2024 had the collies watching three herricanes closely. Our pal Chucho moved to a new place and we have some new friends at Angel Paws. Neither of us enjoyed the fireworks that went off the last two nights.
Gemini & Normandy
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5 January - Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 door plug blows out.
2 February - Carl Weathers crosses the rainbow bridge. Dad enjoyed Carl Weathers acting in the Rocky movies, Predator and Happy Gilmore.
5 February - Toby Keith crosses the rainbow bridge.
14 February - Kansas City Super Bowl Parade shooting.
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8 April - Total Solar Eclipse
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| Total Eclipse Pawtragraph - Cleaveland Ohio |
10 April - O.J. Simpson crosses the rainbow bridge. Dad was a big Buffalo Bills fan growing up. He remembers OJ's Buffalo Bills days well.
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20 May - Gemini tears some skin in her mouth.
18 June - Willie Mays crosses the rainbow bridge.
20 June - Donald Sutherland crosses the rainbow bridge. Dad remembers him from Mash, Dirty Dozen and Hunger Games.
12 July - Dr Ruth crosses the rainbow bridge.
13 July - Shannen Doherty crosses the rainbow bridge. Starred in Beverly Hills, 90210, Charmed, and the movie Heathers.
- Richard Simmons crosses the rainbow bridge. Remembered for being a fitness instructor. Sweaten' to the Oldies.
18 July - Bob Newhart crosses the rainbow bridge. A classic comedian.
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| Seeing Double - Four Collies |
4 August - Herricane Debby
18 August - Phil Donahue crosses the rainbow bridge. Talk show host that Dad watched quite a bit when he lived in Ohio.
28 August - Our Moon Dance Huskies, cyber paw pal, crosses the rainbow bridge.
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| Lilly |
9 September - James Earl Jones crosses the rainbow bridge. A pawtastic actor. Starred in Dr. Strangelove, Field of Dreams, Hunt for Red October, Conan the Barbarian and of course the voice of Darth Vader.
15 September - Trump assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
25-27 September - Hurricane Helene passes west of Key West. Our pal Chucho and his Dog Mom survive as their camper was swept up.
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| Chucho In His New Camper |
27 September - Maggie Smith (Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies) crosses the rainbow bridge.
30 September - Pete Rose, Charlie Hustle, baseball player for the Reds and Phillies, crosses the rainbow bridge.
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| Pete Rose |
22 October - Fernando Valenzuela crosses the rainbow bridge.
6 November - Trump Wins Election
27 November - Albert Wayne Prince crosses rainbow bridge. Wayne was a very good friend of Dads. They first met when Dad worked in the oil patch in Oklahoma. We heard Wayne talk with Dad on the phone at times.
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| Dad's Oklahoma Pal Wayne |
20-29 December - Copper stays with us while his hoomans are out of town.
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| Cooper |
27 December - Greg Gumbel crosses rainbow bridge. Famous sports caster.
29 December - Jimmy Carter crosses rainbow bridge.
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31 December - Puerto Rico power outage. Most of Puerto Rico power grid goes down on Christmas Eve.
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Quite a bit happened in 2024. Now we are starting the year of the Dragon. Hopefully everypaw will have a pawtastic year.
Dog Speed,
Gemini & Normandy
1 comment:
Wow, u don't really realize how many notable personalities have died until u start listing them! I remember almost all of them. A bit of our world is gone with each one. Some will be sorely missed, others not so much. Lotta good & bad news this year, too. Your hurricane season was pretty mild...mostly rain and a bit of wind, which we also managed to get up here!!! Trump won the Presidential election...he's a shrewd businessman. I hope he can fix the economy & inflation gone so terribly wild. It will be a true test of his ability to lead and make proper decisions. My hat is off to him if he succeeds. Of course, THE BIGGEST THING THIS YEAR FOR ME was something that I've waited for since 1991 (33+ years) when I first found out about it. The TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE that passed directly over the small Ohio town where I'm originally from. It's sad that mom/dad weren't here to see it cuz they would've enjoyed it, but, I did see it, and it was SPECTACULAR!!!! Waaaay better than the one that I went to see in 2017 in Tennessee, and just a hair short of twice the time in the darkness of the moon's shadow. A memory etched in my brain forever.
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