Resident Tales Stories by Residents, for Residents

Issue #14 Friday, May 29, 2020

Memory Lane Pets A re Precious M emories Send Us Your Tales! submitted by Bill O., Dacula, GA We ar e excited that you ar e shar ing Isn't this little your memor ies and stor ies w ith us! guy something? Keep 'em coming!

You can see the sweet mischievousness in that baby You can submit them via email at face. stor [email protected], or give them to your Community I found this pictur e on Facebook this mor ning. Activity Professional to send to us! It r eminded me of when Sam was a puppy and we Make sur e to put your fir st name r ented a cabin up on the r iver in Ellijay, in the fall 8 and last initial along with city and year s ago. state that you live in! I let Sam get in the r iver and he played for the longest time, splashing and jumping around.

He was having the time of his life, and so was I, simply watching from the riverbank.

When it was time for us to go back to the cabin, I Today's Riddle: called and called for him to r etur n, but Sam just wasn't having it. What has a bottom at That little r ascal would not come out of the r iver. the top? Eventually, I had to wade in and get him.

What a happy memory. (Answer on page 8) (continued on back)

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The older I get, the mor e I r ealize how "Play w ith me!" important it ?Leave me alone!" is for each of us to spend our lives making Etc., etc., pr ecious memor ies. They are fiercely loyal to their human(s), and they hate just about ever yone else.

They also have a sever e dose of attitude.

I could tell you a million stories, but I'll limit it to a couple.

The cat loved to hide in the bathroom shower.

Just as you got comfor table on the throne, he would burst through the shower curtain and ******************************************** give you a near hear t attack.

Good Old Kitah peacefully passed away this I'll never forget the day that I sear ched the after noon, asleep on my bed. The old boy, 20 house, top to bottom for nearly 12 hours, year s, five months and 28 days, put up a har d looking for him. I checked all of his usual hiding fight. I expected him to pass over 10 days ago. places, but Kitah was nowher e to be found. And then, out of the cor ner of my eye, I saw I bur ied him out in the gar den spot, in the sun, something move in the laundry room. which I?m sur e he w ill appr eciate. He'd been on top of the fr idge hiding in a Kitah was always lying in a sunny spot..... laundry basket all day.

I've never been a cat guy. One of his proudest accomplishments was last Kitah was my one and only cat. year when I was r emodeling and painting the bathrooms. I bought him for my daughter when she was just five year s old, because, well, that's what I came out of the hall bathroom and into the dads do. living room carrying a paint pan with a roller and a half gallon of paint...... Then daughter s grow up and move away, and you discover that suddenly you ar e a cat guy. Kitah tripped me, on purpose......

If you have never ow ned a Siamese cat, well, Blue paint, beige car pet, living room...... let's just say that they ar e talker s. (Like, all the Gift bags, Chr istmas tr ees, chair s, anything was time.) fair game.... "Wher e the hell have you been??" (continued on page 3) "Feed Me!!!" www.senior living media.com 2 www.seniorlivingmedia.com May 21, 2020 M ORE M EM ORIES

Kitah destroyed my suede r ecliner , an ?Button, that?s wher e you star t if you cow boy expensive one.... for me,

Shr edded it w ith his claws, and was proud of it. on this Jack Shoe Ranch no worky-no-eaty?

He was banned from our local vet for attacking and injuring the doctor and two employees. Little Joe, the young and sly one, Even though he was a little pistol, I am going to Up at dear Gr andaddy did he gaze miss him terribly. He let out a big bur p, and brought a smile on his I know that his old pal, Clebur ne, is waiting for face! him, along w ith Bun Bun. They ar e welcoming him across the r ainbow br idge. To keep little Joe war m, Gr anny had just the So long, little buddy. thing, Kitah, you wer e a little pistol, r ight up until the Gr andaddy?s new quilt- spanking new just last ver y end. spr ing.

?Ode to Little Joe? Joe slur ped dow n his bottle, submitted by Arlie S., Astoria, OR Settled dow n in the dark A baby was born Come mor ning, the quilt bor e a young cow boys Little Joe is his name high water mark With Sandy and Jeff Saunder s*

To the ?Jack Shoe? he came Now the moral of this story

Is quite plain to see Gr eat Gr anddaddy was as proud as could be ?Do not unto young cowboys, He said, ?Go fetch a hor se, Lest they do unto thee? Her e?s a new cow boy for me!?

A message from Arlie:

He picked up ?Little Joe? and slung him under Little Joe is now a grown man and has a son of ar m his own. He works in one of the Copper mines in Then paced to the w indow to show ?Joe? the AZ. He read the poem I had written over 20 years hor se bar n ago and said he loves it. *name changed for privacy

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M acon 1951, at age 18, he won a talent contest in Remembers Atlanta that led to him singing on w ith RCA Native son Victor and recording four albums. In 1955, he Little Richard got his big br eak at the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans when he sat dow n at an old, upr ight piano, and per for med a song he w rote called The passing of ?Tutti Fr utti?. In the next two year s he r ecor ded Little Richard on Long Tall Sally, Good Golly Miss Molly and Keep Satur day, May 9, a Knockin?. He played to sold-out audiences, hit Macon, Georgia but, when Specialty Recor ds wouldn?t r elease especially har d. him from his contr act, he left music, r enounced rock n? roll, and followed in his gr andfather ?s ?It?s a sad day for our city and the entir e music footsteps as a Seventh-Day Adventist pr eacher. industr y as we mour n the passing of Little Richar d,? Macon Mayor Rober t Reicher t?s He r etur ned to music as a gospel singer in 1959, posted on Facebook, ?His influence on music but r ever ted to rock ?n? roll in 1962 when he and our community was enormous, and is still tour ed England as the opening act for The felt today.? Beatles, The Everly Brother s, and an up-and-coming band called The Rolling Stones. Little Richar d lived in the 1960s, a glitter rock er a w ith his non-binar y gender appear ance, Little Richar d was inducted into the Rock & Roll which included the liber al use of eyeliner , Hall of Fame in 1986, the Gr ammy Lifetime exagger ated pompadour , a pencil mustache, Achievement Awar d in 1993, the Songw r iter s and flamboyant costumes. However , it was his Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Blues Hall of Fame piano-pounding playing style and scr eaming in 2015. vocals that influenced music legends like Mick The Macon-Bibb Community Enhancement Jagger and David Bow ie. Authority and Georgia Department of ?Without Little Richard, myself and half of my Tr anspor tation saved the small, shotgun-style contempor ar ies wouldn?t be playing music.? home on Fifth Avenue wher e Little Richar d David Bow ie said in a 1991 inter view. gr ew up and moved it a mile away to Craft Str eet in the Vineville Histor ic Distr ict, not far Bor n in 1932, Little Richar d was the thir d of 12 from the Allman Brother s Band Museum at the childr en bor n to a Seventh-Day Adventist Big House. deacon, who supplemented his income selling moonshine. This was accor ding to his "The Little Richar d House is not only a tour ist biogr apher , Charles White, who w rote The Life destination, it is leading the r evitalization of his and Times of Little Richard in 2003. former neighborhood. Little Richard will be sorely missed around the world by many Like many, Little Richar d star ted in gospel people, and in our community, his legacy w ill music, singing w ith his siblings in chur ch until live on in music and good works." said Mayor he was for ced to leave home at the age of 14. In Reicher t.

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Another day?s her e

It?s the same old bor ing thing

Go covid nineteen Better be r eady:

- Jane S., Fayetteville, Ga 'Tis the season after snow.

Color me gr een now.

The pandemic came.

Now masks and no hugging How tall the tr ees ar e

Ar e r uling life?s game. and so many shades of gr een

- Victoria L. Towson, MD in front of blue sky.

One Br azen Squir r el People to and fro? Emptying out a bir d feeder Stay away COVID Nineteen. Done in a whirl. Fr eedom is coming! -Richard H. all by Robert M., Gainesville, VA

www.senior living media.com 5 www.seniorlivingmedia.com May 21, 2020 M EM ORIA L DA Y SPECIA L Did you Know? Originally, only soldiers who had died in the Civil War were Facts About honored. Memorial Day After WWI, the holiday began to encompass members of the American armed forces There is a Grave "Adoption" who had fallen in any conflict.

There is an American military cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands. On Memorial Day Flags Are Placed on Every Grave in Arlington National each year, every last grave is "adopted" by Cemetery. a Dutch family that lays flowers over the site. On the Thursday before Memorial Day every year since the 1950s, soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division uphold the tradition Memorial Day wasn?t celebrated on the ?last Monday in May? of ?Flags in?, where they place an American until relatively recently. flag on each grave in Arlington National When General Logan officially launched Cemetery within a four hour time span. the holiday, he called for it to be observed There are over 400,000 graves at Arlington on May 30. After the Uniform Monday National Cemetery and once the flags have Holiday Act took effect in 1971, it was been placed, they patrol around the clock moved to the final Monday in May. through Memorial Day to ensure each flag remains aloft. Each flag is then removed before the cemetery opens on the morning It?s customary for the U.S. president or vice president to give a speech. after Memorial Day. Traditionally, the speech is delivered at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Republic, officially proclaimed May 30 as Decor ation Day ?for the pur pose of str ew ing w ith flower s or other w ise decor ating the gr aves of comr ades who died in defense of their countr y dur ing the late r ebellion.? The fir st national commemoration took place at Arlington on May 30, 1868, w ith Gener al Ulysses S. Gr ant in attendance and Gener al James Gar field as the featur ed speaker. Decor ation Did you Know? Day was eventually r enamed Memor ial Day. Facts About Arlington National Cemetery Arlington is the only national cemetery to hold service members from every war in U.S. history. Arlington National Cemetery is located on Confederate General Although the first military burial at Arlington Robert E. Lee?s confiscated estate. National Cemeter y didn?t occur until 1864, the Days after r esigning from the U.S. Ar my on burial ground holds the remains of those who Apr il 20, 1861, Rober t E. Lee left the Arlington fought in ever y war since the Amer ican estate wher e he had mar r ied Mar y Lee and Revolution. lived for 30 year s. He would never r etur n. There may never be another addition to the Tomb of the After Virginia seceded from the Union on May Unknown Soldier. 23, 1861, Union troops crossed the Potomac River from the national capital and occupied Among the 5,000 unknow ns entombed at the 200-acr e proper ty and house that been built Arlington are the unidentified remains of World by Mar y?s father. In 1864, after Mar y Lee - War I, World War II, and Korean War confined to a wheelchair - sent a r epr esentative ser vicemen bur ied at the Tomb of the Unknow n instead of appearing personally to pay a $92.07 Soldier. An unknown from the Vietnam War tax bill, the gover nment seized the proper ty. was entombed in 1984, but the r emains wer e With Washington, D.C., teeming w ith dead exhumed in 1998, positively identified by DNA soldier s and out of bur ial space, Gener al testing as those of Air For ce Fir st Lieutenant Montgomery C. Meigs formally proposed Michael Joseph Blassie and moved to a militar y Arlington as the location of a new military cemeter y in Missour i. Advancements in DNA cemeter y. testing may mean that all futur e r emains w ill be able to be positively identified and no future The cemetery hosted the first national Memorial Day inter ments at the Tomb of the Unknow n Soldier commemoration in 1868. will occur.

In 1868, Gener al John A. Logan, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the

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DID YOU K NOW??? ON THIS DAY... The Letter Z Was Removed from M ay 21, 1927 the Alphabet for 200 Years! After taking off from New York the It's hard to imagine an pr evious day, Charles Lindbergh in alphabet that doesn't the Spirit of Saint Louis landed include A, Z, and ever y near Par is, making it the fir st solo other letter in between. air crossing over the Atlantic. However , around 300 BC, the Roman censor Appius M ay 22, 1985 Claudius Caecus had the "A View to Kill", the four teenth James Bond movie, letter Z r emoved from the star r ing Roger Moor e as James Bond, pr emier ed in alphabet due to the fact that 1985 at the Palace of Fine Ar ts in San Fr ancisco. it wasn't used that much. The letter S was also nixed M ay 23, 1940 and the letter G was added. "I'll Never Smile Again" was r ecor ded by Fr ank Sinatr a It took another 200 years for and Tommy Dorsey and Z to make its way back to the end of the alphabet. the Pied Piper s. The song was the fir st #1 hit on the weekly Billboar d Best Selling Singles char t. Since then, it has been a popular standard for Riddle Answer: many artists in a variety of genr es. Your legs!

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DID YOU K NOW??? M ay 24, 1830 More People Tuned Into Prince Charles and Princess Diana's One of the best know n English Wedding Than for the Friends, nur ser y r hymes, Mar y Had a Little Cheers, Seinfeld, and M*A*S*H Lamb, was first published today. finales combined M ay 25, 1830 Pr ince Har r y and Meghan The Walt Disney car toon dog Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, Markle's wedding amassed appear ed for the fir st time today in 1932, it was w ith nearly 30 million viewers Mickey Mouse in the car toon Mickey?s Revue in the U.S. The 2019 Super Bowl brought in more M ay 26th, 1907 than 98 million viewers. Marion Mitchell Morrison, better known as the But Pr ince Charles and the legendar y actor John Wayne, ?The Duke?, was bor n late Pr incess Diana had today in in Iowa. 750 million people worldw ide tune in to see M ay 27, 1930 them wed! The Ar t Deco?style skyscr aper the Chr ysler Building, an iconic New York landmark, opened today. It was the tallest building in the world until the Empire State Building opened about a year later.

www.senior living media.com 9 www.seniorlivingmedia.com May 21, 2020 Try Your Hand at Haiku Ther e is a long tr adition of poets finding inspir ation in natur e. It star ted w ith ancient Gr eek poetr y and continues to this day. Spending time in natur e can give you a sense of peace and inspir e your next work of poetry.

A tr aditional Japanese haiku is a thr ee-line poem w ith seventeen syllables, w r itten in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from natur e, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and dir ectness of expr ession. This month we ar e featur ing Haiku as a w r iting exer cise. Tr y your hand at w r iting one below and send it to us!

Her e a sample one:

An afternoon breeze

expels cold air , along with

the fallen br own leaves.

Send it to [email protected] to be chosen for upcoming issues!

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Do you have any funny or interesting stories from Father's Days' past? Funny stories about your father, or being a father?

Fact or fiction, funny or thoughtful , prose or poetry - now is the time for your voices to be heard and featured in an upcoming special issue that will coincide with our Father's Day activities later in the month! It can be solo writing or a group effort! It is up to you!

WRITE YOUR STORY OR MEMORY HERE, OR EMAIL IT TO: [email protected]

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