Color Guards Everywhere!

As promised, I have more of the pictures from Jason's first color guard experience posted. Hit the site map link, then "News-Pictures" to see them. I set them up a little bit differently this time around, where you click on the thumbnails to get the larger version of the picture (same as always) but then click the larger picture to go back to the thumbnails. It's a lot of work to do a separate page for each picture, so I don't think I'll go back and change the older stuff to this format.

Saturday was busy around here. Terri and Jason greeted guests at "Family Day" where she works. At the same time, I was finally able to attend my first membership meeting at my American Legion Hall. The mix was pretty much as I expected with a range of veterans from WWII to Viet Nam, and a couple of younger guys. One of the younger guys works with Terri, which gave me someone to relate to. Jay seems like a really nice guy and I find myself in agreement with his vision for the post.

One of the things Jay wants to do, and got approval for, is building a color guard. The post has participated in local parades, but they march and drive their Jeep but don't carry the colors. With the membership approval, ceremonial rifles and other equipment are being ordered to outfit the color guard, and I've agreed to participate in their first appearance for the Manassas Christmas parade on my Dec. 2. I'm thinking about obtaining a rifle myself, I'd like to do some armed drill again, but we shall see.

Later, while Jason was at the Homecoming dance, Terri and I took Sam over to the Legion hall for their "Early Bird" Oktoberfest dinner. The early bird portion is a free dinner for those that joined or renewed their membership by a certain date. Since I'd also managed to get Terri to fill out a membership application, we ended up paying only for Sam's dinner. Of course when I asked who to make the check out to (meaning post or national) I was told to make it out to the Women's Auxiliary. This of course ruffled Terri's feathers greatly, which is one of the things included in Jay's plans!

Later there was karaoke with Wild Bill. Nice guy, and he works the crowd. Sam had more gumption than I did, singing three songs. I sang one. Poorly. Jay was there as well, and I was pretty well impressed. Maybe I like him cause he wears his hair in a high& tight flat top, like I did when I still had hair. In any case, we spent the evening with Jay and had a great time. We left in time to pull into the parking lot as Jason was coming out from the dance.

Sunday was filled with the kids singing at the early church service and catching up on chores. Terri's out of town this week, so I will get caught up on my own chores as well.