest blogger.
***Visit Olive in Australia through the magic of Internet blogging and wish her a happy birthday at "The Life of Riley."
My special message to Olive:
Olive, I've been enjoying reading your stories, seeing your pictures, soon after your first blog, or "blob" post, as you say. Thanks to your helper, Mike, for assisting you with creating such an interesting blog.
Your blog and DVD has been an additional inspiration for at least one Los Angeles area, California, USA, retirement community skilled nursing facility. Some individuals are temporarily there for rehabilitation and may leave for a higher level of care such as Assisted Living, or to Independent Living in the retirement community. Some return to their own homes. Others remain as permanent residents. All the individuals are usually Elders - age 50 years to 100, or older. One particular facility is preparing to explore providing a blogging opportunity for residents. Many will need a helper as you have.
There have been many smiles on the faces of residents who have seen your DVD movie. The movie will continue to be shared with other local groups.
I'll look forward to future accounts of your experiences, observations on life.
I wish you many more birthdays and posts to your "blob."
(Added U.S.A. 10/20/07)
Krystyna: Even though it's the 21st in Australia, it's still the 20th in the U.S.A., so we can keep celebrating Olive's birthday here. Just happens to be my birthday, too, so I can continue celebrating for her as well as myself. Coincidentally, my mother was born the same year as Olive in 1899. Boggles my mind when I stop to think these ladies lived in the nineteenth century AND twentieth century AND NOW Olive is living in the twenty-first century! We can all only hope we continue to have as much fun as she appears to be having as we travel through these elder years. I'll bet Olive will even appreciate belated birthday wishes.
OCTOBER 20th 2007
Birthday Greetings to you, Olive --
Congratulations on being the oldest blogger.
***Visit Olive in Australia through the magic of Internet blogging and wish her a happy birthday at "The Life of Riley."
My special message to Olive:
Olive, I've been enjoying reading your stories, seeing your pictures, soon after your first blog, or "blob" post, as you say. Thanks to your helper, Mike, for assisting you with creating such an interesting blog.
Your blog and DVD has been an additional inspiration for at least one Los Angeles area, California, USA, retirement community skilled nursing facility. Some individuals are temporarily there for rehabilitation and may leave for a higher level of care such as Assisted Living, or to Independent Living in the retirement community. Some return to their own homes. Others remain as permanent residents. All the individuals are usually Elders - age 50 years to 100, or older. One particular facility is preparing to explore providing a blogging opportunity for residents. Many will need a helper as you have.
There have been many smiles on the faces of residents who have seen your DVD movie. The movie will continue to be shared with other local groups.
I'll look forward to future accounts of your experiences, observations on life.
I wish you many more birthdays and posts to your "blob."
Friday, August 17, 2007
Happy Birthday -- Saturday, August 18, 2007
M I L L I E
G A R F I E L D
... and many more !!!
"See you" over at your place: "My Mom's Blog".
Keep writing those funny stories, fascinating memories, and philosophical facts.
Oh, yeah! Keep us entertained with those hilarious videos of you opening aggravating and downright difficult to get into packages.
You constantly surprise me with new features on your blog, including your most recent cooking adventure with "Spices of Life."
ABC News, Retirement Living TV appearances, AARP, newspapers around the country -- up and down the East Coast from Palm Beach to Boston -- a multitude of Internet web sites and blogs sing your praises. My voice and words join that number.
G A R F I E L D
... and many more !!!
"See you" over at your place: "My Mom's Blog".
Keep writing those funny stories, fascinating memories, and philosophical facts.
Oh, yeah! Keep us entertained with those hilarious videos of you opening aggravating and downright difficult to get into packages.
You constantly surprise me with new features on your blog, including your most recent cooking adventure with "Spices of Life."
ABC News, Retirement Living TV appearances, AARP, newspapers around the country -- up and down the East Coast from Palm Beach to Boston -- a multitude of Internet web sites and blogs sing your praises. My voice and words join that number.
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