Dano
Congrats to you and to Lynn. I can't tell you how much joy this brings.
How I wish I could have been there to share your happiness. The world
is your oyster. I can't wait to hear of your new adventures together.

Dennis Fox Higgins

L. Dennis Higgins, Ed.D.
Albuquerque, NM
Educator
Musician

On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:17 PM, dano fleming wrote:

> Last weekend I took a big step and was married to my soul mate Lynn. 
> The wedding was here in Beloit at the Country Club as was the
> reception.   The evening was total bliss and was topped off with a
> very lively dance featuring the "Blue Healers" from Hays, Ks.   This
> is yet another Hays group that follows in a long order of great
> musicians from that part of the state.  It was mine and Lynn's night
> and our feet never stopped moving from the first to the last note
> played.
>  
> As if that's not enough I also retired from my life-long job at
> Sunflower Mfg. Co.  I had been there 39 1/2 years.  The economy
> prompted a lay-off of 50 people and so during this process the company
> was offering early retirement packages, so I jumped at the chance to
> leave and start a new beginning.
>  
> I look forward to finishing many projects I have had in mind to do
> over the last five or six years and to further my musical career with
> friends and bandmates.
>  
> For now Lynn and I are still riding the wave and the next two weeks
> seem pretty busy, but once the dust settles I'll have some time on my
> hands to do what I want to do and that's important.
>  
> Lynn & I just wanted to share our happiness with you all..
>  
> Dano & Lynn
>  
>  
>  
>
>

----- Original Message -----

From: alan and teri bozich

To: KS_and_KC_GenOne_Rockers@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 6:42 AM

Subject: Re: [KS_and_KC_GenOne_Rockers] Announcement

 

Congratulations Dano---Alan Bozich

----- Original Message -----

From: dano fleming

To: KS_and_KC_GenOne_Rockers@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:17 AM

Subject: [KS_and_KC_GenOne_Rockers] Announcement

 

Last weekend I took a big step and was married to my soul mate Lynn.  The wedding was here in Beloit at the Country Club as was the reception.   The evening was total bliss and was topped off with a very lively dance featuring the "Blue Healers" from Hays, Ks.   This is yet another Hays group that follows in a long order of great musicians from that part of the state.  It was mine and Lynn's night and our feet never stopped moving from the first to the last note played.   As if that's not enough I also retired from my life-long job at Sunflower Mfg. Co.  I had been there 39 1/2 years.  The economy prompted a lay-off of 50 people and so during this process the company was offering early retirement packages, so I jumped at the chance to leave and start a new beginning.   I look forward to finishing many projects I have had in mind to do over the last five or six years and to further my musical career with friends and bandmates.   For now Lynn and I are still riding the wave and the next two weeks seem pretty busy, but once the dust settles I'll have some time on my hands to do what I want to do and that's important.   Lynn & I just wanted to share our happiness with you all..   Dano & Lynn

----- Original Message -----

From: dano fleming

To: KS_and_KC_GenOne_Rockers@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:17 AM

Subject: [KS_and_KC_GenOne_Rockers] Announcement

 

Last weekend I took a big step and was married to my soul mate Lynn.  The wedding was here in Beloit at the Country Club as was the reception.   The evening was total bliss and was topped off with a very lively dance featuring the "Blue Healers" from Hays, Ks.   This is yet another Hays group that follows in a long order of great musicians from that part of the state.  It was mine and Lynn's night and our feet never stopped moving from the first to the last note played.   As if that's not enough I also retired from my life-long job at Sunflower Mfg. Co.  I had been there 39 1/2 years.  The economy prompted a lay-off of 50 people and so during this process the company was offering early retirement packages, so I jumped at the chance to leave and start a new beginning.   I look forward to finishing many projects I have had in mind to do over the last five or six years and to further my musical career with friends and bandmates.   For now Lynn and I are still riding the wave and the next two weeks seem pretty busy, but once the dust settles I'll have some time on my hands to do what I want to do and that's important.   Lynn & I just wanted to share our happiness with you all..   Dano & Lynn

What a great concert by Kansas on DirectTV last night.  Makes you proud to be a
Kansan!

HOW TO SING THE BLUES ... by Stretch Melon Clinton



1.  Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning."

2.  "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you
stick something nasty in the next line, like "I got a good woman, with the
meanest face in town."

3.  The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat
it.  Then find something that rhymes ... sort of: "Got a good woman -
with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher - and she
weigh 500 pound."

4.  The Blues are not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in
   a ditch; ain't no way out.

5.  Blues cars: Chevys and Cadillacs and broken-down trucks.  Blues
don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles.  Most Blues
transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet
aircraft an' state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running.  Walkin'
plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.

6.  Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet.
Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough to get
the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.

7.  Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or any
place in Canada.  Hard times in St. Paul or Tucson is just depression.
Chicago, St.Louis, and Kansas City still the best places to have the Blues.
You cannot have the blues in any place that don't get rain.

8.  A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues. A woman with
male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cuz you skiing is not
the blues. Breaking your leg cuz an alligator be chomping on it is.

9.  You can't have no Blues in an office or a shopping mall. The
lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.

10.  Good places for the Blues:
            a.      highway
            b.      jailhouse
            c.      empty bed
            d.      bottom of a whiskey glass

            Bad places:
            a.      Ashrams
            b.      gallery openings
            c.      Ivy League institutions
            d.      golf courses

11.  No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less
you happen to be an old ethnic person, and you slept in it.

12.  Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if:
             a.      you're older than dirt
             b.      you're blind
             c.      you shot a man in Memphis
                        d.      you can't be satisfied
             No, if:
             a.      you have all your teeth
             b.      you were once blind but now can see
             c.      the man in Memphis lived.
             d.      you have a retirement plan or trust fund.

13.  Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck.
Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Gary Coleman could. Ugly white people
also got a leg up on the blues.

14.  If you ask for water and Baby give you gasoline, it's the Blues.
           Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
             a.      wine
             b.      whiskey or bourbon
             c.      muddy water
             d.      black coffee

       The following are NOT Blues beverages:
             a.      mixed drinks
             b.      kosher wine
             c.      Snapple
             d.      sparkling water

15.  If it occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues
death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way
to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse, and dying lonely on a
broken down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis
match or while getting liposuction.

16.  Some Blues names for women:
             a.      Sadie
             b.      Big Mama
             c.      Bessie
             d.      Fat River Dumpling

17.  Some Blues names for men:
              a.      Joe
              b.      Willie
              c.      Little Willie
              d.      Big Willie

18.  Persons with names like Sierra, Sequoia, Auburn, and Rainbow
     can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.

19.  Make your own Blues name (starter kit):
              a.      name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame, etc.)
              b.      first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime,
                      Kiwi, etc.)
              c.      last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore,
                      etc.)
        For example, Blind Lime Jefferson, or Cripple Kiwi Fillmore, etc.
                                       (Well, maybe not "Kiwi.")

20.  I don't care how tragic your life: you own a computer, you
cannot sing the blues. You best destroy it. Fire, a spilled bottle of
Mad Dog, or get out a shotgun. Maybe your big woman just done sat on it.
I don't care.

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U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed an Armistice Day for November 11,
1919. The United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution seven years
later on June 4, 1926, requesting the President issue another proclamation to
observe November 11 with appropriate ceremonies.

An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U.S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the
11th of November in each year a legal holiday; "a day to be dedicated to the
cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice
Day'."

In 1953, an Emporia, Kansas shoe store owner named Al King had the idea to
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King had been actively involved with the American War Dads during World War II.
He began a campaign to turn Armistice Day into "All" Veterans Day.

The Emporia Chamber of Commerce took up the cause after determining that 90% of
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With the help of then-U.S. Rep. Ed Rees, also from Emporia, a bill for the
holiday was pushed through Congress. President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into
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Congress amended this act on November 8, 1954, replacing "Armistice" with
Veterans, and it has been known as Veterans Day since.