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Feedback Friday & Welcome Home, Oliver!
I always enjoy getting feedback on blogs that I write and this week I got several interesting emails. In response to the blog that mentioned July 20, 1969, the day the United States put a man on the moon, Richard wrote:
On July 20, 1969, I had driven to Marshfield to pick up a ”blind date” who happened to be staying at her hair-dresser bosses’ house. The hair-dresser’s husband was watching the moon landing on TV and said (and I swear he was serious), “You know the guy who drives the spaceship around the moon waiting to pick up the guys who went down on the module? How does he keep from running into stars?” As a big-city boy, I launched into an explanation of how the sun was the closest star and it was well beyond the moon, so there were no stars where he was flying. This explanation was met with a very skeptical silence. Of course today, having many more years of accumulated knowledge, I’d just say, “Well, the dang thing has a steerin’ wheel, don’t it?”
The other thing that came to mind while I read your blog had to do with the fine of $5,000 for coming in contact with an Extraterrestrial…several years ago I read a small article in the Springfield paper about a guy who had been convicted of blasphemy in Iran. He was sentenced to death and a fine of $1,500. Okay, you can put me death, but I ain’t payin’ no fifteen hundred bucks!
Regarding yesterday's blog about General Eisenhower, Dave emailed:
I enjoyed your excerpts from the book by Kay Summersby. I have read excerpts of the book that were published in Life Magazine back in the mid 1970's but have not read the entire book. If you would be kind enough to lend it to me, I would greatly appreciate it.
Were you aware that the book was the basis for a mini-series made several years ago called "Ike" staring Robert Duval. I have the movie on VHS and may have a copy on DVD if you would be interested. It is actually a very good chronology of Ike's rise from a Colonel just prior to Pearl Harbor to the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. Let me know if you would be interested and
I will dig through my DVDs and Videos.
Thank you for sharing your blog with me. It is always interesting.
And in regard to the blog where I mentioned tax credits for biofuels, PeeWee wrote (in part):
Subject: You got Gas!
Boomer,
I'm not defending, but maybe I am. Everyone blames the ethanol and bio
diesel plants for the raising food prices and fuel prices. I feel this
is a bunch of hog wash. I think the whole thing is driven by the oil
companies. They feel it is a threat so they are driving up the fuel
costs and also buying up the corn and soybeans to drive up the prices.
PeeWee had more to say, but that will have to wait for another blog.
Thanks for the feedback! I genuinely love getting feedback from readers.
Don't forget that Sunday is Mother's Day. Congratulations to Nikki and Eric Schulte! Their newborn son, Oliver, arrived considerably ahead of schedule, but after spending the last three weeks in the hospital, he has progressed so well that, last report I got, he will get home just in time to give Nikki & Eric a very special Mother's Day indeed.
I'll close with a Mother's Day thought:
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
Have a great weekend!
email: aboomer@embarqmail.com
-- A. Boomer (May 8, 2008)
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