Come on in, it's comfortable in the nest

I'd love to add a picture here of the nest with our robins in it on the tree branches. Dale painted it on an Ohio shaped piece of slate we found on our honeymoon in New York. He cleaned and baked it, drilled a couple holes in the corners and knotted rope through it so we would be able to hang it up in our home. He was a talented artist, poet, loved God and his Savior, a great cook, and loved to suprise me taking me to differnt historic spots and learning about them. We did a wonderful tour of Amish Country, Niagra Falls, the Mormon historic town here in Kirtland, OH, Wine Country. He taught me about pottery he collected. We had fun refinishing our bathroom into a "Fisherman's Closet" is all I can say to describe it. We had started gardening. I try to keep it up in memory of him, but HE had the green thumb. Not me so much. Since my sister lost her husband in April I have been regrieving with her as well as dealing with my Mom who has Alzheimer's. It's an awful disease. We slowly lose a part of her each day. Some days it's not so noticeable and we are fortunate that she has a sense of humor that we have to actually do a doubletake and wonder if she really has the disease. My dear sweetie, Steve, says we should take her on the road. We'd do better than the Blue Collar Comedy Club team! She is an Elvis Presley fan. She remembers him. We shopped a day at the local Goodwill and she found a doll replica of Elvis with his guitar and swivel hips and it's her favorite toy. On our way to my daughter Chrissy's yesterday she told me she wanted to find someone and get married again. Was that ever out of the blue!! My luck she would and then "forget" she got married and take a devilish delight in living in sin! Ha ha ha! Definately have to write that certificate in BOLD Sharpie and hang it on the wall. I have her and my dads wedding certificate , it's a Catholic scroll with beautiful artistry 16x20 size, framed over the bookcase. Can't miss it. She says I haven't seen my marriage certificate in a long time! That's the way of her.
Well I can tell my emotions are all over the place today. I am still exhausted from our vacation home, that Mother doesn't remember. We went to Fulton, KY, Union City, TN, Henderson, TX,Wynne, AR, Memphis, TN to visit family and friends we haven't seen in awhile. Good thing we took pictures.
Seems we got home in time. Carolyn's cat was due to have kittens. She had them yesterday. Three in all we believe. She hid herself in what will become the computer room at my sisters. There are so cute even though I haven't seen them yet. I know I will want to bring one home, but we have allergies and I want to continue to travel for as long as I can. I love being out on the open road.

Monday, July 14, 2008

July 14, 2008

What I would to be able to go back in time. Today is my friend Becky's 53rd Birthday. It garners a lot of friendship for us as we go back to the 3rd grade at St. Paul's Elementary in Akron, Ohio. We have gone through the teasing of childhood, to walking in then graduating high school. I got married, Becky, always the smart one, went on to Ohio State. Once she graduated from Ohio State she moved home to Akron for a small amount of time. She worked a stint in my parents restaurant and I'll never forget the first day she got the job at a magazine selling subscriptions. It was definately going to be her big break into journalism, I just felt it! But time went on and Becky hates the cold, so it was off to Florida. Miami was one home she had there and she would always write and tell me about movie stars and such that she saw. Don Johnson in Miami Vice for one. I really didn't appreciate him until he teamed up with Cheech Marin in the hit T.V. show, "Nash Bridges". Ah, but I digress,,,It's Becky's Birthday. The most wonderful thing we have done together is a 9-Day 10-State wonder tour. What I call her mid-life crisis, she left Florida and moved to Seattle, Washinton. This is my sunshine friend, she needs warm air and sunshine, go figure, she moves to Seattle. Any who time passes she packs up to move home and falls ill. She gets her possessions stored and flies home to Akron and family(yes, I consider myself family) to get well and get well she does! (TY GOD) Myself, having never really been anywhere, was aksed to fly out with her and drive back in a rented Penske truck. Did we ever have a ball. We hit Seattle, WA ; Portland, OR; Northern California and the Redwood Forrest on down the California Coast Highway 1 to Monterey/Carmel. At that point the road was closed due to rain storms and we turned back. Off we went and landed in the town of Williams, Arizona. A higher elevation and a snow storm! We made it through with a few choice words from Beck on my choice of map readings, but it all panned out well when we drove through the Painted Desert and all I can say is oh WOW,,,we also stood on the Corner of Winslow, AZ. That night we spent the night in a pitch dark Roswell, NM. Not one light into that city until we were in it. Then it was on to our friend Jill's in the Piney Woods of East Texas. A stop in Hope, AR, my mom's home state, and met someone who knew my cousin back in college. Of course we were bound for Wynne, AR. to visit with my family and we stayed with my Aunt Ruby. We left the next morning and toured Graceland in Memphis, TN and then on to Bowling Green and Louisville, KY, and last home to Ohio. It was awesome. We hope to be able to do that again one day. But alas, she moved on , back to Florida until this past year. I am so glad to have her home and the sad part is I haven't seen her but at my brother-in-law Lee's funeral in April. We really thought living closer together we would see each other more.
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