On Drummond Island, Michigan in our driveway in front of a bay on Lake Huron.  I am sitting on the Ford tractor that  my Dad purchased in 1948.   I have been a driver of it,  off and on, for the last 72 years.   Nope, not while sitting in a rocking chair – I added that just for fun.    On the screen I practiced making other tractors emerging out of the ground.  Of course I distorted the old Ford just to make it look different.

On Texas the J Bar G ranch,  We enjoyed raising many animals over the 15 years there. Angus & Belted Galloway cattle, Horse, dogs, cats, emus, peacocks, llama  – That is all I can think of now. Of course we had many other animals around. Some uninvited like rattlesnakes, brown recluse and black widow spiders, scorpions, coral snakes.  But then we had many I liked having around because they were new to me and were enjoyable to watch. Road runners, armadillos, are just two of many critters running around the ranch that I never saw in Pennsylvania or New York. 

WOW – What is this all about? Actually it is the newly re-paved road in front of our current Florida home in Hidden Lakes.  But I brought a little  old history in to it – For example, behind the upper right window in the white house is the room I was born in a little over 84 years ago. I worked in the barn and silo  ’till I was 20 years old, almost every day.  Oh, you want to know about those two tough looking dudes in the center.  That photo was not take with a cell phone – It was taken about 50 years ago. I love them very much and am proud of them as adult people – They are great family people –  kind & responsible as can be – and each accomplished  executive responsibilities in corporate America.

Oh my – as you swing through life – Look at your history and marvel at the fun times. Since the Coronavirus imposes some travel restrictions, use that time to marvel at your history documented in your collected photos.