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22/09/2011 1:49 pm
With all the CHAOS at the museum this week as our countdown has begun to the new Collections Management Facility dedication and Steamboat Bicentennial Celebration weekend events, I plumb forgot to post that yesterday was the birthday of steamboater extraordinaire and editor par excellence of the S&D Reflector, DAVID TSCHIGGFRIE.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (a day late, but no less sincere!) Dave, and a whistle salute to you along with a calliope serenade!
Keep up steam!
Your friend of 40+ years,
Keith
22/09/2011 2:30 pm
Dave, had I known it I'd have bought you a drink the other night! Happy belated birthday. Hope it was a good one and that you had a good trip back to DBQ!
22/09/2011 2:36 pm
Salutations on your natal day....perhaps a calliope rendition of "Happy Birthday" is in order! Too bad we don't have one on here to perform it on for you. Hope you are having a great post natal day and that the actual day was filled with happiness and all the things necessary for a most fruitious day of relaxing frivolity!
22/09/2011 5:10 pm
Well, if I had known I would have baked a cake, but Travis' calliope playing is a whole lot better than my cake baking. So you may count your blessings. Anyway, happy Birthday, David!
22/09/2011 7:05 pm
Belated....
Even if I had known, I probably would have procrastinated and not done anything in time anyway... it's a 'retired' thing... so an ontime Belated Good Thoughts about your natal anniversary!
23/09/2011 2:29 pm
Belated Happy B-Day!
Hi, David:
I was totally alseep at the switch [What's new?] here fumbling and mumbling around but wanted to add my best wishes for your B-Day from 'Ragtown.' Additional applause, trumpets, drum rolls and vociferous 'Huzzas' for the fine Editorship you've assumed in producing the S&D REFLECTOR. We enjoyed your calliope style on the Lafayette Hotel piano last week.
R. Dale Flick
Coal Haven Landing, Ohio River, Cincinnati [AKA 'Ragtown']
23/09/2011 10:54 pm
Thank you to all my river friends for your kind birthday wishes. Keith, you need not trouble yourself about belated BD greetings, as at this age I find that I'm prone to forgetting such things myself! Enjoyed a great weekend at Marietta, and am looking forward to the after-wedding "dessert cruise" on JONATHAN PADELFORD in St. Paul after son Jonathan's marriage next month. Only wish there were steam and a calliope on board so's we could really fire up the celebration!
23/09/2011 11:44 pm
If there's an air calliope, you'll of course need to play "The Bells Are Ringing for Me and My Gal"