Going to be far away for 4th of July weekend. Please read.

Bill Martino

Bill Martino

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Yangdu and I will be heading to the midwest for a long 4th of July weekend. My old high school classes in the 50 year ago range are having a reunion which I am planning to attend. It will be first reunion in 49 years and most likely my last. Held in Pittsburg, Kansas.

We'll stay with my brother in Girard, Kansas and maybe motel it for a night or two. Flying to Tulsa and driving a rental car up from there. Tulsa is as close as one can get to small town SE Kansas going commercial airline. On the way back we will be visiting with Terry Sisco and family, and Yvsa and family and are looking foward to the meeting with gusto.

So, if you don't see me making my usual number of posts this is the reason. I am not back in the hospital! Yet!!! My brother has a computer so I'll try to answer some email and make a couple of posts from Kansas.

And have a safe, sane and happy 4th everybody.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ

[This message has been edited by Bill Martino (edited 06-24-2000).]
 
Enjoy your travels, Bill and Yangdu.

Why not pack a few khukuris, so when your old classmates ask what you do these days, you can deftly pull them out of the bag at your feet? Or better yet, do a quick draw, a-la Ray.
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We're happy that you're taking off for a while, Uncle Bill. We'll certainly miss you, but it will be good for you to get away for a while. Have a safe, happy trip and know that our blessings are with you.
 
Howard, if I did the quick draw ala Ray nobody would jump for sure. They are all too old! Most probably couldn't even see it.

I graduated from a small high school in Cherokee, Kansas in 1951 -- one of 25 kids, equally divided boys and girls. Three of the boys are dead (about 25% which seems too high for the actuarial tables) but I hear all the girls are still alive and kicking. In less than a year, thanks to the Korean War, I was in the US Navy going thru bootcamp at the Great Lakes.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ
 
"One of 25 kids, equally divided boys and girls."

Ummmmm, okay.

A father has three sons. Half of them are boys. Is this possible?

Yes. The other half are also boys...
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Tom
 
Well, Tom, I've heard they grow some unusual creatures on some of those farms in the midwest.
 
Bill,

That's going to put you right close to me coming, going, and standing still! I don't want to horn in on any old friends meeting but I would be interested in meeting you somewhere. I haven't ever even met Terry and he's a neighbor. There are other people in the area that probably feel the same way. Couldn't we all meet in a park for a picnic or something? The only restriction for me is that I work on Saturday.

Enjoy "coming home!"

Gregg
 
Yep, Cherokee County is southeasternmost corner of Kansas. Then per the atlas, head dead north and just over the county line in the next county north ( Crawford ) is Cherokee.

I think it's interesting that if you head west along the Kansas/Oklahoma border a ways into Montgomery county you run into Coffeyville. A nonogenarian friend named Holbrook claimed that after Frank James got of prison, he'd stop and visit with his dad who'd been a wannabe that rode with them a time or two. And Lloyd, then maybe five, would hide and eavesdrop. He claimed his sister had a bunch of letters she got put together before she died. Now he's gone and noone knows what happened to them. So what did your granddaddy/greatgranddaddy do Uncle Bill? Seem to remember some blacksmithing in your family LOL.

Mine died in the state hospital in Norman Oklahoma after a head injury got him put away. In the 20's and 30's there must have been 30 Slates in Lindsay, in Garvin County, just up the Wa****a (I been censored!!!! Make that "wash + it + a" )river from Paul's Valley. And greatgrandaddy Malachi Slate was a blacksmith married to Sally Loafman Slate. Later married to Alan Battiest, a choctaw.

And don't forget to know WHEN it's time to get out of Dodge City.

[This message has been edited by Rusty (edited 06-24-2000).]
 
You've got it pegged, Rusty. The road to Cherokee, Kansas.

Great grand daddy Jones (maternal grandmother's father) had his blacksmith shop on Main Street of Cherokee, about 50 yards north of the water tower. His claim to fame was he shod a team of horses for Frank and Jesse James. He also served as a Wagoneer in the Union Army and was present at Salt Lake City when the cavalry fired on the Mormons. He said the first volley took the flag pole down and that was enough for he Mormons.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ

[This message has been edited by Bill Martino (edited 06-24-2000).]
 

Any Okie forumites give me a call or e-mail me for directions. I don't have a lot of room but we'll make room.
Bill and Yangdu will only have a few hours to visit before their flight home, so we can't do anything real big. But everyone should have time to visit.

t_sarki@excite.com

1-918-283-0022
Give me a call and let me know how many will be here.
Terry
 
And sometimes the reason the family don't 'low no dogs on the property is cause a how shallow some a the family skeletons is buried.

I got a grandmother that keeps gettin' constant heartburn all the time now cause my aunt and me have excavated a good number of the secrets she thought she'd got hid real good. If she tells the truth, it's purely accidental.

I plan on documenting the town in texas where she was born, and gettin her buried right back where she came from. Then I'll campaign to put the nuclear suppository they been trying to shove up Nevada's ( I'm sure you can guess )in the same place as her grave.

Besides, she shoulda stayed in Texas where a viable legal defense for shootin someone was that he needed shooting. She still needs shootin'.
 
BILL,
Have a safe & well deserved vac.Question!
how are you going to do your REHAB?? Didn't
think i would forget, did you?? Look for some mail this week!
jim
 
Real familly love, eh Rusty?

Jim, you will be happy to know that I rode my 10 speed this AM and also yesterday, making my own rehab right here even on my legal days off.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ
 
Bill,

So do you carry a "sample case" with you when you travel?
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Maybe something with an 18th Century and a 25" Kobra?

Do we know what day you will be at Terry's yet? That will be the determining factor on whether or not I get to come. Nobody is allergic to babies are they? I'm a stay at home dad 4 days a week and where I go the 2 year old and 9 month old go as well. On second thought, maybe you don't want me to come after all!
 
Gregg,
Bill will be here on the 5th of July, around 3 or 4 in the afternoon. He don't have a lot of time to visit so get here a little early. We have 3 kids so it won't be a problem at all to bring yours.
Give me a call and i'll give you directions to the house.
1-918-283-0022
Terry

[This message has been edited by T.Sisco (edited 06-25-2000).]
 
Sorry, Gregg, no sample case.

Many thanks for such outstanding hospitality, Terry. You are a true midwesterner.

Look forward to seeing all of you.

And, I'm bringing my kid too -- but he is a little older than yours.

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Blessings from the computer shack in Reno.

Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ
 
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