Ticklepitcher's Turn: Start

Ticklepitcher's Turn? What in the world...? OK - I have a "serious" blog where we discuss weighty issues like missions and ministry, the state of the church today in America, etc. I need a fun place to go and put silly stuff that makes me laugh. If it makes you laugh, great! If not, well my wife still tells me I have a weird sense of humor...

But why Ticklepitcher's Turn? My family has an interesting sense of humor. I believe I inherited my particular sense of humor from my father, Bob Lowman, Sr., and from my great-grandfather, Presley Costner, whom we called Poppy. (Both of these men were actually called Poppy by their grandchildren.)

It was Poppy Costner who first had a cast of characters he talked about regularly, men he said would drop by his farm or he knew from the past. We never saw or could verify the existence of these guys, but they were real, to hear Poppy talk about them. Three in particular I remember: Joe Gabbards, Spizzy Winktum, and John Ticklepitcher. Yes, you can tell by the way the names sound, they were great "fictional" characters. He would talk about these gentlemen, and laugh as he talked.

So...I decided to name this blog "Ticklepitcher's Turn" to indicate that here is a place where having fun has it's turn...where we can be silly, laugh, smile, guffaw, and otherwise celebrate the gift of life God has given us.

Visit Ticklepitcher's Turn as often as you like...I hope to have something new here pretty often. It may be a picture, it may be a joke, it may be a story from "real" life...but I hope it makes you smile, at least.

Here goes...