Memorial Day 2008

Today is Memorial Day and I was reflecting on my Father. He was fiercely proud of his time in the Navy during WWII. I loved to hear him tell his “War Stories” when I was a child. I used to climb up into his big chair with him and coax him to tell about this one or that one - even though I’d hear them all many times before. He was a great story teller.

He was on a ship in the Pacific for most of his time in the Navy. He told of an instance when their ship caught fire when in a large convoy. The entire convoy couldn’t stop for one ship and so they were left to put out the fire and try to get back to port as the rest of the ships sailed on to their destination. His ship was lost for 6 month at sea and my mother didn’t know where he was or what had happened to him during that time. He later told of how they battled the fire on the ship and worked to make repairs so they could get back to safety before they were spotted by the enemy and destroyed.

He also told me of the time he woke up in a morgue with a tag on his toe because they had thought he was dead. I never did get the entire story to this one, but I believe it had something to do with shore leave and getting hit on the head or something. I’m not sure if he knew the entire story himself – and he even if he did, he never told all of the details to his little daughter.

My Children

Look at the beautiful people that are my own sweet children. I plan on using this blog to earn a little side cash by NOT publishing really embarrasing Pictures of them at 'Family get together's' if they pay me enough. :)



I also have a fantastic husband that should be worth a little cash, too, in the blackmail department. Well, not really, he would be far more daring than I'll get on this blog.

Anyway, tomorrow is my birthday and I will be very, very old. But who cares. Life is good. My eldest son has already called me today to wish me happy birthday!

My first POST on my new Blog

This is my first attempt at setting up my own blog. I decided that if the rest of the world can blog - I can do it, too....

I intend to use this blog to explore the world of "Razzleberry" as it is - real and/or perceived by me. Which is another way of saying that I will make up a lot of it as I go along. However, I'll try to make it entertaining for my vast readership.

I've even learned how to add pictures and stuff.

Stay tuned for further developments.