Monday's Missives

• My favorite song for most of 20 years now. It puts me in a good mood like no other song and is one of the few songs that I not only know every word- I sing along every time hear it.







• We saw a flock of turkeys (about 16) at Sunshine Lake this morning. We've seen flocks with as many as 3o birds in the past.







• A funny basic training flashback: after marching to the chow hall the platoon would call out in unison: Platoon guide, what's the order of chow? What is the order of chow? the platoon guide (another trainee with the responsibility of accounting for the rest of us goofs) would respond with, The order of chow is, 1,2,3,4, or 2,3,4,1 etc.- alternating by squads each day. We would all reply in unison and loudly, Drill Sergeant, the order of chow is 1,2,3,4. The order of chow is 1,2,3,4. Then for about ten seconds everybody would call out, Wooooooooooooooooooo and after building to a crescendo abruptly stop. Then, we'd call out, Door- maaaaaaaaaaaan. During the last part the last man in the last file would run to the front of the line and hold the door open and the drill instructor would call out, Enter! and we'd all file in.







• Funny.







• Maybe you had to be there.