osmonds

this special post is not from my distant past but is ongoing and current, special edition of the whole barlow fam instigated from daniel and esecially for tisme2gail from northcumberland england....almost in scotland...!. when george osmond was in the hospital and lived as our neighbor and was in provo hospital dying, daniel and i and berly went for hearing aid checks...i saw george walking towards me with that famous smile and he brightened right up...i said i love you george and he hugged me...he died 4 weeks later...2,,,donny did take anna osmond, his niece and my daughter becky to a movie he stared in {he was the voice in a cartoon show} for becky's 16th birthday in downtown ephraim....this was when he was single and a long time ago...tom is the deaf osmond who is one of my best friends and anna is his dAughter and he served with me in our stake mission program and just last week tom was in my high priest class when i related as a teacher how unified we were in our program and i mentioned tom and a convert to our faith, a teressa brooks, and then he said do you remember tom greenhauch????i said yes , and this fellow who had a problem with drugs was promised by tom that if he would go to church just once that he would introduce{his brother and sister].....and him to donnie and marie,,,I ENDED UP WITH HIM ON THE FRONT PUE...SO HE AND HIS DAD AND OLIVE LIVED AS OUR NEIGHBORS 5 HOUSES SOUTH OF US....also tom went camping with us many times to see if he could see a bar [BEAR}and we had a rope swing over a lake that he would go on and more than once got dumped into the lake...i have many more stories gail, just say the word and i will tell a story...here comes some more,,,merill and wayne both have homes, one in mt pleasant the other right here in ephraim...of course you are only interested in donnie, right???well he was over to my very next door neighbor and marie for a confirmation and stayed for dinner and of course we get all of marie's dolls that are just out of this world, and although donnie is doing good in his marriage and with his kids, marie hasn't fared as well, but she works at it...they really are great people and little tommy the nephew of donnie we see every day since his other grandpa lives right next door, carolyn is the wife of tom, sister-in-law to donnie...i love donnie in the tecnicolor coat of many colors...but i mostly love the music by lord byron who is all english