Random Thoughts VIII: The Ocho
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there are some that would pick you up, yes. Probably what we'd do. Back home we'd do the leaving vehicles thing.
Don't think I've ever mentioned the time DH came canoeing with us. Nearly ended our relationship. Bestie and I in the canoe had fun but Dh did not, oops. Maybe because we ladies were pretty bad at steering.
Boxster, that sounds horrible.
Went to the Mucky Duck so Z could play in the castle and get some food. I planned to share with her, but she left me four bites.
Z's growing up, pretty sure your going to have to let her pick her own meal pretty soon.
Well mine started tasselling this week, need to get the electric fence up to save it from the raccoons.
but no friends attending. Turned down a lake offer and other friends have their sister in town so they are with family tonight. Hoping to do something yet tomorrow or Monday maybe. But it's ok if we don't cause we got all the volleyball, kickball playoffs, camping, and play-watching to do this summer
WHY IS THIS TWO SEPARATE POSTS
Patiently waiting for the Knight Sweetcorn stands to start popping up around CR.
CycloneErik
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Glad he got it down but....come on man with modern relatively cheap technology it is incredibly easy to know where you are within a foot at all times. Not to mention there should be no reason other than a mechanical failure that you run out of gas.
Went canoeing in college with a club I belonged to about mid-May. Got probably THE worst sunburn I've ever experienced, but just from mid-thigh to right below my knee. (Shorts + sitting in a canoe) I could barely walk that night...remember shuffling down my dorm hall extremely slowly to get to the bathroom. When I returned to school the first-ish week of September, I STILL had noticeable lines from mid-thigh to below my knee.
Because of everything you mention I think maybe the fact he is 79 played into it. Even Arnie Palmer stopped flying at 81 but his last flight was Cali to Florida and then he hung it up.
It's one thing to get an early touch of dementia and get lost driving but totally another thing to have it happen flying. Glad my dad decided on his own to stop driving except to downtown and church (like a mile of so). Never had to have that "I don't think you should be driving conversation."
20 years from now the nieces will probably be talking to me about me driving. Probably something like "Uncle Boxster, you REALLY need to stop driving that 35-year old Porsche. We worry about your driving and think you should get one of the totally self driving cars! You can even get one that talks to you in a French accent. Just sit in the car and listen to your old music and the car will take you to the coffee shop."
I wonder how many shots fired calls Beloit will have to deal with this weekend. People there will assume gunshots instead of fireworks.
My mom was getting worried about Dad driving and one day he came home and said he decided he shouldn't be driving anymore and that was that.
Elie Wiesel died today. His book "Night" was required reading for us in high school and I can say that book changed the way I saw the world. I had never felt that emotional reading a book before that.
It was quite rough having to take the keys from grandpa but not nearly as bad as when we first put him in assisted living. He was comfortable and declined quickly after we moved him. Sadly (hard to put it that way but only those that have dealt with demenita and alzheimer's know what I mean) he lived three more years after that.
Fireworks going off around us. Makes me miss Andover and the whole damn town blowing itself up on the 4th.
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