Summer Check Up/In

 I don't post much these days...politics is boring, nothing is going to change, not for the better at least, regardless of who sits in the White House...although few could be worse that that Demented Son of a Bitch who is hiding in the Basement of our WH with his 3rd case of the phony COVID in the past couple of weeks...

Anyway Summer moves along, Patricia and I will head down to Brown County, Indiana, to our cabin retreat next week, we missed out last year, the first time in nearly a decade, so we will spend an extra day or two to make up this time around..

Grandson #2, Kam, was rewarded for his Baseball Skills this week at the Reds Camp he attended earlier this Summer...Kam won the 7/8 year old division at the Centerville Regional, then had to wait till early this week to see if he finished in the top 10 overall out of 17 camps and about 350 first and second graders...he did, coming in 10th place overall to slide into the Champions Competition at Great American Ball Park, following the Brewers/Reds game in Cincinnati on September 25th...needless to say he, his dad, my youngest son, and Old Grandpa are pretty happy...it's been a great summer for both the older grandsons ...in baseball, soccer, and swimming.

Other than those items, I have a few things in store, perhaps a Motorcycle Dual Sport run with Nick, we just have not decided where we will ride, perhaps the Ozarks, this time around. Buckeye Football at Northwestern with oldest son, Sam in early November, and a trip to Florida, to see a couple old friends, and perhaps do some fall fishing...although I have not set up a date or even month, for that.  And there is always the Kokomo Vietnam Reunion in Mid September...not sure how many days, I will stay, weather will tell me alot....

Speaking of Vietnam and old buddies...I've got to say a prayer for my old Dover AFB/Vietnam Buddy, Howie "Pritch"...seems his Agent Orange related cancer is getting worse and he will have to get more done, hopefully the VA will help out and give him the upgrade he needs...

Pritch, my and Patricia's Prayers are with you...

Photos-Pritch and me in 2012 meeting for the first time since we departed Dover Delaware AFB for Vietnam in 1969...the Brown County, Indiana, Cabin, Kam, the Grandson Swinging for the fences at 7 years old....and bottom photo {above} Jack Gates, Howie Pritchard, and PRH, at the Dayton Wright Patterson Reunion in 2016...the first time all 3 of us had been together since 1969, although I had seen Jack in Vietnam, in Saigon back in 1970, and Pritch at the aforementioned 2012 meeting when visiting my oldest son outside Chicago in 2012...

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