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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, December 27, 2008

Douglas Fir - sings for you

Here's a bit of silliness for you... This is our faithful Christmas mascot Douglas Fir singing one of his songs for you... I threw it up here cause I thought you would get a kick out of it. Douglas is one of our perenial Christmas decorations (he appears every year) and is beloved by the entire family except for Mark who manages to tolerate Douglas as long as his switch remains in the OFF position!
:O) HAR HAR

Douglas is motion activated so if he is ON and you walk by him, he will greet you and burst into song.

I bought this silly thing many years ago as a Christmas (joke) present for Sheila but he's become something of a traditional decoration for our house now!

Enjoy...

4 comments:

Donna said...

That is just too funny! I was not expecting the eyes! Everyone needs some Christmas kitsch! Especially if it annoys other family members!

Priceless!

Jerry said...

I would have liked him better if I could have gotten one made of black velvet.... with bright colored paints.... ;O)

ScottWms said...

I love Douglas! Very campy. However, I can understand Mark's position. if you walk in any Cracker Barrel during the months of October-December, they have every conceivable thing imaginable that is motion activated. Stuff moves, waves, plays Christmas or country music, talks, barks, chimes etc. etc. Sometimes getting eggs and bacon is not worth the assault on your senses.

Jerry said...

I'm sure Mark would agree with you Scott! LOL.

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