March 4, 2011
March 4th, 2011 by admin
Good morning from Collegeville,
William Harley Osberg celebrated his second birthday yesterday. The big party is not until March 19th at the cabin, but he had a cake at home last night. I wish that I could have been there. Next year we will celebrate his “golden birthday”. I am thinking of doing the Holiday Inn pool party thing at the St. Cloud Holiday Inn & Suites like we used to do every winter.
We had a lake place in the seventies and every year we would invite a bunch of classmates and their families to camp on the beach and celebrate the Fourth of July. It started in 1974 and went on until we moved to Charlotte, NC in 1988. In 1976 we had thirteen rigs from a two-man pup tent all the way up to a 35 foot motor home with a color TV. Ronnie would bring his converted school bus the weekend before the 4th and stay until the weekend after. The kids loved staying up all night and spending the night in sleeping bags around the campfire. Many of them said it was better than Christmas.
Our friends decided to repay us by planning a weekend at a motel with a pool and we ended up at The Holiday Inn in Saint Cloud, always on the second weekend in February. The first year that we did it we had to sneak the food into the hotel, since the hotel policy was “no food or drink in the rooms” Today if you go there on any weekend during the winter months, there is a smorgasbord in front of most of the pool side rooms. It is a blast. Thank you to Dick Anderson for changing the policy and providing a winter break for all of us.
The show this week is the first of the springtime compilation shows with a mix from the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Special guests include superstar Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss, The Dave Rawlings Machine, Cowboy Jack Clement, Buddy Emmons, Johnny Gimble and Kacey Jones. Enjoy the show.
“If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.” Albert Camus
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