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| (L-R) Coach Dave Creech, Dave Baker, Dave "Silk" Back, Steve Dalton, Jerry Collins, Danny Griffith, and me |
I can't say for sure, but I'd say every guy in this photograph regards this as one of their favorites. Though we have known one another since 1974, when all of us were freshmen basketball players and Coach Creech was our coach, there just aren't that many photographs of all of us together.
The occasion here was "The Legacy," a golf tournament I ran to raise money for the Warren County Abuse & Rape Crisis Shelter, played at Shaker Run. Steve was in town from Texas and Bake came up from Lexington. I couldn't tell you what anyone shot that day, or who won the tournament. But I can tell it was great having the bunch of us together, even for just a day or two.
Oh, the stories we can tell...
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Friday, June 24, 2005
The show started at 7:30 and Kim wasn't sure why I was so insistent on getting there on time. "We've never paid much attention to opening acts before, so what is the big deal? I'm not sure I'll know any of John Fogerty's songs anyway, will I?"
I said, "I'm pretty sure you will."
Twenty-two songs later, she not only recalled who John Fogerty was, but she had sung along and danced to every one of his songs. If the night ended right then, it would have been one of the best concerts we had ever been to -- in the fourth row, only ten feet from the stage, two seats down from former Red and New York Yankee Paul O'Neil.
Five songs into Mellencamp's turn, he came back out so they could sing "Green River" together. And then for the finale he returned to help out with "Little Pink Houses."
John Fogerty was 60 years old, white Mellencamp was 54. Did I ever think while in my 20s I would be rocking with a bunch of old guys like this?
I've been to hundreds of concerts. This one probably ranks at the top of all of them.
But there was one other thing that was special about that day. Kim was told that the London Bridge house on London Court was going up for sale soon. Were we interested? If so, we would have a chance to buy it before it went on the market, but we had to act soon.
It would sell for $359,000.00, significantly more than our house on Oaknoll. But it had a pool, and a finished basement, and beautiful landscaping ... everything Kim had ever hoped for in a house.
On our way home from the concert, reeling on a high like few other, the choice was made.
Let's do it.
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Sunday, October 15, 2005
"It's all yours..."
