Friday Fragments, 31st Birthday Edition

First of all, we have purchased two metal detectors that will be given to Shepherd School. Absolutely free to them from the Flakesgiving Fund.

After revisiting yesterday's blog, I would also add things like:

• opening for President Bush when he flew in here and spoke at Metra,
• graduation speeches we've given, and one very memorable, very high-speed trip to Jordan to speak in front of their Stock Growers.

We talked to one lady this morning that we gave a wake-up call to 23 years ago. We made somewhere in the neighborhood of 40,000 Wake Up Calls.

Aunt Esther was on Sanford & Son and NOT the Waltons.

The monkey that occasionally pops out of Paul now has a snow blower!

As I played songs from 1988 this morning, I realized how many of those artists quit having hits. The O'Kanes, The McCarters, and Foster & Lloyd, Baillie & the Boys.

We used to be Moose & Wheels.

Our 189th Redneck Battalion. Hats and bumper stickers, and membership cards.

Good times.

We are now starting year 32.