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Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?
Chorus:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp!
And surely I'll be mine!
And we'll take a cup o' kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

We twa hae run about the braes
And pou'd the gowans fine.
We've wandered mony a weary foot,
Sin' auld lang syne.

We twa hae sported i' the burn,
From morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid hae roared
Sin' auld lang syne.

And ther's a hand, my trusty friend,
And gie's a hand o' thine;
We'll tak' a right good willie-waught,,
For auld lang syne.




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Granddaughter meets Bernie and Dick

My Granddaughter and Dick and Bernie have been communicating on the comment section of this blog.

Bernie has a friend who has a son on STS -126. That's space jargon. Her friend, Jeanne, says that her son-in-law is Don Pettit. My granddaughter does not Don herself but it turns out that Don is indeed a mission specialist for the STS -126 mission to station next September. My Granddaughter would hope that Don knows My Granddaughter's friend, Heidi, who is also scheduled for that mission

It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all.

My Granddaughter is touring the Johnson space center during her college break.She hopes to be invited the the spash down party when Peggy Whitson returns from the space station.

Roger Nelson-reply-3

Roger- Thank you for sharing the article about the Fort Apache student graduating from Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota. I'm sure that he will have a great deal of influence on his people as he returns to the reservation. Sometimes, however, they find it hard to return as some of the people regard them as outsiders. I'm sure that this young man will surmount those barriers.

If you will look to replys one and two to Roger Nelson you will see the influence that I once perhaps had on a young Navajo student. It is a tragic tale.

At end of each semester I had each student write an asessment of my class with the promise that I would not look them over until their grades were safely in their hands and believe me some students really unloaded on me..

Louise Benally wrote this report and several days later she was driving on icy reservation roads and she and her Mother and her two year old daughter were killed instantly. She was also pregant at the time. As you can see, the yearbook was dedicated to her memory.

The Navajo people do not talk about their dead but I felt compelled to send a copy of her report to her surviving relatives.

Roger, I remember a long time ago in talking with your father about a Valley Springs student who had put in his yearbook that only the good die young so he wasn't worried about death but his was then killed in a pheasant hunting accident.

Maybe he was right.

Roger Nelson-reply-2

Roger Nelson reply-1

Bernie and Dick meet My Granddaughter

I enjoy reading the comment section more than I enjoy reading my blog.

It's a small word after all!!!!

My Granddaughter in her spare time is a MG enthusiast

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Bernie & Dick

Your comments of December 15th were answered in real time- see comment # 3- It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all.-
Glenn

FAMILY TREE

A couple of months ago I asked Randy to scan some recopied geneolgy records and they would not scan well. He had some people he knew that had created a family tree website named geni.

The site provides the tree for you to build on and offers the possibilty of entering pictures and comments. He sat down and put on 431 pictures and let me identify some of the people that he didn't know. Now Randy is an Hewlitt-Packard executive and even so devoted a great deal of time to set the system up. He also created a letter to send to the invited relatives that would help them walk through the process. I insisted that he be identified in the letter that we sent for other wise my relatives would think that I know what I'm doing.

Latter in the day we went to CU in Boulder to visit his daughter. He asked her if she wanted to enter some pictures and in the twinkle of an eye she had entered 20. She had never seen the site before and -bingo- she had contributed.

I might add that it is her brother, Court, who created this site for me and to whom I'm iternally grateful. By the way he added several pictures also.

Then Dan became interested and he contributed pictures and was excited enough to include in thier Christmas letter a flyer inviting other relatives to join.

My grandparents on my father's side lived in Norway and passed away during WWII. After the war, and aunt and two cousins came over from Norway and the aunt stayed with my Mother for a period of time. In the 80's some of my relations came over to visit their cousins and aunt and they ended up in South Dakota. I had visited them when I went to Norway and they wanted to come to Colorado. We were quite surprised when the arrived in a stretched Dodge van and there were twenty Norwegians in Dodge. We had a motel at that time and we put them all up there for a week or so.

Well, fast forward some twenty plus years and I've learned that one of the cousins in Norway, Nels Norman, has e-mail so I will be able to invite him to the tree and may be able to get great grandparents and other added to the tree.

I'm interested to know more about the name Norman because the first born of my parents was named Norman also. He died in infancy.

I have been neglecting my blog time a little but we now have over 259 entered on our family tree.

THANK YOU- RANDY-THANK YOU -COURT.

to you and you and you!

This selection has touched me and those I call a friend.

Jesus Christ: One Solitary Life"
This is a popular poem about the life of Jesus Christ. Although the author is frequently cited as "unknown" the poem is actually attributed to James Allen Francis.He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant. He grew up in another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was 30. Then, for three years, he was an itinerant preacher.He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a home. He didn't go to college. He never lived in a big city. He never traveled 200 miles from the place where he was born. He did none of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but himself.He was only 33 when the tide of public opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. One of them denied him. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While he was dying, his executioners gambled for his garments, the only property he had on earth. When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave, through the pity of a friend.Twenty centuries have come and gone, and today he is the central figure of the human race. I am well within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned--put together--have not affected the life of man on this earth as much as that one, solitary life.**Attributed to James Allen Francis.

ONE SOLITARY LIFE

Glenn Miller's Ballroom

Yes, I drove by it yesterday at the University of Colordado. I was in it once when Court was being presented with an award. And as we drove by the business school Randy informed me that Court was back in Colorado for thanksgiving and the business school invited him to give a presentation to a special business event. That's awfully inpressive for a graduate that has only been out of school for 18 months. I noticed that the big wave surfers are gathering at Half Moon Bay in California and I suspect that Court may be there also.
I visited My Granddaughter at CU and she is always at the library when it opens. College students usually sleep till noon and as she is doing graduate research as and undergraduate they have created a cove complete with window and couch for her; it's called My Granddaughter Cove.
You can not tour the inside the Johnson Space Center unless you know an astronaut personally.
My Granddaughter will be touring the center next week. She knows several that she worked with as an intern at the underwater training center in Florida.
I stayed with Randy and Ellen in Ft. Collins and was able to have lunch and visit with Ramona, Greg and Lisa and the boys. My stay was controlled by the storms we saw gathering in the Mt.s of Colorado so I left for home on Thursday stopping to see My Granddaughter at Boulder and then continuing to Alburquere (sp.) that evening. I avoided the storm and only encountered rain from Winslow to Phoenix. 993 miles portal to portal.