Walk a Mile

There are some days when it's too hot to ride a bike and there are no tennis shenanigans to report and a tousan doesn't have a decent photo for blogging. Today is such a day. These are my tennis shoes after two hours of tennis on Sunday. I can run in them and serve tennis balls in them, and when I do, the toe part of the shoe drags and gets worn away. I have a closet full of tennis shoes with useable uppers with the toe part reduced to a hole. So it goes.


The photo below is the grandfather of KS and UH - Thomas Eugene Miller - and was taken in about 1940. The background brands the scene as the yard at Marvin Anderson's "cabin" across county road U from Dick's Ranch. It was home to Tom and Lillie and the kids for some time in the 1940's. There is a doghouse and the Yellow River in the background. Tom was born on January 26, 1909, on his grandfather's (George L Jones) 75th birthday. Twenty eight years later, on his birthday, Tom's dad (George Eugene Miller) died. It makes you wonder about his karma. He's looking pretty sporty with his suspenders and in his clean shirt.