Look Guys and Dolls the work week is half over and only two more work days to put up with. I remember how it was honest I really do. Let me try to put some smiles on your faces with some holidays today maybe a birthday list so let's get started:
First of all Happy Birthday to all my Guys and Dolls celebrating theirs today. May you day be filled with loads of fun. Now let us check on some big shots who had birthdays today:
1836 - Archibald M. Willard - No not the rat guy, he was the American artist who painted the "Spirit of 76."
1920 - Ray Bradbury - That great science fiction writer for everything on TV or the movies, Star Trek, Ray Bradbury Theater and even some of the shows on Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock.
1926 - Honor Blackman - We all know her as "Pussy Galore" from the James Bond movie "Goldfinger." I love the female names they came up with in those Bond movies.
1939 - Carl Yastremski - Great Boston Red Sox player and Hall of Famer.
A sorry note from 1977, Sebastian Cabot better known as Mr. French from the TV show "Family Affair" passed on at age 59. RIP.
HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS:
BE AN ANGEL DAY - Okay Guys and Dolls let's all put our angel wings on today and be good to our fellow man. Remember when you hear a bell ring an angel got their wings.
TOOTH FAIRY DAY - The good old days of knocking out one of your baby teeth and putting it under your pillow only to discover it gone in the morning replaced by a shiny new coin. The amount you received varied upon your parents status of poor, middle class or rich. This is a tradition to keep up, I don't care what the complainers of ruining children say, Joey Z says "DO IT, DID IT HURT YOU? HELL NO."
PEACH MONTH - How I miss good old Jersey Peaches or even those great Georgia Peaches. Down here you have to travel to Northern Floriday to find a good Georgia Peach. Any Jersey or Georgia farmers reading my Blog, please respond where in Central Florida I can find some.
That's it for today, have a great one.
2 comments:
One of Bob Bugdal's pals, Joe Zebrowski was given the name "Yastremski" for all of our Penn Fruit pick up games and as a good hitter, he did it justice. "Yas" and Stan The Man of the Cardinals were the heros of our Polish neighborhood.
Really like you peaches, wanna' shake your tree so went the song and the good news was that Judy started showing up with locally grown peaches with real fuzz this year. Remember when you had to really had to wash a peach or your chin itched wicked? That and when the pit stuck to the fruit? Well those pre-Rutgers itchy peaches with pits sure tasted better and this year they made a come back along with the sweet flavor too. I had given up on peaches but when I saw that fuzz ... the flavor is back. Find a small local grower who is not picking green and refrigerating them for transport. I am going to dice a peach and blend it in with yogurt for lunch.
How about stoop ball and trying to catch that sharp edge to send it soaring or dribbling it for a "two bouncer" for a base hit?
Skipper
Skip: Lucky you peaches that are good and tasty. I played at those Penn Fruit games many times. Bob and I were in the same class and I remember Joe and Joe Skiba played also along with a bunch of us Brunswick Ave guys. The only fear was not to hit a home run onto Princeton Ave. and hit a car. Stoop ball a name I haven't heard in years and what about that other great game off the wall. Good stuff. Thanks.
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