If you followed our exciting porch project, I should let you know the room is painted and ready, and we have a sectional sofa on order. We looked at a lot of sofas at a lot of furniture stores, but there’s one place we missed.
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Category: Life with Pratts
June Lockhart’s TV Sons
Today, in Springfield MA, I met Jon Provost and Bill Mumy. They were separated by the Connecticut River — Jon was on the west side and Bill on the east, at two very different events. Jon was appearing at the World of Pets, and Bill was at the United Fan Con. What they have in common is June Lockhart was their mother on TV — Jon as Timmy Martin on ‘Lassie’, and Bill as Will Robinson on ‘Lost In Space’.
Bill Mumy shares a distinction with another former child actor — Jerry Mathers, from ‘Leave It To Beaver’. They were both directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Bill was in ‘Bang! You’re Dead’, one of the most famous installments of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and one of the few that the master himself directed. Mathers was in Hitchcock’s film ‘The Trouble With Harry’.
I can honestly say that I liked all of these guys when I watched them on TV as a kid. I’ve never had a chance to see Mathers in person, but I was thoroughly impressed by Provost and Mumy. They’re both very smart guys, as nice as anybody could ever be, and as good at listening as they are at speaking; but, then, I guess that makes sense, given their training and experience, starting at such an early age. Or maybe it comes from having June Lockhart as their TV mom!
A while ago I posted an item about Jon Provost, whose autobiography, Timmy’s In The Well, will be out soon. Timmy was never in the well on TV, so I was pleased to show Jon the one piece of physical evidence I know of that Timmy, in cartoon form, was briefly in a well, and he was nice enough to sign it for me. Here I am today, with Jon Provost.
Bill Mumy has always been very much into music, and is a musician himself. He’s very, very good. Hear for yourself by playing the Mumy Jukebox. For a while he was in the band America. Mumy has a wide selection of great music available, and I bought his latest CD.
It was a fun day! Eric got to see somebody as well, and I’m hoping to post something about that later.
Halloweend
Another Halloween come and gone! Eric came up with a quick and ingenious costume, modeled after a video game character named “Q”, then he took Bismo‘s son “Buster” out “tricker treating.”
Eric also came up with the pumpkin designs. I did the carving.
Carol’s Knee
And this, of course, is my wife Carol’s knee. A minor repair, and all is well.
Jean’s Brain
Yes, this is, of course, my identical twin sister Jean’s brain.
Shields MRI’s World Class Service?
Way back last November, I posted an MRI of my right ankle. That MRI was taken by Shields MRI, which has a large presence in New England. As I’ve pointed out before, whoever the idiot was at Shields who looked at the MRI said I had an “intrinsically normal posterior tibial tendon,” when it was far from normal. I’m doing vastly better than I was a year ago, and my running schedule is almost back to what it had been, but I definitely still have chronic PTT inflammation and weakness in my ankle.