SUMMER 2025

SUMMER 2025

  • DAD, I’M HOME

    On Christmas Eve 2025, Mike Farrell Drove Back to Harry Morganโ€™s House โ€” โ€œDad, Iโ€™m Homeโ€ โค๏ธ

    December 24, 2025.
    Los Angeles. Mike Farrell is 86 years old.

    He reaches for his car keys, looks at his wife, and says quietly:

    โ€œShelley, Iโ€™m going to see Harry.โ€

    โ€œMikeโ€ฆ heโ€™s been gone 14 years,โ€ she replies gently.

    โ€œI know,โ€ he says, nodding. โ€œBut the house is still there.
    The memories are still there.
    The love is still there.โ€

    So he drives.

    Slowly. No radio playing.
    Just an elderly man moving through familiar streets, past corners where he once turned to share dinners with Harry Morgan โ€” the man he still calls his โ€œColonelโ€โ€ฆ and, in his heart, his father.

    He stops in front of the old house.

    Same walkway. Same windows. New owners now, but they recognize him โ€” every Christmas Eve, they welcome him inside to โ€œvisit an old friend.โ€

    Inside, framed photographs still hang where the family left them: Harry as Colonel Potter, Harry with his real family, Harry laughing in that unmistakable way every MAS*H fan remembers.

    Mike pauses in front of a photo from 1980 โ€” Harry in uniform, smiling like heโ€™s about to call someone โ€œson.โ€

    โ€œDad,โ€ Mike whispers, his voice unsteady, โ€œIโ€™m home.โ€

    โ€œIโ€™m 86 now. Older than you were when we met in โ€™75.
    Back then, I was scared. I was โ€˜the new guy,โ€™ stepping into shoes everyone already loved.โ€

    He wipes his eyes.

    โ€œBut you looked at me and said, โ€˜Mike, donโ€™t be afraid.
    Youโ€™re not Wayne. Youโ€™re YOU. And youโ€™re going to be just fine. I believe in you.โ€™โ€

    In the stillness of the living room, Mikeโ€™s shoulders shake.

    โ€œYou believed in me when I couldnโ€™t believe in myself,โ€ he tells the photo.
    โ€œThank you for that. Thank you for loving me like a son.โ€

    He stands there a long while โ€” no cameras, no audience, just a Christmas Eve promise kept to an old friend.

    Every year since 2011, Mike Farrell has returned to Harry Morganโ€™s house on December 24th.

    Because some bonds donโ€™t end at the graveside.
    Some fathers and sons are chosen on a soundstageโ€ฆ and last all the way to Christmas Eve 2025.

  • FRIDAY122625

    Bring on the new year. I’m excited to see what all will pop up!

    Yes, this was made for X and shared here!

  • CHRISTMAS DAY 2025

    Christmas this year was one for the books!
    So many unexpected happenings…too numerous to mention!

    Topped off this morning by a booming thunderstorm at five o’clock am!!
    I don’t ever remember that happening before now!
    Thunder in December is rare, but a storm on Christmas is beyond awesome!

    Wishing everyone the Merriest of Christmasses!

  • YEAR IN REVIEW

    In no particular order: Highlights from 2025.

  • MONDAY
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