Just letting you know that my vacation trip to upstate New York worked out well. We left at midnight Wednesday night, and started back Friday night at about 10:40 PM. I was in my own bed by 6:10 AM. I slept till 9:30 AM. Had breakfast ten started to get the Ford ready to go to the Ford Dealer to get the hit and run rear right quarter panel replaced on Monday at 8:15 AM. I’ll pickup a rental car then and use it for running around to save on gas. These big vans get between 12 and 15 mpg and that little car should get about 30 mpg or more. Well I am off for a nap I’ll have to finish this later. All of a sudden I just can not keep my eyes open.
I slept for an hour then the phone rang but no one was there so I am up for nothing. I guess I‘ll get ready to peel potatoes for supper, I am fixing roast pork, sauerkraut, and mashed Potatoes. Betty just asked if I was going to town as she is almost out of cigarettes. So I guess there is no rest for the wicked, I’ll be back later.
I’m back the potatoes are peeled and cooking, the pork and sauerkraut is just waiting on the potatoes. I am back from getting Betty Lee’s cigarettes. I also picked up my powerball ticket I also picked up a $5 scratch off called Humongus bucks, the first one I won $6 the second one I have won $5, I’ll turn it in when I get the Sunday papers. Wish me luck and prosperity.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
8/26/2006
8/22/2006
Saturday evening 8/22
One of my Amish neibhors called tonight and said I know you are not driving any more but could you please take my wife and I to the midwife’s as she is in labor. I said sure as I knew the next closes person was at least 10 miles down the road, and the already had a few kids. About half way there she said we are not going to make it. Her husband called the midwife to meet us on the road. The midwife met us about 2/3 of the way there. She transferred an assistant and towels and blankets to my van (which took less than a minute) and I was off again 80 to 85 miles per hour again. We arrived at the clinic at 7:20 and at 7:23 he came out and said it’s a boy, he was born about a minute and a half ago. Damn I miss the excitement of driving these people. By 9:30 I was home again and we had stopped at her fathers to show him and his wife the baby. The mother sat up and joked all the way home about how she had scared me and her husband. The clinic is about 36 miles from my house on winding hwy 192 near Miflinburg PA. It is a pretty drive the top speed limit is 55 but most of it is posted at 45 and some at 40, so 80 to 85 was pushing the limits for that 15 passenger van. They gave me a $50 for taking them.
As I wrote earlier the damn income tax check did not come in. My original filing was the last week of February. They said they had not received one form, and I know it was there, because if it was not they would apply my refund to an old tax bill of Betty’s from before we were married. So I always check for it. I resent the form and they sent it back saying it was not needed, then I was told to resend the whole income tax 1040 and all attachments again which I did the a few days later I received another letter saying to send the injured spouse form again attached to this letter Which I also did. Then I started checking on line again on the status of my return, they kept telling me even up to today that I would receive it by 22 August, they lied. So this is where it stands after 6 months, I filed a claim the advocate general today this will even fix it or make it worse and probably get me audited next year.
Well be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
As I wrote earlier the damn income tax check did not come in. My original filing was the last week of February. They said they had not received one form, and I know it was there, because if it was not they would apply my refund to an old tax bill of Betty’s from before we were married. So I always check for it. I resent the form and they sent it back saying it was not needed, then I was told to resend the whole income tax 1040 and all attachments again which I did the a few days later I received another letter saying to send the injured spouse form again attached to this letter Which I also did. Then I started checking on line again on the status of my return, they kept telling me even up to today that I would receive it by 22 August, they lied. So this is where it stands after 6 months, I filed a claim the advocate general today this will even fix it or make it worse and probably get me audited next year.
Well be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
Lousy Luck 8/22
Well it is 12:40 PM and the mail just came, and no income taxes check. Right now I am in the process of filing with the advocate general. I am on hold on my cell phone while he is making out the complaint, we will see if this helps or makes it worse. I feel like I am drowning in my own stuff.
After this is done I must go and see a couple of people that I owe and make all kinds of apologies to.
I think that I am just going to try and get away for a couple of days and vegetate. I have a friend that needs a ride to upstate NY Wednesday night I might take him if he pays all the expenses.
This would let me get my head together and figure out what to do. This is a big financial mess for me. And I am not the kind that usually can not figure out how to fix these things. I also do not usually get depressed about this stuff but I sure am this time.
just writing about it pisses me off more so I will quit for now.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
After this is done I must go and see a couple of people that I owe and make all kinds of apologies to.
I think that I am just going to try and get away for a couple of days and vegetate. I have a friend that needs a ride to upstate NY Wednesday night I might take him if he pays all the expenses.
This would let me get my head together and figure out what to do. This is a big financial mess for me. And I am not the kind that usually can not figure out how to fix these things. I also do not usually get depressed about this stuff but I sure am this time.
just writing about it pisses me off more so I will quit for now.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
Tuesday Morning 8/22
I have to meet Rebbeca and taake her to the churches bank and help her transfer money from savings to checking. It will take both our signature's to transfer the money's.
I really would rather just lay around the house today, but that will not work. The church uses one of my banks so I will make a deposit at the same time. Well the income check did not come in yesterday so I do not know what is going on. I will go to the IRS site later today and try and find out what is going on. As I have said I filed at the last week of Feburary. That is about 6 months today.
Well I had better go get ready to get my act together. I need to shower and get dressed, so I'll write more later.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
I really would rather just lay around the house today, but that will not work. The church uses one of my banks so I will make a deposit at the same time. Well the income check did not come in yesterday so I do not know what is going on. I will go to the IRS site later today and try and find out what is going on. As I have said I filed at the last week of Feburary. That is about 6 months today.
Well I had better go get ready to get my act together. I need to shower and get dressed, so I'll write more later.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
8/21/2006
Monday Morning 8/21
Monday morning, I had planed on sleeping till 7:30 AM, but got up at 7 AM. I had slept from 5:30 PM till 9:30 PM. I went back to bed about 2 AM and tossed and turned but feel rested. My sugar was 143 this morning. Not bad for hosting a 9 year olds birthday party.
I am off to the notary as I received the application for the change of names on the title and transfer of the handicapped plate from the 93 mini van to the 93 Maxi van. We also received the application for a permanent handicapped placard back as we forgot to sign it.
I hope the income tax check comes today; it will get me out of the financial hole I am in.
When we went to church yesterday I forgot to take her oxygen with us. It scared the shit out of me, but she said she would OK and was. This is a real good sign, I think the not much humidity was one of the keys to this. She has started to walk to the bath room and to the bed which I also think is helping her breathing. Her color is much better and her legs look great. I do not think they have looked this well since before she was sick. In fact probably about 2 years before she was sick.
My legs are still giving me fits, they get tired real easy and start to tremble and I get tired so quickly that it is very disconcerting. I have been trying to take it easy but the work alcoholic in me keeps kicking in, it is so hard for me to sit and do nothing. I ordered a full set of books given away by E-Bay to setup a store on E-bay. I am thinking about opening an E-bay store to sell Amish made products. This probably will be items from furniture to trailers and about everything in between. This will be on a commission basis I will just act as a middle man and not keep any inventory, and I will deliver certain things for a fee. I have not figured out exactly how this is going to work, it is a work in progress.
I must close and get to my appointment with the notary.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
I am off to the notary as I received the application for the change of names on the title and transfer of the handicapped plate from the 93 mini van to the 93 Maxi van. We also received the application for a permanent handicapped placard back as we forgot to sign it.
I hope the income tax check comes today; it will get me out of the financial hole I am in.
When we went to church yesterday I forgot to take her oxygen with us. It scared the shit out of me, but she said she would OK and was. This is a real good sign, I think the not much humidity was one of the keys to this. She has started to walk to the bath room and to the bed which I also think is helping her breathing. Her color is much better and her legs look great. I do not think they have looked this well since before she was sick. In fact probably about 2 years before she was sick.
My legs are still giving me fits, they get tired real easy and start to tremble and I get tired so quickly that it is very disconcerting. I have been trying to take it easy but the work alcoholic in me keeps kicking in, it is so hard for me to sit and do nothing. I ordered a full set of books given away by E-Bay to setup a store on E-bay. I am thinking about opening an E-bay store to sell Amish made products. This probably will be items from furniture to trailers and about everything in between. This will be on a commission basis I will just act as a middle man and not keep any inventory, and I will deliver certain things for a fee. I have not figured out exactly how this is going to work, it is a work in progress.
I must close and get to my appointment with the notary.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
8/20/2006
Sunday night 8/20
Well we survived Jared’s birthday party; he got a lot of loot a new intendo game player from his Dad and his brother and father. He also got a big rubber duck, a movie on DVD, a remote control 4 wheel drive truck, two board games and some other things which I have forgotten
The dinner went well roast beef, boiled new potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, zucchini and tomatoes, cantaloupes cubes, gravy. We still have chocolate cake to go. There were about 15 adults and his younger two cousins in the party.
I have plenty of boiled potatoes left over for home fries, and roast beef for sandwiches, there was also zucchini and tomatoes, and cauliflower. I had picked up 3 cantaloupes at an auction yesterday for $0.50 each and we all ate on one and there is some still left.
Well the cake was destroyed and I only had 2 pieces. Which of course Betty Lee hollered at me for, so what is new.
I went to an Amish benefit auction for a sick child yesterday and when I left I backed into an older Dodge Caravan. I took her right side rear tail light out. I filed a claim with Nation Wide Insurance last evening, what a pain in the butt, but I am glad for the coverage.
I could not send this earlier when I wrote the part above this. I do not know why I could not connect to the blogspot server.
I then had to take a nap as I must leave here in about 15 minutes (10:15 PM) I must be at a friends place at 11 PM. His car broke down and he must be to work at midnight. I am going to heat a big cup of coffee and get ready.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
The dinner went well roast beef, boiled new potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, zucchini and tomatoes, cantaloupes cubes, gravy. We still have chocolate cake to go. There were about 15 adults and his younger two cousins in the party.
I have plenty of boiled potatoes left over for home fries, and roast beef for sandwiches, there was also zucchini and tomatoes, and cauliflower. I had picked up 3 cantaloupes at an auction yesterday for $0.50 each and we all ate on one and there is some still left.
Well the cake was destroyed and I only had 2 pieces. Which of course Betty Lee hollered at me for, so what is new.
I went to an Amish benefit auction for a sick child yesterday and when I left I backed into an older Dodge Caravan. I took her right side rear tail light out. I filed a claim with Nation Wide Insurance last evening, what a pain in the butt, but I am glad for the coverage.
I could not send this earlier when I wrote the part above this. I do not know why I could not connect to the blogspot server.
I then had to take a nap as I must leave here in about 15 minutes (10:15 PM) I must be at a friends place at 11 PM. His car broke down and he must be to work at midnight. I am going to heat a big cup of coffee and get ready.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
8/19/2006
Saturday AM 8/19
I have not been checking the content of my blog messages, so some things do not read the best or flow correctly. I sometimes think that my mind works that way jumping from I thing to another in no special order and then back to the first thing and then to third thing and finally back to the second.
This not being able to work is a bummer the bills are not getting paid and I am going crazy, not being busy. I always have been a work alcoholic so this is very hard.
I turned in the accident on the Ford, for those who do not know, I was hit and run in the North Atherton WalMart. I have Nation Wide Insurance, I took it to the Ford dealer they sent me to. The bill is for $1177.82.The work will be done, starting on 28 August 2006 I will also be getting a small rental car through insurance, it is going to cost me $0.78 a day. The big problem is my deductible is $500. So I hope my income tax finally comes in. The IRS web site say’s I should have it by the 22 of August.
For something to do today I am taking a neighbor to a hospital benefit auction this morning. They are going in early to help set up. It is to help with the medical bills for a child that has cancer and a head injury that left him with partial paralyze and also diminished mental capacity.This will help me from being so board today.
We are celebrating Jared 9th Birthday on Sunday afternoon. It seems like just yesterday that he was fighting to breath at the Hershey Medical Center, not 9 years ago.
I must close for now and eat as my sugar was 81when I just tested it. And I can smell the fresh coffee.
Be careful out there and be well.
Love
Bob
This not being able to work is a bummer the bills are not getting paid and I am going crazy, not being busy. I always have been a work alcoholic so this is very hard.
I turned in the accident on the Ford, for those who do not know, I was hit and run in the North Atherton WalMart. I have Nation Wide Insurance, I took it to the Ford dealer they sent me to. The bill is for $1177.82.The work will be done, starting on 28 August 2006 I will also be getting a small rental car through insurance, it is going to cost me $0.78 a day. The big problem is my deductible is $500. So I hope my income tax finally comes in. The IRS web site say’s I should have it by the 22 of August.
For something to do today I am taking a neighbor to a hospital benefit auction this morning. They are going in early to help set up. It is to help with the medical bills for a child that has cancer and a head injury that left him with partial paralyze and also diminished mental capacity.This will help me from being so board today.
We are celebrating Jared 9th Birthday on Sunday afternoon. It seems like just yesterday that he was fighting to breath at the Hershey Medical Center, not 9 years ago.
I must close for now and eat as my sugar was 81when I just tested it. And I can smell the fresh coffee.
Be careful out there and be well.
Love
Bob
8/18/2006
Friday 8/18
It is Friday about 7:50 AM and I have had breakfast and taken my medicine, my sugar was 151 not to bad but could be better. I am off to the Ford dealer to get the estimate for the repairs on the rear passenger side on the 98 Ford.
I am a little tired so I do not know if the upping the multi vitamins and one iron capsule a day is cutting it. I slept 9 hours last night and only got up to go to the bath room twice so I should not be tired. It is the heavy eye lid type of tired, and my legs are a little shaky.
I might have over done it yesterday as I felt so good and well. I had not felt that well in over two weeks.
I am going to try and finish painting the middle section on the right side of the bus/RV, this really makes it look newer and sharper.
Be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
I am a little tired so I do not know if the upping the multi vitamins and one iron capsule a day is cutting it. I slept 9 hours last night and only got up to go to the bath room twice so I should not be tired. It is the heavy eye lid type of tired, and my legs are a little shaky.
I might have over done it yesterday as I felt so good and well. I had not felt that well in over two weeks.
I am going to try and finish painting the middle section on the right side of the bus/RV, this really makes it look newer and sharper.
Be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
8/17/2006
Thursday evening 8/17
Well I have been able to get most of the stuff I planed on doing today. I am tired but not the exhausted kind. I have been going around the yard picking up junk and just trying to straighten up a bit.
I filed an accident claim with Nation Wide Insurance and have to take the Ford to State College Ford at 9 AM tomorrow; I was hit and run in the parking lot at WalMart last week. It is quite a bit of damage to the passenger side rear panel. I have full coverage on the Ford even rental coverage. We will see how the Blue ribbon service from Nation Wide works. State College Ford is authorized to do the estimate and fix it.
I hope this doubling of the multivitamins and taking the iron capsules will do the trick. Wish me luck.
I can not think of another thing to say except something happened to Betty’s Blog neither one of us could find it, it is like it was deleted so I had to built her a new one, I do not know if she is going to use it, she is really ticked off. The new address is http://betty-lee.blogspot.com/
Be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
I filed an accident claim with Nation Wide Insurance and have to take the Ford to State College Ford at 9 AM tomorrow; I was hit and run in the parking lot at WalMart last week. It is quite a bit of damage to the passenger side rear panel. I have full coverage on the Ford even rental coverage. We will see how the Blue ribbon service from Nation Wide works. State College Ford is authorized to do the estimate and fix it.
I hope this doubling of the multivitamins and taking the iron capsules will do the trick. Wish me luck.
I can not think of another thing to say except something happened to Betty’s Blog neither one of us could find it, it is like it was deleted so I had to built her a new one, I do not know if she is going to use it, she is really ticked off. The new address is http://betty-lee.blogspot.com/
Be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
Thursday AM 8/17
I feel a lot better this morning; I seemed that I rested real well last night. When I finished my shower this morning I was not as tired as I was yesterday. I hope this is a good sign, let’s hope so.
I am going to try and cut the front lawn this morning, so that will be a good test on how today is going to be. I have about 6 small projects that I would like to get done today. One is just to straight up the mess I have made in the bus, by trying to upgrade the interior, and another on is One of the speakers for the new stero system is not as secure as it needs to be, and there is always more blue paint to spray on the bottom half of the bus. I also need to pickup the extra support rail for the ramp that I use for vans. My weather vane also lost its South arm and needs to be welded back on.
I have started the lawn mowing and am now waiting on Jared to ride in the trailer; he is getting permission from his mother.
Well the front lawn is cut I just need to run the weed whacker for a very short time. Jared has helped me load the trailer to take a bunch of things up to the shed.
Now the damn tractor will not start, it is acting like there is a flat spot on the starter, so I am going to get the charger and see if a little more juice will make the current jump the flat spot.
Be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
I am going to try and cut the front lawn this morning, so that will be a good test on how today is going to be. I have about 6 small projects that I would like to get done today. One is just to straight up the mess I have made in the bus, by trying to upgrade the interior, and another on is One of the speakers for the new stero system is not as secure as it needs to be, and there is always more blue paint to spray on the bottom half of the bus. I also need to pickup the extra support rail for the ramp that I use for vans. My weather vane also lost its South arm and needs to be welded back on.
I have started the lawn mowing and am now waiting on Jared to ride in the trailer; he is getting permission from his mother.
Well the front lawn is cut I just need to run the weed whacker for a very short time. Jared has helped me load the trailer to take a bunch of things up to the shed.
Now the damn tractor will not start, it is acting like there is a flat spot on the starter, so I am going to get the charger and see if a little more juice will make the current jump the flat spot.
Be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
8/16/2006
Wednesday evening the 16th
I finally am able to post again I do not know what exactly which setting was off, I have changed so many I do not know which one or combination fixed it on this computer. But I am back, so everyone has to put up with me again.
I have had a rough day, I do not know what is going on. I think the post polio is kicking up again. I have been so tired today, any time I did something I almost had to lay down. I did take a 2 hour nap and am still exhausted.
I have doubled my vitamin intake today, sometimes that helps. I’ll keep everyone posted on how
this works out.
I am going to try and eat a little something and lay down
Be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
I have had a rough day, I do not know what is going on. I think the post polio is kicking up again. I have been so tired today, any time I did something I almost had to lay down. I did take a 2 hour nap and am still exhausted.
I have doubled my vitamin intake today, sometimes that helps. I’ll keep everyone posted on how
this works out.
I am going to try and eat a little something and lay down
Be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
My life as I remember it # 5
When I arrived in State College in the middle of April 1979, I stayed with my mother who lived on Crickelwood Dr. in Toffee trees Area.
I applied for a breakfast cook’s job at the Nittany Lion Inn (The Penn State's top of the line Inn) and lost the bid. So I took a night cook’s job at the AutoPort restaurant. To start on a Tuesday, on Monday the Nittany Lion Inn called and told me the new guy they had hired did not show up for work, so would I start at 5:30 AM Tuesday. I said I would as it was a union job with all the medical benefits and retirement. I also went to work at the AutoPort at 4 PM. I worked 6 AM to 2:30 PM at the Nittany Lion Inn and 4 PM to 11 PM at the AutoPort. I was off at the Inn on Friday and Saturday and off at the AutoPort on Tuesday and Wednesday, which worked out well for me. I have always been a work alcoholic. This schedule made it so I never worked the two jobs on the same day more than two days in a row. I kept this schedule for 2 ½ years.
The AutoPort is where I met Betty Lee, she was the only waitress in the coffee shop in the evening. There were about 10 waitress in the main dinning room. We both had a friend working the front desk of the motel of the AutoPort. He invited both of us to go to a club with him and this started Betty Lee and I getting together. We started to live together on the 10th of October 1979. I had bought a one bedroom trailer in Hill Top Trailer Park. Where we started our life together.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
I applied for a breakfast cook’s job at the Nittany Lion Inn (The Penn State's top of the line Inn) and lost the bid. So I took a night cook’s job at the AutoPort restaurant. To start on a Tuesday, on Monday the Nittany Lion Inn called and told me the new guy they had hired did not show up for work, so would I start at 5:30 AM Tuesday. I said I would as it was a union job with all the medical benefits and retirement. I also went to work at the AutoPort at 4 PM. I worked 6 AM to 2:30 PM at the Nittany Lion Inn and 4 PM to 11 PM at the AutoPort. I was off at the Inn on Friday and Saturday and off at the AutoPort on Tuesday and Wednesday, which worked out well for me. I have always been a work alcoholic. This schedule made it so I never worked the two jobs on the same day more than two days in a row. I kept this schedule for 2 ½ years.
The AutoPort is where I met Betty Lee, she was the only waitress in the coffee shop in the evening. There were about 10 waitress in the main dinning room. We both had a friend working the front desk of the motel of the AutoPort. He invited both of us to go to a club with him and this started Betty Lee and I getting together. We started to live together on the 10th of October 1979. I had bought a one bedroom trailer in Hill Top Trailer Park. Where we started our life together.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
8/15/2006
My life as I remember it # 4
I think in the last post I told you about getting the contract to feed the truck drivers for another company. We did this for a year and then all of a sudden I could not get my Visa renewed. As in most foreign countries to open a business you must have a local partner and as in most third world countries politics and all government agencies run on bribes. The Farolito had about $60,000 in antiques in it, Which I knew I could not remove from Argentina, it does not alow the export of antiques. and was making over $6,000 a month profit so they wanted it all. They said that they would send me a $1,000 a month for 60 months. I received one payment.
And had to sneak out the back door. As I did not find out till the last day of my Visa that it was not going to get it renewed, and the banks were closed and I wanted the last weeks recipts $3,200 I waited till morning and bribed my way into Paraguay and the took a licking on getting the US dollars converted to buy a ticket. In Argentina to buy an international ticket it had to be paid for in US dollars but Paraguay it was with the local currency. A $700 ticket cost me $1,200 at the offical exchange rate. So when I arrived in New Orleans I had $150 left of the $3,200. And when I arrived in State College PA I had $25 left.
I will try and write more tomorrow. Please excuse the spelling errors as I usually writ this in Microsoft word and cut and paste it into the blog after I spell and grammer check it and with all the problems with logging into this blog Iwas afraid to try and do this.
Be safe out there and be well
Bob
And had to sneak out the back door. As I did not find out till the last day of my Visa that it was not going to get it renewed, and the banks were closed and I wanted the last weeks recipts $3,200 I waited till morning and bribed my way into Paraguay and the took a licking on getting the US dollars converted to buy a ticket. In Argentina to buy an international ticket it had to be paid for in US dollars but Paraguay it was with the local currency. A $700 ticket cost me $1,200 at the offical exchange rate. So when I arrived in New Orleans I had $150 left of the $3,200. And when I arrived in State College PA I had $25 left.
I will try and write more tomorrow. Please excuse the spelling errors as I usually writ this in Microsoft word and cut and paste it into the blog after I spell and grammer check it and with all the problems with logging into this blog Iwas afraid to try and do this.
Be safe out there and be well
Bob
8/14/2006
Saturday night on my computer
I got into my blog by changing my password I do not know if I can get in the regular way yet.
I think this is where I was when I had to quit because of the spilled water. I sure hope that the keyboard stays working.
So I took that $1000 and opened another restaurant called "la Farolito" The little lantern. I furnished it with items that I had picked up at abandoned whaling stations and other places in the Antarctica. I built the new exhaust hood put in new sink stove work tables bought new, pots, pans, dishes, table cloths, etc. Business started real slow, as always, for a new business then I got lucky another American in the area contacted me. He asked if I could feed all his drivers when they were in town. His transportation company hauled drilling supplies to all the oil rigs and pumping stations in Tera Del Fuego. We worked out what he wanted served and I set what I thought was a fair price, he accepted and it worked out to be worth about $2500 US a week.
I am going to close for now and get some sleep.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
I think this is where I was when I had to quit because of the spilled water. I sure hope that the keyboard stays working.
So I took that $1000 and opened another restaurant called "la Farolito" The little lantern. I furnished it with items that I had picked up at abandoned whaling stations and other places in the Antarctica. I built the new exhaust hood put in new sink stove work tables bought new, pots, pans, dishes, table cloths, etc. Business started real slow, as always, for a new business then I got lucky another American in the area contacted me. He asked if I could feed all his drivers when they were in town. His transportation company hauled drilling supplies to all the oil rigs and pumping stations in Tera Del Fuego. We worked out what he wanted served and I set what I thought was a fair price, he accepted and it worked out to be worth about $2500 US a week.
I am going to close for now and get some sleep.
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
computer problems
For some reason I can not axcess either my blog or Betty's blog I am on her machine while she takes a nap. I have not figured what is wrong yet I hope i can i'll try and update the machine when I finish this.
I am taking Jared and Neil (the girls father) to PSU's Ag Progress days in the morning. It should be a good day off.
Be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
I am taking Jared and Neil (the girls father) to PSU's Ag Progress days in the morning. It should be a good day off.
Be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
8/13/2006
My life as I remember it # 2
My folks Lived at the Auto Port Motel and restaurant as the ranch house on Pugh St. was being finished. I finally got my first 3 week leave, after graduating from munitions school at Lowey # 2 AFB in Denver CO, over the 1953 Thanksgiving holidays. I had brought a girl friend with me, she was a RN and she asked me after we left when my mother was expecting the baby. My younger brother Kenny was born the following spring.
I had to return to Ardmore AFB in Ardmore OK, if you went out the back gate you were in Gene Autry OK. I stayed there from mid December 1953 till March or April 1994. I then went to Greenville SC. and was there till September 1994 I was then sent to Sandia Army base in Albuquerque NM Where I studied nuclear weapons. I was there till June 1995 I took two separate courses. From there I went to the 8th ADS at Lakenheath England. I was there for 18 months. I then was sent to Brisenorten AFB out side of Reading England. I came back to the States in November 1958, I went to Donaldson AFB in Columbus OH Were I was discharged in February 1959. I lived in the Columbus area for a year doing odd jobs. I returned to the North Reading Area for about 2 ½ years. In late December 1959 I went to State College to be with Dad as he had a growth removed from his face (we were afraid it was cancer). On the way back The guy I was riding with panicked on a small patch of ice and we hit 2 tree’s in the middle of a field. I took 130 stitches in the side of my head and a steel screw in my right leg, I was on crutches for 91/2 months and then in a walking cast for 6 more weeks. There went my hopes for reenlisting in the Air force. I then returned to the State College area where I worked as a short order cook at the Electric Diner. From there I went to Riverside CA where I managed a service station (gas station) for a professional billiard player. He used the station as a tax write off but he forgot to tell me this and I really turned the station around and it really started to make money for him
I got bored and moved on. I then went to New Orleans where I finally went to work on the oil rigs as a cook, a good life two weeks at work then a week off. This job helped me get my seaman’s papers I then joined the National Maritime Union and started Sailing as a 2nd cook on freighters and tankers. Then I moved up to Chief Cook and Steward and continued to sail on the big ships. In 1970 shipping tight, it got real hard to find a ship. The US had laid up all the passenger ships, this happened because the US government quit subsidizing them as they said the no longer need them to move vast numbers of troops. This dumped a large number of cooks Stewards into the freighter tanker pool with a lot of seniority so I had to go looking other work. I landed a year contract on a ship called the R/V Hero. It was owned by the National Science Foundation. The crew was employed by the Maritime Research Company - out of Miami FL. It worked the Southern half of South America and the Antarctic Peninsular. The home Port was listed as Palmer Station Antarctica. I ended up spending 7 years on the ship and worked for 3 different company’s before I left. I lived in Punte Arenas Chile for 3 years, I still sort of, own a house there When I left I told the girl that I lived with it was hers but did not have time to get the paperwork done. We had to leave due to the political situation, this was when Alende was President of Chile.
We moved the South American home base, supply base to Ushuaia Argentina I ended up opening a barbeque restaurant there. I was open one season as it was a tourist town and it had a 4 month season and I did not get open till late in the season and did not have enough capital to hold over till the next season. I was offered a job with the ship chandler company that I Use to buy supplies from for the R/V Hero The had started a catering company and gotten the contract to feed the international crews that were going to pull the pipe line under the straights of Magellan. They needed a person that could teach their cooks how to fix American style breakfasts and special things like American biscuits and pancakes. And other things that they needed. They only paid me $1,000 a month but they also paid the rent on the house in Rio Grande. They also paid all the utilities and even the cleaning woman. I also had an unlimited expense account with a $2500 base I also had a full time Argentine driver and two dual wheel Ford 1 ton pickups. One of the major parts of my job was to entertain the big wigs of the oil company and sub contractors. We started with these two camps and when I left we had 10 camps and 4 drivers and 5 pickups. We bought about $20,000 worth of food a week. So I never had to buy cigs, wine, booze ect. So the $1000 was clear.
I JUST spilled water on the keyboard and must close.
BOB
I had to return to Ardmore AFB in Ardmore OK, if you went out the back gate you were in Gene Autry OK. I stayed there from mid December 1953 till March or April 1994. I then went to Greenville SC. and was there till September 1994 I was then sent to Sandia Army base in Albuquerque NM Where I studied nuclear weapons. I was there till June 1995 I took two separate courses. From there I went to the 8th ADS at Lakenheath England. I was there for 18 months. I then was sent to Brisenorten AFB out side of Reading England. I came back to the States in November 1958, I went to Donaldson AFB in Columbus OH Were I was discharged in February 1959. I lived in the Columbus area for a year doing odd jobs. I returned to the North Reading Area for about 2 ½ years. In late December 1959 I went to State College to be with Dad as he had a growth removed from his face (we were afraid it was cancer). On the way back The guy I was riding with panicked on a small patch of ice and we hit 2 tree’s in the middle of a field. I took 130 stitches in the side of my head and a steel screw in my right leg, I was on crutches for 91/2 months and then in a walking cast for 6 more weeks. There went my hopes for reenlisting in the Air force. I then returned to the State College area where I worked as a short order cook at the Electric Diner. From there I went to Riverside CA where I managed a service station (gas station) for a professional billiard player. He used the station as a tax write off but he forgot to tell me this and I really turned the station around and it really started to make money for him
I got bored and moved on. I then went to New Orleans where I finally went to work on the oil rigs as a cook, a good life two weeks at work then a week off. This job helped me get my seaman’s papers I then joined the National Maritime Union and started Sailing as a 2nd cook on freighters and tankers. Then I moved up to Chief Cook and Steward and continued to sail on the big ships. In 1970 shipping tight, it got real hard to find a ship. The US had laid up all the passenger ships, this happened because the US government quit subsidizing them as they said the no longer need them to move vast numbers of troops. This dumped a large number of cooks Stewards into the freighter tanker pool with a lot of seniority so I had to go looking other work. I landed a year contract on a ship called the R/V Hero. It was owned by the National Science Foundation. The crew was employed by the Maritime Research Company - out of Miami FL. It worked the Southern half of South America and the Antarctic Peninsular. The home Port was listed as Palmer Station Antarctica. I ended up spending 7 years on the ship and worked for 3 different company’s before I left. I lived in Punte Arenas Chile for 3 years, I still sort of, own a house there When I left I told the girl that I lived with it was hers but did not have time to get the paperwork done. We had to leave due to the political situation, this was when Alende was President of Chile.
We moved the South American home base, supply base to Ushuaia Argentina I ended up opening a barbeque restaurant there. I was open one season as it was a tourist town and it had a 4 month season and I did not get open till late in the season and did not have enough capital to hold over till the next season. I was offered a job with the ship chandler company that I Use to buy supplies from for the R/V Hero The had started a catering company and gotten the contract to feed the international crews that were going to pull the pipe line under the straights of Magellan. They needed a person that could teach their cooks how to fix American style breakfasts and special things like American biscuits and pancakes. And other things that they needed. They only paid me $1,000 a month but they also paid the rent on the house in Rio Grande. They also paid all the utilities and even the cleaning woman. I also had an unlimited expense account with a $2500 base I also had a full time Argentine driver and two dual wheel Ford 1 ton pickups. One of the major parts of my job was to entertain the big wigs of the oil company and sub contractors. We started with these two camps and when I left we had 10 camps and 4 drivers and 5 pickups. We bought about $20,000 worth of food a week. So I never had to buy cigs, wine, booze ect. So the $1000 was clear.
I JUST spilled water on the keyboard and must close.
BOB
My life as I remember it # 1
I was born in Wakefield MA. on July 8, 1935. My parents told me I was a very sick baby. They had to carry me around on a pillow, as I could not stand to be touched very much due to Polio. Our family country doctor had no knowledge of this sickness, so I was very lucky that it was a mild case of Polio. The Polio left my left leg ¾ of an inch short and my left arm ½ an inch short so as I grew up and started to walk then run, I fell down a lot. This left my knee caps with almost a solid scar on them. I did play football in junior high school. (Tackle). In October of 1952 4 of us young high school boys (Billy, Andy, Donald, and I) decided to enlist in the military (remember this was during the Korean war) Billy went into the Marines and I was accepted into the Air Force. Andy had a heart murmur and Donald had a punctured inner ear drum. When we took the aptitude tests my mechanical skills were listed as very high. They gave me a waiver on my short leg and put me in the ammunition field. So I ended up blowing up things. I was sworn in on the 18th of March 1953.
My family and I, my mother, father, brother, and 2 sisters lived in North Reading MA. Till I went into the USA Air Force in March of 1953. My father worked at M.I.T. in Harvard Square at the time. He was in the mineral industry’s department of M.I.T. He was in charge of all the research laboratories in the department. The Assistant Professor of the mineral industry’s department at MIT took the department head job at Penn State in June of 1953. After he toured his department and got settled in he called dad and offered him the same job he had a MIT at PSU for about $25 a week, a $100 a month in 1953 was a lot of money, so they moved to State College PA. in September of 1953. The professor said the laboratories were no way near being up to date for a top of the line University.
I must close for now
Be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
My family and I, my mother, father, brother, and 2 sisters lived in North Reading MA. Till I went into the USA Air Force in March of 1953. My father worked at M.I.T. in Harvard Square at the time. He was in the mineral industry’s department of M.I.T. He was in charge of all the research laboratories in the department. The Assistant Professor of the mineral industry’s department at MIT took the department head job at Penn State in June of 1953. After he toured his department and got settled in he called dad and offered him the same job he had a MIT at PSU for about $25 a week, a $100 a month in 1953 was a lot of money, so they moved to State College PA. in September of 1953. The professor said the laboratories were no way near being up to date for a top of the line University.
I must close for now
Be safe out there and be well
Love
Bob
8/12/2006
Saturday Afternoon
Well I have redone the ramp for the Dodge to make it easier to put up and take down.
The plywood floor was a large hinged piece and a smaller separate piece. I added a second set of hinges so I now have one solid piece when it is unfolded. My neighbor is cutting a third rail (angle iron) to be added to the center as the plywood sags a little now and if I have to walk up it, it does not feel the safest.
I have been slowly cleaning up the shed, which is something that really needs to be finished as it has been about 6 months or more since it was done last time. It was getting to the point that you could not walk down the center isle.
I must get to the store for Betty so I must close for now
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
The plywood floor was a large hinged piece and a smaller separate piece. I added a second set of hinges so I now have one solid piece when it is unfolded. My neighbor is cutting a third rail (angle iron) to be added to the center as the plywood sags a little now and if I have to walk up it, it does not feel the safest.
I have been slowly cleaning up the shed, which is something that really needs to be finished as it has been about 6 months or more since it was done last time. It was getting to the point that you could not walk down the center isle.
I must get to the store for Betty so I must close for now
Be safe out there and be well.
Love
Bob
Saturday AM
I have had to quit hauling Amish as my age and health have gone to pot. I have put of telling any one as the would worry about how Betty and I are making out. It is tough but we are managing. My big problem is that I get bored so easly that it is hard for me, as I have been so active all my life.
It makes me sad just to write this, I have beendoing the bare minumim for the last 6 months and lied about trips to make everyone think that I was still doing OK.
Be carful out there and be well.
It makes me sad just to write this, I have beendoing the bare minumim for the last 6 months and lied about trips to make everyone think that I was still doing OK.
Be carful out there and be well.
8/09/2006
Wednesday evening
I have been fighting to get Betty's blog to work right and have had nothing but trouble with it. Everthing went together on mine so easy and now that I am trying to help her, it turns to crap.
Be safe out there and be Well.
Love
Bob
Be safe out there and be Well.
Love
Bob
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