and this is my site… pretty cool for an old guy eh?
You can see above, how many days I have to reach 100. Coming soon a timer, so you too, can add your birth date and see how many days you have, to reach 100 years of age?
Actually all the techy stuff is done by my son Jeff, so you can get a hold of him with regards to anything to do with this site. jeffthrasher@rogers.com
But the idea here is to help you to live a long and healthy life and to give you some tools to help you along the way.
Jeff and I, have researched and experimented, with all kinds of health treatments, tonics and potions and all things from the health food store, with diet and exercise, everything from hanging upside down to electric impulses, and eating chlorophyll and chlorella just to name a few 
There will be all kinds of articles related to longevity and anti aging, and, to just growing old with dignity and grace and hopefully having a little fun along the way?
So I hope you sign up for updates, early bird on the list will get special privileges offered before we go live
Hopefully we have INSPIRED YOU to Improve Your Habits!
Stay tuned for updates/Ivan and Jeff Thrasher and Check our sister sites…………..
Insure Your Health Yourself and The Longevity Report
Now let me take you back to 1940 for a minute Before The War…
In early 1940, I was working in a shoe store in Windsor. I was feeling there must be more to life than this, when I ran across and ad in the Windsor Star asking for a person to go to Manitoba to train American field dogs from horseback. I knew nothing about training dogs, but applied anyway. I got the job and was soon on a bus traveling to Elkhorn, a small town close to the Saskatchewan border. He paid me $15.00/week plus room and board. I stayed there all summer.
In the fall, we packed everything up in a 33 Ford Panel truck, hauling a trailer with 48 dogs. The dogs were in cages-two to a cage. We were going to California for more training for the dogs. I remember I had no ID with me at all and don’t even remember going through any customs at the border.
We drove through Minneapolis/ St. Paul and then clear across the states with virtually no brakes on the truck.
I will always remember driving through Nebraska and seeing 5 people hanging dead in a large tree near the road. Needless to say, we did not stop.
When we stopped to feed the dogs, we put out a long chain and attached them every two feet, so they could eat and relieve themselves. We did not want to lose any of them.
I remember going over the Rockies (21,000 ft I think) and all the time thinking about the lack of brakes on the truck.
We ended up in Sacramento where we stayed at a beautiful home with a grand piano. The man’s wife let me play it occasionally.
While I was there, I read in the paper how all the Canadians were joining the army and I thought I should too. I was walking through town and a gypsy woman told me not to go. She even ripped up the $5.00 I had given her to tell my future.But I was not swayed. I got on a bus for Vancouver, which cost $37.00 and left me $3.00 in my wallet. I remember standing in front of the hotel for about an hour ,trying to decide, before I finally went in to enlist.
When the army found out that I had taken a course in diesel engineering, they put me into the search light battery division. I had to do quite a lot of schooling and had to pass 22 exams. We were sent to York Island, a small island off the coast of B.C. My friend and I designed a slide rule that enabled us to spot Japanese boats. We had searchlights that were 5 ft across with 500,000 candle power.Shortly after that, we were sent to Petawawa to be trained as sound rangers. We traveled back and forth between Montreal, Ottawa and Petawawa to get our training, which enabled us to locate enemy guns, almost like surveyors.
In November 1941, we left for oversees with fifteen thousand other soldiers on a huge boat. We landed in Scotland and trained there for quite a period of time. Then we were told to get on a ship, with no idea of where we were going. We ended up going through the Straits of Gibralter and landed in Northern Africa. We then traveled up through Sicily and into southern Italy where we fought the Germans for about 7 months. When we left, the only room left standing in the whole village was the one where we lived and fortified.We then pushed on through Rome, eventually through Paris, Brussels and ended up in Appledorn, Netherlands at the conclusion of the war.
I will never forget the day of driving through the streets of Amsterdam with all the Dutch people celebrating and yelling “YA, YA”
I then went to London, England where I met my cousin Francis, who had been entertaining the troops by singing during the war. He told me to go to London, Ontario to meet this nice girl…… and the rest is history.
More to come
Ivan
