it was his birthday

IT WAS HIS BIRTHDAY

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this is what donald duck looked like when he was first created
this is from the website which chronicles his journey

when i was a kid my rainwater brother and i would try to talk like donald duck as we watched saturday morning cartoons on tv
until my mom would kick us outside to paly all day

over time i got better at talking like donald duck 
such that you could mostly understand what i was saying in donald duck language

last sunday donald duck turned 90
he doesnt look that old does he

he was started to be a side kick for mickey mouse
he donald was more aggressive and well sort of moody and grumpy
he also had a donald duck temper
which i have but it doesnt manifest itself very often
when it does i become a dr jekyll mr hyde person
once i would have murdered someone if i could have gotten my hands on them
lucky for them i was 20 miles away on the phone with them

i noticed as i was seeing kids in my medical practice that that they liked when i talked to them like donald duck
some even called me dr duck

i still have signs that were given to me by patients that says dr duck on them

when patients would go to disneyworld or disneyland they would bring back pictures with donald duck or a donald duck souvenir doll or a signed donald duck autograph
they proudly gave them to me when they came in to the office

before i retired someone built this shadow box for some of my donald duck characters
thanks dc and mc
now i had boxes of them to chose from
these are the ones that made the cut
most were given to me by patients and by my motherinlaw

the rest were either donated or sold as fundraiser when we moved
one person bought a lot of the donald duck stuff at our moving sale

i still do my donald duck voice for my grandkids
they are use to it and dont enjoy it as much as they did when they were younger
my younger son does a donald duck voice so his kids are use to it
his son is practicing his voice regularly so maybe he will carry on the donald duck voice tradition

in my practice i would use the voice to calm down my young patients 
sometimes they would quieten down and allow me to examine them

i did find though that younger kids less than one didnt usually appreciate donald duck as much as when they got older

now
i talk to the kids in the preschool next door to our community garden in my donald duck voice and whenever we do a tour of younger kids in the garden
one thing they all say is 
do it again do it again

i use to have patients cry when they left my office
whats wrong mom asked
he didnt talk like donald duck

some would tell mom
im sick i need to see dr duck

so
happy belated birthday donald
your voice has entertained hundreds of kids via my voice over the years

thank you for the inspiration

the organicgreen doctor

organicgreendoctor: my vehicles over the years

organicgreendoctor: my vehicles over the years: MY VEHICLES OVER THE YEARS the first car i owned was this blue ford my younger brother and i went 50/50 on it we bought it from an old gentl...

my vehicles over the years

MY VEHICLES OVER THE YEARS

the first car i owned was this blue ford
my younger brother and i went 50/50 on it
we bought it from an old gentleman who hardly drove it
one foggy morning on my way to work a black angus bull walked in front of me destroying the front of the car
it cost him his life

i hadnt thought about this car until i saw this list of the worst cars to own
i looked at the top five 
ive owned some of those 
lexus and toyotas and accura
we now own two toyotas

i looked at the bottom 12
guilty
ive owned some of those
volkswagen chrysler chevrolet dodge ford
chrysler was ranked #1 worst for 2024 

after my 55 ford i bought a ford maverick
drove it two years
then a motorcycle for a year
then a ford falcon which i bought from a friends grandmother for very little and drove it for 6 years
then a ford pickup that was an old forest truck
i drove it for 4 years through medical school
then i bought a ford ranger pickup 
i called it my residency truck
i drove it for another 7 years
i willed it to a friend who used it for his ranch truck
later he traded it to a contractor for some driveway asphalt work on his ranch

my wife she owned a yellow volkswagen bug she owned when we got married
one cold snowy day in northwest arkansas she was driving slowly and a large truck which was racing with another truck hit her and my son head on on a hill
they both survived
my wife she had multiple body bruises and my son sustained multiple head lacerations and a broken arm
the car was demolished
it had been a reliable car up to that point

during medical school we bought a car for the family a chevrolet chevette
we called it the shove it
it was a badly made car
no more chevrolets after that one
next we bought a chevrolet nova which was really a toyota car
we drove it for several years and gave it to our son when he started driving
then we switched to a minivan either a chrysler or a dodge
nowadays we would have bought a toyota or honda van

it was after all that we only drove toyotas accura or lexus
one of our best cars was a toyota echo 
at one time i had one and my wife she had one
it got great gas mileage and never had any problems

later my wife she drove a toyota yaris which gets about 40 miles per gallon
we have owned it now for 15 years
i now drive it for my vehicle
it is a hatchback so i call it my truck

in the early 2000s i decided i needed a farm truck
i heard my friend was unloading a truck a ford f150 that his son drove but gave it up
i contacted him to see if he wanted to sell it to me
it had just been traded it in to a dealership in dallas
i called and they still had it
i flew up to dallas and bought the truck and drove it home

when we moved to santa barbara in 2017 i gave it to our friend for her farm truck
its still going strong even though its 25 years old
i must admit i severely abused it while i had it
it had scrapes dents bruises all over it
it was a true beat up farm truck
it was one of the best vehicles ive owned 

we also owned a toyota corolla which was wrecked
its a long story 
we replaced it with a new one 

so looking back 
my favorite vehicle was my ford falcon
although i enjoyed my old forest ford truck and my black ford f150

maybe my toyota yaris im driving now would be my newest favorite one even though its now 15 years old
it has handles to roll up the windows which my grandkids love a key a real key all the doors are manual and its a stick shift
i like a roll down window in case i run into a body of water
i can roll the window down and swim out without worrying like you do with an electric window
this yaris will probably be the last one i will own
so im enjoying it

so we have owned a variety of cars over the years
several were replaced due to car wrecks 
others just got too old

if i do have to buy another one for me i plan on getting an electric car or truck
but im hoping my yaris will last as long as i do

the organicgreen doctor