Resident Tales Stories by Residents, for Residents
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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) www.senior living media.com 1 www.seniorlivingmedia.com May 21, 2020 M ORE M EM ORIES 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 www.senior living media.com 3 www.seniorlivingmedia.com May 21, 2020 M ORE M EM ORIES 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.