Author Archives: Wright Flyer Guy

It’s a peaceful, yet very stunning morning as we climb toward the eight o’clock hour. The sun is bright, the sky is a brilliant blue, the leaves and branches offer a gentle hula motion as the light breeze passes through, … Continue reading →

One of my favorite holidays of the entire year. July 2nd, 1776, was the day it was agreed upon that our young, experimental country made the actual decision to adopt the declaration written by thirty-three-year-old, Thomas Jefferson. Still, this day … Continue reading →

It’s been a long week due to gut discomfort and although it is hanging on, I am in the hope the start of the new week, tomorrow, will begin a new level of comfort. Today was spent all day at … Continue reading →

The outside world is still flooded from the soaking we received last evening and occasionally throughout the morning. After seeing PHANTOM OF THE OPEN at Dayton’s Neon Movies, Mama Kay, her cousin, Sue, Anna, and I went to China Cottage … Continue reading →

Our 2007 family vacation in The Outer Banks on Ocracoke Island, a favorite family haunt.

From 1999 until 2015, we often visited The Outer Banks several times a year. In fact, two or three times in the summer, I would finish teaching by 8:00 PM on Wednesday and tell the boys, “Plan B!” They’d scatter … Continue reading →

Muggy! It’s still a beautiful morning, here at my deck retreat. The sounds of the various birds sound much like the background of a film soundtrack, but then there are the sounds of work coming from the high school, Shroyer’s … Continue reading →

In February 1912, the United States government filed two suits against National Cash Register under the Sherman Antitrust Act. One was a civil suit against the company itself, and the other sought criminal prosecution of NCR’s president John H. Patterson, vice … Continue reading →

Grandpa Virgil (my maternal great-grandfather) and Grandpa Leroy (Virgil’s son and my maternal grandfather) were putting on a new chimney at the family’s new farm only two miles south of Elwood, Indiana, but now within the Frankton district. Halfway up, … Continue reading →

In the 1940s, my great-grandparents, Virgil and Thelma Daugherty Barmes, moved from North D Street in Elwood, Indiana to a farm southeast of town in the Frankton, Indiana district. Grandma Thelma wanted a picture window on the western end of … Continue reading →

It’s the last day of June 2022 and it couldn’t get a more beautiful send-off with this gorgeous weather. It’s only 63 degrees outside but very comfortable but an anticipated 88 is expected to top off the day. My deck’s … Continue reading →

National Cash Register, NCR, of Dayton, Ohio, was once the premier industry in the United States for many years. Its founder, John Patterson, was an incredible visionary and a true leader in business and sales practices, many of which are … Continue reading →

It’s 53 degrees and shall only climb to a high of 77 degrees, today. I decided to stay inside for my coffee, bagel, and blogging. Even the pooches are inside and not on the deck in their usual spots. I … Continue reading →

It was an interesting day, to say the least. I decided that I should venture out on this beautiful day and stepped onto the bus at 10:40 AM to head up to North Dayton to dine at one of my … Continue reading →

Yes… this is so true. Even when moving into their new adoptive home, several of my five sons had trash bags for their only items in their young lives. Too often, their clothes were dingy and well worn despite the … Continue reading →

The cool breezes of this morning kept me from the deck and I breakfasted and scrolled through emails and social media from my bed. I may end up in this place for a while as I wage through some lower … Continue reading →

It’s going to be a full day. Friday, I worked at the park for four hours, returned home for a quick nap, and then took off with Larua for dinner before attending the marvelous Beavercreek Community Theatre’s production, SOMETHING’S ROTTEN. … Continue reading →

It’s 8:45 AM and after some delays in getting the day fully plugged in, I am fully charged. Humid air is kept at bay by a comfortable breeze and all the familiar sounds of the morning are upon me. The … Continue reading →

It’s a very breezy, cool morning at 66 degrees and only eleven degrees to go to cap the day. I am writing from my bed where I suspect I will work most of the morning since the breeze is a … Continue reading →

Thirty years ago, today, at 2:15 PM, my grandmother, Donna Mae Clary Barmes, passed from this world into the next. Grandma Donna was living with my parents and youngest siblings at our South A Street residence in Elwood, Indiana. She … Continue reading →

The day is adjusting into one of great beauty, at least on the outside. It’s a mild, peaceful morning on the deck with all the familiar sounds that accompany almost any morning while seated at my table. I am hoping … Continue reading →

It’s my kind of morning! The cardinal is bellowing away his morning cantering song. The breeze is in Oscar Hammerstein II mode. It’s 70 degrees. The Quartet is animated and well into its morning routine. And, I am on the … Continue reading →

This submission is from DaileyOM and not written by me. Your thoughts and actions are like stones dropped into still waters causing ripples to spread as they move outward. In a world of six billion people, it’s easy to believe … Continue reading →

I have always loved transitions of any kind. There are some transitions in musical scores or even a “borrowed chord” in a song that will inspire me or give me goosebumps. John Williams’ magnificent fanfare in those opening seconds of … Continue reading →