New 'look' coming!

Hi,

A 'new look' is on the way! Will it be my face, my car, my job,,,,NO, it will be the local landscape! SPRING is here! That means green grass, leaves, flowers, bushes, etc. About time! No, not me. I am in Coralville and don't want to leave, change anything, move, or anything. Just love my job, (it's NOT a job! ) my friends, (except those to whom I owe $ for lost bets on Iowa games), and good old Coralville..Can't wait for Bridge #4 to be completed on 1st avenue over Clear Creek. You DO realize that the creek got its name for the clarity of the water don't you ? Yep.. What would we call it now!!.. Ol' Muddy, or Black Creek, or Crappy Creek (it's down stream from the Coralville "Plant" you know)....Oh well..............We attend two birthdays for friends turning 70. In both cases, both guys (honorees) had to leave early. Neither could make it thru the entire evening. What the hell!! 70??!! ....I thought maybe 80 could be hard, but hardly able to make it at least until 10 or 11 at 70 is a shocker. WHAT do we 60s people have to look forward to??!! Damn. One day I sat down and made out a timeline of my Mom, Dad, Grandparents etc.. I was kind of shocked.. My Dad was 30 when I was born, so he was 48 when I graduated from high school. I thought he was old! He was 36 when I started Little League.. I remember asking my grandpa 'what was it like back in the good old days' and he was 62 or so at the time. THAT is my age!! Try that. Make a timeline for your folks. We thought they were old, decrepit, 'out of it' when we were in 8th or 9th grade, and THEY were really only in their late 30s or early 40s usually.. I have sold many houses here in Coralville for the parents of my friends from Coralville school.. I always thougtht THEY were old back in the 60s.. Guess not.
Here is a good one, and a TRUE one...........Sit back and THINK this thru..........This is ME saying this and it is true........" I was talking to a guy, who talked to a guy, who was in the Civil War.".........Is that possible? Is Rex full of .....uh..crap?? (yes, but let's move on)...I am saying that I talked to a guy who actually talked to a guy who was in the Civil War. IT's true, and the Civil War Veteran was with Sherman on his March to the Sea........Huh??....Well, here is the scoop,, When I was a kid, I knew my Great Grandpa real well. He was an old man back in the late 1950s and early 1960s.........HIS Dad, my Great Great Grandpa, was in the Civil War.. Company B out of Iowa City matter of fact......SO,, I talked to my Great Grandpa, (many times) and HE had talked to his Dad, ( my Great Great Grandpa).. so there is the link.. Just does not sound possible does it......but it's true..........

So, have a little fun, do a timeline on your gang and see what you come up with. Hope nobody does a time line on me. They will find that I grew up on 8th street, 11th avenue, and now work at my office next to the good old Coralville Post Office, about 2-3 blocks from where I grew up. Guess I never got out of Coralville..........................