Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22
From: Susan A-R
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 08:23 PM

Thanks Joe, I'm glad you extended it to the Birth Week. Best wishes from Vermont.

Much love,

Susan A-R

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22
From: Big Mick
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 10:12 PM

Those last three posts demonstrate what is so absolutely wonderful about this place. I don't get here as often as I would like these days, but the posts from Don Firth, as well as Jean and George, just knock me out. I hope my fellow 'Catters realize what a treat we have just been given. That glimpse into our dear friends life by people of this stature is what it is all about. Passin' it on.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:37 PM

Made it all the way to the Big Apple without having to stop along the way for some pearl diving of my own, too, Don, thanks to the generosity of my considerate friends! Got a ride just east of Spokane with an engineer from Anaconda Copper who wanted to get plastered. First he asked if I had a gun in the guitar case (I didn't -- it was a guitar!). Then he asked if I had a driver's license (I did, Ohio, from my earlier stay in Toledo). Then I took the wheel and we stopped at every bar between Spokane and Butte, Montana, where I poured him into the arms of his loving wife at his own front door. In every bar, he wanted to buy me a drink,. I reminded him that I was driving, so settled on buying me a hamburger. I kept smiling, strumming and singing, and stuffing the burgers into my pack. Ate the damn things all the way to New York!

Amazing how you manage to bring back memories for me, Don. I hadn't thought about that particular trip for years!

Thanks again, folks, for all the good wishes and kind words. I finally told Caroline about this thread, and now she wants me to read it to her. I'm thoroughly embarrassed!

Sandy (the old solivagant)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 03:10 AM

As they say in the Rugger tradition:

Why was he born so beautiful? ....

KC King

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 03:23 AM

Opps, I missed a birthday.. Happy Birthday Sandy,

Jon

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 08:19 AM

SANDY! Sorry to be a bit late but what Rick and Art say- I say ditto too. And so does Elaine. And Lie-Hue would if only he were aliveth. Cheers, BURL

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:58 PM

Hell, Burl, most of this stuff could have been written by Lie-Hue, if he could write, which is doubtful. He was known to stretch things a bit, you know.

Sandy (curmudgeon in residence)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 09:30 PM

Hurrying to get my Happy Birthday in before the door closes. Not been checking threads lately. Hope it was a great Day with many more to follow.

All the memoirs made me a bit nostalgic. All the songs, the Dictionary games, the Thanksgivings, the good times and old friends. We go back a way.

Much love to you, and hugs for Caroline, too. Joan

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday, Sandy Paton, 1/22
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 11:41 PM

This is yet another thread I'm gonna keep on a floppy so when the computer melts down (or California takes all the electricity) I can put a stylus (needle)into the tone arm of a wind-up player and hear all these wondrous sentiments and stuff I never knew before. This is a grand site in a fantastic world---and I say that with all that the root word "fantasy" can conjur up in our mind's eyes and ears too.

Thanks to you for all of it, old friend--on this, your 72nd---am I right ?

Love,

Art