Shadows are the quiet type but I enjoy life and being involved in life.

Life as I know it started in Waco, Texas in 1950.

I have traveled the world since 1970 and have yet to settle down in one place.

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Remembering Open Diary

January 12, 2021
Seems like forever ago I joined Open Diary so I could write about the life and times of me. Must have posted ten stories a day for years and enjoyed reading others postings. When Open Diary had some hard times I paid to be a life time member. Continued writing, posting and reading others post&hel...
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  • Missing Stories and Pictures
    March 21, 2018
    [caption id="attachment_4491383" align="alignnone" width="300"] Bob Busby having fun and still smiling after all these years.[/caption] I am still wandering about in this new version of Open Diary and noticed not all my entries from way back are here, none of the pictures are here and many of the...
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  • Living Life
    March 20, 2018
    Living life and having Fun with those you enjoy being with is what makes life so exciting.
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  • Bird Camp
    March 13, 2018
    Just in case y’all have nothing to do and have a few moments between your daily activities, thought I would share a time when Ann and I had birds as pets… Ann was once a supporter of a bird rescue facility in Washington D.C. way back in the 1990s through 2008 when we (we being…
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  • Too Cool
    January 18, 2014
     Weather here in CENTRAL FLORIDA has been ranging from 30 degrees to 77 degrees for several weeks now. Having hard time with this cold snap, not the weather we signed on for.May have to reevaluate location!  
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  • Remembering CW4 Leslie J. Denk, U.S. Army (Ret.),
    January 13, 2014
    One of the story tellers of CID memories of way back when mentioned Les Denk, he was my second OPS at Stuttgart while I was still in my probation year of 1977. One day while talking to Les in his office the phone rang and he took the call but had me wait. It was the…
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  • Checking In
    December 29, 2013
    Good bye old year 2013 and Welcome new year 2014 with hopes of life getting better for all of us no matter what our previous or current life was and is...Smiles. Ann and I are still having fun in retirement or as much fun as we can have with our on-going ills, but we keep…
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  • Lost Thoughts And Memories
    May 25, 2013
    Over the years have written and posted many comments, stories, and pictures and videos here, still post every now and then but spend way to much time on face book since my kid and her kids and many of my school and army and DoD folks are on facebook. Amazing how we seem to bounce from…
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  • 04/23/2013
    April 22, 2013
    Wide Guy Comment My weight has started to fall off for a change, managed to drop from 320 in Jan 2012 to 270 in Apr 2013. Still have a ways to go but am working on getting my body to a normal state...what every that is. Since the weight has dropped off have managed to…
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  • First Responders
    April 22, 2013
    My nephew who lives in West, Texas wrote and sings this song about those who responded to the destruction in West, Texas this month. http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/195174547
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