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ModelT46
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First Name: Darel
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Model T owner is 89 today

Post by ModelT46 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:37 am

Listen all and I will tell,
The story of the kitten
who fell in the well.


The well was deep
And the water cold,
the kitten did get out,
How needs to be told.

Lower the old bucket,
Down into the deep,
The kitten was crying,
And hope I did keep.

The bucket hit the water,
Beside the little cat,
She climbed aboard,
And that was that.

The bucket was raised,
She was saved this way,
The story is all true,
And it makes my day.


Darel 2021
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ModelT46
Posts: 1459
Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 8:35 pm
First Name: Darel
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Location: Excelsior MN
MTFCA Number: 823
MTFCI Number: 953
Board Member Since: 1999

Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by ModelT46 » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:41 am

that is the wrong poem.. Here is the correct one for my 89th

Another year has rolled by
I have not been planted yet,
I am still above the cold earth;
I still take what I can get.

The candles on my cake,
Will number eighty nine,
The cake will be my favorite,
Angle food is just fine.

My presents will be okay,
For they are really free,
The don’t have to have,
A 10 year guarantee.

If you look at my smile,
I still have all my teeth,
I am still on solid ground,
And not 6 feet beneath.

People say this all the time,
You look really, really great,
I thank them for saying that,
But I am not in original state.

I still have my antique cars,
And all my marbles too,
I still can see quite well,
Hearing went to “he and double l.

I will sit back and enjoy myself,
This is a special day,
I still look forward to,
What will come my way.


Darel June 21, 2021


Sarikatime
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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by Sarikatime » Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:57 am

Have a fantastic birthday Darel,, wish you all the best and happiness. Frank

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WayneJ
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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by WayneJ » Mon Jun 21, 2021 12:40 pm

Happy Birthday, Darel!
Wayne Jorgensen, Batavia, IL
1915 Runabout
1918 Runabout

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Henry K. Lee
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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by Henry K. Lee » Mon Jun 21, 2021 12:56 pm

Dad beat you Darrel back in February! LOL, have a great day ole wise one!

Hank

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perry kete
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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by perry kete » Mon Jun 21, 2021 12:59 pm

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1922 Coupe & 1927 Touring

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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by Steve Jelf » Mon Jun 21, 2021 1:03 pm

Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, just for you.
Happy Birthday, and may all your dreams come true.
When you light up the candles you'll touch off quote a blaze.
A fire involving that much fuel will burn for days.
:D
The inevitable often happens.
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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by Nathan Pederson » Mon Jun 21, 2021 3:36 pm

Happy Birthday, Darel!
And thanks for your autograph at Farmington!
Nate Pederson


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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by Norman Kling » Mon Jun 21, 2021 4:25 pm

You have accomplished a lot. You have gotten through the last year and a half! Your 10 year guarantees might be too short. You have at least 11 years to go, maybe longer!
I am still running behind you!
Have a happy birthday.
Norm


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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Mon Jun 21, 2021 5:09 pm

I signed in just to say - - - - - - - -"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!"


Erik Johnson
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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by Erik Johnson » Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:46 pm

Row three - left to right: Mr. Pulver, Darel Leipold and my father, Robert Johnson.

Darel was a junior, my father was a senior.

Source: Minneapolis Washburn High School 1949 "Wahian" yearbook
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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by noelchico » Mon Jun 21, 2021 7:20 pm

Happy Birthday, Darel. May you enjoy many more. I don't believe there is another name with so many spellings as yours. My father was "Daryl".


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ModelT46
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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by ModelT46 » Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:25 pm

The spelling of my name at first was Daryl. My father changed it to Darel


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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by ModelT46 » Tue Jun 22, 2021 3:38 pm

Interesting photo.
I remember Henry Hillman (killed flying an airplane) Earl Hethington (moved out near Excelsior, saw him often) Betz (had a home on Stubbs Bay near me), Harry Pulver, owned a drive Inn on west Lake/Hy 7, Had a farm in Eden Prairie which I visted in later years, Pulver also drove a 1948 Chrysler woody convertible , Long, whose father was a phy-ed teacher and owned a summer camp near Grand Rapids. Jim Pollard, and others.


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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by Erik Johnson » Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:03 pm

Darel:

My dad told me that a student took a compass and scribed a long gouge on the wood of Mr. Pulver's 1948 Chrysler Town and Country when it was parked in the high school lot.


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ModelT46
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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by ModelT46 » Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:06 pm

Thanks for the "email cards" and notes. I ate to much rich food on my birthday and I suffered the results. Okay now and back at work in our store in Excelsior, Mn. Gettting ready for a TOY Show in St Paul this Sunday at the fair grounds. Will have good selections of old toys including auto related. I when was a young boy I wondered if I would live to 60 or 70. I am noiw 89 and going strong, well pretty strong.

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Re: Model T owner is 89 today

Post by RustyFords » Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:09 pm

Happy belated birthday Darel.
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