{"id":187,"date":"2011-11-14T06:11:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T11:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2011-11-14T06:15:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T11:15:39","slug":"visit-from-old-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/visit-from-old-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit from old friends…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>…but a little younger than I am.<\/p>\n

Gisela and Kurt Volkert have been an important part of my life since 1967.\u00a0 That’s when I was assigned to Viet Nam by CBS News.\u00a0 Kurt and Gisela, newlyweds, were new to the war, too.\u00a0 Kurt was one of those brave but anonymous combat cameramen who made CBS coverage of Viet Nam so noteworthy.\u00a0 I kept my head down and provided the\u00a0words later.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kurt is now an artist living in Germany but the Volkerts are regular visitors to the States, not so much because of the quality of my conversation but because they have a baby granddaughter living here.\u00a0 Visitors, old friends, none of that makes any difference.\u00a0 Anybody who wants breakfast still has to work at Thistle Hill.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Electric fence has to be moved so the cows can have\u00a0\u00a0their breakfast, too.\u00a0 And our expensive,\u00a0 backlash and jam proof reels are no respecter of international reputations.\u00a0 Kurt not only has to put up with my non-stop enthusiasm for cattle but has even forgiven me for telling him not to worry….”that wire isn’t hot”.\u00a0 We also have a new expensive,\u00a0 high-powered fence energizer that sends 12,000 volts down the line.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, these pictures, and those on the home page and those in the post below, were taken by Gisela, who has now put up with\u00a0Kurt and me for 44 years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…but a little younger than I am. Gisela and Kurt Volkert have been an important part of my life since 1967.\u00a0 That’s when I was assigned to Viet Nam by CBS News.\u00a0 Kurt and Gisela, newlyweds, were new to the war, too.\u00a0 Kurt was one of those brave but anonymous combat cameramen who made CBS coverage of Viet Nam so noteworthy.\u00a0 I kept my head down and provided the\u00a0words later. Kurt is now an artist living in Germany but the Volkerts are regular visitors to the States, not so much because of the quality of my conversation but because they have a baby granddaughter living here.\u00a0 Visitors, old friends, none of that makes any difference.\u00a0 Anybody who wants breakfast still has to work at Thistle Hill. Electric fence has to be moved so the cows can have\u00a0\u00a0their breakfast, too.\u00a0 And our expensive,\u00a0 backlash and jam proof reels are no respecter of international reputations.\u00a0 Kurt not only has to put up with my non-stop enthusiasm for cattle but has even forgiven me for telling him not to worry….”that wire isn’t hot”.\u00a0 We also have a new expensive,\u00a0 high-powered fence energizer that sends 12,000 volts down the line. Incidentally, these pictures, and those on the home page and those in the post below, were taken by Gisela, who has now put up with\u00a0Kurt and me for 44 years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}