Hi Dad!

Yes, I remember our Saturday morning breakfasts when I was little! I remember sitting with you at a counter service, at a diner (Jack's Shack on West Frank Phillips Boulevard here in Bartlesville, Oklahoma) having pancakes. And remember the Saturday morning when that tree fell on our car (on Sunset Boulevard as we were driving out to Lake Hudson) after breakfast?

I remember some people (I think some men) in the diner, talking to me and you but I don't remember about what.

Something else that I fondly remember is our Friday night outings to Lakeside Speedway in Dewey to watch the stock car races. I remember Gary Fickle's #28 blue Chevy, Sonny Truitt's super modified, Podge Catlin's orange '57 Ford, that little white Jeep that used to drive around the track and that pool cue I won in the drawing one night while we were there. Most of all, I remember how you used to 'rev up' old Blackie, our '62 Chevy as we hurried out of the cow-pasture parking area of the speedway; how we used to have a foot-race to the car, too! Those were the days -- wonderful, special times that I will always have in my memories!

Yes, thank the Lord for them all and thank the Lord we have good ones!

Love, Paul