Halloween

Halloween is a fun time of the year and those who take the time to be creative have the most fun.

I remember one Halloween that I was a senior in high school and there was a group of us that always got together to have parties. We had planed one for Halloween night but the person where we were going to have it at broke her arm and said she couldn’t do the party.

I liked this girl and said I would have it at my house but I didn’t have a clue on what to do. After talking with a couple of friends they wanted to see a haunted house.

I know I have a creative mind so I put it to work with the help of my cousin and my sister.

This is how it went the house we lived in was a fixer up and so the walls weren’t you saw the studs and the only thing that looked friendly was the nice cozy warm fire that I had in the fireplace. And that’s where it started there. I had one person kind of hiding on top of the refrigerator. He had a stick with a couple of strings hanging from it. Oh I forgot that they had to walk with a candle and only got 3 matches. The windows where open and it was ready to storm outside and the wind could blow out the candle.

Anyway the person on top of the icebox when they walked through the door would drop the stick so that the strings would go across there head, as they would pass the kitchen table someone had a cardboard tube the kind that you get from the inside of a roll of a paper towel. And would smack them in the in the shin which didn’t hurt. Then I had someone hiding on a shelf above the other kitchen door with a real long rubber glove that was filled with water and it would float over and open that door.

Now you went in to the back porch it was closed off the windows where open. And you would walk down 3 steps to the porch but wait the steps you walked down was just a temporary set up so you could see through them. And someone was hiding underneath the steps and when someone walked down the steps a hand would come out and just touch the ankle. That made everyone jump. By then they would have used all there matches and then you would go down more steps to the basement where I had a small light that looked like it was floating. But before they went down the steps my sisters bed room was above the back porch and there was a couple of big cracks in the boards and someone was up there with an eyedropper and would drop a few drops on there head. But going down stairs you could hear some heavy breathing. When you got down to the bottom I had gotten some appliance boxes so people had to get down on their hands and knees and craw through them.

But I had a couple of holes in the boxes so when people pass through the boxes a hand would reach in and touch someone in the rigs. The red light at the end was just visible and as they got closer to the light someone with a scary mask would jump out and that was the end of the haunted house.

But for some reason even though I lived in a small town and there were only 15 in our group but at least 100 people if not more went through our haunted house.

At that time I was in a rock group and they came to help and after everyone had gone through the group played for about 1 ½ hours to finish off the party but I did ask for help from the group. We had hot chocolate, bobbing for apples, not to much candy, plenty of homemade root beer, and hot scones. And a lot where dancing to the music we played.

  The next day at school several people came up to me and told me that was the best Halloween party that has ever been put on in our town of 3,000 people. Even an article in the local paper had mentioned my party.

I had only lived in that town for 3 months and I guess I made a big splash. The next year several parents donated both items and money to do another hunted house. Ill tell that one another time

You wonder what going to happen next to you. Well god is the only one that can tell you and he’s not talking. I know all of us have wished we could turn the clock back 24 yours and fix what ever happened so that nothing will every be bad

In my physical condition I don’t know from one minute to the next what will happen. But I can tell you that I think that if we where able to go back in time we would be living in the past and no one would ever learn anything.

There would be so many changes that everyone would be poping in and out of time which would have a cause and effect. Besides it’s the way that people are that shapes our lives as they say you have to have the bitter to know what the sweet is.

I know that everyone that I have ever met has influenced me some good, some not so good. Everyone teaches you something and you have the choice to either reject it or except it. I mean you see someone cheat someone else you learn one way how to cheat someone and you know what the other person will fill like when they find out that they have been cheated. But the best things you have learned are you know how someone cheated another person and you will not let that happen to you.

I was born and raised in L.A. Calif. And I was in a school that was mixed. It didn’t bother me as long as there was no trouble. But there where several times when I would see someone try to scam someone else and I would go to the people and tell them I wouldn’t do it because you will never see your money or whatever they trying to get from you.

It didn’t mater what the race was on either side I would tell them what I thought. I got cornered a couple of times until I learned a technique that would put someone into the hospital. I had to use it only once and then I went to the principal office and told him what I did and that I was protecting my self. If it hadn’t been for the other person having been in a lot of trouble already they would have suspended me and not the other guy. In my last year in Calif. I did carry a straight razor with me but I never had to use it, but it was there in case.

So what you do in this life reflects mostly on you children and grandchildren because they look up to you and it will be up to you how they turn out in life.

A man in love

When I was young there where words that I though where girlish. Like love, pretty, how sweet, and other words I just can’t count them all. When a girl started saying those words I wanted to turn and run or lose my lunch.

I didn’t have a relationship with my dad that I could talk to him about things. I was there to learn what he wanted to teach which was called slave labor because dad would always be working on a house. He would find a cheep one and then rebuild it. So my brother and I had to work on these houses with my dad and of course it was all the jobs that my dad didn’t want to do. When I didn’t want to learn something my dad would lay a guilt trip on me. So many times I would miss things like going out to the moves with cousins so that I could learn. My dad never got a high school diploma but he did go to a barber collage but they only taught how to cut hair. But that was before I was born.

Dad wanted his kids to get an education and go from there. He was in the CB’s during WW II. And when he got back he got married to my mom.

When I started dating I still had problems with those words and so I would try and change the topic. And being a guy I didn’t know how to talk so I would tell about a movie and if my date saw the move then we would talk about parts of the movie.

Then I got to the part when I found out what dating was really for according to the other guy. But I soon found that most girls didn’t think that way so now I was confused and my dad was no help. He married his first girl friend so he had no experience. Dad would tell me things that he didn’t want me to do on dates.

Is just so happened that I have a cousin that about a week and a half younger than me and I learned a lot of things from him. But there were still some holes that couldn’t be learned and that I would have to go by hit and guess.

So I went out with some girls to learn what I was missing. Boy they tough me several things but I was to scared to try them out.

When dad heard about the girls I had dated he was about ready to lock me up or chain to the tree. But mom just told me that I couldn’t use the car for 2 weeks.

I was a drummer in a band and played for a lot of the dances in the area. So I wouldn’t have a date those nights but I did get a few phone numbers at every dance.

I think the main reason that I played for the dances was so I didn’t have to work with me dad. I had gotten engaged and that lasted about for months and then I asked her if my ring would be to heave to ware. And then she said I can’t marry you we are to different types of people. I didn’t know what that really meant so I just left and never saw her again. I was going into the army and she said she could never marry a guy in uniform. A few years later in Germany I ran into her and she was married to a guy in uniform. But I had gotten married four months after we broke it off.

I met my wife at my sisters and her brothers wedding. I was going into the army in a week and I asked her if I could write to her and she said ok.

I had a Christmas brake from basic training and came back to see her. And she wasn’t living at home just a couple of miles away and her and her room mate didn’t have any transportation and so I said would you like to use my car while I finish out basic training she said she yes. So I had her name put on my insurance.

A week later I got a call from her someone had broken into my car and stole my 8 track tape player. She was so worried that I would scream and holler at her. But all I said was that’s ok I was planning to get rid of it anyway. Then she said do you remember last week how I felt about you. I said yes and you told me that I was a nice guy and didn’t mind going out with me.

She then said I kind of feel deeply about you. I wasn’t sure what to say so we talked until my change was gone which was only about a minute.

That night I though about it over and over at what she had said and the next day it finally hit me so that night I had gotten some change and I called her up and we talked for a minute and then the operator said I had to put more money in to keep talking and I didn’t have any more so I asked her if we could make it a collect call my future wife said yes. So now I was calling her collect.

I said you know last night when you said you felt deeply about me it didn’t sink in till today and there is something I want to ask you but I have been burned before.

She said you can ask me anything and I’ll tell you. So I asked her a couple of questions and then I finally said what if I was to ask you to marry me what would you say. She said I would       except. Now I was frustrated and I said except for what do you have a boyfriend is there someone you are waiting for or what.

Then she said I would     except. Now I was going nuts what was she saying, so then I said except for what.

And then she put it all together and said I would accept. Then I said will you marry me. And she said yes. That is another of the English language problems we have.

But so far I haven’t found anyone that has asked for a girls hand in marriage from basic and over the phone and it was collect.

After I was married those girlish words weren’t girlish words any more and I understood them.

It’s a funny thing we have with laws in this day and age. It seems that even state congress passes hundreds of laws each year. And the thing is most of the laws has an add on to it and it has nothing to do with what the bill was really for. And some bills need to be taken off the books. Why do we let them do this? Most people will say I am in the land of the free. Well this land is any thing but free. Now I do understand that the government needs to be paid and the roads need to be repaired. But why are we doing an overkill on our roads several streets have been dug up every year for this reason or that reason. Why can’t they dig it up once and do everything all at once. So what if we need to use other roads for one summer. Just get it all done at once and plan on new houses. Now I have worked for many years as a repair technician. And the one thing we had to do was when we repaired something we had to look and see what else it needed and then that way it would stop another service call.

Laws are made to help us and not to line people’s pockets. I think that an add on should be allowed if it has nothing to do with the bill. We should also not allow add on after a month before it goes to the floor. Bills are passed every year and then the next year a counter bill is passed.

Why do we pay for a large staff for each congressman when he or she can get everything done with a hand full. But the thing is, is that some one has a brother, son, or even a cousin that needs a job. Then you have the lobbyist that try and get things threw to pocket money.

It’s just a big waist of money and time.

Most of the congressmen have something to do with land or development or even homes so they are going to pass things that will give them more money. Next thing they are going to do is create a committee to check on over spending. I was in the army for 8 years and the tools that we got did not cost what the government said it did, like $4. For one hex head screw. Something is really wrong with the laws that are passed today. Laws that make some people not do things and other laws that make people do thing,

If I had an island I would name it and then declare it separated from all other governments. And the only laws that would need to be passed had to come from the bible.

you wouldn't believe it even if I told you

going through all those years of school my worst subject english because I didn't under stand how to devide a sentence in to its parts. or even what words ment. I was a poor reader and I couldn't spell except my name and I was desten to be a Dr. because I had the hand writing of a Dr. and at an early age and it stays with me today. if it wasn't for computers and spell check I wouldn't be writing my journals or stories. I know I use the computer as a cruch but at least I amit it and it does help. as my wife says you just have all these stories in you and are begging to come out.

I day dreamed a lot when I was younger about all kinds of things and now by changing around a little and add names and places and then I started to write. my first story and I would have my wife read it and then she would tell me what I needed to do to make it sound right. my first story was a book, and it went every which way but the right way.

but I found that the more I read it the more things I would change. I finally finished it but in these days no one had time to read it. but its on my computer and I figure that when I die people will find the time to read them to know what I was like in life. maybe then people will enjoy my writings.

Dee

How many times have you seen a car with dark windows so dark that you would sware was being driven by casper the friendy ghost, or the devil himself.  That would explain a lot of things but what my worst fears are is that its people that are doing things that are either going to hurt someone or some secret service thats on some sceam to hide the truth from the rest of us. I read a story about a man who had dark windows on his car he stoped at a light and had a heart atack cars behind him where honking and finally drove around him finally after 30 minutes a police officer finally stopped to check it out. he couldn't see inside and with all the kids that want to go joy rideing he figured that thats what had happened. so he called the tow truck that took about 20 minutes to get there. only after the tow truck went to pull the car up onto the flat bed when the man had slumped over and his head hit the horn. the officer told the tow truck driver to smash the side window. it was said that the man had been dead for about 10 minutes. yes you think it servied the guy right and that he died because he wanted dark windows. but at the same time who was it that allowed the cars to have dark windows for the front of a car. people would have seen that there was a man in the car and that there was a problem. a lot of accidents have caused by cars with dark windows. the block the view of people driving in the other lane. I can understand having the back windows dark glass for some privacy.

is it really nessary for so many cars to have dark windows?

Dee

Saying Good Buy

You know it’s really hard to say good-buy to a loved one or a dear friend. My wife says that she is going before I do that way she can find out all the things that I did that she didn’t know about. I just tell her that she will be really disappointed.

I found early in life that I can not go to viewings of loved ones. I may know that they had been sick for a long time and I can visit them in the hospital and I am ok with that. But what bothers me is if I see someone in a coffin that image is something that I don’t forget. So when I go somewhere, and see a picture of someone who has passed away I remember things that the person did. And it makes me feel that that person is still around. And then a flash of the viewing pops up and I loose all good memories of that person. I will go to funerals and that doesn’t bother me.

My father-in-law and I was really close and when he died I wasn’t going to go to the viewing but my wife talked to me and I told her I would go just to support her. But I didn’t go looking in the coffin. My wife told me that I should have said good-by to him and now I will never be able to do it.

I tried to explain that to me wife but she though it was all in my head. I told her she was right it is all in my head and I would rather remember the times we had together rather than remember him in a coffin. Now when I go to my mother-in-law’s I go down to his room where he had his computer. He was big on genealogy and he would scan pictures of those in his and his wife’s family that had already passed away. It wasn’t small pictures he had to blow them up to an 8X10 photo paper. He also had pictures of vacations they went on and all of his children, grandchildren, and his great grandchildren. And then he plastered them all over the walls in his room. You couldn’t see the paint on the walls because there where so many pictures.

But when I go down to his room I can feel his presents there and it’s as though he was in there because I would play games lots of times on his computer. He didn’t care because he trusted me and when he had problems he would call me for help if I had the answer I would walk him through the problem and get him to fix it. If I didn’t know I would search the web for the answer and get back to him.

But sense I didn’t see him in the coffin I was able help and support my wife. She did have a ruff time of it but by leaning on me we got threw it and we didn’t have any mental problems.

I even stepped in and was the mediator on what was to be done with his stuff. All of his children and his wife had different ideas in their minds on what was to be done with his stuff.

I just suggested leaving everything where it is for now and in a few months they could talk about it more. After a few months they decided to leave his stuff right where it was and remember the good things about their father and husband.

 I know when we lost two children to SIDS and they where less than 6 months old. My wife and I where emotionally at the bottom, and I had a harder time of it than my wife, and had to see a shrink and get meds for it. We couldn’t go into the baby’s room and do anything with it for 4 months. So I knew this was the best idea was to leave everything where it was.

When my grandmother passed away I didn’t look in the coffin and to this day I remember so many stories about her and was never bothered about seeing her in her coffin. I even acted as pall bearer and that didn’t bother me as well.

I guess I found other ways to say good buy.

When I was young I use to do all kinds of things but most of all I was a fish in water. I was a strong swimmer and could hold my breath a long time. I remember watching the program Sea Hunt and I wanted to learn how to skin dive. Well I got my chance in the army. they where looking for someone to do search and rescue and I steped fowared. They tought us all kind of things and I got my first call but all it was, was someone didn't close the hook on the back of a truck and they hit a bump while going on a field excresize. the big gun that was on wheels un hooked but someone didnt put the safty chain on the truck. So it rooled off the road and went down a long slope and into a small lake.

I had to attache a rope threw the hitch which was a big ring and then a cable would tied to the rope and then I was to go down and attach the cable to the ring. Then it was pulled up. I was told that the big gun hit a couple of bumps and it went head over heals a few times. I wasn't suprised to see a lot of damage.

Two months later I was transfered to germany and theydidn't need a search and rescue so I just went back to fixing electronics. I also found out the all my training I couldnt use to be cirtifide so when I got out of the army I found some one that would use all my training so I could get a license to dive on my own.

I felt the I was one of those people that was ment to be in water.

Fifteen years ago when i had my heart atack I was told that I couldn't go diving any more alone. I tried to find someone to go diving with me but it just didn't work so I had to give it up. but I still go to the pool when I can.

but most the time there are a bunch of kids and parents wondered if I was a pervert and a couple of times I was asked to leave. So I had to go with my wife and nothing was ever said. but I was able to teach my two girls how to swim but they done have the pasion that I have for the water.   

yesterday a really good frind of ours was murdered by an ex boyfriend 

hae was married to her once but the marrage was anoled but the last 2 weeks it looked like they might get back together. then he went nuts hes started fighting with the womens 14 year old daughter he had a knife with him the mother stepted in to protect her daughter.

the daughter ran next door and used their phone to call 911.

she was stabed several times and was pronanced dead at the seen.

she lived about 8 houses to the west and her ex boy friend lived about 6 houses to the south of us. the found him sitting in his front yard just waiting for the police to come and get him.

the mother was always doing volenteer work both in church and school and was liked by everyone. the man was well liked as well but no one knew what had happened the man broke in to the house and a mother did what what any mother of a 14 year old daughter. everyone was shocked when they fond out.

the mother was a single parent

it turns out that he was jelious because she had broken off the relationship and started seeing some one else.

the word is that he is just sitting in his cell and crying all the time.

many local TV and news papers have been doing interviews but I wish to not give any comments because I wwould rather stay nutural. and what could I say that would help.

I Promise

By Dee

Jason and Eric where both 7 years old and the best of friends but the big difference was, that Jason lived in a house with his parents. Eric was an orphan he lived out of a shack at the railroad yard.

Eric didn’t go to school because if any one ever found out that he was an orphan they would put him in an orphanage. He had heard a lot of bad things about orphanages from some of the other guys that used the railroad to get from one place to another. Those guys where called hoboes.

Eric had learned a lot from the hoboes and Eric had been on his own for a year.

But Jason and Eric where best friends and where together except when Jason would go to school or to bed. After school Jason would go to a special place to meet with Eric. There Jason would tell Eric everything he had learned in school that day. He would help him to learn to read and do arithmetic. Eric was a fast learner and so he would get an education.

One time Jason asked Eric to show him where he lived. So Eric took Jason to the railroad yard. Eric told Jason never come here alone because it was very dangerous and Jason could be hurt or even killed. Eric made Jason promise to never to come here with out any one.  Then Eric said I would do anything for you if you where in trouble I would even die for you. Jason said the same thing to Eric so they spit in there hand and shook on it.

In two days it would be Thanksgiving and Jason wanted Eric to come to his house for the biggest dinner he had ever seen.

Eric knew about Thanksgiving but he had never eaten a dinner like what Jason had described.

So that night Jason asked his parents if Eric could come for dinner on Thanksgiving. Both his mom and dad said, no. Because they said that boys like that take what ever they want and never give it back and they would even hurt you if you didn’t give them something.

Jason said Eric isn’t like that he’s a good kid, but his parents still said no. That upset Jason and he went to his room and stayed there for the rest of the night.

The next morning Jason talked to his parents again this time he did it in a different way. He said, mom, dad I know you said no last night but what do you think Thanksgiving is really about? And what about Christmas what would Jesus do in a situation like this.

Jason knew he had hit the right string because of the looks on his parent’s faces. Finally they said ok but he will have to wash up before he sits down to eat here.

Jason was so excited that he couldn’t wait to tell him but he had to go to school first. By the time school was out he raced to there special place to tell Eric the good news.

Eric said, that would be nice but I met a hobo here and he wants to show me the ways of a hobo and he want to leave tomorrow night.

Jason said, you can’t go tomorrow night thanksgiving is the next day.

Eric said well this guy says that rich people only treat you like dirt and if you look at them wrong they call the police.

Jason said, Eric you don’t have to be afraid of my parents they are really nice.

Eric said, I’ll think about it.

Jason didn’t feel like teaching that day and Eric didn’t feel like learning that day so they just played.

The next day Jason prayed that Eric would stay and he hoped that, that hobo wouldn’t go tonight.

Jason’s mom picked him up from school that day she said, she needed help on getting the food for the next day. Jason didn’t want his mom to know that Eric might not be there the next day.

Jason said, I need to see Eric to check on something. But his mother said she really needed his help and that if its still light when we get home you can go see Eric. Jason sighed and said, O K.

They went to a couple of stores and it was getting late. But when they got home he bolted out of the car and headed for the special place. Would Eric be there of would he have gone with the hobo?

When Jason got there Eric wasn’t there. But Jason had to find out what Eric was going to do. So he went to the railroad yard it was getting dusk and the night would follow soon. Jason remembered the promise that he made to Eric but he had to know. There where several tracks that he had to cross and he knew he had to be careful.

About half way across Jason slipped and his foot got jammed under one of the rails. He couldn’t get it out. He tugged and pulled with every thing he had, but it was jammed. Jason started holler for help and then he saw it. A train was coming he hollered as loud as he could. Just then he saw someone, it was Eric.

The train was getting close but Eric got there first. He helped tug and pull and still couldn’t get Jason's foot out. Eric got on the other side to the rail and kicked Jason's foot and it moved. The train was almost on them and so Eric went to help pull. With a couple of tugs Jason was free.

But in the process Eric had lost his footing and fell and his legs where across the track. But it was to late the train was there.

In the hospital that night Jason and his parents where standing by Eric’s bed he was just barely conscious. The doctor said they did every thing they could but there was too much damage and Eric didn’t have much too much time.

Eric opened his eyes and he saw Jason and his parents. Eric said, you have nice parents and you have a nice warm home. And it’s O K I told you I would do anything for you even die for you… even diiieee foooorr youuuuu. With that he closed his eyes for the last time.