BS: Happy Birthday Don Firth

Subject: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 21 Jun 02 - 01:08 AM

I happened to be catching up on some threads and noticed that Don Firth turned 71 on the 19th! Happy Birthday to a great contributor to Mudcat...All the best Don!

LL

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 21 Jun 02 - 01:38 AM

And a big Hau'oli La Hanau from here in the middle of the Pacific, Don. May you have many more, in health and joy. Maybe one of these days I'll catch up with you again--or you with me! (It's a little warmer here...)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 Jun 02 - 01:45 AM

Many thanks, LL! I don't feel 71, but then I'm not sure what 71 is supposed to feel like. I can't seem to relate to that number, yet that's what the calendar says.

I have to agree with the statement that "inside every seventy-year-old is a teen-ager wondering what in the hell happened!!???"

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 Jun 02 - 01:53 AM

And thanks to you too, Mark. Gee, one last check-in before I hit that sack and I find this goin on! I'll check back in the morning.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Deckman
Date: 21 Jun 02 - 06:10 PM

And for those of you that haven't SEEN Don yet, I will add that he also does NOT LOOK 71! CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jun 02 - 06:31 PM

Happy Bday Don !! May you have many more years of your contributions to the Mudcat from which we all benefit.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Miken
Date: 21 Jun 02 - 08:49 PM

Another Happy Birthday,Don!! Hope to see you this weekend.

Mike Nelson

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Miken
Date: 21 Jun 02 - 08:52 PM

Make that NEXT weekend!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 21 Jun 02 - 10:12 PM

happy birthday..and you don't look anywhere near 71..not even 60...I would believe 50...but barely.

mg

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jun 02 - 12:21 AM

Don, I agree, you looked great the last time I saw you. I hope you're feeling as good as you looked!

Maggie

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Jun 02 - 12:38 AM

Well, I haven't clapped eyes on ya, yet, but I'll take their word for it! Happy Birthday and thanks for sharing so much of yourself and your music with us this past year. May you have many, many more.

With all good wishes,

kat

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Mudlark
Date: 22 Jun 02 - 03:14 AM

Happy Birthday, Don! Keep 'em coming....

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: fat B****rd
Date: 22 Jun 02 - 04:54 AM

Happy birthday Mr. F

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: 53
Date: 22 Jun 02 - 12:15 PM

Happy Birthday Don and may you have many more posts. They are great. Bob

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Jun 02 - 12:31 PM

Don, remember this----you're only as old as the women you feel........So get out and find yourself some sweet young thing and enjoy yourself. I'd do the same thing myself, but Karen would kill me and I'm frankly not sure I can remember what to do anyway.................Happy Birthday!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: GUEST,old moose
Date: 22 Jun 02 - 03:50 PM

Turns out that the family wedding and your birthday party are on subsequent days so I'll make it to the birthday do and greet you in person. question, do you prefer apple pie or tamale pie? this is a trick question so be sure you answer correctly.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Deckman
Date: 22 Jun 02 - 03:55 PM

GOOD GRIEF MOOSE!!!! It's about time that your family had a wedding. See you soon. CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jun 02 - 04:47 PM

Happy Birthday Don. Just got the VHS tape off to Bob. Enjoy and raise a glass to celebrate.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Hrothgar
Date: 23 Jun 02 - 12:07 AM

Spaw, if you can't remember what to to, are you gane to ask Karen? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Jun 02 - 12:29 AM

...or is she relieved that you have forgotten?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Jun 02 - 12:44 AM

Happy Birthday to you Don Firth.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 02 - 02:39 AM

And Don, when are you going to publish that memoir/biography that you've been tantalizing the list with for so long? It's a wonderful set of stories, and needs to see light of day!

Maggie

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Kaleea
Date: 23 Jun 02 - 02:43 AM

Funny, Don doesn't LOOK 71 on this thread!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 02 - 10:24 AM

Of course, we're all treating aging like it's something to be avoided. Perhaps I should readdress this and say "Don, you make 71 look great!" And for those who haven't been so lucky as to hear this man play and sing, he makes 71 SOUND great also!

Maggie

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Deckman
Date: 23 Jun 02 - 10:43 AM

Maggie ... I have to add something else, also. He told me the other day that he's learned two new songs for the upcomming hoot. And ... I know he writes volumes every day! He does indeed make 71 look good. CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Jun 02 - 03:53 PM

Aw, shucks, folks! Ya got me blushin'!!

But thanks, all. In a thread sometime back, kat quoted actress Ruth Gordon saying ""how old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" I may have that stitched into a sampler. I think it pretty much sums it up. I feel actually feel like I'm in my mid-twenties—except when I wake up feeling like I've been run over by a truck—and for the fact that I squeak like a collection of rusty hinges whenever I move. But what the heck? I do have a little mileage on the odometer, I guess.

Maggie, the memoir/autobio is coming along, but it's liable to be awhile yet. I've got over 100,000 words written so far, and I'm only up to the very early Sixties. I'm just letting the whole thing flow out just to get it on paper (or disk) first, then I'm going to have to do some serious editing to make the whole thing liftable. It won't be anything like an academic history. I'm trying to make something cohesive out of a collection of reminiscences, anecdotes, character sketches, adventures, triumphs, crashes into the wall, coffeehouse reviews, occasional freak shows, and commentaries and opinions. Pictures too. I may even go insane and try to include and optional CD, too, but that's all wild speculation at this point.

In the meantime, I gotta go check on this "mayor" thing. . . .???

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Don Firth
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Jun 02 - 04:53 PM

By the way, Mike and Moose, glad you'll be there. And Moose, either's fine, but it's sure been awhile since I've had tamale pie. Yumm!

Don Firth