29 July 2022
20 July 2022
The 1976 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible - A True King Of The Road
My 1976 Cadillac Eldorado convertible. 21 feet long, 7 feet wide, 500 cubic inch engine. So smooth-riding, it was like cruising on your living room couch. I sold my four-year-old 1994 F-250, and bought this. The car was 22 years old when I bought it, and had maybe 40,000 miles on it. Everything worked, even the air conditioning. The horn was really something. There were maybe four horns wired together, to give a rich, full, "Move, you peasants" sound.
Old men love it, because they remember when this was a new model.
Young kids love it, because they have never seen anything like it.
I was driving one day, when a little girl, maybe 10 years old, saw me.
She stared, and then yelled out "Rock Me Baybee !"
I almost wrecked, I was laughing so hard.
I loved that car, and the top and windows were always down, except when it was actively raining.
This car is the namesake of the blog.
19 July 2022
Helping Verbs
Be Am Is Are Was Were Been Being
Do Does Did
Have Has Had
Can Could
May Might
Shall Should
Will Would
Must
Charleston, South Carolina in 1968.
We learned these in Mr. Houck's fourth or fifth grade English class at Porter-Gaud School.
Mr. Houck taught us to remember them to the tune of "Taps".
I still remember them 55 years later, along with "It's always means it is".
Funny the stuff that stays with you.
I'm sorry to say that I didn't appreciate Mr. Houck at the time.
18 July 2022
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