Thinking back

I was on the sofa yesterday, not watching TV, not reading, not even surfing on the computer; what I was doing was thinking about my digestive tract, which had been given my some, er, problems. Later in the evening, my mind moved back to ‘the long ago” and I remembered I had a picture on the blog from another time when I was rummaging in the past. It’s here.

Well, look, I found it in the media library – it wasn’t one of those I had put in by name – it was labeled “scan”, instead of Two Roberts.

This would have been in 1971 when my folks came out to Iowa State University to bring Robert William and me home for the summer, while Der Bingle continued his graduate work in the scorching heat of the Iowa plains.

We came back through Illinois and made a stop at Lincoln’s Tomb and then stopped at my paternal grandmother’s in Kingman, Indiana.

Robert William’s grandpa loved him very much and when he died, Robert remarked he was the most decent man he knew.