Female – Chuck the Blogger Guy

Blonds and bails of hay.

Summer 1961. It was summer break between my junior and senior year of high school and a friend and I were up in northern California working on a cattle ranch. The ranch was approximately 40-miles south from the Oregon/California border and approximately 700-miles north from Los Angeles. And L A is where we boys livedContinue reading “Blonds and bails of hay.”

Latino extraordinaire

Let’s just call her Julie. A 21-year-old Latina who was born in America to Mexican immigrants. She is now enrolled in a nearby four-year university on her way to becoming an interpreter for the deaf and blind. She should graduate in 2025 with a BA degree. And is bilingual. Fluent in both English andContinue reading “Latino extraordinaire ”

Hey boy, give me a bale of hay

Summer 1961. It was summer break between my junior and senior year of high school and a friend and I were way up in northern California working on a cattle ranch. The ranch was approximately 40-miles south from the Oregon/California border and approximately 700-miles north from Los Angeles. Ranch was somewhere between metropolitan Weed andContinue reading “Hey boy, give me a bale of hay”

Some of the attractions at the Super Bowl.

posted by Chuck Ayers Heard on the radio from Chicago. A twenty-something young woman was looking for a donor to give her two tickets to the Super Bowl which at the time was taking place in Atlanta a few years back. In return for free advertising. Advertising to be ‘airbrushed’ on the young lady’sContinue reading “Some of the attractions at the Super Bowl.”

A one word vocabulary.

Awesome. Pardon my sarcastic judgement but I am often amused when eating out at some restaurants. It is almost entertaining when some female waitperson serve our table. It seems like most female servers wait on our table they speak with a little girl tone, I would guess, a full octave above their normal speakingContinue reading “A one word vocabulary.”

Wearing ‘Go to meetin’ clothes.

Okie fashion plate. It took my dad working two jobs in order to outfit my mom with her mostly church fashions. As mentioned my parents lived in a ‘third-world’ community in red dirt Oklahoma before immigrating to California. No electricity, no running water, and no indoor plumbing. All of this was missing before moving toContinue reading “Wearing ‘Go to meetin’ clothes.”

She was the opening act.

Oklahoma’s own. A good friend of ours who lived in Rush Springs, Oklahoma (the watermelon capitol of the world) had a musical talent. As a teenager back in the early 1950s Barbera was somewhat talented playing the accordion. Rush Springs had an annual watermelon and music festival and the young teenage Barbera was chosen toContinue reading “She was the opening act.”

Just dribble and shoot

Two finals during the NBA. It was during the 1993 NBA playoff final with Charles Barkley versus Michael Jordan. Or rather the Chicago Bulls going up against the Phoenix Sun. Two titans battling for the NBA championship. All of this seen on a tiny TV affixed up high on the wall in a delivery roomContinue reading “Just dribble and shoot”

A book you might read.

Book Report Many of you along with myself may have recently heard an NPR Fresh Air interview with Judy Blume. An interview more or less reviewing Ms Blume’s fifty-year-old bestseller “Are you their God. It’s me Margaret” as it was adapted into motion picture form. Ms Blume concurs that the movie adaptation pretty much followsContinue reading “A book you might read.”