UNFAMILIAR TURF

UNFAMILIAR TURF  
https://youtu.be/BuhWTIhRV6w
Ever since my 20’s, I have found that for me I always seem to be, on unfamiliar turf over and over again?

I look back and see just how much my life has changed and now since the loss of my wife Joyce and my Cancer now in remission, I am truly on unfamiliar turf.

By trial and error I found that sometimes the best way to move into the unfamiliar is to take familiar steps, small steps. To do ordinary things to deal with something that is in no way is ordinary.
After all, throughout one’s life we're always going someplace new all the time. Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into unfamiliar territory.
You take those small familiar steps, and you try to be honest, to live as if nothing had changed and still to just go on with your life. Then again, there are times when what you actually need, is just a small piece of how things used to be and by acting them out, or through a visit that is good for your soul, if you are Christian. A visit by praying your troubled soul to JESUS CHRIST for He is there to listen always!
Then you will find out that once again you are still all right, not in the past but within your new unfamiliar and at times, I have taken comfort by doing this. My advice is as a Christian, always cherish JESUS CHRIST as you will need Him, when you encounter your unfamiliar turf…
https://youtu.be/xJ65UYsUNE4
I say this with Love and all that heaven will allow!
Written and Photo by,
Richard Abbenbroek...

HEY HAPPY NUKE DAY!

HEY HAPPY NUKE DAY!
IT WAS ONLY 57 YEARS AGO TODAY.
SINCE WE WERE NEARLY ALL VAPORIZED!
THANK GOD WE DID NOT!!!
YET SINCE, I HAVE LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLo0aOfDrLY

1950/60’s CITY OF CALGARY ALBERTA AIR RAID DRILL
In 1962 we were sent home with a note for our Mothers to sign, eat our lunch and then run back fast as we could to school so have our teacher could countersign our note with our, arrival back time at school for the Canadian Civil Defense. Well, I always rode my bike (winter or not), so they made my friend Glen walks with me, so in case I a blown inner tube or my chain fell off I would be equal like all the other kids.

“Please click on the forward arrow to start the below video” https://www.cbc.ca/…/calgary-evacuates-operation-lifesaver-…
During the Cuban Missile Crises, I used to have strange dreams about a Nuclear War as I could not see why we were so concerned about Cuba?? Small, far away from Canada and I did not even know anyone from there? So if it meant (as in my dreams). climbing up our basement steel support beams cause our home was gone, as I ran from Radio Active Wolves that I dreamed about, then let them have it!!!

The Russians that is, as they could have the place, I didn’t even like Bananas then anyhow?
So when my Dad returned from one of his 2 jobs I asked him what would happen if, I did not make it home in time to be with our family?
So to explain he took a slow drag off of his cigarette and flicked an extra ash onto the one that was already on the ground. Then said; “see those 2 ashes, well (as he used his shoe to join them together), the Atomic bomb will turn us all into ash so fast we will not feel a thing and all of us will then be one ash everywhere so you need not worry cause we will be together and those Wolves will be ash as well, hurting no one.”

My Dad never lied so I knew it was the truth and I felt a bit better.
Then when the big air raid day came I told my friend Glen what my Dad said and we walked very slow and even went to Dairy Queen as I had $.25, which was enough for 2 shakes! Mine was strawberry and I was the last one into school. My grade 2 teacher went ape, and for being the last one in and not taking my Grade 2 duties serious, I got a both hands strap in front of the class!

When I was in the Royal Canadian Air Force, during basic training, we learned all about, Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Warfare and we had a sign as you can see posted here that was posted all over the base, which made me just as happy as that Strawberry Shake did a decade earlier! P.S. I also Love this film as it informs you how to survive a Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Warfare, now put this thought through you heads, it is summer, and you have to relieve yourself, also try opening and eating a can of peaches for shit’s and giggles, now there is a an hour of toasty fun, while at the same time someone with an AK -47 is coming to join you for lunch but with very bad table manors? LOL
https://youtu.be/TvQUL3T1Dhw
So now for a song, Let us Sing!! :)
https://youtu.be/caAZ5Vm9ZtM
Written and Photo By,
Sir Richard...
Sent to you all with LOVE and all that heaven will allow!
P.S. REMEMBER WHEN TO DUCK & COVER!
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MISSING GINA RAP

MISSING GINA RAP 

Always in our hearts, never forgotten. I dedicate this Song to Gina from Canada on behalf of Leann, Tammy, Jannel  and Family.
  https://youtu.be/UV4F2yfEt9o
With Love and all that heaven will allow on this Sad Day of Remembrance.
From Sir Richard...

TODAY in 1970 I LOST A PIECE OF MY HEART. I WATCHED JANIS PERFORM AT FESTIVAL EXPRESS JUST THAT AUGUST!

https://youtu.be/3SL0oRcD7t0

In the summer of 1966, Janis Joplin was a drifter; four years later, she was a rock-and-roll legend. She’d gone from complete unknown to generational icon on the strength of a single, blistering performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in the summer of 1967, and she’d followed that up with three years of touring and recording that cemented her status as, in the words of one critic, “second only to Bob Dylan in importance as a creator/recorder/embodiment of her generation’s history and mythology.”

Born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1943, Janis Joplin made her way to San Francisco in 1966, where she fell in with a local group called Big Brother and the Holding Company. It was with this group that she would become famous, first through her legendary performance of “Ball And Chain” at Monterey and then with the 1968 album Cheap Thrills. She soon split off to launch a solo career, however, her personality and her voice being far too big to be contained within a group.

”I’d rather not sing than sing quiet,” she once said in comparing herself to one of her musical idols. “Billie Holliday was subtle and refined. I’m going to shove that power right into you, right through you and you can’t refuse it.” But if sheer abandon was Janis Joplin’s vocal trademark, she nevertheless always combined it with a musicality and authenticity that lent her music a great deal more soul than much of what the psychedelic era produced.

But it was never just music, or the passion she displayed in performing it, that made Janis Joplin an icon. It was the no-holds-barred gusto with which she lived every other aspect of her life as well. Far from being an empty cliché, “sex, drugs, and rock and roll” was a revolutionary philosophy to many in the late 1960s, and Janis Joplin was its leading female exponent. Her string of romantic conquests ranged from Kris Kristofferson to Dick Cavett. Her drug and alcohol consumption was prolific. And the rock and roll she produced was timeless, from “Piece Of My Heart,” “Get It While You Can” and “Mercedes Benz” to her biggest pop hit, “Me And My Bobby McGee.”

In the autumn of 1970, Janis Joplin was in Los Angeles putting the finishing touches on the album that would prove to be the biggest hit of her career, Pearl. She did not live to see the album’s release, however. On this day in 1970, she died of an accidental heroin overdose and was discovered in her Los Angeles hotel room after failing to show for a scheduled recording session. She was 27 years old. 

https://youtu.be/WXV_QjenbDw

Ms Janis would be 76 today.

Still remember U Babe

Written by Sir Richard,

Dead Man Walking

ANOTHER BUCKET LIST WISH OF SIR RICHARD’S

ANOTHER BUCKET LIST WISH OF SIR RICHARD’S
https://youtu.be/abmuxiu02D8
The Wish: To be able to walk in Bethsaida, where also Jesus walked and to share communion there with my Life Group. The name Bethsaida is of Aramaic origin, meaning the "fishing house" or "the house of fishing". This is the village into which the disciples of Jesus, Peter, Andrew, and Philip and perhaps the Zebedee brothers were born and raised. This is the place that was visited by Jesus and witnessed his mighty works. And against this backdrop, it is clear to understand the call of Jesus for his disciples to become fishers of men.

The Naked Archaeologist, "Bethsaida & The Cross"
In 1994 archaeologist found a large piece of shard in a fisherman’s house with a cross clearly engraved on it. This received world attention. Now archaeologists scarcely mention it. In that same fisherman’s house they found numerous anchors and fishing equipment and a kitchen with a stove and a grinding stone and implements for making wine. The occupant of this house had his own wine cellar.
I the town of Bethsaida in the Galilee where Jesus and his disciples hung out, and archaeologically dated to that time. But the cross did not become a symbol for Christianity for another three centuries. The Naked Archaeologist investigates what this cross is doing here, and what its original meaning might have been, which could change our understanding of the Jesus movement. https://youtu.be/nXFL6PBdo5Y
Bethsaida: Jesus cursed Bethsaida since its Jewish residents did not follow his teachings (Matthew 11 21: "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes". Indeed, the cursed city was destroyed during the 4th CenturyAD.
http://www.biblewalks.com/Sites/Bethsaida.html
or
http://www.bibleistrue.com/qna/pqna40.htm

Interesting wish, eh?
from Sir Richard
With LOVE to you all and all that heaven will allow!
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HELLO FOLKS - FALL!

HELLO FOLKS - FALL! 

Here is a link to my 2011 photos that I took titled:

“My Fall Legend Photos by Sir Richard”

https://picasaweb.google.com/107280182513021931120/MyFallLegendPhotosBySirRichard?authkey=Gv1sRgCLbWqJiR-MmQnwE#slideshow/5662033836889320514

Hope you like them.

Sincerely, with Love and all that Heaven will allow! Now a song by Calgarian Lindsay Elle "Waiting On You": 

https://youtu.be/CzL6HbZwRkA

Posted and Photos by Sir Richard...

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I DRAW CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THY HOME!

I DRAW CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THY HOME!
As I draw closer to Thy Home,
https://youtu.be/BVnCgoAKqeg
My heart is about to explode.
Lord as this humble knight draws closer to thy home.

Each day fully lived as only You JESUS CHRIST would wish of me.
I take in each second of my life at a time, a minute, an hour,
a day, a month, a year, of Your blessings to me are numerous and great!

My Love for all things, sunrise, sunset, the clear mountain streams.
Thy fellow man and woman of whom I do care.
Through Love that only You Father GOD can bestow upon us all.
A Love, that we can all actually share,
I rejoice in these blessings, with Your Holy Name Oh My LORD.

For in the future when my moment draws near.
Thy humble knight in full but battered armor will on bent knees.
Before Thee Father God through JESUS CHRIST and the HOLY SPIRIT, I shall be.
Repentant and through JESUS CHRIST made righteous, and pleasing before THEE MY FATHER GOD, Before Your Holy Throne!

Again thy humble knight's heart is about to explode.
As I draw closer and closer to Thy Home.
AMEN...

https://youtu.be/f6pQcpFnXOI
Written and Photo by,
Sir Richard
A knight in thy service of the King of Kings!
http://bayo-hunter.blogspot.com/