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Like a fine bottle of wine, a 60's muscle car, a Mickey Mantle rookie card, an original Picasso, or even a block of cheese: Ray's worth more with proper aging. Happy Birthday Ray, and many more.......
(too bad we can't cash in our cliches)
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Happy Birthday Ray...nap time gets to be increased 5% +/-
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAYMOND ! AND BEST WISHES FOR MANY MORE !
-------------------- Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain ! Jim Moser Design 13342 C Grass Valley Ave. Grass Valley, Ca. 95945 530-273-7615 jwmoser@att.net Posts: 488 | From: Grass Valley, Ca. | Registered: May 2006
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It's your too??? Damn, got to get a life...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAY!!!! (shouted Frank after realizing he was late, again)
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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Happy Birthday Ray, they may call you short, but no one can measure up to you in quality and many other things. Bill
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Sixty-five seemed like old age back there when I was a teen, but it doesn't now...as long as I don't look in the mirror. As long as I don't think too much about it, I actually feel very young.
I'm all signed up for Medicare and will start drawing Social Security in January. Yesterday I renewed my driver's license, so Texas is going to allow me on the streets again until 2015.
Today was a nice day. Jeanne greeted me with a kiss and new shirt. Mike and Julie gave a nice book and some warm pajamas (you get colder the older you get, you know). Mike even took me out for one of those good juicy, greasy cheeseburgers that we like.
The day was spent doing what I love to do and have always dreamed of doing - working in my studio. We finished up some work for a school in West Texas and lettered a pickup for a local builder. Nothing that would be in a magazine but rather nice, if I do say so myself.
Tonight, Jeanne will have me a fine meal and we will enjoy just sitting and talking about our day. Life is good. Tonight I will sleep well, knowing that I am rich with friends.
When the builder picked up his pickup today, that was the last job we had to do. There is nothing on the docket for tomorrow other than cleaning up the shop. So, today is a milestone in two ways. The culmination of 65 years of living and the first time I have ever had no work to do.
Of course, the bills continue to come in and there is no money to pay them...but today has been good and tomorrow will begin the new dream for the future. Up looks good from down here.
Thank you all for being my friends.
-------------------- Chapman Sign Studio Temple, Texas chapmanstudio@sbcglobal.net Posts: 6306 | From: Temple, Texas, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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So how much of this cold weather do you want me to bottle up and send your way for a gift?
-------------------- Sam Staffan Mackinaw Art & Sign 721 S. Nokomis St. Mackinaw City, MI dstaffan@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1694 | From: Mackinaw City, MI | Registered: Mar 2004
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Hey Mr Ray, I'm late too, but Happy Birthday anyway!! Glad all is going well...
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Happy Birthday Ray!!!!!!! I hope you're busy after BD 65. Are you doing any hand painted show cards anymore? I'm seeing vinyl in newly released movies with time periods BC! Mark Baty
-------------------- Mark Baty Mark 1 Studio 1980 SE Leeann Drive Waukee, IA 50263 Posts: 45 | From: Waukee, Iowa | Registered: Aug 2008
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Thats what you get from not looking in on a daily basis.
Happy Belated Birthday to you, thanks for the mail the other day, was looking through some pics from last year, funny how an avatar here or pic in a magazine, gets you thinking you know people somewhat. Meeting you in real life was a real pleasure, and alot of fun not at all how I expected, hope we all get to meet up again before not too long.
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Whaaat?!? I missed Raymond's bday? Well, I suppose that just means we get to start all over today. Happy Birthday Raymond! More cake and presents can't be a bad thing...
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