Welcome to my blog! This is Old Grandpa Lloyd talking. I have no idea how this thing works, but I'll give it a try, an extension of my e-journal I call the Hole News, News for short.
I launched the e-journal in 2009 as my Elsie began to fade to keep my five kids posted. Not sure how it happened, but things got out of hand. Now about 170 folks get the News, family, friends, and people I have never met. If you stumble on this blog and come back, you'll be in good company. I post stuff most every day.
The Hole News name comes from the hole in the night I regularly experience. I sleep two, three hours then get up and write two, three hours. Sometimes I get carried away and have to clarify or apologize the next day. I just write about my day and air philosophy, sometimes theology. I will continue Hole News e-mails. Should you want on the list, email me at mattson.lloyd1@gmail.com. To learn more about my erratic ways, go to http://www.lloydmattson.com/. For a brief musical photo tour of my 66-year journey with Elsie, hit Links You'll Like and click on Love Story.
Son Kevin and his wife Tena look after me and share in my enterprises. ww.mattsonentertainment.com.
You will find typos and other strange stuff in my jottings. Be patient. I'm an old guy. Here's the Hole News for August 9:
Welcome back, Amy King. Not sure why we lost you. Several Hole News regulars suffered the same fate. Amy the fiddle lady is my granddaughter, wife of George, daughter of Keith, mother of Ephrem the philosopher and Christopher the footballer. They abide in Elyria, Ohio.
Welcome also to Kendall Marie Pugh, daughter of David and Crystal Pugh of Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin, Tena’s first grandchild. Kendall signed in on August 8 at 4:40 a.m. weighing six pounds 14 ounces with a reach of 19 inches. Great-grand #22, she is the youngest member of the Hole News gang.
At dusk I harvested the last of the raspberries; half a cup. I’ll tell you a secret: I’m a woods whisperer! I talk with plants. Trees, shrubs, flowers; doesn’t matter. Some of you are old enough to remember Dr. Doolittle who lived in Victorian England in Puddleby-on-the-marsh and talked with animals; even fish. Many books were written about him. Since my mother’s ancestors came from England, it’s not at all surprising that I can talk with plants. What I heard in the raspberry patch just before dark would astonish you.
Tomorrow I will visit Hole News member Dave Rogotzke, another lover of trees. I don’t know that he talks with them. We will talk maple syrup and fishing. Dave runs a drift net boat out of Dillingham on Bristol Bay and ships home tons of frozen fillets. I will come away with wild Alaska sockeye and Minnesota State Fair Blue Ribbon maple syrup. Check Dave’s stunning website: www.simplegiftssyrupandsalmon.com. Enjoy the fishing and syrup-making slide shows. Study the recipes. Follow the Woman Today link to another blockbuster website by Hole News friends Pat and Glenda Sherman, publishers of Duluth’s hands-down finest magazine. www.thewomantoday.com.
Someday just for fun I’ll post the Hole News websites I can find; there’s a bunch of them offering goods, services, and ministries that touch the world. Profiles of our 170 members would make a fascinating book.
Speaking of which: The Hole News souvenir book slowly takes shape. Keith will be with us soon to shoot the covers. I’m recruiting Mark Boskoffsky to do final proofing. When a probable release date shows on the calendar, I’ll pass the word. We will print only the number ordered: ten bucks a copy. We’re aiming at 160 pages.
With two print books and one audio book in the works, my days are full and challenging, and I ain’t getting any younger. I lean on the promise: “Your strength will equal your days” (Deuteronomy 33:25).
Old Grandpa Lloyd
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