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Hi, it's me again. I have just a couple of quickies before I get down to the business at hand. Boy, did I screw up on my last posting. Have you ever heard the old song, I think it was Ray Stevens who did it, called "I'm My Own Grandpa"? Well, if you have, you'll know what I'm talking about. If you have never heard it, or read the words, you definitely should. Go to the search field on the internet and enter"I'm my own grandpa" and you will find several listings for it. OK, now that we have that under control, on my last post, I said my Grandmother White first entered into my life "when she married my Dad" or something like that. What I meant to say was that my Grandmother first entered my life (or story) when my MOTHER married my Dad. No, Dad didn't marry Grandma. That's only in the song.

Another mistake I made - I got the cart before the horse. In reviewing some other writings I had done about Dad, I discovered he was born at the place north of Arbuckle, where the sewer plant now is, and they moved from there to the Schleich ranch, and then to the "home" place north of town. I'll get into that further as I recover (or remember) some of what I had already researched.

Another thing. I got an email this morning from Georgia's (my #4 daughter) step-son, who told me he had been working on "another blog" and gave me the address. Well, that is some blog. I asked him where he was 30 or 40 years ago when my husband and I were in a severe financial bind. Of course, that was long before he was even in my life. But anyway, his blog is simply financial advice from a non-pro. I'm sure you have seen articles in magazines about "How I got Rid of $100,00 in debt" or some such title. Well, that is what this is, only this time it is written by my grandson. And, what a blog!! With his permission I am going to give you the address. It is interesting reading, even if you don't need his advice. And with today's economy, who couldn't use a little help, especially when it is from someone you know personally, and you feel you can really trust. So, go to www.FinancialFreakshow.com and see what he has to say. As I said, it's good reading, even if you don't need or want his help.

I relly am enjoying writing these posts, but I have to be careful, becuase I don't know who is going to be reading them, and words have a way of coming back to bite me. That's happened a couple times in the last few months. It is bad enough when you know that only a few people have heard your remarks, but in a situation like this, I don't know how many are reading my words - I would like to think that maybe there are many, and I don't want these words to bite me, so it is better they remain unsaid. I always think about the story that was told about a little child who had a habit of making very naughty remarks and comments about other people. In order to try to break him of this habit, his father gave him a bucket of feathers, and told him to go out and scatter them along the road. When he got back with an empty bucket, his father told him to go back and pick each one of them up. In the meantime, a gentle breeze had come up, and so, of course, the feathers had all blown away. The child remarked about that, to which the father said that words are like the feathers. Once they are spread around, there is no getting them back. So, I TRY to be careful what I say. Only God knows my thoughts, and I think he will understand and forgive me for the thoughts I am having right now.

I was going to try to inroduce you to my Father tonight, but I have to organize my information a little better, so maybe tomorrow. But for now, talk to you later.