Private Bath, Please !

This little guy came to the birdbath one am and thought to himself "WOW! a private bath. BUT
little did he know it would not last long... Soon Mo and Jo joined him just for company and THEN
Lo and Behold - the whole family came for a community bath !
The picture is too small to really see the flutter of the wings in the water in the third picture.
I enjoy my birdies bath in the mornings.
They often go rub in the dust of the driveway and then come to the birdbath to clean off.
What a blast they can be when they all hit the tub at the same time !

Memory Lane

This is one of my favorite pictures of all time.

It was taken when Bob was on Attu in the Coast Guard.

We had only been married a year and two months when he left for a year of isolated duty in Alaska.

This was taken in his room. Don't know who took it but I told him he had to have at least one picture of himself with every set of pictures he sent home.

IT WAS A LONG YEAR !

I was in Aberdeen for the year. We had been living in Seattle where he was stationed when he got his orders. Rather than stay in "the big city" Mom and Dad asked if I wanted to come back to Aberdeen and stay with them while he was gone so we took them up on it. I went back to work at the D & R with our former boss finding me extra work thru the week for more hours. I also worked at a florist shop that was right near the theatre. It was just a little one man shop and he needed some help on days he had big orders so

he trained me as an apprentice. I loved working there... especially the days we got new orders of flowers in. I used to smell the roses when they first came in and he said I would soon get over that but I never did. They were just so pretty I couldn't resist a sniff each time!

We got thru the year but seem like forever. Before we got married we had been separated for three months while he was in boot camp, then for six months while he was in ET school in Groton, Conn. so we were used to separation but that didn't make it any easier.

One reason he didn't re-enlist is we knew as an Electronic Technician it would mean another year of isolated duty if he stayed in. We weren't ready for that again.

So what happened, he got stationed on the Coast Guard Cutter Winona when he got home with only four more months to go. And guess what in November they went to sea for a month.

Oh well, that is history and we got thru it ok... Even tho at the time it seemed like the end of the world every time he had to leave.

Slow Down the Pace

Things have slowed down around here a bit. With my not being able to drive....
it is a little more difficult to be in the "rat race." It is all working out with some planning
and I am having fun getting a lot of Scrapbooking done since I can't be out and about
very easily anyway.

I finished up my two capitols from our Calif/Nevada vacation. I now have 22 capitols in my album - almost half way.

Caught up on a mini book we made in my scrapbook class last month. Used some of the
autumn pictures from our New England trip. Turned out rather pretty, if I say so myself.

Got numerous chronological pages done and feel a lot more caught up.

Sat down and went thru some recent pictures we had taken, got the ones chosen I
want to use and got them all printed up at Walgreens. So I am ready to Scrap !!

I'm at a point where I can go in and just sit down for a few minutes and have something
to do. When I get behind then I don't know where to start when I do have a little chunk
of time available so I am feeling really good about now being ready.

Had my receptionist that drives up from Seaside for our early WW mtg pick me up for my meeting Thursday and Bob picked me up when I was done.
So things are working out - I have an appointment with the neurologist the 17th so hopefully I will be able to drive after that.

Yesterday we had all our "cruise buddies" over and got all the preboarding paperwork done on line so we won't have to stand in line when we get to the cruise office the day we leave.
We are all getting excited now. We leave one the 29th of this month.

I'm feeling better and my large banana shaped eggplant colored bruise is beginning to look
the color of a human body again and it isn't hurting as badly as it did at first.

We enjoyed a visit from Ken and La Chel last weekend. Always love to have "kids" come home.
You are all welcome at any time around here!

So things are sort of enjoyable for the time being. Sometimes getting out of the rat race can be a good thing for awhile.