Mt. St. Helens Anniversary

On May 18, 1980 three things happened.

1. Mt. St. Helens erupted.
2. Stephanie Kasper was born.
3. I turned 5.

5 years earlier I was born.

A cousin of mine once gave my two sisters and I the very backhanded compliment that we turned out pretty well considering the white trash from which we came.

I don't want to dwell on that story and its obvious hypocrisies. I use it to illustrate a point. If I ever become a person worth remembering historians will note that on the date of my birth my parents were at The Hillbilly Auction.

Now I wasn't born at The Hillbilly Auction. Although that would have made a great story. It will be noted by some future scholar that even "Greatness" can come from such humble roots. "Christopher D. Bennett's mom went into labor while she was manning the antique booth at The Hillbilly Auction" the future narrator of a documentary will intone while on the screen will flicker an actress playing my mom in 1970s garb sitting in front of a camper with a bunch of antiques sitting on a table in front of her clutching her stomach. An actor portraying my dad will come out of the camper and rush to her side.

I don't know if there will be actresses portraying my sisters. I don't know if they were there. I should look into that. I want them in the documentary even if they weren't there. A pig tailed red headed little kid to portray Teresa. A dark skinned black haired actress to portray Carla. It seems like I'm missing a perfectly good opportunity to post pictures of them from their childhood. I'll have to look into that too.

Well 33 years later, I can't return to The Hillbilly Auction. Instead, I witnessed the evidence that my niece Alexis is a hooligan.



Just Look at this Vandalism!

Although I do approve of her use of colors, but the message is so cliche. I will expect better from her in her future acts of vandalism.

I also took a ride down to Jester Park in the Howardmobile. My car decided to no longer have brake lights. I'm going to need to do something about that in the near future. Any way, check out some pictures.


























It was a perfectly adequate birthday. I also got this sweet birthday card from Teresa. I need to scan that and post that at some point in the future.