A Place of Reflections

Trip to Lambeau, October 16, 2011  Part III  ~ originally written for Packer HQ October 20, 2011 by me. * * * It's Thursday & time to wrap this one up! I see  @SenorMalcolm  on twitter has asked if my seats were good seats (50 yd line) ~ it's far easier to answer here than there. Yes, Malcolm center of the field 50 yd line tickets give you a perfect straight on view of the entire field (left to right or in Lambeau, North to South) including both end zones. Section 120 is the Packers home sideline, so in addition to the field, you get to see your players, identify the backside of Coach MM by the red flag hanging out his right rear pocket & where he is at on the field on any given play if you so desire. Have the opportunity to see others in the Packers organization, the doctors, the position coaches, the trainers & I got to even see Mark Murphy. Directly across the field at the opponents sideline at the 50 yd line is Section 119 ~ using my binocular...

Trip to Lambeau October 16, 2011 Part II  ~ originally written by me on October 19, 2011 for Packer HQ * * * I'm inside Lambeau! The lady electronically validates my ticket, I stop at a rail to re-adjust myself & get my eyes used to the darkness. I see a stack of this little seats with the backs that can be rented for $7. I've brought my own cushion. I have to remember to tell Sandra Pekez who is flying in from Australia these are available, because depending on temperature, frost or snow the stadium metal seating benches without a seat like this are gonna be even colder. She's coming in November & I'm so ashamed, I forgotten to ask her if she is going to the Monday Night Vikings game or the Sunday noon Bucs game or if she is blessed to go to both games. I move farther in & start circling around reading signs to decide which route I shall take. I decide to walk up the ramps to level 3 & enter the bowl of Lambeau & take in the view from the ...

Trip to Lambeau October 16th, 2011 Part I ~ originally written by me on October 18, 2011 for Packer HQ "I can't believe this is happening to me, I'm going to Lambeau for a noon Sunday game". Only 4 days away from 9 years since my last Lambeau home game.  While I can't hardly believe it, the first thing is prepare to go, make a plan. My daughter helps me search the Packers.com website for those things that are prohibited to bring. I decide our camera needs to stay home because it makes videos (things that make videos are prohibited). I realized how foolish this was after I got settled in the stadium & saw so many folks with cameras & phones that both take pictures & videos, and in fact pitching in to take family pictures for some of them. My daughter teases me that I can only buy two beers at a time & all beer sales stop at the beginning of the 4th quarter. She's got that 'way wicked' grin on her face because she knows I don't...

WHO:   The Aviators Club  on twitter WHAT and WHY:  will be flying it's quarterly tribute (memorial) mission to honor pets and anipals both known and unknown who've have gone OTRB   <---- O ver T he R ainbow B ridge in the past three months. WHEN:   It is scheduled for Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 1:00 PM EST ~ (which is 12 NOON Wisconsin time). HOW:   If you would like the name of your departed pet called out in tribute during this flight please feel free to contact any one of these folks: The Aviators Club @TheAviatorsClub   Dear Clyde @DearClyde Shelly @Shelly338  <----  Shelly is the team leader for this mission Twitelien @Twitelien * * * Australia and New Zealand Quarterly Tribute Mission Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 7:00 PM AEST (Brisbane Time) Mouche Cat @clingycat   is the team leader for the Australia and New Zealand mission * * * Recent Aviators  Taz, Daisy and Budd...

Blackie was my first dog.  Actually he was a 'family dog'.  I rather suspect he was initially chosen to give my two older brothers some responsibility in caring for something of their own and to act as a 'calming' influence to their own exuberant personalities. As my mama also had a brand new baby boy to care for, realistically Blackie became my mostly full time companion during my waking hours and my daytime babysitter. Blackie was my first dog. THE ESCAPE ARTIST ~ Family legends and lore say I made my first escape from my baby crib at age 9 months and made it several rooms away before I was discovered. This was pre-Blackie in our lives. With Blackie, another family legend says I was found a quarter of a mile down a fairly busy roadway making mud pies just off the shoulder of the road with Blackie lying on the shoulder of the road (facing me) curled (curved) like the top half of a full moon as his attempt to protec...

OlCracker ~ My next lifetime hubby @OlCracker   on twitter, not just a 'twaffair'  ~  Yes, I saw this pic, a tall man with striking facial bones, strongly sculpted arms ( guns, they call arms like that guns ), wearing a cowboy hat, holding a fine looking chicken. What's not to love about that?   Not being a completely  'shallow woman' affixed to a person by 'looks' only, his bio said he was an ASCAP songwriter. That intrigued me.  I've been putting song poems together since I was a teenager. Many of them were what was then called 'novelty' songs.  In early adulthood the music would come to me for some of the songs poems I was writing. Though I couldn't write the music down, I could at least sing how it was supposed to go. It was a creative outlet, it was fun. In my early adulthood, I had a very good time and some success with originating and selling some advertising jingles and donating one of my produced...

Twitter  blessings ----> THE AVIATORS  Wednesday, July 11, 2012 the biggest twitter blessing of the week came while I was helping  Taz , Daisy and Buddy @3DogsWhite  with their twitter account. They had received a tweet from  Lolly   @LollyMadonna   about a 'memorial flight' scheduled for 5:00 PM Eastern Time. I didn't understand what that was about.  Me and the doggies stumbled upon something beautiful. Right then it was 4:00 PM Wisconsin time which is 5:00 PM Eastern time. We found THE AVIATORS   (their twitter hashtag #theaviators).   We began to see tweets and retweets happening about a flight mission, a memorial flight for all departed pets and animals who went OTRB <---   Over The Rainbow Bridge and GTRB <---- Gone To Rainbow Bridge   ~  For those of you who do not know what the concept of The Rainbow Bridge is, here is the story. People who love their pets and anim...