| Welcome to AvaBarber.com!!!!! Howdy Everybody Well, it's a New Year, actually it's the second month of a New Year. I hope all of you had a Merry Christmas, and that you're having a great New Year. Roger and I have been doing pretty good. Roger has had some health problems, but he's doing fine now. His main artery was blocked 95%. It was discovered in April, but on the positive side, we found a great doctor, David Cox, and he went in there and put a stent in, so Roger's doing great. He has to watch his diet as far as eating a lot of fatty things that could clog up his arteries, but as you know, Roger is a little guy, he weighs 134 soaking wet, it's me with the weight problem. Anyway, lets don't talk about that, it depresses me. Ha! Ha! We're still "slinging the hash" as they say in the restaurant business. Still part owner of a sandwich shop called "Steamboats". As you know, the "Lawrence Welk Reruns" have been renewed until 2005, and I was fortunate enough to do a wrap around as they say hosting a rerun. It will be aired May 1st, 2004 by my schedule, and I will be telling you all about "Steamboats" and will even show you what our sandwiches look like. It will make your mouth water!!!! In between working at the sandwich shop I still get a chance to perform, and do what I love best of all singing. Brian Edward, this promoter out of Canada, takes the "Live Lawrence Welk Show" out on tour two times a year a Christmas tour, and a Spring tour. The cast consists of: Ralna English, Mary Lou Metzger, Jack Imel, Dick Dale, and Big Tiny Little, and myself. We have a lot of fun on these tours. Mary Lou produces the show on the tours, she does a great job. We had been having problems finding a consistent Road and Stage manager, so Mary Lou suggested that we use Roger, so December was Roger's first tour, he did a great job, so he's on the road with us too. So we are real happy about that. | |
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