I Hate Going To The Store

Really I Do. She Has No Idea What The Inside Of The Grocery Store Looks Like. I Have Done The Shopping For Quite A Few Years Now. I Refuse To Go At The First Of The Month When All The Stores Are Jammed Packed.
Today Is An Example Of Why I Hate Stores. I Needed A Battery. The Closest Place Was A Drug Store. I Swear After Today I Will Never Step Foot In This Particular Drug Store Again.
I Walk In, Only One Counter Person Behind The Counter. Three People In Line. I Selected My Battery And Got In Line. The Cashier Informed Us We Were Standing In The Wrong Place. That Register Was Not Working. We All Shifted To The Only Working Register. This Register Was Located At The Photo Station. The Customer Was There To Pick Up her Photo's. The Person In Front Of Me Had A 5-6 Year Old Boy Who Took Her Cash Purse. She Was Chasing Him Throughout The Store. I Asked The Cashier If I Could Just Leave My Money And Leave. She Informed Me She Had To Ring It Up. I Was Hurting For Time And I Kept Checking My Watch. I Knew Once The Lady Got Her Photo's Selected The Customer In Front Of Me Could Not Stay In Line And Chase This Little Boy Around. Can You Believe This Lady Was Ooowing And Awwwing Over These Photo's. She Even Took A Couple Photo's Out Of The Envelope To Show Her Grand Daughter's Soccer Game. I Gave Her A Stern Look When She Wanted To Include Me In This Fiasco. Finally The Lady Moved On And The Customer In Front Of Me Used A Couple Colorful Words To This Child To Get Her Purse Back. I Am Going To Count To Ten, She Said. You Know What Happens When I Get To Ten. She Starts Off With One, Then Two. Before She Could Get To Three I Said Eight, Nine, Ten. The Boy Told Me I Counted Too Fast. I Told Him I Knew The Boogy Man And If He Didn't Give Her The Purse I Was Sending Him Over To His House When It Got Dark. At This Point In Time I Really Didn't Want To Be Standing In Line For This Stinking Battery. The Boy Handed Over The Purse And After All Of This It Finally Came My Turn. Well I Thought She Was About To Check Me Out. She Noticed Her Register Tape Was Jamming And She Had To Fix It Right There In Front Of Me. I Informed Her I Didn't Need A Receipt. Just Ring Me Up And I Will Be On My Way. I Need To Fix This Because It's Jamming Up Inside The Register. I Told Her One Employee Is Not Enough. Every Time I Come In Here There Is Only One Person At A Cash Register. She Looks At Me And Ask Me For My Discount Card. I Told Her I Didn't Have One. Really I Did But Wanted To Get Through This Transaction As Quickly As Possible. She Then Ask If I Wanted To Apply For A Discount Card. I Told Her No, I Just Want To Pay For My Battery. She Say's Ok, That Will Be 2.63. I Looked At Her And Told Her I Was Intending On Buying Them At The Nearest Gas Station But This Store Was Closest. I Looked At Her And Said I Changed My Mind On The Battery. You Won't See Me In Here Again. I'm Already Late For Where I Am Going And I Can Live Without The Battery. She Then Gets On Her Loud Speaker And Request The Manager For A Void. I Just Smiled As I Was Leaving.
As I Walked Out That Door I Just Kept Reminding Myself I Was Never Ever Coming Back Again. I Am Thankful Not All Of My Store Experiences Are Like This. Thank God!

Drought Of 2012

Have You Ever Seen Anything Like It? Yes I Am Referring To This Years Drought. Some Have Said It's The Worse Since 1987. Now, Those Who's Job It Is To Make These Comparison Said You Have To Go back To 1963 To Find A Season This Dry. It's Been Almost Two Months Since I Had To Use The Lawnmower. The Midwest Has Been Suffering Through These Extreme High Temperatures And Very Little Rain. I Was Young In 1963 But Not As Concerned With Drought Issues As I Am Today. The Farmers In This Area Have Pretty Much Said The Corn Crop Is Not Even Worth Harvesting. We Can Expect The Price Of Corn Products To Be High In Cost Due To The Shortages From The Midwestern States.
I Have A Tree In The Front Yard That Lost It's Leaves. It's Not Even August Yet And The Dog Days Of Summer Is In Full Force. If It Wasn't For Our Feeders I Am Not Sure If The Hummingbirds Would Still Be Around.
The Robins Have Thinned Out Considerably Because Their Food Is So Scarce. I Really Don't Like Making Predictions When It Comes To The Weather. However Our Previous Winter Was One Of The Warmest On Record. Our Spring Came Very Early. I Have A Feeling That Winter Will Be Here Before Expected. It Also May Be A Very Long Winter At That.
Of Course Only Mother Nature Can Say For Sure But The Seasons Here In The Midwest Are Way Ahead Of Itself. The Calendar May Say The End Of July, But I Have A Feeling It Is More Like The End Of August. Cities Throughout The Midwest Are Asking Residents To Conserve On Their Water Usage. The Rivers Are Drying Up And What Grass We Have Is All Brown Like The Winter Months. Those Who Have Knowledge Of Droughts Have Prepared Us By Informing That Some Tree's May Have A Lasting Effect That We May Not Even See Until Maybe Three Years Down The Road.
I Have Set A Couple Pans Of Water Out For The Birds And Squirrels. I Have Seen Deer In Places I Have Never Seen Them Before. They Are In Search For Water And Where Ever That Is They Will Be.
Hopefully We Will Get Some Relief Before It Does Any More Damage. All We Can Do At This Point Is Pray Or Do A Rain Dance. I Have Already Been Praying. Do You Have Your Dancing Shoes On?

Sounds Of Summer

When Was The Last Time You Heard One Of These? Today I Mowed Here And There. The Grass Is Not Growing, But The Weeds Are. It Took Me 5 Minutes To Mow The Church. It Normally Takes An Hour. I Have Not Mowed In More Than 6 Weeks. It Had About A Dozen Weeds Growing In The Middle Of The Yard Where There Should Only Be Grass. I Got The Weeds In My Front Yard With My Weed Eater. Not Sure If There Will Be Any Grass in 2012. I Cannot Remember A Summer Being Like This. Some Are Referring To The Year Of 1988 As Being The Most Recent Drought As Bad As This One. Ban On Burning Almost Everywhere. I Noticed A Lot Of The Robins Have Moved On. I Try To Pay As Much Attention To Nature. There Are Times I Don't Know What It Means But Sometimes It May Be Note Worthy. To Be Honest About It I Really Don't Miss Mowing. It Would Take About Three Hours Of My Day. Now I Can Do Other Things Like Maybe Take A Siesta:)

My Bucket List

I Really Never Considered A Bucket List Until Recently. Not That I Have Intentions Of Leaving Anytime Soon. However We Just Never Know When Our Number Is Called. Yes I Know Looking Back At Previous Blogs I Have Written Much About Death. That Could Be Because Death Seems To Be All Around Us. My Most Recent Experience With The Death Of My Son Bobby. Since That Time I Have Shared My Thoughts Of Death And Creating Memories. I Believe My Reason For Doing This Is Because Bobby Passed Away Without Warning. I Write What My Mind Is Thinking Of. I Consider It Good Therapy For Me. It's My Way Of Not Allowing It To Stay Bottled Up Inside.
So Back To The Topic Of Hand, The Bucket List. By The Way It's Called A Bucket List Because It's Things You Would Like To See Happen Before You "Kick The Bucket".
It May Surprise You But I Really Don't Have Much Of A List. I Have Always Led A Simple Life. I Don't Require Much To Fulfill My Life. I Don't Consider Myself A Materialistic Person. So Owning A Fancy Sports Car Doesn't Thrill Me. I Don't Dream Of Being Wealthy. Even Though Money Would Solve A Lot Of Problems When They Arise.
I Would Like To Complete My Danville High School Yearbook Collection. The Hardest Part Is Behind Me. The Early Years Of The 1900's Were The Most Difficult. Deciding Who Gets Them Is A Difficult Decision Because I Want The New Owner To Appreciate All The Time And Effort That Was Put Into It. I Have Made Myself Very Clear NOT To Separate Them. It Took Too Many Years To Gather Them Up. I Consider Myself Both Blessed And Lucky To Have Filled The Most Difficult Years.
I Would Say Bowling A Perfect Game Would Be At The Top Of My Bucket List. I Wish I Had More Years Of Bowling Experience Than What I Do. I Think My Chances Are Good And That 300 Game Will Become A Reality Some Day. I Once Knew A Man Who Began Bowling On A League After He Retired From The Railroad. He Was In His Mid 60's When He Bowled With Me. He Bowled A Perfect Game Just A Couple Years Before He Passed Away.
I Have Always Wondered What It Was Like To Be Homeless. I Want To Live On The Street For One Week Just To Know What It Is Like Not To Have Anything. I Would Like To Be The Weight I Am Suppose To Be. I Have Been Over Weight Ever Since I Quit Smoking. I Made Some Bad Decisions Which Led To My Weight Gain. As I Get Older I Find It More Difficult To Get Around With This Extra Weight.
I Suppose The Biggest Item On My Bucket List Is To Be Able To Say Goodbye To The Ones I Love Before I Depart. Often We Wish We Could Have Said The Things We Always Wanted To Say. I Am Not Scared Of Dying. I Just Want Those I Leave Behind To Be Ok. Maybe I Do Want To Win A Million Dollars In The Lottery So I Can Give It To Them. I Think It Would Give Me Good Comfort Knowing Those I Love Will Do Just Fine Without My Help.
Actually When I Do Depart This Great World Of Ours, I Will Finally Feel Complete And Whole, Knowing I Will Again See Those Who Left Before Me. I Will Then Look Forward To Seeing Those I Love Who Will Someday Join Me For Eternity.

Before

Success Photo's Are Always Inspiring When It Comes To Weight Loss. My Niece Jan Lost A Boatload Of Weight Some Years Back. She had Been The Talk Of The Family. My Dad Would Always Carry A Before And After Photo Of Her To Brag About Her Weight Loss. My Brother Is Also Campaigning To Lose 100 Pounds And More. Closer To Home Is My Beautiful Daughter Beckie. I Consider It An Invasion Of Privacy In Asking A Lady Her Age Or Her Weight. Same Goes For My Daughter.
Let's Have The Photo Speak For Itself.
Right Now Beckie Has A Full Plate In Her Life. She Is Attending Beauty School By Day And Waitressing By Night. This Is Her Plan For At Least A Year Since This Is The Length Of Her Schooling. It's Not Easy Being A Single Mom, As She Is Working Very Hard To Better Her Life For Her And Her Son AJ. If I Have My Information Correct, Once She Obtains Her Beauty License She Will Cut Hair Then Change Her Schooling And Go Into The Medical Field.
So Back Off Dudes, She Has No Play Time. Well Maybe With Her Little Man AJ. She Is Focused For A
Better Future. You Go Girl!

After:

The Tale Of Two Cities

I Just Spoke To My Brother Tuck On The Phone. He And His Wife Have Been Visiting San Diego For Little Less Than A Week. I Pretty Much Knew He Was Not Looking Forward To Tomorrow. This Will Be The Day They Return To Illinois.
After My Conversation With Him, I Sat For A Spell And Thought About How The Decisions We Make Affect Our Every Day Lives. If Money Were Never An Issue I Am Certain Many Of Us Would Be Living Life Differently. Well, Actually Wouldn't That Be The Case For All Of Us? Economics Is The Reason My Brother Lives In Illinois. After Living In California For 25 Years You Establish That As Home. His Wife Evelyn Has Always Lived In San Diego Before Moving To Illinois. Even Though She Has Said She Didn't Like San Diego, I Know Down Deep She Really Does. They Left A Daughter There. They Left Behind A Grandson. All The Friends And Family Left Behind Has To Be Very Difficult. Tuck Knew Their Lives Would Be Much Better Financially Living Off His Pension In Illinois. The Economy Of California Made Their Decision To Reside In Illinois A "No Brainer".
If Money Were Not An Issue I Would Most Likely Live My Life Differently. I Left My Heart On Nantucket Island. I Would Love To Spend The Summer Months There And Return Home For The Winter. However I Didn't Leave Behind A Lot Of People When I Was Discharged From Uncle Sam's Canoe Club.
A Very Interesting Person However And I Believe I Have Mentioned Him In One Of My Blogs. Albert Bond, A Friend I Worked With At The Commissary Store. He Was A Civilian Employee Working On The Naval base. At That Time He Was 63 Years Old. I Admired His Work Ethic Tremendously. He Taught Me How To Play Tennis. He Beat The Socks Off Me. Anyway We Formed A Good Friendship. He Was Kind Of A Grandfather Figure In My Life. I Joked Of Him Living To Be 100. He Informed Me He Had All Intentions Of Living At Least That Long Plus More. Last Time I Was In Contact With Him Was Ten Years Ago. The Day And Age Of Cell Phones We Lost Contact. The Island Has A Weekly Newspaper And There Has Never Been A Week That I Missed Reading It. If He Is Still Living He Would Be 100 Years Old.
Anyway, Back To Why I Wrote This Blog. Life Is What You Make It. There Will Always Be "What If's" In Our Lives. Tuck Has Seemed To Settle In Pretty Much Since He Moved back. He Bowls On A Couple Leagues. He Writes A Bowling Column In Our Town's Newspaper. He Was Elected To Be president On One Of Those Leagues. He Is A Stadium Announcer For Our Collegiate Level Baseball Team. He Is President Of The Amateur Radio Club. They Volunteer In A Church Soup Kitchen Monthly. He Is One Of The Best Euchre Players This Side Of The Mississippi. He Is My Partner On Monday's. I Have Almost Cloned Him. He Is Area Captain For A Weight Loss Organization Called Tops. They Both Are Election Judges. Did I Mention He Walks At Least Three Miles A Day And Lost 75 Pounds Since Moving To Illinois?
Wishing My Brother And His Wife A Safe Return To Danville. They Will Be Arriving Tomorrow Night. We Are Experiencing Record High Temps Just Awaiting Their Return. So He Tells Me Summer Is A Breeze. Winter Is The Time He Wishes For San Diego. So Actually There Is No Idling Tuck. No Moss Grows Under His Shoes. They Say Home Is Where The Heart Is. Well I Would Agree With That In Some Cases, But Not All. I Guess That's Why We Have Old Friends And New Friends. Both Of Them Have Found Friendship In People They Have Met Since Moving To Illinois. Tuck Being The Shy Person That He Is Seems To Never Have Problems Finding New Friends Or Places To Go. When He Arrived In Danville He Planted His Feet Into His New Life And Is Making The Best Of It All.
No, Danville Doesn't Boast About Having Paradise Like Weather. We Don't Boast About Having A Major League Baseball Team. We Can't Boast About Being A Drive Time Away From Swimming Pools And Movie Stars. We Can Say We Are In Cub Country. Just A Drive Away From Chicago, Or The Great Indianapolis 500 Speedway. We Can Proudly Proclaim We Experience Every Season Of The Year. Spring Represents New And Fresh. Summer Is A Fun Filled Outdoor Activity. Ice Cream And Water Melon Eating Is As Normal As Fresh Picked Strawberry And Land Of The Corn Fields. The Leaves Turn Different Colors And Remind Us Everything Changes In Time. Winter Of Course Brings Us A Season Of Rest. Hibernation In Our Tree's And Flowers. Colder Temperatures To Kill Some Nasty Germs That had Been Lingering Around The Previous Seasons. Snow To Remind Us If It Was Warmer It Would Be Rain. A Reason For Families To gather Again For Winter Festivities. Sledding And The Cancellation Of School Due To The Abundance Of Snow.
We Can Boast About Two Different Fairs Annually. We Are Proud To Have A Veterans Hospital And Have Healthcare So Close To Home. I Could Go On And On But I Think You See My Point. Life Is What You Make It. Tuck Pretty Much Proved This By Jumping Into All That He Has Since Moving To Illinois. He Is An Active Person. That's What Kind Of Person You Have To Be To Enjoy Where You Live. He Is Far More Active Than I Am And He Has Only Been Back Three Years. Actually That's Exactly How I Prefer My Life. I Am Very Satisfied.
Even Though They May Seem Sad They Left California. Their New Life Here In Illinois Can Also Have It's Rewards. Besides, What Would Danville Be Like Without Tuck In It?

A Fitting Tribute

Today Marks What Would Have Been My Son's Birthday. Not Only That, It Lands On Friday. Yes That's Right, Bobby Really Enjoyed It When His Birthday Landed On Friday The 13th. To Add More Flavor To It Today Would Have Been His 31st Birthday. 31 Turned Around Equals 13. The Final Loop To Wild And Crazy Days And Numbers.
This My Friends Brings Us To Focus On The Final Chapter. It Has Been Written And I Must Accept It. Life Moves Quickly As We All Realized On That Early December Morning. Even Though Many Of Us Have Been In Mourning For So Long The Time Has Arrived For Us To Focus On The Future. I Ask My Readers To Say A Small Prayer For Bobby's Rose Of Sharon. I Planted It One Year Ago Today. What Would Have Been His 30th Birthday. I Planted It With Love And Care. Good Rich Soil To Ensure A Healthy Growth. Only The Best For This Special Planting. It Blossomed All Summer Long. Every Time I Looked At It A New Flower Would Seem To Appear. Last Winter Was One Of The Warmest In Record Keeping. I Considered It Refreshing To Finally Have A Winter We Could Actually Enjoy In Illinois. I Did Make The Comment We May Have To Pay For It Somewhere Down The Road. Unfortunately I Was Right With Record High Temperatures As Well As Extreme Drought In Two Thirds Of The Country. It Has Been More Than Three Weeks Since I Last Mowed The Grass. The Grass Is Brown As It Looks In The Winter Months. I Like The Vacation From Mowing But Not At The Expense Of What The Lack Of Water Is Doing For The Corn Crop. Long Story Short, The Rose Of Sharon Is In Danger. I'm Not Sure When Spring Arrived In Illinois. Mother Nature Had Fooled Us On Many Occasions And I Was Not Going To Be Fooled For Another Season. Yet I Was, And Everything Began To Bloom Weeks Earlier Than Usual. As I Mowed The Grass Each Week And Seen The Rose Of Sharon With No Leaves I Became Worried. Still No Leaves And No Sign Of Life. Finally In The Month Of May A Small Sign Of Life. A Tiny Leaf Yet Still Only A Bud. I Purchased Some Plant Food To Help It Along. It Barely Clings To Life. I Was Talking To A Friend Of Mine And She Told Me I Should Put Manure On It. At That Moment Bells And Sirens Began Going Off In My Head. Years Ago When Bobby And I Spent More Than An Hour In The Woods In Search Of Mushrooms We Finally Decided None Were To Be Found. On Our Walk Back To The Truck We Had To Cross This Cow Pasture. To Both Of Our Surprise As The Sun Shined Down On The Most Beautiful 8-10 Inch Mushrooms, We Were Over Joyed. It Gave Us A Story To Tell About Our Special Hunt. Certainly I Can Go To The Farm Store And Buy It By The Bag, But Why Should I When I Can Get The Real Thing? The Real Thing From That Special Pasture That Brought Us The Best Of Luck In Our Journey Of Mushroom Hunting. At This Point I Have Nothing To Lose And I Have All The Confidence In The World That This Will Hold The Answer. Why Didn't I Think Of This Before?
I Have Sought Closure Of Some Kind So I Could Move On. I Cannot Continue Living In The Past When I Have The Entire Future In Front Of Me. Those Around Me That Have Been Hurt By This Tragic Death Have Sadness In Their Hearts. Yet They Have Been Able To Move On And Not Live In The Memory Of Times Past. The Time Has Arrived For Me To Move On. It's Like Reading A Great Book. It Has A Beginning. It's Content Holds Thrilling Moments. Yet As Each Book You Read It Has An Ending. I'm Not Throwing This Book Away. I Am Simply Putting It On A Shelf For Safe Keeping. Every Once In Awhile In My Weakest Moments I Can Read It Again To Give Me Comfort.
Life Seemed To Stop For Me That Day. A Void I Cannot Fill. Sorrow Follows Me Each And Every Day. Life Though Is For The Living. I Must For The Sake Of Others And Myself Focus On What We Have In Front Of Us. We Don't Know What Tomorrow Holds For Us. Today Is The Memory For Tomorrow. If Not For Myself I Would Like To Create Many Memories For Those Around Me. One Day They Will Be Looking Back Searching For Memories Of Yesterday. It Is My Hopes They Will Find Many Pleasant Ones That Will Bring A Smile To Their Face.
I Have 57 Years Of Memory. It All Began When I First Heard My Mothers Voice. All The Familiar Things That Followed Throughout The Years. Years On Top Of Years Of Memories. Memories Of My Loved Ones Long Departed. Still Only A Memory. If There Is A Lesson To Be Learned Here, Let It Be To Live Life To The Fullest And Leave As Many Memories Behind For Those Who Would Enjoy Them Later Down The Road. What You Do Today Is For Someone Years Later. Life Has Many Turns And Twist To It. I Would Like To Think I Left A Very Good Memory For Somebody.

Happy Birthday Brother

Today Is My Brother's Birthday. He Turns 59 Years Old Today. I Want To Wish Him A Happy Birthday And A Hope For Many More. On One Of The Hottest Days Of The Year. The Day After Independence Day Our Nation Celebrates Tuck's Birthday. Less Than A Week From Now He And His Wife Evelyn Are Heading Back To San Diego For A Weeks Stay With Their Daughter Evanna And Her New Husband.
I Am Happy For Them Because It's Been A Couple Years Since They Left California To Move To Illinois. I Wish Them Well. I Can Remember As A Kid If We Were Able To Blow Out All Our Candles In One Blow Meant Our Wish Would Come True. I Think As We Get Older We Either Don't Get Our Wish Granted Or We Just Give Up Wishing All Together.
Happy Birthday Tuck...

I Love You Somebody

Boy, What A Confusing Title, Huh? It's A Fitting Title If You Were In My Head Right Now. It Seems Like Every Time I Turn Around Somebody Is Dying Unexpectantly. Often I Wished I Could Have One Last Moment So I Could Tell Them What They Meant To Me. It Seems Like Only A Handful Of People Have Passed Away That I Expected To. I Believe If There Were Unfinished Business Between Us I Could Say What I Want Before They Passed. It's Too Late For Those Who Left Without Warning. That's A Part Of Life I Think Sucks. Maybe There Is A Lesson In This.
Maybe The Lord Wants Us To Treat Each Other As If It Is Our Last Day. It Makes Perfect Sense. How Many Times In Your Lives People You Care About Die Suddenly? How Many Of Those People You Consider Have Unfinished Business? I Suppose That's A Part Of Life. I Don't have To Like It Though.
How Many Of Us Think About Things Like This? Am I Normal In Thinking This Way?
Oh I Don't Care If It's Normal. Everybody Knows How I Am. If I Have Something On My Mind I Just Come Out With It. I Don't Like Stewing About Things. I Guess If I Am Stewing About Something It Must Matter To Me Or I Wouldn't Be Stewing. I Read A Lot Of Blogs And It Appears A Lot Of My Blogs Have Death Mentioned In Them. I'm Sorry For That. No Wait, I Am NOT Sorry For That At All. I Will Write What I Want To Write About. So Tonight I Decided To Write About How We Should Treat The People We Care About. Treat Them As If It Were Our Last Day On Earth. What's Wrong With That? It Happens All The Time And It Will happen Over And Over Throughout Your Lifetime.
So Take It From Somebody You Know And Trust. If You Are My Age And Older You Know I Speak The Truth And You Know Exactly Where I Am Coming From. Those Younger Readers Of Mine Play Close Attention To What I Am Saying. Believe Me When I Tell You Life Is Short. There Will Be Times In Your Life Someone You Love Will Pass Away Without Notice. You Will Experience Times You Wish You Could Have One Last Moment With Them And Take Care Of That Unfinished Business. There Is Nothing You Can Do To Prevent This From Happening. What You Can Do Is Take Care Of That Business Before It Becomes Unfinished. Tell Them What Their Friendship Means To You.
I Have 133 Friends On My Facebook Account. I Wouldn't Consider Them All Close Friends. Many Of Them Are Acquaintances. There Were Times I Could Throw A Party In A Phone Booth As Far As Friends Go. I Have Always Considered I Had More Aquaintences Than True Friends. How About Those Afflicted By Alzheimer's? Someday They Won't Even Recognize Who You Are. That's Another Part Of Life I Don't Understand. Why Take A Person's Memory And Let Them Live In A Society Where Nothing Is Familiar? Life Is Not Always Fair. Tell Them Before They Forget. Assure Them You Will Be There For Them. Make Sure You Are! You Can Help Some By Telling Them You Appreciate Having Them In Your Life. I Think I Will Start With Mrs Mac And Go From There.
How About You?

A Slice Of Yesterday

As Most Of You Know By The Time You Read This Blog Andy Griffith Has Passed Away. Of Course When The Initial News Came Out I Was Shocked Just Like Everybody Else. However At 86 Years, It's Considered To Be A Long Life. Yet Lots Of People Live Even Longer. When The Lord Says It's Your Time He Shall Take You.
He Leaves Behind Years Of Enjoyable Television Footage To Show Us His Talented Acting Career. As A Young Boy I Remembered Loving To Watch His Andy Griffith Show Starring Him As Sheriff Andy Taylor, With His Son Opie, Aunt Bea And The Lovable Fumbling Barney Fife. Technology Wasn't The Greatest Back Then And All The Episodes Were In Black And White. Regardless, Millions Across The Country Enjoyed The Laughter The Show Brought Into Our Homes.
He Went On To Bring Us Matlock. Yet Another Television Series We Learned To Enjoy And Accept In His Older Years As An Actor.
Not Only Was Andy An Actor, He Enjoyed Singing As Well. On Both Programs It Clearly Showed His Talent As A Singer Strumming His Guitar. He Also Loved The Lord And Made Sure Everybody Knew It Throughout His Life.
I Will Miss Andy. I'm Pleased I Can Always Watch Him Through The Reruns Of Life In Mayberry. May He Rest In Peace.