A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day 08-05-02

Just Amy, Mama_Bear, daisyscarlett, ST.LOUIE1, and Billie

[JustAmy]

Vacation, June 1975. Sheila and the boys! Made it to the beach.

[lodwick]

Condolonces on the trip - freeper withdrawal pains are the absolute worst.

Have a super vacation. ;-)

[daisyscarlett]

How far is nearest public library from your cabin? You could always run into town to "check out some books". All libraries have public computers nowadays, I do believe...

Here is some internet humor...

[JustAmy]

Thank you for stopping by. I enjoyed posting Jim's photo album. I have known him for most of these years ..... since 1974, just before Chris was born.

[ru4liberty]

I was suggesting that we should bring a class-action suit again JimRob for turning us all into addicts, and Lodwick supplied this link. It's a fun read!

[Mama_Bear]

We leave tomorrow at 5:00 a.m. for Mr. D's cousins funeral...wife and kids are holding their own...but I'm sure the next few months will be tough. Please keep them in your prayers.

I will do that.

This is coming up for me....Visiting Mom & Dad for the last leg after being without FR for 5 days.

Thanks for the laughs...you are so funny! I know exactly what you are talking about. I had a terrible time when I went to visit my cousin for a week. They have a Mac and I had no idea how to boot it up (sheesh! these people actually shut their computer down for several hours at a time!). I had to keep asking them if they would please log on to the internet for me, that I needed to "check something". I tried to hide how desperate I was, but by the end of the week, I could tell they were very concerned about my internet addiction. LOL!

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[lodwick]

Condolences, perhaps? ;-)

[Aquamarine]

Time sure does fly, that thread is over a year old!

[JustAmy]

Why am I pinging Louie? He is AWOL this afternoon; I'm wasting my typing fingers trying to call him!!



How do you like our new motor home? Taken early 1978.

[Mama_Bear]

Amy, I am loving these pictures! Keep them coming. :-)

[JustAmy]

Vacation to Lodgepole Memorial Day 1978. Might as well break this baby in.

[MeekOneGOP]

YEAH, RIGHT!!

LOL! That's a funny pic !

[lodwick]

Snack?

[mtngrl@vrwc]

What a pleasure it is to get home from a mini-vacation in San Francisco only to hook up the old 'puter and find that Jim and Sheila Robinson are being featured on FR's Finest!

Jim and Sheila are two of my favorite people in the world! Jim is such a devoted patriot and all around good guy. Sheila is such a cut up and so much fun! I am honored to be able to FReep the peaceniks (and go out to dinner afterwards) with these two great Americans nearly every Friday night.

I admire the two of you so much!

[JustAmy]

Many of you have seen this, but I wanted to post it for those who have not.
Jim, Sheila, John and Chris with Jim's Mom and Dad. 1981.
Hey ..... those boys are growing!

[Snow Bunny]

Congratulations Jim,thank you for FR.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Enjoying the stroll down memory lane...well, it's not my memory but memorable nonetheless.

[daisyscarlett]

Yep, now Jim is starting to look like Jim in the photos. What fun this is and what fun it must be for Chris and John, too.

[Jim Robinson]

Amy, Today marks a century since my Dad was born. August 5th, 1902.

Here is something my brother Orvil sent out last night to the Robinson mailing list:

Hi Robinsons,

August 5 is the 100th anniversary of Omer Robinson's birth. He was born in Mena, Arkansas. Omer married Freda Ernestine Morton on November 30, 1931 in Alma, Arkansas. Omer and Freda were the parents of 9 children: Orvil 1933, Betty 1935, Thelma (Jacky) 1937 d1979, Shirley 1941, Linda 1943, James 1945, Donald 1946, Nancy 1949 d2001, and Margriet 1951.

Omer once worked in the wheat fields of Kansas(?) as a young man. He had a barber shop in Kibler, Arkansas during the late 20s and early 30s charging 10 cents for a haircut. During the Great Depression he worked a while for the WPA for 25 cents an hour. He moved his young family to Califonia in September 1939 - summer 1940. The trip took almost a year. They stopped to pick cotton for one of Freda's relatives in Oklahoma. Omer helped to construct a pond and mend fences at a ranch near near Roswell, New Mexico. They celebrated Christmas 1939 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Omer harvested grapefruits and oranges for several months near Mesa, Arizona. After a brief visit with his brother Ernest and his family in Corona, California he found temporary shelter at a California Agricultural Work Camp near Visalia, California. They moved after a few weeks to Exeter and then to Raisin City where he took care of an apricot orchard for the Merkle (sp?) Ranch. Omer moved his family to Fresno in 1942. He took a job with the Rosenberg Raisin Company becoming a mechanic to keep the equipment operating. I seem to recall that he claimed a 4th grade education. He took a home study course in mathematics to qualify for a war effort work in a machine shop. After Rosenberg closed its doors Omer worked until retirement as a paver for Langworthy Construction Company.

There is a picture of Omer at Jame's web site home page: www.psnw.com/~jimrob Orvil