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Born in Memphis, TN many moons ago. Educated at East High School and Christian Brothers University in the mysteries of Electrical Engineering. Married for 36 years this year to the same lovely lady with three beautiful children. Lived in LA, WV, IN, IL and essentially all-over TX (well, at least on business trips). Love my family deeply, feel very blessed by God (more than I deserve) and appreciative of all the friends I have made in this life! My first car was a Chevy II Nova (in upper right of my picture) - one of the first Nova's of this type made. It had a straight 230 cu in six and Torque Drive. Torque Drive meant it had no clutch but you still had to shift it from first to second when starting out (second to third was automatic). Very unique car. I loved it! Now I have a Mustang GT (going on 19 yrs old) given to me by my wonderful wife and it is still a blast. I now have a new daughter - the beautiful lady my son married! So thankful for all my family!

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Another guitar video

Well, this one doesn't have me in it because I didn't take the time to use the video camera but here are some of my favorite pictures of our children when they were young and me playing a song called "Belle" by Jack Johnson. I make some mistakes so bare with me. It is played on my Ibanez Artcore series semi-acoustic guitar and then edited in my Fruity Loops audio studio (yes, that's the name of the software). Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.... - JR

5 comments:

Donna said...

Cute photos of the kids! : ) I see Joy was your fishing buddy when she was little too. Do they still have all their Beanie Babies? Boy, don't they grow up fast?

Pretty song...obviously performed by a talented musician.;) Thanks for putting it on there.

Is this a blogger slideshow widget? How did you add this to your post?

Jerry said...

HI Donna,

That is a picture of Joy from our annual spring Girl Scout fishing rodeo. In fact, she won the casting contest that day and received a tackle box (with tackle inside) for her accomplishment!! It was a really cold Spring day (hence the sweatshirts) and we took hot chocolate with us. I think it is one of Joy's most fond memories. She's been my fishing buddy ever since.

Yes, to my knowledge, they still have all those Beanie Babies (and more).

The slideshow was created using my movie edit software called Magix Movie Edit Pro and I just add the sound track and the pictures separately and then create a MPEG or QuickTime movie file.

Donna said...

It will be hard for them to ever divide their collection I am sure. You should decorate your Christmas tree with them one year!

Now I get it! You uploaded a video. I was thinking you had put in a slideshow widget but I did not think you could add sound to that. I'll have to try that with IMovie. Nice job.

Hope your week is going well...we had a weird weekend.

Funky-Redhead said...

Aww...my babies! My kids LOOOOVed this!

Jerry said...

Wow - well I'm glad to hear they enjoyed it. I hear Gracey is studying guitar too! Good for you Gracey!
Uncle Jerry

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