I Think

I know. That's because I will be 65 in September.

Hello Edgar

I've been here for over an hour now -
And i hardly know what to say. i've never looked through anyone's family photographs before.
It's a strange experience - i just want to thank you and say what a
beautiful family you have.
I noticed that, like this last picture ( which has really touched me)
everyone is smiling when they're around you - even Baby.
You must be proud to have such a happy crowd to call your own

Congratulations Edgar

Peace
Endy

Hi, endy. I'm not showing up to date pics of family and friends too much, but for the occasional grandchild. Pics of myself are the exception. I thank you for your observations.

Doh!!

[smacks forehead]

Awesome pics Edgar! I just love old pictures and could look at them forever. It almost seems that I somehow belonged in times when I wasn't even born yet. I always felt that way as far back as I can remember. Seems like I was there, for some odd reason.

Anyway, thank you very much for the smiles :-D

Hi, Montana. These images are among my more prized possessions.

Me, 1964



One of my daughters. She was so young walking, look at the size of the bottle in relation to her.

831. daughter



832. son



833. I think I am doing much better, thank you. You see,
I acquired a new helper, an accomplished maintenance man,
whom we all have pegged to be my successor. He is a wonderful
man and a credit to the company. But, as soon as he started, I
suddenly began to feel weak and tired much of the time. Barely able
to perform my duties by afternoon. Last Thursday, I sat myself down
for a talk. "You've let yourself become old, by pushing your own
self aside, in deference to the younger man. Add to that, the fact you are
to go on Medicare in two months. Remember how you dragged
around, all depressed one year, until you realized it was just because
you became thirty? Get over it and be your old self. You are the
only obstacle in the way." I took heed, and I already feel
better.

834. I think I miss the old Abuzz days, in the early going. I wish I had saved more of the threads than I did.

835. I think there is no room to post much of my writing here. I do want to post a few of my favorite lyrics, though. For instance:

Moon-Amber Nights


That moon-amber night
That we fell down in the field
I held you so tight
That our souls just had to yield
You started to shiver
Like ripples on the river
But our hearts were full
And we were so very warm

chorus

v2
The words that you breathed
Were works of passion I craved
Your lovely breast heaved
As ripe grain stalks waved
The thrush barely sleeping
River warily seeping
Our hearts were beating
Like two boats in a storm

Chorus
We were
Brave summer lovers
Always off together
Scorning the others
Interlocked forever
We hid in the shadows
Made love ?'neath the willows
Always riding the storm
The talk of her father's farm

v3
Yes we counted every star
Gathered ?'em like fireflies
Stuffed inside a jar
Too in love to realize
Young hearts will be broken
Keep mine as a token
But tonight my love
We shall not be forlorn

chorus

v4
Those moon-amber nights
Can last into the winter
With all of our might
We continue to be tender
The cold makes us shiver
Burning down with fever
As our hearts grow dull
I'm to leave your father's farm

chorus

Edgar, what's the current date for your tentative retirement? It seems ever closer.

Is it written in cement? Can you go a bit earlier if you wanted?

I take my Social Security money in almost exactly a year. I think I will quit my job a month early to allow for some vacation time, before I start any new job.

My new helper wants me to ask for a part time job at the apartments. He says he won't mind doing most of the work. The owner of the property has asked me to stay on for another three years. A lot can happen in a year.

Ah, I see. There's no allowance for taking it earlier, I guess?

How are you feeling about doing your present job part time later?

One gets penalized for taking it earlier.

I don't want to keep on doing maintenance work, if it means keeping up the same pace, even 4 to 6 hours per day.

I hear you on that point.

Mostly I work a 3pm to 7pm shift, which is enough for the work I do. I find myself tired when I get home.

I believe I could continue at my present level for a good five years, if I felt compelled to. But, I don't.

My oldest half brother sits near the house my step father started building, in Fresno. We moved shortly after this pic was taken.



The only photo taken of my half sister, the last one of my Mom's twelve children. She died in her bed one night.

Granddaughter birthday



Oldest daughter

Me and big brother, I think at Santa Cruz.



Mom is the dark hair girl at the center

Mom and a sister, who died of cancer a few years ago.





Mom and her second husband.

grand daughter



Me holding one of my youngest half sisters.