Just Plain Bill

10:09:12 PM EST

Your mission, should you chose to accept it, is to complete Pumpkin's Meme!

Here it is: (no answers filled in because she already knows mine!)

(By the way, her favorite color is purple)

Pumpkin's Meme - Who are you?

1.   What is your name? Bill
2.   How old are you?  77 would you believe I have underwear older than you.
3.   Where are you from? Outside of Philadelphia the City of Brotherly Love

4.   Do you smoke? Yes, sorry to say
5.   Do you drink? Yes at least a can of beer every night It helps me sleep
6.   Do you have a family? Yes, Three sons and a daughter a wife and four graandchildren, The joy of my life Please explain, if yes.
7.   What are your hobbies? Golf, reading and this stupid computer
8.   What is your favorite ice cream? Rarely eat it but like vanilla on my pies.
9.   What is your favorite animal? Muskrats
10.  Do you wear glasses? Yes to read up close
11.  What nationality are your ancestors from? German and Irish
12.  What color is your hair? Gray
13.  What are you wearing now? Pajamas, going to bed after i finish this and read for an hour or so.
14.  What is your favorite color? Blue
15.  What teacher do you remember most from your childhood? Sister Francella 7 th grade
16.  What are your pets and their names? Toy Poodle Samantha, we call her Sam
17.  What is your favorite food? Oysters raw, steamed, fried or in a stew
18.  What is your job? Been retired 13 years my job now is to keep my wife happy and ahead of her with the chores

So, there you have it!  Inquiring 10 year olds want to know.  And, so do the boys.  lol 

OK Pumpkin now you have my answers. Let me know how the results of the survey come out. Bill

 

 

 

 

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7:51:48 PM EST

Would like to add this to my side bar but could not find the way to do it.

I miss Kim and her wonderful sense of humor and strength. Bill

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9:45:04 PM EST
Hearing News and weather on radio
 Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Okay.............Here’s what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!!   Just copy this into your journal and leave the link in my "Comments" section so I can see your answers.  Bill

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?  Wife does all the presents. I only make suggestions

2. Real tree or Artificial?   Gave up on tree, sons generally sends us a two foot one each year..

3. When do you put up the tree? When it arrives if it does.

9. Easiest to buy for?  Myself

10 Mail or email Christmas cards?   Only email when I respond to a journal or post on a message board. No cards

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Chalk from my brother when I was ten. We did not even have a blackboard

12. Favorite Christmas Movie?  White Christmas with Bing Crosby

15. Favorite things to eat at Christmas?   My wife's dinner with the family

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree?  Whtever comes on the tree

17. Favorite Christmas song? White Christmas"

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?  Only to the grandchildrens houses.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers?   Yes

20. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?  After Christmas dinner

21. Most annoying thing about this time of year?  Nothing I flow with the flow.

22. Favorite ornament theme or color?  I like all of them.

26. Who is least likely to respond to this?   Dan Quinn, he is a real Scrooge.

OK, Linda i did it. Bill

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8:58:32 PM EST
Sorry about the pictures in last entry. I need help. If you click on the picture you will be able to see it in full screen. Bill

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8:53:34 PM EST
Hearing Radio Election News.

Trying to put up pictures of my trip to Charlestown, South Carolina to visit my son and his wife. Had a great nine days. Did some sighseeing and golfing. Had great food out and at home. Good weather but cloudy and windy at times which cut our golf time short.

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6:38:37 PM EDT
Hearing Watching Tiger at the PGA Championship

Pumpkin, never did one of these but what the heck since you Mom asked and you are such a good girl I had to do this. Bill

 

1   What's your favorite movie???

Saving Private Ryan

2    What's your favorite color???

Blessed Mother Blue

3    What's your favorite ice cream flavor???

Pistachio

4    Where do you want to go on vacation??

Around the world on a cruise four to six months.

5    What's your favorite animal???

Pandas

6    What's your favorite T.V. show???

Golf on the golf channel 

7    What's your fav. drink???

Manhattans or a Gin and Tonic when it is hot

8    What's your favorite flower???

Day lillies

9    What is your favorite pet???

Had ten digs in my lifetime but the one I have now is not my favorite.

10   What's your favorite book???

Whatever one I am reading at the time. Never met a book I did not like or finish.

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8:42:55 PM EDT
Feeling Happy
Hearing New on the radio

This is great. The cutest thing I have seen in a while. Bill

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=9e7c4b40cf5a13cea6ca

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9:30:44 PM EDT
Hearing News on the radio

Just occured to me that  was seventy-five years of age when my oldest son got married and  I also have a seven year old grandson.

That seems odd to me except that I have four children and four grandchildren. Love those grandchildren.

The oldest son has recently sent me an email  and told me how much he has enjoyed his first year of teaching and how he does not miss his old job, of twenty fine years. He now loves to be  teaching  and has found a social life that he never had time for before. I think he has found out that making lots of money is not the end all and be all of life. I am overjoyed for him.

 

Thought I would throw up the rest of the "right angle" pictures as a treat for you for reading my full moon thoughts. Bill

Couldn't find the pictures. So here is my eighteen month old grandaughter eating her first ice cream cone.

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8:34:44 PM EDT
Feeling Silly
Hearing No music just a news station

These are funny in my opinion. If you like these I will put up some more. Let me know.

Bill

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2:14:49 PM EDT
Feeling Embarrassed
Hearing I do not listen to music, just the news.

Only doing this meme because Dawn  Carpe Diem - Seize the Day asked me to. I feel guilty reading her journal and not replying more often.

Don't expect too much of my journal. I am retired and really do not have time to post on a recurring basis.

Bill

 

1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 29, find paragraph/line 9:"some of us volunteered to fight for the Union. Some came in mainly because we were bored at home and this looled like it might be fun."

The Killer Angles, Michael Sharra. Great book about the three day battle at Gettysburg in the Civil war. I am a CW buff.

2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first: 

To the left the window, to the front the computer screen.

3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?:

Rerun of Regis and Kellie

4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is: 1:35PM.

5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?: 1:45PM

6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:

Nothing the radio cycled off, it does every hour so I can keep track of my unexciting day.
Wife and dog went shopping. Nice and quite in here.
7: When did you last step outside?

An hour ago to go to my son's house to pick up mail. It was windy and cold in the Philly burbs.

8: Before you came to your journal, what was the last website you looked at?

a survey on gas usage for heating and cooking in a home.
9: What are you wearing?:

Kahki pants, golf shirt, long sleeve fleece type pull over with a zipper, white untied sneakers.

10: Did you dream last night?

Yes.  A horrible nightmare where I killed or somebody killed my neighbor and I had him in my arms. I moved and have not seen this guy in ten years. Strange.

11: When did you last laugh?

Probably on Monday when my son paniced when I approached an alligator, eight foot long, who was sunning himself on a pond on a the Ocean Course on Kiawah Island in SC. I was determined to get my ball and he is afraid of alligators. Wasn't able to get a picture of the gator. Great golf course and I really enjoyed the round.
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:

An AOL disc in a frame that was sent to me, as a Community Leader, by AOL when they reached ten million members in Nov. 1997. Hard to believe. Several pictures and a crucifix over the bed. Computer is in my bedroom and when I look out the window I see the 6 th green of the golf course. 

13: Seen anything weird lately?:

The alligator as above. 

14: Name a song that defines you right now, today, this hour:

"Old Man River"
15: In three sentences or less, why do you blog?:

I don't really blog since I am lazy and would rather be golfing or reading. A lot of my reading is now other blogs. I am addicted to them and hope some day to get over it. I do spend five or six hours on the computer every day. At least two hours just playing Tiger Woods 007 computer golf.
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?:

A trip on an Ocean Liner around the world with my family and friends. Have done many cruises but I picture a trip with most of the people who are near and dear to me would top them all.

If I had enough I would buy the ship or the Cruise Ship line. If I could convince my wife I would live on a liner all the time and just keep sailing.

Well that's it for me. Hard for me to admit it but I enjoyed doing this. It was even good for my stiff fingers. Have a great weekend and you do this meme leave me a link, thanks Bill

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