[Boon[_2_]]

On Aug 1, 10:12*am, Jenn wrote:
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*Boon wrote:
On Jul 30, 10:18*pm, Jenn wrote:
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*Boon wrote:
I'm sorry for your loss, Jenn!

Thanks. *He was a good, honorable man. *Only one serious flaw, in my eyes.
*Crazy carpenter skills. *Didn't
graduate from high school, but made sure that he instilled in me a serious
work ethic. *He served in WWII,
reporting to Pearl Harbor on Dec. 9, 1941. *Retired as head of
maintainance of the Vista school district. *I'll miss him.

He moved to Oklahoma last year, to the tiny town where he was born and
raised. *So we had to go back there
for the services and burial. *Interesting to spend some time on the edge of
civilization.

My father is from Oklahoma as well, raised on a farm near Rush Springs
during the Depression.

For my Mom and Dad it was Chelsea, up by Claremore. *Population 2000,
probably a quarter of them related to me in some way. *I spend some time
there every other summer until I was 16...riding horses, shooting
pistols with my cousins (largely at snakes)... *The most humid place
I've ever been.

I've spent some time there as well; there's
something mystical and primal about a place where the wind is always
howling over the plains.

Ha! *Speaking of "Oklahoma" on the drive back to Tulsa for our flight
home, we found THE "Surrey With the Fringe on Top" in Claremore. *Funny!

The Oklahoma theme continues...I had to do some research on Friday on
Gloria Grahame and her botched plastic surgery, so I watched her sing
one of her tunes from "Oklahoma" to note how she enunciated the words
with cotton stuffed under her upper lip.

I do remember watching a remastered print of "Oklahoma" a few years
ago and was utterly amazed at the picture quality. But I digress.