The Fishing Date

(This story is from Mom as she came out of her anesthesia the other day.)

     Meme and Pepe owned a cottage by the water.  Dad and Mom were engaged and he wanted to spend the day with her so he said, "Why don't I come up and we can fish?"  Mom said that was okay and they spent the day fishing.

     At the end of the evening, Dad said to her that he was glad to spend the time with her even though he hated fishing at which point she also admitted to hating fishing but thought he must like it and so had agreed.  He had just assumed she liked fishing since she went to the cottage...

They never fished again!!!

1982ish

Christmas? 1982

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The walls were really much greener.....

Hangin' out with the boys

Recent reminder.

Last Monday (Dec 29th) Bonnie & I  were watching Drew & Tyler.  I needed to run some errands so I took Drew with me.  We stopped off at a machine shop where the van engine block was being cleaned up.  The fellow there took us around & showed Drew all of the machines.  All of a sudden I was brought back to the times when Dad would take me to "bum around".  We would go do whatever errands were on the plate, but we would always end up stopping in at Windsor Communications to see Louis Cherry & the guys.  Dad would have a coffee & Louis or Joe would get me a pop.  We'd have a good visit & then off we go. Even though we'd often barge in to interrupt a full days work they always had time to stop and have a visit form dad. Looking back that's kind of amazing when you think about it.  In all of the times we did this, I don't ever remember them once saying we're too busy for a visit from dad.

Twenty Years Today

Tears.
Regrets only of the little time I had to know you.
So grateful for who you helped me to become.
Missing you still.

Wishing I had a picture of that scrunched up face you used to make.
I miss that face...

Vicky