Watching the news of the hurricane takes me back to the months we spent in Pensacola while Ken went through pre-flight. We were there from March to September, and as we were traveling on to Corpus Christi we were being closely followed by a hurricane which did not catch us. I don't remember much news, if any, about hurricanes for the time we were in Florida. We lived in Pensacola, and I aspired to live in Gulf Breeze, where the 'senior' officers lived. I wouldn't want to be there today.
We have been invited to the 50th wedding anniversary mass and reception for Jerry and Mary Ellen McKain this afternoon. The mass is also celebrating their granddaughter's quinceanero - fifteen years of Christian living. Molly and her family live in Texas and her father is of an hispanic culture which I believe is much more focused on the quinceanero. We are looking forward to it. When Ken first went to work at Western State Hospital, he worked for Jerry. Coincidentally, they live on Walnut Lane just a few hundred yards up the hill from us, so we count them as friends and neighbors as well as a former coworker.
Colleen and Cooper are out for their daily walk. She has made it a habit to walk him, and he doesn't let her forget it. He is in her face every waking moment until they are on their way. For a ten-year-old ill-behaved dog, she has made great strides in getting him to walk like a gentleman. They walk from here to Sunnyside Beach which is three miles round trip.
We watched a Rick Steves show on Friday evening which found him in Croatia. We want to go!!! In fact, we have posed that scenario to the Schulers, and the email response (within 15 minutes of my sending the message) was yes, yes, yes. It looks beautiful, and seems to be the bargain for Europe at the moment. This will not happen until next year, but we are going to talk about it when we are together next month.
Next week will be preparation for our Lavender Festival week end. For some reason, Winnebago chose not to install seatbelts in the dinette in our MH - so it is designed to sleep six, but can only transport five safely. We are taking it to a van conversion shop in Puyallup next week to see about two more seat belts. I have talked to them, and they see no reason why it can't be done. Me neither since the 2004s and 2006s have dinette seatbelts!
There must be some bad karma in this house. The treadmill gave up the ghost this week, and last night while preparing dinner, the microwave oven died. This on the heels of a new lawnmower just two weeks ago. Maybe it is just time to move!!
Cool and cloudy today, but sunshine is on the way, and is predicted to stay for the next week or so.
Ciao
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