Disney Sunday Movies

Remember the 80’s Disney live action classics? My siblings and I loved the Sunday night movies (Like The BRAT Patrol). We would tape them from TV onto a VHS tape and watch them over and over. I still remember that we would all yell, “pause!” when the commercials came on, and “play!” when the movie was back. If we pushed the buttons on the VCR at just the right time we could get the tape with no commercials and not miss any dialogue when the movie started up again.

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Mr. Boogedy was one of our favorites:

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Fish Out of Water

Having recently returned from a trip to Utah, where it was so freezing, we found ourselves surprised by some of these things that were once so commonplace:

Our glasses fogging up when we walked into a warm room from outside.

A layer of salt on the car. I’ve never seen this slogan on a car wash sign here:  A car wash a day keeps the salt away!

Scraping windshields.

Dirty, wet shoes piled up near the front door.

Warming up the car so it’s a decent temperature inside for driving around town.

When kids pass a pile of snow, they have to step in it!

Using the windshield wiper fluid and getting yourself a windshield covered with a thin layer of ice.

Hearing, “Mom, I can’t eat any more dinner, I ate too much snow.”

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A Valentine

Happy Valentines Day!

For my sweetheart on the one day a year that I cave in to being cheesy:

Will you be my Valentine?
I know that I am yours.
You are like a tossing sea
And I am like your shores.

You are like an endless wave
And I your waiting sand.
And I will wait forever as
You come and smooth my hand.

I will wait forever, yet
You are a part of me.
I hold you in my arms, while you
Come to me endlessly.

Will you be my Valentine?
I know that I am yours.
I love you with a love that yearns
To be your golden shores.

-by Daniel Rowe

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