... Poem # One....Two...Three...Four.....

         ......O.K... just to get things started for now...it goes out to my friends up North.....
    
           Poem # One....
     
                    The Snows on the Ground....
  
                    The Eareth's Below....
             
                    The Love's all Around....
   
                    The People We know....
                    
         
..... now for Poem # Two.....

                        
                    Say 'Hi' to Him, don't Grieve or 'Not'
                   
                    For he Has Brought You....I thought,
                      
                    ....A Lolly Pop.....!

  
              Poem # Three.....

                    
                    She Saw Me Fix....

                    If Not She Did....
      
                    But I Saw Her...
                  
                    and ..of Course...I Did 
    

             Poem # Four.... 

                    The Time Moved Slow.....
                    
                    With Hands to Still Whirl......

                    It Brings Upon the Face...

                    A Sad But True Place....
                    

....A 'Poem' from the past.....

               This is something I wrote in the past from a collection of writings I did back in the late Sixties & early Seventies....the first one is a unusual presentation that can be interpreted in a few ways, but still coming out as the same topic...well it's hard to decribe so here it is and you can see for yourself.....
            .....the title is ..'Going Up?'....

                              ZIG ZAG
                                               AND A PAPER
                    I WAS THERE
                                               WHEN A FRIEND
         AND I SAT AWHILE
                                               WIND AND RAIN
    BLOWING THE GRASS
                                               BY PASSING THE FIRE
GREENS WERE SMOKED
                                               LEAVING OUR THOUGHTS BEHIND
GETTING LOST IN A HIGH
                                               LAUGHTER AND SOUND
BEING FOUND IN A BAG 
                                               FOLLOWED A RYHME
           WE BOTH TOATED
                                               NOT MUCH MORE
           A NICKLE OR TWO.

.....Now take a piece of paper and cover the Right side of the Poem.

  I hope you enjoy this little 'Side Trip', and I have more to share, but no others like this....and I'm sure I could never duplicate it at this point in my life, althought I hope to continue writing more for all to enjoy......

                 


    

....The Party is about ti begin......

         I would like to start by welcoming all to this very Classic Month. It has many features with some Birthdays to behold. The beginning has my Sisters on the 5th...she's the one you see posted on fb w her new Granddaughter...then our Dear friend Barry, who's Birthday happens to be on the Eleventh....go figure...go Elevens....then at the end is a good friend and old neighbor Barbara Robertson Bernier. Last but not least my youngest Daughter Cher Love, the Mother of my most talented Granddaughter, Marley Love.....again, go Elevens....
        Now we also throw some parties in like Woodstock, coming up on it's Forty-Sixth Anniversary!! Which I did attend with my future X-Wife, & mother to the above mentioned Daughter...also my oldest Daughter, Tiffany Erin.
        Of course most of you know that the R.T.M Party...that's Reunion-Tribute-Memorial Party, in it's fifth year, will be coming in two more weeks, along with mine and Tom Barry's Fortieth Anniversary of  'Alive in '75 lake Country Green'...now will be added: 'Still on the Scene in Twenty Fifteen'. Held on the fifteenth

at the Bantam Community Field, on Rt. 209 leaving Bantam towards the Lake. The 'Regulators' are playing, also the 'Gerst Band', along with other guest, like the Hopkins family, some jamming and a few surprise guests!

    Admission is $10, which includes above mentioned music, food consisting of 'Uncle Lewis' BBQ Chicken,Corn,& Potatos...everyone is encouraged to bring a dish along with your Blankets & Chairs. 

     I am runnig a special that would be a Shirt,Ticket & Bumper Sticker...'Dirt Roads' ....for $20. The shirts & tickets are now available at Anne Haus' shop next to Woods BBQ Pit, which is next to the Bantam Cinema. Call first, her number is on the flyer which is posted as my 'Profile Pic.' Any other Questions you can call me any time on my cell # 203 947 3118. I am bringing the Stickers with me I hope 500 is enough...!!

     The R.T.M started when a couple of close friends thought it might be a good Idea to have a 'Party' to celebrate just getting together when not at a Memorial Service for dear friends that have passed. So Wayne..'Crash'...Carlson and Roy..'Boy' ..Cheney started this five years ago, w help from Uncle Lewis & Lad Green.

    The following year I was able to make it up from my new home in Florida and joined in to remember so many that have traveled beyond to their other World. They will be tributes to many at the beginning, so I encourage all to get there before Noon, when the Ceremonies will begin sharp at Noon...!!

      I Added the 40th Anniversary, when I realized that it's been that long and many of you were there too. So I thought it fitting that this should be added, since we all are on borrowed time. I only wish that more  were  here for the Celebration, like my co-Host Tom Barry.....

     ......So all come early & stay for a full day of the Celebration Of Life ......thank you all who helped me put this together...you know who you are & if you forgot I'll remind you on the 15th....

 

          .....Thanks Again...Love..& Peace-Out.....

           

......CHANGING THINGS UP....

           . It's been said a few times that Texas was going to Secede from our homeland of America. Reasons aren't all that clear at this point...but hey they say everything they do in Texas they do BIG....now even the Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter has denied that the United States is going to take over Texas as a precaution so that Texas doesn't become an aggressor to the remaining States. 
       There are many that think it might not be such a bad idea so that there won't be a threat of more Texas Politicians running for office here in the Real World......

      Now just to mention a few facts of exercising. We all would like to stay fit, myself I'm having a hard time doing so in my condition.....but that's me. I don't have the means to spend money on such, as some put it 'Luxury'. I've know people who have actually Died from doing what they thought was good for them. One was a 'healthy' man in the prime of life, jogging everyday. He died of a Heart attack. Now I have read that a Silicone Valley of Survey Monkey, CEO David Goldberg, 47 died of severe head trauma, while exercising on vacation with his family in Mexico. He tripped on treadmill and hit his head on the machine.
     Then there is the CEO of Segway that drove himself off a cliff on his property. You would have thought that he knew every inch of his own property...?!
      
     I would like to say that I'm not trying to make lite of someone's death since I have witnessed too many in my life, and will be celebrating the lives of so many in August. But I guess I just thought maybe it a good idea to just take it easy...life is too short to be pushing the boundaries, like say Texas....


     

....CHANGING THINGS UP....

     

....finishing the final chapter of out West with John Henry & Jack long...

              This will be the final Chapter in the life & times of John Henry and Jack long  of their adventures in the Wild West.

       After the devastating blow to him after coming back from hunting with Lilly, to find his family slaughtered at the hands of some renegade Comaches, it made John Henry that much more strong willed and defiant of any thing that may get in his way.
       He and lilly traveled for awhile together until it was evident that he had to go on his own so that she would not be harmed. He soon joined the Rough Riders as one of their youngest, albeit toughest, one to join.
      Then he moved on to be on his own, as he knew that was the only path for him, when so much was tormenting him. Going from one Town to the other, taking jobs where he could find them. One almost got him killed when he got tied up with a Gang lead by a young man, they called hm the 'Kid'...Billy the Kid...
     
      About this time Jack Long was riding the trails from East to West as a cow-hand and trail boss in charge of hundreds of cattle going to market in the Mid-West...
      Jack was well-seasoned with the Cattle and wild Horse drives, and was recommended through out the West. 
       Then one night he got into a fight with a local at one of the towns they had a stop over in, and, well it didn't go so well for the local...not knowing who he was up against, he got in a fight that brought them into the street for a show down. Jack was the fastest, and dropped that poor guy like a sack of potatoes. Even though it was a fair fight, Jack was asked to leave the Cattle Drive, since they need to keep up good relations with  all the towns they passed through.
      
       Jack, left up to his own means, began running wild Horses from Colorado to Texas and back. Also trips up North as far as Canada.
      
      That's when he meets up with John Henry and starts a long strained and tumultuous relationship that leaves us with them heading to California with another powder keg of a human...Grover...

      We shall pick up later and find out how far this strange trio will make it in their Quest to find fortune,since they already have the Fame.....

       
      Hope you all enjoyed our trip out West and will try to continue the Tale as soon as possible...thanks.... 

Back on the Trail with young John Henry and the Desert Plains......

                   John Henry, along with his family...Mother, Father and now Lilly, have joined another family back at the River crossing. This family consisted of the Father, Mother, and a son. They have already journeyed three days into the dry Plains, with only enough supplies left for another day or so, and they had two more days to get to the base of the Rockies.
          They pushed on, struggling to move from lack of more nutritional  foods. Already their supply had dwindled to the basics, with only enough to get through another day. 
         Stopping to make camp, it was up to John Henry to go out and try and find fresh meat so that they could get the strength back to continue, and get through this Hellish Journey.
          Henry decided to take Lilly along for help, and just so that he had some company, not knowing how long they would be gone.

        Henry and Lilly became close friends on their journey, after Henry had to rescue her from those Mountain that had took over the camp she had with her Husband, that they killed and were going to take her as a slave to their needs.
        Lilly had grown much stronger from all she was through, there fore being someone Henry could count on in times of need. They had walked off and wondered far from the encampment  where both families were making the best out of a bad situation.
        Finally there, in a cluster of bush's stood a fine looking Buck. Henry got down low, motioning Lilly to do the same, kneeling down he trained his rifle on the Bucks head, he fired, the Buck jolted up, then ran out of the thicket. Henry puzzled by the deers reaction, since Henry being an excellent shot, and was sure he had hit it, went up to the spot where the Buck had been. Sure enough there was blood and a trail of it left behind, that was truly a good hit. 
       They took off following the blood trail, along w some tracks that were left at points where they could be in this dry Earth. They walked for some time all the while thinking that they would soon stumble over the Buck. 
       It was getting late, and running out of day light, when all of a sudden the Buck reared up right in front of them, Henry, out of instinct pulled his rifle up and shot.......
       
       Henry and Lilly soon had to make camp, tired and hunger after carrying but mostly dragging the Buck only a short distance from where he had shot it. After 'Dressing' out the Deer, with Lilly making the best out of a bad situation, soon had a camp-site ready. Not long after nightfall they had both fallen deep into a good nights sleep.
       The next they were fresh to start that long journey back to their folks, who they had imagined would not see them again. 
       As it turned out it was Henry and Lilly who would not be able to see them or tell them one more time how they loved them. As they approached the area in which they thought the camp was, they saw smoke lightly drifting in the sky overhead. Now Henry was a little worried, so he told Lilly to stay back. Henry took caution in getting closer to see what was going on. 
       It was his worst nightmare of how a tribe of Indians would come in and destroy a family. He first stood in shock when he first saw his father  beaten down and scalped, tied to a wagon wheel, just as was Mr. McGlocklen. The two women were out of sight until Henry could regain his thoughts. Both of them tortured and left naked after being raped. Henry dropped to his knees and wept. Wept for the first time ever that he could remember. He was still kneeling when Lilly came up behind him, got down next to him and started to Pray. That too had been a long time for him to do. Both kneeling in Pray, then looking up to see the base of the Rockies in the distant too far away, but just close enough to keep their dreams alive.
     The boy was missing, with no hope of finding him alive or even finding him at all. The Comanches sometimes take the young boy, if there's no girl around, for them to make one of theirs. The boy will stay alive as long as he doesn't cause them problems.

       This now ends the story of how Henry came to be a rough and mean spirited Cowboy with just his wits to rely on. He went on to create a reputation in the West, far above and beyond all that you may have heard before......