.....Yes, yes...I know; I've been delinquent. Last post was Dec.24...unacceptable. But, as happens once in awhile to everyone, I was under the weather, so to speak. I hadn't eaten anything for five days. While in the hospital, I definitely ate nothing...hospital food, yecch!
Actually, this will of necessity be very short. I'm still not ready to go blogging. We are expecting delivery of a new mattress on Saturday and I'll probably be sleeping on it for days. I've been sleeping on this one, now for about 20 years. This new sleeping thing will be a real treat. And...O' yes...I have to write a speech for the reunion celebration of the Class of '57. Fortunately, the reunion will be held here in W.Palm Beach...scheduled for Feb. 11. Hopefully, I'll be fully recovered from this malady by then.
.....So, my good friends, once more I wish all of you a very happy New Year. Now for my nap...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz or is it ZZZZZZZZZZ?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, dear Baron! Cuzzin Ruth
ReplyDeleteDoctor Ross!
ReplyDeleteHere's another student that you will not remember. My name is Carol Markel and I graduated from NSHS in 1962. Quite by a fluke, I discovered your blog. I live in New York City and I am an artist and I also make hats. I have also, for the past 6 six years, taken up French again and wish that I had paid more attention in Nancy Boyle's class. But I do love it. I write a blog too, should you have a moment to look at it. Knowledge is Power!
www.femmeetfleur.blogspot.com
Best Regards,
Carol Markel
Well, Another New Year's gift=Carol Markel. Although I don't quite remember her, it is of no matter...any NSHS student is welcome to my blog at any time. Check out her blog...it's much prettier than mine.
ReplyDeleteAny former NSHS student is always welcome to this blog!
ReplyDeleteBaron - So many young people want to partake of your wisdom! In Zorro shalt thou bring forth children.....er....sorry about that, but it was irresistible.
ReplyDeleteCarol - I will look at your blog, if that's OK, and if I take to it, YOU can become a Cuzzin too!!!
Love to all, Cuzzin Ruth
Hi all! I've just looked at Carol's blog, and it's really interesting. Such super photography - she has the eye of an artist, no doubt about that. Carol - you can be an honorary Cuzzin if you want. No pressure! Ruth
ReplyDeleteDear Doctor Ross and Cuzzin Ruth,
ReplyDeleteMany years ago, I was a counselor at the NSHS Nature Camp which was held at the Lutheran School for the Deaf in Mill Neck, LI. It was a beautiful estate, if I remember correctly, maybe 45 acres. The drive leading up to the house was lined with grand beech trees. Anyway, your daughter was a camper, and I sent her home one day with a message on the side of her lunch box. I think it said, Knowledge is Power. I have another memory of you, Doctor Ross. My grandmother, Sara, made me a beautiful red suit. I wore to it to school one day and you complimented me. I have never forgotten that moment.
Carol
P.S. My husband was a university professor and I know it's impossible to remember your students. You have had so many. Anyway, it does not matter. I remember you
cm
Hey, I went to that NSHS Nature Camp in 1962! It was great. Carol, perhaps you can send a photo to the Baron of how you looked when he knew you. He might then remember the face better than the name.
ReplyDeleteI wonder, Joel, if Carol mistook you as a girl. You were, after all, a beautiful child. I don't recall the nature camp.
ReplyDeleteOK, will do.
ReplyDeleteRobin: Your not remembering an event has very little to do with whether it happened or not. ;-)
ReplyDeleteChildren! Don't fight!
ReplyDeleteI have always thought that the American custom of sending ones children to summer camp extremely strange and cruel: but then, I was a
ReplyDeletesolitary-minded child, who just liked to read books. I'd have hated to be sent away to live with and close to other children for the summer. I have come to the conclusion that the main beneficiaries of the programme (sucks to Noah Webster!) are the parents, who get a long break from their offspring. I really did enjoy the movie in which the Addams Family's kids go to summer camp. Any thoughts anybody? Except that I don't want to hear how it would have DONE ME GOOD :-( Oh well, then, if you must....
I only had girls in my group at camp. I invented the wide game, where you followed compasses to a goal. We took hikes to Beaver Dam.
ReplyDeleteRuth: This was a day camp. The little tykes cames home at night.
Ruth: It is true that summer camp is a great benefit for parents, but most kids seem to enjoy it very much: all-day fun without parents, and surrounded by friends -- where is the cruelty of which you speak? In any case, the camp Carol refers to was not a "sleep-over" camp, but rather a "day-camp" (go in the morning; return home in the afternoon) that was devoted to studying Nature. I was able to name every type of tree in the forest before it was over. (Yes, Carol, I remember Mrs. Jamison very well.)
ReplyDeleteIn any case, Ruth, summer camp would have done you good.
Doc, I'm looking forward to introducing you at the Feb 11 evening program in West Palm Beach, but I've yet to decide how to do it. Of course, I could say, "Here's a man who needs no introduction. . . " But you might mark me down for using a cliche. I could quote a few selections from Look Back and Cheer about you, but most have the book. How many have read all of it I can't say.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone who reads this blog would like to attend, I'm pretty sure that the organizer and registrar, Ned McAdams, would save a place, though I can't speak for him. e.mcadams@att.net
Well, Joel, I'm so glad it wasn't a sleepover camp. And I too can name all trees because of nature walks taken when I was a child: but I was taken on them by my PARENTS, as is fitting. And I'm sure that most children do enjoy summer camp: it's just that I wasn't like "most children," but was a rugged individualist even at that age! You also have to remember that I've got blind spot re organised sport. However, childhood is full of scenarios of boredom and unease which one would avoid if one could, but just waits to pass, and no doubt I would have survived summer camp. Cuzzin Ruth
ReplyDeleteDear Joel,
ReplyDeleteCan you name three types of evergreen trees and identify their characteristics?
Carol - not sure Joel will have seen your challenge, as the Baron's blog has moved on by a couple of postings. But I can hack it: holly, distinctive prickly leaves and red berries; larch, sheds its green leaves for winter, but they don't go brown in the autumn like those of a deciduous tree; and Douglas fir, the ubiquitous standard Xmas tree. We have holly trees, and one even has YELLOW berries: I think it is a cultivar. My hollies are a source of some disappointment to me: covered in berries until early December, I'm just thinking of getting some boughs inside the house for Xmas decorations. Then, in about the second week of September, the birds strip all the berries!! Still, it does feed our feathery friends, and that's some comfort! Cuzzin Ruth
ReplyDeleteOops: for "September," read "December." Sorry, Carol: it's been a long day! Stay well!! Cuzzin Ruth
ReplyDeleteIf you come back to this post, what I was thinking of was:
ReplyDeleteS - Square - Spruce
F - Flat - Fir
P - Pine - Packet
And now you may identify the evergreens in the forest.
cm