Cherish You


February 2, 2018

Oh my goodness, how I miss all that is you. Your smiling chops only give away the tiniest glimmer of the joy that is you. How could we know a year and a half is all we have left to spend all the time we have to cherish you.

I Do Cherish You – 98 Degrees

All I am, all I’ll be
Everything in this world
All that I’ll ever need is in your eyes
Shining at me

When you smile I can feel
All my passion unfolding

Your hand brushes mine
And a thousand sensations seduce me cause I

I do cherish you
For the rest of my life
You don’t have to think twice
I will love you still
From the depths of my soul
It’s beyond my control
I’ve waited so long to say this to you
If you’re asking do I love you this much
I do.

In my world before you
I lived outside my emotions
Didn’t know where I was going
‘Til that day I found you
How you opened my life to a new paradise
In a world, torn by change
Still with all of my heart ’til my dying day

I’ve Loved You


May 27, 2019
Born in Manchester, England

Became USA citizen at 6 years old. However, not until a few years ago did we ever think about the paperwork to prove citizenship.

We submitted the appropriate request form and waited. Proud moment when we received proof of Ma’s citizenship.

Its the simple things that keep us going.

You Are The Sunshine of My Life – Frank Sinatra

You are the sunshine of my life
That’s why I’ll always be around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you’ll stay in my heart

I feel like this is the beginning
Though I’ve loved you for a million years
And if I thought our love was ending
I’d find myself drowning in my own tears

You are the sunshine of my life
That’s why I’ll always stay around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you’ll stay in my heart

You must have known that I was lonely
Because you came to my rescue
And I know that this must be heaven
How could so much love be inside of you?

You are the sunshine of my life
That’s why I’ll always stay around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you’ll stay in my heart

You are the sunshine of my life
That’s why I’ll always stay around

You Are The Sunshine of My Life – Frank Sinatra

The Way You Are


February 15, 2014

Ah Love, you shouldn’t, but did anyway out of the blue… You are still just a dream away? The way you are keeps me going!

Are we just one adjustment away from making our lives work? You know, just tweak things a bit? I guess I’m in that line, or could get in it soon, or not. Still in wait and see mode?

Our neighbor Smokey, love him and Traci dearly, was touched yesterday at 2am by the end of time. Remember him getting poorly last summer after getting a Covid vaccine. Don’t take the good ones that are the glue that keep us together!

Are we all just dominoes that are tipped at birth to fall in a string into other dominoes until the end of time? Just doin’ time ’til then?

Nope – we’re supposed to lust for life without thinking about time. We’re supposed to just keep breathing and obsess on things till we get it and never be satisfied until we’re snatched by the end of time?

Damn it Love… death is so… permanent…!

You’ve Got a Way with Me – Shania Twain

You got a way with me
Somehow you got me to believe
In everything that I could be
I’ve gotta say, you really got a way

You got a way it seems
You gave me faith to find my dreams
You’ll never know just what that means
Can’t you see, you got a way with me

It’s in the way you want me
It’s in the way you hold me
The way you show me just what love’s made of
It’s in the way we make love

You got a way with words
You get me smiling even when it hurts
There’s no way to measure what your love is worth
I can’t believe the way you get through to me

It’s in the way you want me
It’s in the way you hold me
The way you show me just what love’s made of
It’s in the way we make love

Oh, how I adore you
Like no one before you
I love you just the way you are

It’s in the way you want me
Oh, it’s in the way you hold me
The way you show me just what love’s made of
It’s in the way we make love

It’s just the way you are

You’ve Got a Way with Me – Shania Twain

Without You


September 1, 2019

Love our spot on the Arkansas River just East of Rafting Access named Five Points. The short access got paved last year but its still dirt road to the river, about 50 yards. Two campsites on the river large enough to turn truck around. Nobody there except in summer. Stop and poke around for a few hours then on the road again.

How Do I Live – Trisha Yearwood

How do I get through one night without you?
If I had to live without you
What kind of life would that be?
Oh and I
I need you in my arms need you to hold
You’re my world, my heart, my soul
If you ever leave
Baby you would take away everything good in my life

Without you there’d be no sun in my sky
There would be no love in my life
There’d be no world left for me
And I, baby I don’t know what I would do
I’d be lost if I lost you
If you ever leave
Baby you would take away everything real in my life
And tell me now

How do I live without you?
I want to know
How do I breathe without you?
If you ever go
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I, how do I?
Oh how do I live?

If you ever leave
Baby you would take away everything
Need you with me
Baby ’cause you know that you’re everything good in my life
And tell me now

How do I live without you?
I want to know
How do I breathe without you?
If you ever go
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I? How do I?
Oh how do I live?

How do I live
Without you, baby?

How Do I Live – Trisha Yearwood

When We Were Young


October 19, 2010
Ma catching a glow carrying a friend’s birthday cake, awesome…

Xmas Eve tomorrow, know what’s coming, yes love, always…

While doing Ma’s post, Milo asked nicely to feed him. His internal clock is uncanny. Tears and nose dripping while adding food to his bowl, can’t hold it back. He caught a drip in the bowl as it was placed on his food tray – didn’t land on his food but did make the bowl, and he got to eating before I could wipe.

Always dwell on what I write in Ma’s post for a day or two, knowing I could say something better. Tweak things here and there to make sure I give Ma what’s due.

So, so very thankful Ma played with family like there was no tomorrow on her last night. It matters, cause there was no tomorrow…

When we were young – Adele

Everybody loves the things you do
From the way you talk
To the way you move
Everybody here is watching you
‘Cause you feel like home
You’re like a dream come true

But if by chance you’re here alone
Can I have a moment?
Before I go?
‘Cause I’ve been by myself all night long
Hoping you’re someone I used to know

You look like a movie
You sound like a song
My God this reminds me, of when we were young

Let me photograph you in this light
In case it is the last time
That we might be exactly like we were
Before we realized
We were scared of getting old
It made us restless
It was just like a movie
It was just like a song

I was so scared to face my fears
Nobody told me that you’d be here
And I’d swear you moved overseas
That’s what you said, when you left me

You still look like a movie
You still sound like a song
My God, this reminds me, of when we were young

Let me photograph you in this light
In case it is the last time
That we might be exactly like we were
Before we realized

We were sad of getting old
It made us restless
It was just like a movie
It was just like a song

When we were young
(When we were young)
When we were young
(When we were young)

It’s hard to win me back
Everything just takes me back
To when you were there
To when you were there

And a part of me keeps holding on
Just in case it hasn’t gone
I guess I still care
Do you still care?

It was just like a movie
It was just like a song
My God, this reminds me
Of when we were young

When we were young
(When we were young)
When we were young
(When we were young)

Let me photograph you in this light
In case it is the last time
That we might be exactly like we were
Before we realized
We were sad of getting old

It made us restless
Oh I’m so mad I’m getting old
It makes me reckless

It was just like a movie
It was just like a song
When we were young

https://youtu.be/ZiAr6O9x-ZU

Madly… in Love


December 2003

Ma and I love the season… 50+ years… frenzied in our youth.

But damn, ’tis the season… again…. four years since my so much better half was touched by the end of time.

Still doin’ time, like Howard Homebody. Music is a severe/sincere trigger. Not immune to Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven. Can’t even escape Gun’s & Roses ballads Sweet Child ‘O Mine or Since I Don’t Have You. Soft-and-dreamy ballads are even better triggers compared to rock’n roll.

Fear and air make me want to avoid family visits where background movies might trigger. Coming apart with family, feeling like the 1st day after realizing my so much better half drifted off.

Those are now private moments to share with my so much better half. Family already experienced me coming apart. Its enough, but how to say no to visits without grief, please forgive me isn’t enough? Has to be… we’ll see…

Madly by Emily Vaughn

Fell in love in a taxi
We made out in the backseat, yeah
You’re the only one that asked me if
I’ll do anything you ask me, I

Swear that we’ll get it right
If you wonder how I’m feeling
Just know that I’m always on your side

I gave you more, love me, put you above me
I’m happy when you’re happy
I can’t help that I’m madly in love
In love, in love, in love, oh-oh-oh-oh
In love, in love, oh

Yeah, don’t know what I did before you
But I know that I adore you, ah-ah
If you’re wondering if I care, just-
Say the word and I’ll be right there

Yeah, I swear that we’ll get it right
If you wonder how I’m feeling
Just know that I’m always on your side (oh)

Do You Know


October 27, 2010

Dreams slip away… lack of focus, motivation, money – always some reason for could’ve-beens…

Determination got us where we are. Barriers to overcome seemed monumental, and were… We found our niche, tucked in, road the wave, and somehow got there in the end.

Money was always funny; well, we spent as much as we made. Ma didn’t save unless there was a short term goal. I didn’t save unless it was the 401K, except for loose change, that really added up over time. Still don’t save and spend as much as we make…hmm… Can’t change your stripes…

Gratefully, our work-ethic was fierce – no breaks until the job is done, work until you drop, never quit a job without another job, and always work for more. I started working at 8 years old, just finished another online work-goal a few minutes ago. Ma started work at 15 and didn’t stop until the Axis-of-Evil at FFCA forced retirement at 65.

Do You Know by Diana Ross comes to mind:

Do you know where you’re going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to?
Do you know?

Do you get what you’re hoping for?
When you look behind you, there’s no open doors
What are you hoping for?
Do you know?

Once we were standing still in time
Chasing the fantasies that filled our minds
You knew how I loved you, but my spirit was free
Laughing at the questions that you once asked of me

Do you know where you’re going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to?
Do you know?

Now looking back at all we planned
We let so many dreams just slip through our hands
Why must we wait so long before we see
How sad the answers to those questions can be?

Do you know where you’re going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to?
Do you know?

Do you get what you’re hoping for?
When you look behind you, there’s no open doors
What are you hoping for?
Do you know?

Too Young


December 28, 2005
Disneyworld

Such a  memory there ever was. On vacation, just the two of us, worries on the back burner, livin’ at only $500/day…woof…

They try to tell us we’re too young
Too young to really be in love
They say that love’s a word
A word we’ve only heard
But can’t begin to know the meaning of

And yet we’re not too young to know
This love will last though years may go
And then someday they may recall
We were not too young at all

And yet we’re not too young to know
This love will last though years may go
And then someday they may recall
We were not too young at all

Nat King Cole – Too Young

Can’t Have Mine


December 24, 2005

Setup the camera with bright sky in background with no flash fill and 10 second delay is an amateur moment but look at those smiling chops. Forgotten moment recalled by the spark of an image. Love you Ma.

Can’t Have Mine – Dylan Scott

You could find you a girl on a Friday night
Dancin’ in the back of a bar
A Sunday morning hands up high
Singin’ front row in the choir
You could find you a girl through a friend of a friend
Or she could show up right out of the blue
It don’t matter where you find her
Just as long as you

Find you a girl that leaves you speechless
Gets wild on the town but still loves Jesus
One that’s worth the wait even when she ain’t on time
Find you a girl that loves her daddy
And talkin’ ’bout babies makes her happy
Yeah, take it from me, that’s the kind you need to find
You just can’t have mine

Find you a girl that likes to do all the things you love to do
And even on your worst day
She still thinks you hung the moon
Find you a girl that’s like fine wine that just gets better with age
Boy, you’ll have it made

If you find you a girl that leaves you speechless
Gets wild on the town but still loves Jesus
One that’s worth the wait even when she ain’t on time
Find you a girl that loves her daddy
And talkin’ ’bout babies makes her happy
Yeah, take it from me, that’s the kind you need to find
You just can’t have mine

Thank God, she loves me
God knows, I got so lucky
If you want one like I got, you gotta trust me

Find you a girl that leaves you speechless
Gets wild on the town but still loves Jesus
One that’s worth the wait even when she ain’t on time
Find you a girl that loves her daddy
And talkin’ ’bout babies makes her happy
Yeah, take it from me, that’s the kind you need to find
You just can’t have mine
Nah, you can’t have mine

Can’t Have Mine – Dylan Scott

Did Something Right?


Xmas 12-22-2018

Oh my oh my oh my oh my… damn… less than a year to the end of time for my so much better half. Ah Love, off to the Fair today to scratch and sniff the good ol’ days. Couldn’t know your time in August 2019 at the Fair was overshadowed by a pending expiration date… damn… death is so… permanent!

So, so lucky for our time together. What did I do to deserve you and me, us and them, making our way, living as we did through the next 52 years. Focus, determination, sheer luck, good will, good fortune, all those, none of those… what… so grateful though

Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right – Billy Currington

A woman is a mystery a man just can’t understand
Sometimes all it takes to please her is a touch of your hand
And other times you’ve gotta take it slow and hold her all night long
Heaven knows there’s so many ways a man can go wrong

I must be doin’ something right
I just heard you sigh
You leaned into my kiss and closed those deep blue need you eyes
Don’t know what I did to earn a love like this, but baby I
Must be doin’ something right

Anywhere you wanna go, baby, show me the way
I’m open to suggestions, umm, whatever you say
Tonight’s about giving you what you want whatever it takes
Girl, I hope I’m on the right road, but judging by the smile on your face

I must be doin’ something right
I just heard you sigh
You leaned into my kiss and closed those deep blue need you eyes
Don’t know what I did to earn a love like this, but baby I
Must be doin’ something right

Don’t know what I did to earn a love like this, but baby I
Must be doin’ something right
Must be doin’ something right
Must be doin’ something right
Must be doin’ something right
Mm don’t know what I did
Must be doin’ something right
Must be doin’ something right

Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right – Billy Currington

Moments Ago


Dec 22, 2018

Ma decorating for Xmas – Believe in the lifetime to get here…

Willie Nelson – To Get Here

There are things I’ve done
I wish I could undo
I’d take back all the pain
I put the ones who love me through
And I’d make some better choices
I’d take some different roads
I’d hold on to what mattered
I would never let it go

Life is 20 20 hindsight
Might take a lifetime just to get some insight
Might not always get it right
But you get where you need to be

All the mistakes I made, I’m glad I made them
All the wrong turns I took, I had to take them
Can’t look back with regret, ’cause the view is never clear
That’s what it took to get here

There are things I said
I wish I could unsay
I’d erase all the hurt
From those I have hurt along the way
And I’d make the right decisions
And change some I made before
And I’d love a little deeper
And I would give a little more

Sometimes you get second chances
When they come you gotta go and grab them
Might not be the way you planned it
But you get where you need to be

All the mistakes I made, I’m glad I made them
All the wrong turns I took, I had to take them
Can’t look back with regret, because the view is never clear
That’s what it took to get here

And you can’t go back and change anything
You can’t make what happened happen differently
But you can get what you need
Get where you need to be

All the mistakes I made, I’m glad I made them
All the wrong turns I took, I had to take them
Can’t look back with regret, because the view is never clear
That’s what it took to get here

We will always be


August 14, 2018
Three Days from Birthday

Would have, could have, should have been our 54th Anniversary on April 23. Can’t believe, but have to breath, won’t forget, but always regret – damn… death is so… permanent…!

Indoor Garden Party – We Will Always be Together

Take a step outside, feel the sun
With a little luck, that’s what you will remember.

When the cards are played and the hands done,
and won, and the game is over.

I’ll trade anything for a knowing kiss
And then embrace that lasts forever
I’ll press tightly to your skin like this
We will always be together

Will I slip quietly into the haze
Or will I rage at the shining dying embers?
Will I be brave and laugh in its face?
Will I even know that the whole damn game is over?

I’ll trade anything for a knowing kiss
And then embrace that lasts forever
I’ll press tightly to your skin like this
We will always be together

When the lights upon, when they ring in time
When the dark has come, no, don’t let your spirit fall,
you won’t be alone, I will always, always be yours

I’ll trade anything for a knowing kiss
And then embrace that lasts forever
I’ll press tightly to your skin like this
We will always be
We will always be,
We will always be together

Ain’t No Sunshine


Vegas Delight

Look at Ma light up, especially vacation, with worries packed instead of wearing them. Time together is especially fulfilling. All that we love becomes a part of us. What we once enjoyed we can never lose.

You light up my life, but there ain’t no sunshine…

Bill Withers sums for me:

Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
It’s not warm when she’s away
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And she’s always gone too long
Anytime she’s goes away

Wonder this time where she’s gone
Wonder if she’s gone to stay
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And this house just ain’t no home
Anytime she goes away

And I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know
Hey I oughta leave young thing alone
But ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, woh woh

Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
Only darkness every day
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And this house just ain’t no home
Anytime she goes away

Anytime she goes away
Anytime she goes away
Anytime she goes away

Ain’t No Sunshine

Take the Plunge?


January 29, 2018
Our spot in Garden of the Gods

I’m standing on the shore, afraid to dive into new waters, and I’m afraid because I don’t wanna say goodbye to the mild-mannered, lovelorn, me, the sweet and wonderful me that is here for my oh so much better half, Jenf.

I’m standing there, looking out at my options, the icy blue water, the fast-flowing river, the choppy sea. And they all look very appealing because I’m dying to go for a swim, but I know the water is going to be cold, and the journey is going to be hard. When I reach the other side, I’ll be a new person, and I’m scared to meet that new version of myself.

We all get used to our own personas, and we’re used to our own comfort zones; but, to live, we must keep daring – keep diving.

Just, take the plunge… but why? Alone at last isn’t the way!

But I do Love You – LeAnn Rimes

I don’t like to be alone in the night
And I don’t like to hear I’m wrong when I’m right
And I don’t like to have the rain on my shoe
But I do love you, but I do love you

I don’t like to see the sky painted gray
And I don’t like when nothing’s going my way
And I don’t like to be the one with the blues
But I do love you, but I do love you

Love everything about the way you’re loving me
The way you lay your head
Upon my shoulder when you sleep
And I love to kiss you in the rain
I love everything you do, oh I do

I don’t like to turn the radio on
Just to find I missed my favorite song
And I don’t like to be the last with the news
But I do love you, but I do love you

Love everything about the way you’re loving me
The way you lay your head
Upon my shoulder when you sleep
And I love to kiss you in the rain
I love everything you do, oh I do

And I don’t like to be alone in the night
And I don’t like to hear I’m wrong when I’m right
And I don’t like to have the rain on my shoes
But I do love you but I do love you

But I do love you, but I do love you

 

Can’t Stop


December 27, 2005

Ah love… can’t (won’t) stop loving you…

Spent my lifetime loving you. I was 17 when we met.
Where there is love, life begins. I was 18 when we married.
You cured my outlaw ways. Love is worth everything we pay.
Oh, I wish, I wish, I wish…

Ray Charles barely touches the scope of longing…

… I’ve made up my mind
To live in memories of the lonesome times
(I can’t stop wanting you)

… It’s useless to say
So I’ll just live my life of dreams of yesterday
(Dreams of yesterday)

… Those happy hours that we once knew
Tho’ long ago, they still make me blue

… They say that time heals a broken heart

… But time has stood still since we’ve been apart
(I can’t stop loving you)

… I’ve made up my mind
To live in memories of the lonesome times
(I can’t stop wanting you)

… It’s useless to say
So I’ll just live my life of dreams of yesterday

… Those happy hours
(That we once knew)
That we once knew
(Tho’ long ago)
Tho’ long ago
(Still make me blue)
Still make me blue

… They say that time
(Heals a broken heart)
Heals a broken heart
(But time has stood still)
Time has stood still
(Since we’ve been apart)
Since we’ve been apart

… I said I made up my mind
To live in memories of the lonesome times
Sing the song, children
(I can’t stop wanting you)

… It’s useless to say
So I’ll just live my life of dreams of yesterday
(Of yesterday)

I Can’t Stop Loving You
Ray Charles

Remember


August 8, 2015

No Regrets

Everything starts with a regret, ends with a regret.
In between, regrets.
It’s all regrets.
You run as fast as you can from the last regret; and, of course, you’re just running straight into the next one.
That’s life.
It’s all regrets.
That’s what they should say.
No other way to be alive.
It’s all regrets.
Make ’em count.

Please Remember – LeAnn Rimes

Time, sometimes the time just slips away
And you’re left with yesterday
Left with the memories
I, I’ll always think of you and smile
And be happy for the time I had you with me
Though we go our separate ways
I won’t forget so don’t forget
The memories we made

Please remember
Please remember
I was there for you
And you were there for me
Please remember
Our time together
When time was yours and mine
And we were wild and free
Please remember please remember me

Good-bye, there’s just no sadder word to say
And it’s sad to walk away
With just the memories
Who’s to know what might have been
We leave behind a life and time
We’ll never know again

Please remember
Please remember
I was there for you
And you were there for me
And remember please remember me

Please remember
Please remember
I was there for you
And you were there for me
Please remember
Our time together
When time was yours and mine
And we were wild and free
And remember please remember me

And how we laughed
And how we smiled
And how this world was yours and mine
And how no dream was out of reach
I stood by you, you stood by me
We took each day and made it shine
We wrote our names across the sky
We ran so fast we ran so free
And I had you and you had me
Please remember
Please remember

The Dream is…


March 14, 2015

The dream is on the rainbow.
Don’t know where to go, who I am, where to turn.
I don’t even know where to look for answers.
But all that was suddenly appeased by a few wistful bars of music that expressed tenderness and understanding.
It’s like waking up from a bad dream.
Suddenly, the fog just lifted.
That feeling stayed with me for a few seconds.
It just opened me up.
Invigorated me.

Its hard to explain how I feel.
It’s like a form of knowledge maybe, or even wisdom?
But it isn’t wisdom of course, or anything else I can put into words. The best I can do is to say that it’s somehow about what it feels like to be alive.
I’m filled with grief and longing and resolve.
For a few seconds, I felt suddenly richer, more compassionate.
And I wanted to share the moment with the whole world.
I guess the word I’m looking for is gratitude.

Gratitude by Brandon Lake

All my words fall short
I got nothing new
How could I express
All my gratitude?

As Long as I Live


August-22-2016

Are you just being cute!

Love the way Ma feels after visiting Lisa and Kevin at their Hairitage Salon. Over 40 years of rewarding visits with Lisa. Ma loved Lisa and her work but hated spending $40 on a haircut. Ma would cut herself off, but give in because “we” feel so good afterward.

From This Moment – Shania Twain

From this moment, life has begun
From this moment, you are the one
Right beside you is where I belong
From this moment on

From this moment, I have been blessed
I live only for your happiness
And for your love, I’d give my last breath
From this moment on

I give my hand to you with all my heart
I can’t wait to live my life with you, I can’t wait to start
You and I will never be apart
My dreams came true because of you

From this moment, as long as I live
I will love you, I promise you this
There is nothing I wouldn’t give
From this moment on, oh

You’re the reason I believe in love
And you’re the answer to my prayers from up above
All we need is just the two of us
My dreams came true because of you

From this moment, as long as I live
I will love you, I promise you this
There is nothing I wouldn’t give
From this moment, I will love you
As long as I live, from this moment on

The Good Stuff


Feb 2, 2018

Ikea opened July 27, 2011 in Denver. We shop and buy often. Feels good every time. Remember repurposing a child’s tunnel and attached tent for a cat toy. Milo, our pudder, really has me trained. I’d chase him around and he’d dash into the tunnel, then I’d run off and he’d give chase.

Our favorite entrance to Ikea is the top parking lot near the checkout exit – its closest to the clearance area. Amazing what you find when you start looking.

Ma’s left knee finally got a walk-about toy and we played once with one of their roll-about toys. Ma really didn’t like being dependent on someone to push around the toy – definitely prefers an electric toy. Got one at the State Fair that would do wheelies and was really fast – Ma loved it…!

5 Foot 9 – Tyler Hubbard

… Jack makes good whiskey, yeah
Red dirt makes good ridin’ roads
Country makes good music
For kickin’ up dust in a tail light glow

… Dry wood makes good fires
Goodyears make good swings
All that’s all good but for me

… God makes five foot nine, brown eyes, and a sundress
Loves Tim McGraw and a small town accent
Ain’t no way that me and this truck made her fall in love
Jack makes good whiskey but God makes the good stuff
Oh, God makes the good stuff

… Like that sweet little kiss she lays on me
When I pull up in the gravel drive
The way she dances with the raindrops
Like she’s the reason why they fall from the sky
And I thank Him every time I close my eyes

… God makes five foot nine, brown eyes, and a sundress
Loves Tim McGraw and a small town accent
Ain’t no way that me and this truck made her fall in love
Jack makes good whiskey but God makes the good stuff

… God made her so I will make sure
He didn’t waste an angel on me

… When he made five foot nine, brown eyes, and a sundress
Loves Tim McGraw and a small town accent
Ain’t no way that me and this truck made her fall in love
Jack makes good whiskey but God makes the good stuff

… Five foot nine, brown eyes, and a sundress
Loves Tim McGraw and a small town accent
Ain’t no way that me and this truck made her fall in love
Jack makes good whiskey but God makes the good stuff (oh)

… Yeah, God makes the good stuff
Yeah, God makes the good stuff (oh)
Whoa

In Case You Didn’t Know


April 22, 2019 – tomorrow is our 50th Anniversary 

Day before our wedding in 1969, we are in Las Vegas with family. Letter from Mom in hand giving permission at my tender age of 18 + 9 months. Must have to be 21 in Nevada to get married…hmm… My so much better half is 24 in August.

Forecast then that we’d be taking photos with family in our 3rd new home, which is now 21 years older. Of course, we lost count of how many times we moved around in our youth. Just for grins, we counted (was it 27 or 47) moving events in California. Ants in our pants doesn’t explain why we liked to touch all our stuff so often. Went from carloads to truckloads. Never, ever want to touch all our stuff again. After being touched by the end of time, wonder if got junk will bother. Easier to bulldoze it down and start over than pick through all that stuff. Ma and I thought about going through all of it during a future winter in our old age.

We had many candidates for “our song”, but five years later, I dedicated a song for Jenf by Joe Cocker – You are so Beautiful.! Takes me away, looking at Ma’s photo. Damn Ma… death is so… permanent…!!!

Brett Young: In Case You Didn’t Know

I can’t count the times
I almost said what’s on my mind
But I didn’t
And just the other day
I wrote down all the things I’d say
But I couldn’t
I just couldn’t

Baby, I know that you’ve been wonderin’
Mm, so here goes nothin’

In case you didn’t know
Baby, I’m crazy ’bout you
And I would be lyin’ if I said
That I could live this life without you
Even though
I don’t tell you all the time
You had my heart a long, long time ago
In case you didn’t know

The way you look tonight
That second glass of wine
That did it
Mm
There was somethin’ ’bout that kiss
Girl, it did me in
Got me thinkin’
I’m thinkin’

One of the things that I’ve been feelin’
Mm, it’s time you hear ’em

In case you didn’t know
Baby, I’m crazy ’bout you
And I would be lyin’ if I said
That I could live this life without you
Even though
I don’t tell you all the time
You had my heart a long, long time ago
In case you didn’t know

You got all of me
I belong to you
Yeah, you’re my everything

In case you didn’t know
I’m crazy ’bout you
I would be lyin’ if I said
That I could live this life without you
Even though
I don’t tell you all the time
You had my heart a long, long time ago
Yeah, you had my heart a long, long time ago
Mm
In case you didn’t know
No, no
In case you didn’t know