Hospital Baby Frames

I think that in hospital rooms for new moms instead of large framed photos of generic moms and babies handing on the walls there should be digital ones and the hospital could project you and your baby into the frame.

Photo: Great niece Mallie Belle Lovingood's 

feet in NICU at UT Hospital.

"Johnny's Cafe" Baseball

This is Daddy's "Johnny's Cafe" baseball uniform.  Daddy was the pitcher.  Around 1953.  One greatest things about working in the courthouse is all the people who come through that knew my parents. One old man came through last year to pay taxes. He told me "I was there the day your Daddy could have signed with the big leagues". I can't remember the team though.....I told the man I would love to have some old photos. We have lots of WWII Navy photos but I've never seen a photo of my Daddy playing baseball.

Scuttlebutt

Young fellow in the navy, when the talk begins to flow,
And you’ll find it does, my hearty, wheresoever you may go,
You will hear it in your quarters and you’ll hear it fore and aft;
They will tell you who is coming and who’s due to leave the craft.
Just remember mouths of sailors very seldom long are shut
And unfounded conversation is what’s know as “Scuttlebutt!”

When some “hasher” starts relating what he’s heard a “Striper” say,
Take it in, if you’ve a mind to, but don’t carry it away!
When the women get to talking, and it’s certain that they will,
Just remember sailors’ ladies are not famed for sitting still.
When you hit the sack, forget it! Better far your throat were cut
Than to use it to be spreading what is known as “Scuttlebutt!”

There’s a constant flow of chatter both ashore and far at sea
Touching when and where you’re bound for and what will or will not be,
But remember, boy, no matter what it is you may have hear;
In the navy nothing’s certain till the skipper gives “the word.”
Only brass hats know what’s doing. On the bridge alone they strut,
But from them you get your orders. All the rest is “Scuttlebutt!”

“Edgar Guest.”

(Photo: my daddy, Glen Maynard, WWII Naval Vet)

Daddy's WWII Navy Uniform

Lynette said Daddy's old WWII Navy uniform would be nice framed for my office in the courthouse. I found the dinner menu for the U.S.S. Ocelot, the discharge letter of thanks for his service, his registration certificate, a newspaper that I'm assuming was a ship newspaper called "Swallow Tale" from July 13, 1946, a poem about "Scuttlebutt", a map of Pearl Harbor from a newspaper showing the approximate locations of the ships units December 7, 1941 together in his Naval trunk, all of which would be nice framed as well. Wow, I love history and I know my sisters and I are all proud of and loved our Daddy.