Well, it's time for John and Joe again. Here we are. It's been a couple of weeks, so, uh, little few updates. We had one, uh, listener tell us that, uh, they could hear our clock bagging in the background and we said, well, that makes it kind of homey. So we'll leave that in. Joe, you wanna talk about your clock? My clock is, uh, my mother's clock, so every time I hear that chime, I think of my mother. Is there a story about that clock? Uh, well, your dating history, when I was dating my first husband, uh, he didn't, he had to leave by 10 o'clock, so he kept pushing the clock back. So it bounded on the quarter hour, the half hour, and a threequarter hour. And it kept bonging on the threequarter hour before it got to the hour and, and chimed for 10. So what time, what it really was? Uh, do you know when he left? Well, about 10, 15. Oh, he didn't stay, he didn't overstay. I think he was probably afraid. I think he was. So, so that's the clock story. We've, uh, changed our position a a little bit. I was upstairs, you know, I have a hammer radio system that I play with and. Few years ago, we bought a little asus, uh, computer, which is about 10 inch screen. And Is that a laptop, John? It, uh, it's more than a lap. I guess it's a hand top. It could fit in your hand. Oh. So I said, why don't we see if we can use that instead of using our big Lenovo computer, which is pretty big. So now we've set up, uh, instead of at the desk, uh, using our Lenovo computer, we're using, uh, Jesus. Handheld, uh, computer sitting at the kitchen counter. So that's something, uh, that's something new we want you to know about. Also, before we forget, we want to thank everybody for listening. This is number 12. We started this, uh, January, February out of a whim. Uh, like a lot of my ideas, uh, don't happen. This one happened, and here we are. So, and we appreciate your listening. So we've got a few problems now, not personally, but neighborhood in our community. We have been told for the last several months that uh, they're gonna be seal coating, the driveways and the streets. And, uh, our streets are privately owned streets. Our community's gated, so the county doesn't take care of us. We take care of ourself, and we were notified that this would start. If you, any of you were in the hot season a couple weeks ago, it was like 97, 99 degrees. But the seal coating did not start. It started, uh, two weeks ago and it rained, so it was put off a week, and then it rained again. And finally they started doing the, uh, driveways. Uh, and, and so you had to get your car out of the driveway, which meant you had to park someplace that wouldn't interfere with their equipment, right? Somewhere safe. And they had, uh, hoses and trucks and tar and I, you didn't wanna get your car covered. So finally they came to do our driveway. And the word was that if you stay off of it for 24 hours, it's good to go. Well, Joe, very conservative. And 24 to her meant maybe, uh, 48. Uh, and she didn't want me to go out. I didn't move the car several times, but then we were kind of trapped in our place of residence because to get out, we have to walk on the asphalt or. Or go around the house on where there's a hill and um, I wanted to put a rope up between the front of the building and the back of the building so we could hold onto the rope and not go down the hill. Joe didn't want to do that. Don't know why, but she didn't want to. Well, why not? Uh, I didn't, I didn't think our neighbors wanted that. Well, you thought you would fall. Absolutely. Hold on the hill. I, I definitely thought I'd fall and nobody would, nobody would find us. No. Only the buzzers. I'm on a cane. So that, that makes a Yeah. Well that would've made it better'cause you could have balanced yourself with you think so with that cane. Uh, so anyway, bottom line now our driveway got seal coated and, uh, today's Sunday, Sunday afternoon and they were going to start seal coating the streets. Well guess what? Rain? Rain tomorrow, maybe rain Tuesday, rain Wednesday. I think it's supposed to rain all week. So we've got several appointments during the week. No places we have to go. We have postponed these appointments mm-hmm. Because of the, uh, blacktop. But now, uh, it's good and bad because the more they delay, the more our appointments fit in because we don't have to move our car. So. That's our seal coating problem, which I hope will be over with in another week. Another thing we wanted to talk about was ancestors. Joe, you wanna talk about your grandson? Well, my grandson told us that he found he loves to do an he's, he's kind of the historian. Yes, he is. And he found an, uh, newspaper, uh, what is that called? John Newspaper article. The article? Yes, in the newspapers.com is where he found it. He found an article on, um, an accident that occurred on the highway that we lived on. Um, unfortunately, the man that was coming home from his last day of work, he had just retired, had a heart attack. Came across the highway into our property and my daughter was standing on the concrete steps, uh, that he hit, and so was our dog. Lucky. Now, how was your, how old was your daughter? Five or six. Five or five years old. Mm-hmm. And uh, when the car tilted, she opened the door and was able to get inside, but the dog was not able to get in and unfortunately. Yeah, lucky. Wasn't lucky. No. Lucky succumbed. Yes. And then, uh, the officer that came to, uh, investigate the accident, unfortunately was the man's son, which is a sad situation. So, well let, anyway, Todd found this article and, uh. He also gave John some interest in, uh, the Arctic, in the newspapers. And John, what did you find? Well, then I got on newspapers.com and anybody can do it. If you think you got some, something written about you, you can get a free trial. You have to give'em a credit card, but then you can cancel. And my father passed away in, uh, January, 1949. Those of you who've listened to the podcast know our story, but anyway. I was able to find about, uh, 10 articles about him. Uh, he was pretty well known in Birmingham. And anyway, he, um, he had some very nice, uh, very nice things written about him. I guess the bottom line, I didn't know how my mother and father ever met. Do any of you know that? And we think it's important that you talk about it. I know kids. Don't care, but maybe you as a parent should say, Hey, here's how we met. Uh, from reading this article, I found that my dad had been in, uh, Boston doing printing, business printing, and he went to the Goodwill to teach visiting Boston When it first started to teach some people on printing came back to St. Louis. My mother was the office manager at the Goodwill, and that's how they met. And then they moved to, uh, Decatur, Illinois, then to Springfield where I was born, and then transferred to Birmingham where he was their, uh, head of the Goodwill for, for almost 15 years. So, didn't know any of this until we read it in the newspaper. Well, I'm gonna tell you how my first husband and I met. I lived in a town and we had to take a bus to the, to the nearest town that had a rollerskating rink. And we did. We did that girl, a bunch of girls that did it, that did that. And I was lacing up my skates and this fellow came over and said, let me help you. And it happened to be my first husband, uh, that leased up my skates. So lucky for you, you knew how to roller skate. Did you, were these rented skates or were these Yes. They, they were rented skates. So you didn't own skates? No, no. These were rent, they were white. Rented skates. Did you disinfect them before you put'em on or, I hope they did because we didn't, you had infected feet. Who knows, maybe I did. So, so that's how you met your first husband? That's right. Well, I met my first wife while I was in, uh, the Air Force, and uh, I was going to church. One of the fellas in our group had said, Hey John, over at this other church, there's girls and food. So I said, can't lose on that. So I went over there and, uh, what became my wife, I thought she had prepared the food. And I said, man, oh man, this is pretty good. She can cook. Come to find out that it was her mother who prepared all that stuff and she just brought it. So, uh, just a word to the wise. Uh, might do some fact checking. If you want. Um, now what else we gonna talk about? I don't know. Well, we've talked about the, well now wait a minute. We've got some excitement coming because your family, your daughter and her husband and your granddaughter Yes. Coming to visit the end of, uh, August. They live in Pennsylvania. Right. And they're gonna take a trip down, trip trip down here. And now this is a little hard on them because Ray has been very ill. He's had sur surgery recently. Uh, my granddaughter lost her husband recently and, uh, my daughter needs rotator cuff done, so we're hoping that they are able, physically able to do the trip. Well, I'm sure they'll make it. And, uh, where there's a will, there's a way. There is a will, there's a way. And they're staying for a couple of days and we hope we'll have a nice visit. Yes. Here's what I'm wondering. I'm wondering if the seal coating will be done and have to park outside the gate and somehow walk on the grass, uh, and sidewalks to get here. That would be known. The other important date here is they're coming August 21st or 22nd. I enlisted in the Air Force August 21st, 1953. Departed from a union station in St. Louis, rode a train down to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio where I did basic training. The first thing we did when we got off. The train was get onto a bus, they took it to the, uh, air base and they all gave us postcards and they said, fill these cards out and mail'em to your mother so they'll know you got here safely. So that was, uh, that was an an August event. John, wasn't that the, uh, train station in, uh, St. Louis? Yes. Uh, isn't that where we whispered in that dome? Mm-hmm. Uh, and you could whisper on one side and hear it on the other side. Correct. There was a big arch. Yes, big arch. It's not a train station there now, but it's, I think it's all maybe restaurants and mm-hmm. It's still kind of a landmark in St. Louis. Got a lot of architecture and fountains, uh, out in front with the water. I remember going there. In 1946 with my mother and sister and brother, we went to see my grandmother who did not speak any English, uh, all Italian. And that's the first and, uh, last time I'd ever saw any, any grandparents. I didn't have any, didn't know any, no grandparents to look down the street to make sure I was safe. So, which most grandparents. Aunts and uncles do well, my grandfather lived with us, so when my grandmother died, my father inherited the house and uh, the stipulation was that my father take care of my grandfather until he passed. And that that happened. Mm-hmm. That was good. Mm-hmm. It did. Well, I think we've kind of reminisced a little bit about what's going on and the people get to know a little bit more about us. You've probably heard. Joe's clock, uh, bang in the background and the sun's out. Don't know why they're not seal coating, but, uh, they called it off for the day because, well, it's Sunday. No, they were gonna do it on Sunday because they were running two weeks behind. Well, so, and that's hard work. We watched them do it and, uh oh, mercy. They spray it on and they rake it with a rake, uh, brush kind of thing to make sure it's applied very manual, all manual labor. And then they kept running out of product seal coat stuff, and they had to go about 50 miles to get more. And, uh, anyway, it's a long job. And then the equipment were broke, the equipment did break down. Mm-hmm. We thought one of'em had a flat tire and that was gonna be another problem. But it ended up, uh, that was okay. Well, that's it. I think we're done. Thanks to all you, uh, pap you folks in the Netherlands, in Canada that are listening to us, uh, we appreciate it. We appreciate you listening to us and everybody else who's listening to us. Uh, we appreciate it and thanks for letting us know you're listening. Yes. And, uh, we'll talk to you again soon and, uh, if you have something that some interest. Interesting product or information you wanna share? Antidote? Yes. Any antidote? We don't know any antidote. Last time we talked about frog in the toilet, but I don't think we've had any excitement, have we? Uh, no. Just the roads. Just the roads. So next time, John and Joe. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.