David Brock

Mel & Marv--What a harvest!!  I have shared my tomatoes  and peppers with a few neighbors and people at church.  I had not planted peppers before, but put in Red and Yellow Bell as well as Poblano (cooking) peppers.  I have not kept track. but a lot of eople have benefitted.  Jefferson County, Missouri is not well known for prime farm land (about 2 or 3 inches of topsoil covering various rock structure).  I have a couple of raised beds with better soil. 

Joan Pease (Clark)

I also collected some Coca Cola memorabilia, which is now long gone. This was sometime in the '70s in Palm Springs.

Melvin (Mel) Theobald

Joan, how fun to know that I am not alone. Do you still have any of your Coca-Cola collection? I have most of mine and would love to get rid of it, along with a ton of other stuff that is filling my closets and walls. Love the photo of you with the Coke sign and t-shirt.

On another note, Marv and I are in disagreement about which school we were sent to in 4th grade when Oakland School was being expanded. I won't tell you which side we are on, but it is between Jefferson and Bent. Can someone weigh in to resolve our difference of memory? This happens a lot when we talk about the "good old days".

David Long

Just a quick answer to Mel's question:

Jefferson was President

Bent is what happens to you back as you age

Wendy Stephens (Cullen)

I remember 4th grade very well.  We bused to Jefferson School and our teacher was Mrs. Purdy.  I remember the bus rides and waiting for the bus.  Dick Harwood threw a jar of worms at me one day.  Remember all of those worms that would emerge after a rain?  He collected a large jar of them and I was the recipient.

 Fifth grade we were back at Oakland School, and Mr. Glenwright was our teacher.  He made us duck waddle the length of the asphalt area and back.  Was that the beginning of my life long knee issues?

 Those tomatoes look delicious.  
 

Melvin (Mel) Theobald

Thanks Wendy. Marv wins this round. My original thought was Jefferson, but it didn't feel right. I also remember Mrs. Purdy. She lived in Japan after WWII when her husband was stationed there and introduced us to a whole new culture. She moved to Evanston, IL after leaving Bloomington and lived a few blocks from our aunt. When we visited our aunt we went to see her. She was a wonderful teacher. As for Mr. Glenwright, he was the only male teacher we had in grade school, so maybe he pushed us a little harder in PE.

Yes, we used to go out in the yard to collect worms for fishing bait. Sounds like Dick wasted them on you.

Happy Tomato Season to you. 

James (Jim) Rookus

HAPPY Belated 

BIRTHDAY

Garth Golden  8/30

HOPE YOUR DAY WAS

WONDERFUL & BLESSED

Sorry I'm so late... 

James (Jim) Rookus

WOW Marvin ! ! !

THOSE TOMATOs LOOK SUPERIOR ! 

You must have 2 GREEN THUMBS !

James (Jim) Rookus

DO YOU KNOW

IN WHICH 2 DAYS

YOU DON'T GET

A FULL 24 Hours?

Melvin (Mel) Theobald

Jim,

I'm guessing the day you're born and the day you die.

But the fact is that there are no days that are 24 hours long. During our orbit around the sun we lose almost 4 minutes per day, which is why we have leap year every 4 years on Feb. 29 to compensate for the loss.

David Brock

Jim--I am sure Mel is more accuate and scientific, but most of us lose an hour on Time Change Day.  However, not all states participate in time changes.  Also, for the travelers in the group, travelling through time zones can cost you some time in a heartbeat--again not all of us are big travelers and not predictable.

Melvin (Mel) Theobald

Dave B., you are absolutely right. I'm theoretically 12 minutes older than Marv. But when he went to Thailand several years ago, he realized he was 23 hours and 48 minutes older than me due to the time difference. That was so cool. As for the 24 hour issue, the Gregorian calendar doesn't measure time by the rotation of the earth but by its circumvention around the sun. Therefore the calendar we use must be periodically adjusted to account for the 4 minutes lost daily. In Jim's riddle, the earth's rotation is measured by 24 hours, but when calculating a day by our rotation around the sun, that is an inexact measure. Still, I love Jim's challenge. Given our planetary rotation, there are only two days that we cannot experience 24 hour days. Still wondering if the answer I gave if the one he intended?

David Long

So based upon the discussion of time zones:

Given the number of times many of us have crisscrossed the US, the oceans both east and west, the datelines back and forth, how would we calculate our real ages?

e.g. some business travel has taken me ot Hawaii several times a month, leaving Kansas at 6am CDT and arriving in Hawaii at 4pm in Hawaii with the time change and travel time, it would be 10pm in Kansas.  Did I gain or lose time?  Realistically, since I would often meet with clients for dinner after I had arrived, the dinners would sometimes run until 9:30 or so in Hawaii and I'd fall into bed at 10:30 in HI.  Then, I would have meetings (conferernce calls) with corporate at 8:30am in KS (2:30am in HI), then rinse and repeat for the next 3 days before catching a flight back home leaving HI at 5pm and arriving in Kansas at 8:30 am the next day with the plane change.  So, how much time did I lose or gain in time changes? 

MEL: I'm sure you  experienced similiar days / nights on your trips to USSR.

Who is good with math and wants to take on the challange of figuring this out? NOT ME!

David Long

Terri Baxter (Whirrett)

Terri Baxter (Whirrett)

My attempt to upload my tomato tart made with Marvin's tomatoes! Deelish! Thanks again Marvin!

Melvin (Mel) Theobald

Dave L., I'm pretty sure you ended up right where you started. Like you, I had such thoughts when going to Russia. The question you posed is like Einstein's theory of relativity. When Einstein started teaching at Princeton University, a young professor invited him into his office for a chat. After a few minutes, Einstein asked, "Do you have any tea?" Years later the young professon said, "That is the onlly question he ever asked me that I knew the answer to."

He probably would have had the same problem with your queston as well. 

Boo, your tomato souffle looks yummy!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WENDY!!!

Karen Sue (Suzi) Denton (Merritt)

Back when we were in third or fourth grade some of Oakland school kids were bused to Emerson school.  I don't remember if it was just one grade or two.

Well we finally got some relief with the weather.  That 90 degree weather was crazy.

Hope everyone had a nice summer.

Suz

David Brock

To the 'Time buffs'--At least we are still here talking about it.  No solution--just a friendly discussion.

David Long

James (Jim) Rookus

MEL .... Surprised my riddle brought on so much detailed scientific discussion.... YOU WERE CORRECT in the original answer, the day born and died !

TERRI ..... The tomato tart sure looks yummie!!!

David Long

I finally found something I'm good at....

I'm so good at napping. 😴
I can do it with my eyes closed! 😄

James (Jim) Rookus

DAVE ...... AMEN to that !  Every time we sit down to watch a movie or TV program..... I see the beginning and the end only !

James (Jim) Rookus

H A P P Y   

B I R T H D A Y 

Dennis Flachsbart    9/10

                           AND

Cheryl Turner Hitzner    9/12

Hope your days are wonderfully blessed ! ! !

Rodney (Rod) Hayes

Going back to the posting about Oakland School.  I was in Mrs. Warren's class.  The one thing I remember was my mother saying:  there is just too many kids in that class to learn anything.  Ha!  I think there was close to 50 kids in there.  And, thank you Suzi Denton for saying you were bused to Emerson in the 3rd or 4th grade.  I was sure if any one remembered that.  I was absolutely bused to Emerson.  The one thing I remember most, was I hated going down those fire escape shutes. Funny thing.  As. Progressed through life, I've probably been to at least 30 amusement parks all over the US, and rode every crazy ride I could.