I found something that absorbs the green from the bananas.
Category: Life with Pratts
Banana Update
The first signs of real progress.
Banana Man
Not much of a change yet.
Mile Age
I recently said I’ve been driving an average of 4,000 miles/year. Considering the car was purchased five years ago this month, looking at the odometer today I’d say it’s been exactly 4,000.
Old German Volk Tale
There’s still plenty more here that requires my attention, both paperwork and household repairs. But I’ve gotten through enough of it that I can return to doing some light blogging. I’m hoping to be able to also indulge some light jogging this year.
My German-made Thorens turntable is now 39 years old, and so far it has required only minor maintenance that I have taken care of myself. This video is about restoring a German-made 1959 Volkswagen. Whatever happened to white sidewall tires?
When my parents ran a florist shop in Wisconsin for a few years, my father bought a ’59 Volkswagen bus for the business. There’s a brief glimpse of one that looks exactly like it at 6:00 into the video. There was no gas gauge, and when the gas started to run out you had to turn a valve on the floor to open a small auxiliary tank, then look for a gas station.
Go Bach to Christmas
A late Christmas offering. A favorite piece of Christmas music, J.S. Bach’s Magnificat in D. This particular recording was taken from a copy of the same LP I bought during my very religious freshman year of college, and that I still play during the Christmas season. It features the masterful trumpet playing of the late Maurice André.
Shortly after buying this record, I invited a girl to listen to it with me in my dorm room, and I was delighted when she agreed. We were in Campus Crusade for Christ together, and I had fallen totally in love with her the moment we met. The influence of this complex and strong-willed girl was profound and lasting, despite her never allowing the relationship to become romantic. She could wiggle her pinky finger in my direction and I’d come running.
Then, incredibly, as we were about to graduate, she proposed marriage! (The first of two women who did that, actually.) By then her faith was stronger than ever, but I was in the process of giving up my own faith, so it was not to be. Life is crazy, huh? Through most of our time at college we attended church together, including one summer, and something about that eventually led to Bill Clinton. Yep, life is crazy. I’ll explain later.