January 11, 2009

• Tagged by Bricker 59, dang it!

   

  The object of 4th picture tag is to:

  1) Choose the fourth folder where you store your pictures on your computer

  2) Select the fourth picture in the folder

  3) Explain the picture

  4) Tag four people to do the same

   

  So, here goes. And oddly enough, it's one my favorite pictures.

   

  

  This picture is of Karen and I, the kids, Raymona, Matt, and Carly. And the bestest dog ever, Frisky.

  It was taken in the summer of 1975 by the best friend I have ever had the honor and priviledge to know, David Fosner. Dave and I spent 4 years in the Air Force together, and stayed in close touch after we got out. Dave was from Grand Rapids, Mi and summers usually found us on the way north to visit for a week or so, then in the fall before school started back Dave and his girlfriend Jean would come down to Ky.

  He called me in the early summer of '76, excited about a motorcycle he was going to buy. I tried to talk him out of it to no avail, tried to get him to look for a small car instead. He said he had gone back to college and needed something cheap to get back and forth with.

  Two months later he was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Dragged over a hundred yards.

  Odd you should tag me, Brick. We share the same hatred of drunken drivers, my friend.

  

  Dave and Jean, Christmas 1975

   

  I still talk to Dave sometimes. Late at night out on the deck, with a beer in hand.

  He doesn't answer.

  Maybe some day?

   

   

   

  So, I tag- Saadia, MrsHammett, Michel, and Jaynebug

   

   

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