Denver Broncos big win over the Chargers

The Denver Broncos beat their long time rival the San Diego Chargers tonight on Monday Night Football - 34 to 23 in the Chargers house! How sweet it is!!

I went to my first Bronco game 50 years ago and remember an early game when the quarterback Frank Tripuka tip-toed along the side lines for a big gainer against the Chargers.

I really think the "Orange Crush" is back!

Memories

How many special memories do you have of the time between 10 & 15 years old?

How about laying in the grass at a park - making different shapes out of the clouds that are floating by?

How about the sweet smell of hay in the haymow of a barn?

How about your first real crush, or your first real date?

How about your first car, or your best car?

How about the fight you had with your best friend?

Oh such sweet memories!

Adventures Growing up ("Gibbon's Secrets")

I have been sharing many of the adventures five boys found in the 1940's through excerpts from my book "Gibbon's Secrets" - My question for any of you readers - What were some of your adventures that you either created or stumbled into during your grow-up years (12-15)?

Now this is a challenge put to anyone reading this blog - I will judge the best adventure (and I do like truth flavored with a bit of fiction). You share your adventure with me by responding to this blog with a comment and I will reward the best adventure with a copy of my book "Gibbon's Secrets". My challenge starts today, Oct 14th 2009. and will be open until Oct 31st 2009. You can either send your adventure as a comment to this blog or direct to my email address, bud1949@gmail.com.

Make it a clean, interesting, adventure - that is a combination of truth and fiction. Depending on the quality of the adventures - I may have to give away more than one book - If you already have a book you can suggest who you would like the book you win sent to.

RG Bud Phelps

A case of Bud's mistakes or mishaps(from "Gibbon's Secrets")

Into everyones life mistakes or mishaps can happen, and early in 1940 Bud's decision to cross Highway 30 and the RR tracks to visit his friend Duncan was one of those times.

I wanted to visit my friend Duncan who lived on the south side of Gibbon and decided to go see him without asking mom for permission. I got to Highway 30 and nervously looked West and started to run across the highway. This was a "look only one way" type of mistake and I was nearly hit by a Nebraska Highway Patrol car.

The patrolman was dad's friend, Jack Shaunesey, and when he got his patrol car stopped he immediately turned on his red flashing lights. Jack stepped out of his patrol car and headed toward me, a much shaken boy. Jack was upset but remained calm with me who he knew to be his friend Reg's son. "You need to brush up on your highway safety don't you think Bud?" "I'm sorry sir. Are you going to arrest me?"

Jack didn't arrest me but did take me home in his patrol car - to have a discussion about the incident with my mother. To this day, I remember that little visit, Jack in his deliberate calm way explained to my mother Addie, how I by not thinking could have just as easily been brought home in an ambulance. This caring man's goal was to teach this young boy and his young friends highway safety through a series of visits at his home over the next several weeks. The experiences gained through Jack's safety lessons proved to be a very positive influence on the young lives of me the "Five Friends Forever". The timing was perfect for a caring man to come into these boy's lives and lead them down a safer path.

Think back - I'm sure that each of you while growing up, have had a similar experience with a caring person pointing you in the right direction. To this day when I drive though Gibbon on Highway 30 I think of Jack and how his quick action saved me from injury both in the immediate time frame plus well into the future.

Practical Accounting & QuickBooks Start-up Class

Yesterday I taught a group of ladies from 8:00am to 4:30pm "Practical Accounting" and a beginning introduction to QuickBooks. The class was very attentive and asked a series of very good questions relative to both accounting and QuickBooks. My goal was to show individuals that accounting is a very good tool for a small business owner to keep track of the economic activities of their company and not something magic that they need help to understand. Being comfortable in reading your own Financial Statements will give you a heads up on what is really happening and what you can do to improve your own operation. A small business owner is always going to be more successful if they have this tool mastered and they don't have to wait until the end of the year for someone outside of the firm to tell them what happened.

I have written the book "Cover Your Nut" for the small business community to have a reference book on "Practical Accounting in Plain English for the Real World". The book is available on line at Amazon, AuthorHouse, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and can be ordered from any local book store. Just ask for the book "Cover Your Nut" by RG Bud Phelps and you will have this valuable reference book for your small business library at a very reasonable cost.

I have a passion for bringing this information about Practical Accounting to the small business community.

140th Anniversary Celebration at Wyuka Cemetery - Lincoln NE

Pat and I attended the 140 year anniversary celebration of Wyuka Cemetery and went on the walking tour conducted by Ed Zimmer. Ed did a wonderful job of bringing the history of the cemetery alive through the grave stones and monuments.

Wyuka Cemetery was established by an act of the Nebraska Legislature in 1869 to provide a "Lincoln State Cemetery" for the new states' capital city, founded just two years before. The name is apparently derived from the Otoe language, spelled as an English speaker might hear the Native American phrases signifying "he lies down" or "place of reclining." This blending of Otoe and English seems highly appropriate for the name of a cemetery embodying Nebraska history.

Sunday was a beautiful day for the walking tour of Wyuka Cemetery and today the sky is between partly cloudy and party sunny with the temperature at 11:00am holding at 52. We are supposed to have a high of 58 today but the outlook for the week is definitely fall-like. It is a special thing to be able to get out and enjoy the beautiful areas that have been established over the years here in Lincoln - we invite you readers to visit and enjoy our state capital city.

Reg's Scrapbook - Workd war II - 1943

Throughout 1943, I have collected many news-flashes about both the war in Europe, and the expanded war in the Pacific - for this Time Line addition to my scrap book. My sources have been, The Gibbon Reporter, The Grand Island independent and the Omaha World Herald. A very interested report was received on January 11th. America's war production totaled more that 48,000 planes, 56,000 tanks, and the American Army totaled more that 7,000,000 men. Japans attack on Pearl Harbor caused a "Sleeping Giant" to spring into action.

An example of this was posted -
September 3rd - Allied forces invade southern Italy

This is information about Reg's Scrapbook - developed for me (his son Bud). i found it to be very interesting and a neat account of history to share with my reader's,

October 1st, The U.S. 5th Army, commanded by Lt. General Mark Clark captures Naples Italy.


I post this information piece-meal throughout the month from the individual World War II timelines found in my book "Gibbon's Secrets" .