Don Beddoe; Richard Webb; Lucille Norman; Randolph Scott - Carson City - 1952

Drop Peter at bus then grocery shopping after meeting. Gas up on way home. Unload and put away food. Check e-mail with girls and chips. Work at computer for awhile; then to TV and watch Carson City with Randolph Scott while eating lunch. Beth home from Edie's and she eats her lunch. We talk; then she's off to nail appointment. I down for nap with girls. Up and Beth is home - she's fed girls though they try to fool me into feeding them again. Beth and I talk; then she starts to clean and dust house (I'll sweep in morning). Clean up side yard. Work at computer. Watch Huckabee while making dinner and eating. Then we watch recording of Rush Limbaugh's great speech at CPAC today. Office. Later ~

Tom Snow (I have no pic of George Widman)


Lou Bartoletti

Beth wakes up with an eye problem so I drive us to the meeting. After, drop her off at her place of employment and I home. Check e-mail and news sites with peanuts and girls. Work at computer for awhile. Pick up Xeroxing at Office Depot I dropped off yesterday for Beth. To Beth's place of employment and drop off her eye drops. Then to pick up George Widman at his house and we to lunch with Tom Snow at the Elephant Bar in Palm Desert. Afterward, drop George at his house and by Nader's for ice cream, and home; bring in mail. Dessert - call Beth - down for nap with girls. Up and feed girls. Open mail. Clean up side yard. Sweep floors. Message from Lou Bartoletti that he was in area. Call him and he's already back in LA. Write here a little. Beth calls. Pick her up at work; hi to her employer; then we drop cleaning and home. Rearrange cars. She phone call; I fix dinner, call Tom Snow, she in and we eat. TV: CSI: Vegas recorded last night. Later ~

Drop Peter at college; stop Office Depot for shop Beth; home and check e-mail and news sites with popcorn and girls. Work at computer for awhile. TV: Jump around; then The Big Sombrero, with Gene Autry. Lunch while viewing. Call Beth then down for nap with girls. Up and feed girls. Open mail. Work check for Beth delivered UPS. Open sliding door so girls can have run of back yard. Work at computer. Clean up side yard. Sweep tile. Some O'Reilly. Beth by to get check and to bank. I start dinner. Beth home and we talk; then we eat. She office for a few minutes. TV: Lost episode we recorded last night. Later ~

Gunsmoke Cast


Gunsmoke Stage #3 - Dodge City

Home after meeting and check e-mail and news sites. Popcorn with girls. Some radio; then drive to Downey Savings to get some paperwork completed and get a signature approval. Home. TV: recording I made yesterday of a Gunsmoke episode I worked on in 1974: Thirty a Month and Found. One of my favorites. Have lunch while viewing. Call Beth. Down for nap with girls. Up and write here. Feed girls. Work at computer. Look back at old diaries to recall Gunsmoke Tucson location. Clean up side yard. Sweep floors. Some O'Reilly; Beth home and eats on the fly; then she's off to H&I Meeting. I channel surf. She home in an hour and we talk for awhile. Later ~

Stop at market to pick up something then home. Check e-mail and news sites with girls and chips. Work on computer for a little while then TV: DVD of The Dark Knight, which takes me through lunch and past noon. Talk to Beth. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail; feed girls. Open mail. Write some here. Clean up side yard. Sweep floors. Some O'Reilly. Beth home and we talk. She makes a salad and we eat. We watch CSI: Miami recording from last night. Later ~

Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites with popcorn and girls. Work at computer for awhile. TV: Carson City Kid with Roy Rogers; and two episodes of Entourage while having lunch. Call Beth to check in. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Move Expedition and bring in paper goods. Open mail. Talk Tom Snow. Work at computer some more. O'Reilly. Beth home and we talk. Cook and eat dinner. No TV. To office and work - she on George's taxes; me on other things. Later ~

David Janssen with his Jaguar XKE on the Goldwyn Lot

Sleep in day. Beth up and to Hall. I up 6:10 - shower and dress; breakfast with paper; check e-mail and news sites. Sweep floors. Beth home and she mops floors. I do some reading and work at computer while she works in office. Make us an early lunch as she has to take her employers to the airport. I write some e-mail; have a cookie with girls; search for The Fugitive photos online; then it's down for nap with girls. Up and feed girls. Beth home and we both work in office. She to Maad Dog Daze meeting. I watch TV: Shooting High, with Gene Autry and Jane Withers. Beth home and I gas up her car. We eat then TV: Without a Trace. Later ~

Melody Groves; Yours Truly; Miles Swarthout


James Jenkens


Last Years' (2008) Festival of the West

Grocery shopping after meeting; then home and put it all away. Check e-mail and news sites. Work for awhile at computer. Watch From Russia With Love on TV and eat lunch at same time. Down for nap with girls. Up and Beth is arriving home. She bring in mail and I open it for her. We talk. Talk Tom Snow. Call James Jenkins and we discuss Festival of the West. To office and work for awhile. Beth works too. Into kitchen and start making dinner. We watch Huckabee while eating. After that she does my pill boxes. Both to office and work. Later ~

Filming on Studio Center (Republic Pictures) back lot in the 1960s

Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites with girls and peanuts. Bug guy here early (9:15)- good for me as I have a lunch date with the guys after Sam's. Call Eric. Drive to Sam's Club and meet Eric - we shop for Hall. He takes stuff back to Hall in his pickup. I join Tom Snow and Norman Foster for lunch at nearby Yellow Basket eatery. Drop some things to Beth at her employers' place on way home. Pick up ice cream at Nader's and home. Dessert while I check e-mail then down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail. To office and work on computer. Clean up side yard; sweep floors. Talk Tom Snow. Some O'Reilly. Beth home and we talk while dinner cooks. We eat; then we watch CSI: Vegas recording from last night; plus a documentary on the making of Dreamgirls. Later ~

Richard Boone on set of Deadly Harvest
Stuntman Jack Williams in Dundee and the Culhane explosion

Drop Peter at COD after meeting then home. Check e-mail and news sites with girls and popcorn. To bank and cash a check for Beth. Pick up a bag for Beth's employer at In The Bag, Get two keys made for the Hall storage room. Drop bag at Beth's employer's home. I home and watch Wild Country with Eddie Dean and Roscoe Ates while I eat lunch. Beth calls. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed the girls. Out to shed and look for briefcase; then find what I wanted in hall closet. Work at computer. Some O'Reilly. Beth home and we talk; make dinner and we eat. She washes hair; then we watch Lost episode from last night. Later ~

Don "Red" Barry

Stop by Nader's station on way home from meeting to say hi. Home and check e-mail and news sites with girls and corn nuts. Work at computer for awhile. TV: The Phantom Cowboy starring Don "Red" Barry while having lunch. Try to figure out location used in movie - figure it was the French Ranch in Hidden Valley. Submit info to IMDb. Beth calls. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail. Talk to Tom Snow. Clean side yard and sweep floors. Work in office. O'Reilly. Beth home and we talk. Fix dinner andwe eat. She office working on taxes. TV: last night's NCIS recording. Later ~

My Aunt Bette with Mohamad Ali


Riverside County Regional Medical Center (where we were today)

Drove a friend to Moreno Valley (Riverside) Hospital to sign up for MISP (used to be MIA)as he has no income or insurance and feels there is something wrong with his health. Took a couple hours there; plus an hour over and an hour back; plus stop for food; and we were home by 11:00. Drop him off and head home, gassing up at Nadar's station on way. Talk Beth and leave message for Ron next door that I was home and he didn't need to feed girls. Quick bite while I ate a small lunch watching Gene Autry documentary. Down for nap with girls. Up and feed girls. Bring in mail and open it for Beth. Clean up side yard. Work in office for awhile. In to watch some of O'Reilly. Beth calls. Start dinner. Beth home and we talk. We eat then watch last night's CSI: Miami. Later ~

AAron Eckhart and Josh Harnett - The Black Dalia


John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn - Rooster Cogburn

RAIN
Home from meeting just in time for rain to start. Check e-mail and news sites with girls and peanuts. Watch a movie: The Black Dahlia, with Josh Harnett and Hilary Swank. Two episodes of Entourage with lunch. Down for nap. Up and feed girls. Tom Snow calls. Watch end of Mule Train with Gene Autry and Bob Livingstone. Then some of Rooster Cogburn with John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn. Just a TV day. Sweep floors. O'Reilly. Beth calls. Start dinner. Beth home and we eat. Both to office for awhile. An old friend contacted me through my web site - Jimmy George. We both worked as costumers in Hollywood. Sent him an e-mail. Later ~

Crystal


Misty

Sleep in day. Beth up and off to Hall. I up at 6:05 - shower, dress, make breakfast then eat with paper. Sweep floors and clean side yard. Beth home and she mops floors and dusts. I work a little in office. She takes off to meet someone for lunch; I watch TV: Mule Train with Gene Autry while I eat lunch. Down of nap with girls. Up and feed girls. Work a computer. Beth by with her friend to show her our house (exterior). Computer and Beth back. Then she's off to an annual meeting at the Hall. I work at computer then prepare some things for dinner. Beth home and continues prepping dinner. We eat. After we both to office: she shreds stuff; I work at computer. Later ~

Young John Wayne and his horse, Duke

Grocery shopping after meeting; home - unload and but away. Check e-mail and news sites with peanuts and girls. TV: John Wayne Lone Star Western - West of the Divide, with George Hayes (before Gabby)- eat lunch while viewing. Beth home and she has her lunch and we talk. I down for nap. Up and feed girls, bring in mail; and she off to her nail appointment. I work on novel at omputer for awhile. Beth calls. Turn on TV. Beth home with Panda Express and we eat while we watch Huckabee. Some Glen Beck; then we watch episode of Without a Trace we recorded last Tuesday. Later ~

Dawn of Eagles will be a prequel to Shadows of Eagles (above)

Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites with popcorn and girls. Check on Google maps for the new Riverside General Hospital. I'm driving a friend up there next week to fill out an application for some financial assistance. Dive into Dawn of Eagles once again - reading and rewriting. I feel I might be working on this one for awhile. Talk Beth. Drive to Palm Desert for lunch at Las Consuelas with Tom Snow, George Widman, Norman Foster and David Bradshaw. Stop at Nadar's for an ice cream. Bring it home and have it for dessert. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed the girls. Open mail. Work in office. Guys by to fix dryer vent. Watch O'Reilly. Beth calls; start dinner. She home and we talk. Fix dinner and we eat. Then we watch recording of CSI: Vegas from last night. She showers. Later ~

With Dick Jones (1955)


With Dick Jones 50-years later

Stop at Palm Desert post office after meeting to mail tax forms and buy stamps. To hearing office to pick up my hearing aid that was in for repair. Home and check e-mail and news sites with girls and peanuts. Talk Beth. TV: Gene Autry's Son's of New Mexico with Dick Jones, while I have lunch. Talk Tom Snow. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail; feed the girls; open mail for Beth. Work at computer for awhile. Talk Tom Snow again. Clean up side yard. Sweep floors. Watch O'Reilly. Beth home and we talk. Fix dinner and we eat. Then she calls Stan Locke. After, we watch recording of Lost from last night. Later ~

Every once in a while it's nice to remember The Duke

Haircut after meeting; then by Nader's then home. Quick cookie and some pills and off to pick up Eric. We to Sam's Club to buy food for the mission. Have some pizza with Eric for an early lunch. Food for the rescue mission is now one of our little donations. Drop Eric off then home. Dessert with the last of a Gene Autry Western; then down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls. Open mail. Eric and Susan by to pick up his phone that he left in my car. Work at computer for awhile. Clean up side yard. Talk to Tom Snow. Let girls run in back while I sweep floors. Talk Beth. Watch O'Reilly. Beth by and picks up a check that came, then she to bank and cleaners. I start dinner. She home and we talk; then we eat. After we watch NCIS we recorded last night. She talks to new friend. Later ~

I was supposed to get a haircut after the meeting but my stylist (barber) called in to say she was running late so I rescheduled for tomorrow. Stop to buy a Valentine's Day Card for Beth. Then gas up at Nader's station (he wasn't there). Home and check e-mail and news sites with popcorn and girls. Work at computer answering and sending e-mails. Called and talked to Andy Fenady for awhile. TV: Watch two episodes of Entourage I recorded on Sunday; plus some of a Tony Martin (would you believe?) western called: Quincannon: Frontier Scout. Think about it - Tony Martin as a cowboy? Lunch while I watched. Beth called. Down for nap with girls. Up and bring in mail. Feed girls and open mail. I have an article in the new Roundup magazine. Open the mail for Beth. To office and work for awhile. Watch some O'Reilly. Beth home and we talk. Cook and we eat. She washes her hair. TV: we watch recording of CSI: Miami. Later ~

Jim Davis (young)


Jim Davis (older)

Home after meeting, check e-mail and news sites with girls and peanuts. Talk Beth. Some Rush; then down for my nap very early as I'm expecting a delivery this afternoon; plus Walt Olsen's coming by to interview me for a Kingdom of the Spiders DVD Extra. Up and lunch with TV: Noose for a Gunman - Jim Davis Western that I watched them shoot at Corriganville in 1959. Talk to Eric about old refrig. Sears guys here and install new refrigerator. Clean under old one before they move new one in and hook it up. They leave. Call Walt Olsen and give him directions to get here for interview. Work at computer for about an hour. Walt and his cameraman here and we do Kingdom of the Spiders DVD Extra interview. They leave. Start to move food from old refrig to new one. Beth home; Eric arrives with friend and dolly. Beth and I work at moving food. Finally Eric and friend move old refrigerator out. Beth and I have lemonade and a coke while we talk. Then I make dinner (left-overs) and we eat. No TV. To office where she catches up on things while I do trash. She showers. Later ~

With my wife, Beth

Sleep in day. Beth up and to Hall. I up 6:00 - shower, dress, make breakfast; then eat and read paper. Beth home to change then we to the Mall theater for the Sunday AA Speaker's meeting where Beth was asked to be the speaker. She was great. After, we home to pick up some info then back to the mall and Sears - where we buy a new refrigerator. Lunch in the food court; then home. She mops floor; I check e-mail for both of us. I down for nap with girls and she leaves for a meeting with a friend. I up and feed girls. Work at computer for awhile. Beth home and she does my pill boxes. I make dinner and we eat. Both to office. We watch last week's Without a Trace recording. Later ~

From The Law and Jake Wade

Grocery shopping after meeting; then home and put away. Beth and I to credit union to open account. She off to S&F then work and I home. Eat lunch while watching The Law and Jake Wade on The western Channel. Watch some of a Gene Autry movie; then Beth home. We talk while she eats. I down for nap with girls. Up and she's fed girls. Talk for awhile. Start dinner and we watch Huckabee. Eat with TV. Then it's a recorded movie, Naked Gun:2 1/2. To office while she showers. Later ~

50-Years Ago

My 66th Birthday
Fifty years since I started working at Corriganville. Actually, I started working there in late December 1958 - working weekends only; and not allowed to do any stunts at that time, but only to walk as background extras and put up the safety ropes before each show. We were told we were "learning the ropes". By February of 1959, on my 16th birthday, we were having bad weather and the cast had gathered in the saloon to celebrate, not mine, but the birthday of another stuntman, Dick Lemming, whose birthday had been the day before. I remember feeling left out, but still congratulated Dick and participated in the celebration. After that day my career at the ranch began to change. I met Ed Mohler and the two of us worked up a fight routine to top all fight routines, and soon we were regulars in one of the main western show events. That led to more parts in more shows and I continued to work at the movie ranch throughout the summer playing Billy the Kid in a Crash Corrigan movie production that we filmed on certain week days so the customers could see a "real" movie being made while they visited the ranch whenever there were no real Hollywood movie companies shooting.

Home after meeting and check e-mail and news sites with girls and peanuts. Off to Sam's Club to shop for Hall. Talk Beth from store. Load up and meet Tom Snow, George Widman, Norman Foster, and David Bradshaw at a Chinese restaurant for lunch. Home after and down for nap. Up and feed girls. Open mail. Work in office. Clean up side yard; sweep floors. Tom Snow calls. No TV, Beth home and we talk. She brought home orange chicken and we eat. Then it's TV:last nights recording of CSI: Vegas. Later ~

Some Members of my Monthly Round Table

Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites. Off to blood draw at Country Club and Monterey. On to hearing aid place and find my right instrument isn't working properly - leave it, home. Work at computer for awhile and try call Utah Company - leave message. Drive to Indio for my monthly conservative Round Table lunch. Stop and say hi to Joel Peters; then to restaurant. Home after and call Beth and leave message/ Feed girls. Call Utah and we talk re: script. E-mail my writing partner. Down for nap with girls. Up and open mail. Clean up side yard and sweep floors. Beth calls. Watch some of O'Reilly until it's interupted for a presidential speech. Start making dinner. Beth home and we talk; then we eat. She does some chores, We watch recording of Lost we made last night. She shower and I to office. Later ~

Dale Evans and Roy Rogers

Home after meeting and check e-mail and news sites with girls and pop-corn. Work at computer for awhile. Let girls run in back yard. TV: Republic Pictures' Down Dakota Way with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. A Lone Star Western: The Desert Trail with John Wayne - eat lunch while viewing. Bring in mail. Call from Ross Salamone and one from Beth. Down for nap with girls. Up and feed girls. Open mail. To office and work some more. Clean up side yard and sweep floors. Work in office. Some O'Reilly. Beth home and we talk. She makes spinach salad and we eat. She washes her hair. We watch recording of a NCIS re-run. Later ~

Autry Museum

Home from meeting and check e-mail and news sites with girls and peanuts. To bank for Beth and make deposits. Home and work at computer for awhile. TV: Gene Autry in Roundup Time in Texas; and a Tex Ritter, Dave O'Brien western while having lunch. Talk to Beth. Bring in mail. Down for nap with girls. Up and feed girls. Open mail. Work in the office. Clean up side yard and sweep floors. O'Reilly. Beth home later than usual so we eat as soon as she gets here. Then it's TV: CSI: MIAMI from last night. Call Stan Locke in nursing home. Call for me. Both to office. Later ~

Cast of Entourage

Beth gives me my 27th AA Birthday cake at morning meeting. Home and check e-mail and news sites. Make appointment for blood draw on Thursday. Drive to La Quinta to get Beth's personalized license plates registered: STVNBTH - drop Expedition at Ramona Tire for a lube and oil change and Tony drops me at home. Work for awhile at computer; then TV: several episodes of Entourage automatically recorded Sunday night. Lunch while watching shows. Talk to Beth. Down for nap with girls. Up and feed girls. Bring in mail and open it for Beth. Call Glenda at Dr. Stone's office for cat scan results. She will fax new standing order sheet. Work at computer. Talk Beth. Tony should be by to pick me up and return Expedition. Tony did come by and took me down to pay my bill and I drove home. Clean side yard and sweep floors. O'Reilly. Beth home and we talk. Fix dinner and we eat. TV: last week's recording of Life on Mars. Office while she showers. Later ~

Sleep in day. Beth up early and off to Hall. I up at 6:00 - shower and dress then breakfast with paper and girls. Check e-mail and news sites. Trim beard. Beth home and we talk. I sweep[ floors and clean side yard. Beth mops and dusts. We have left-over pizza for lunch. Both of us talk to Tom Snow. We talk to Shannon in Austin. I down for nap early. Sleep until 2:00. Up and feed girls. Talk with Beth for awhile then turn on TV to watch Super Bowl pre-game then the game itself. She cooks stir fry at halftime. We eat in living room. Game is close bit Pittsburgh wins in final minutes. Watch trophy celebration; then get ready for bed. She showers. Later ~