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  • Skeoch farm. for ZANA Feb 10 2018 (and others)

    Subject: Skeoch farm. for ZANA Feb 10 2018 (and others)
    Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:09:58 -0500
    From: Alan Skeoch
    To: Zana Ancerl
    Feb. 10, 2018  Skeoch Farm: Miserable day

    HI ZANA,

    We did the best we could in tough conditions.  See pics below.  The short pipe and  knuckle fell off somewhere in deep snow…searched  until dusk but no luck…It can be faked  or replicated by your carps…you have one as a copy so should  be easy.

  • alan

    Subject: alan
    Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 13:04:12 -0500
    From: Alan Skeoch
    To: Eric Skeoch

    Hi Good news today…NO OPERATION…HEALING although i will have to wear the cursed Boot for another 6 weeks.

    Physiotherapy can start in earnest which is good I saw a lot of miserable people at hospital today…sat there for 3 hours…then saw doctor for 3 minus…he touched my foot and said to see him in 6 weeks…for three seconds…then took one riser out of the cursed Boot. No ultra sound just visual. Do not have to sleep with boot on anymore. The oddest thing about this whole affair is that doctors (Have seen 5 or 6) have never really touched my foot. Only the Physiotherapist has given it a a real rubbing. Female. Touched me!!! Wow! Law suit maybe. A visit to the hospital makes me realize how very lucky I am. really should volunteer to help out I have signed up for a climb to Mount Everest in early April. Marjorie does not approve but realizes I will need a holiday by April…and the last time I fell from a mountain was 3 years ago in France. Bit wiser now. My biggest worry? Worried that my curling team will forget I even exist…they are doing so well without me. Will I be better for one or two of our last games.  Wish I could say yes…must look at calendar.

    alan

  • RED (ARNOLD “RED” SKEOCH…SCAM ARTIST)

    Subject: RED (ARNOLD “RED” SKEOCH…SCAM ARTIST)
    Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:47:28 -0500
    From: Alan Skeoch

    NOTE:  Only sending this to a few people…to assess whether it is just to offensive for sensitive ears…please comment)…errors will be corrected…some irrelevant stories  will need  to be deleted…especially the bank deposit…the test.

    RED

    (Arnold “Red” Skeoch…scam artist)

    alan skeoch
    Jan. 20118
    “Hold my hands, don’t say a damn thing,  Look straight ahead and…above all,  do not smile…and never tell your mother”
    “Why, Daddy?”
    “Hush up…No talking..just do what i said.”
    “Where are we going?”
    ‘Into the bank.”
    This  is my Dad, Arnold (Red) Skeoch’  His critics said “Those poor
    boys, Eric  and Alan.!  In our opinion he was  one of the great characters in our lives.  Lovably imperfect.

    (more…)

  • “And how are you today?” ESCAPE

    Subject: “and how are you today?” ESCAPE
    Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:43:20 -0500
    From: Alan Skeoch
    To: Marjorie Skeoch

    Some people are asking how am I managing. Well, I am doing fine. Really enjoying the calls from telemarketers…as you will see below. alan PHONE RINGING “HELLO,” Then …Somewhat garbled words then… “and how are you today?” “So glad you called. I have torn my Achillies tendon and have to wear this Boot. Let me describe it to you…gray plastic, velcro, risers…etc. etc. So nice to hear from you as I am alone with no one to talk to. You see, I fell a few weeks ago…down stairs…etc etc. And now I am sitting here in the house alone with snow outside, so glad to hear from you let me describe how I get dressed…etc. etc. How nice of you to ask “How am I today?” In addition I have a bit of a cold and am taking scotch whisky submerged in beer…etc etc. I wonder if you are free? I would dearly like a copy of Mr. Trump’s biography…Fire and something else in the title…etc. etc. Trump is a wonderful man…so nice to women…polite…and a bit of a sex fiend…etc. etc. Oh, and did I tell you about my new nightshirt? It got hooked on the bedpost and I tripped again. etc. etc. I am currently on the floor, being close to the ground is better for me but hard to get food, could you bring me …etc. etc. And please bring a big box of adult diapers. I need them because…. CLICK! OH dear, the telemarketer must have hung up. alan Kept that one on for 90 seconds…a record.

  • MOM BOUND OUR FAMILY TOGETHER

    Subject: MOM BOUND OUR FAMILY TOGETHER
    Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 19:20:19 -0500
    From: Alan Skeoch
    To: Marjorie Skeoch

    MOM BOUND OUR FAMILY TOGETHER
    (I regret I never told her so)

    alan skeoch
    jan. 2018

    Mom held  our family together.  If Dad  had been a single parent then Eric  and I would probably have been raised by Aunt Elizabeth or put in foster homes.  Not because Dad was a bad  man. He wasn’t.  He was  a legend in his own time. Charismatic in a twisted  way.  He just could not resist trying to grab the golden ring of the racetrack Merry Go Rounds.

    After my latest story about Dad  I got several calls  and emails from friends who were horrified.  What we thought was normal was not normal I guess.