Party, Weather, and UFOs

Tomorrow is a 40 Already? party that Colleen is having ala German style. She and I have been busy in the kitchen preparing some hearty fall foods such as tasty homemade bread, hearty soups, and tasty beef casserole; all to be precluded by drinks and Aquivit and concluded with warm and spicy apple crisp and coffee. So we will get to meet and greet her coworkers from her Fuller office, and some of her college classmates. Fun!!! And I decided to capitalize on the party and invite some of our ‘contemporaries’.

We are still trying to figure out what our address was in Pensacola, Florida back in 1964 when Ken was going through pre-flight. Apparently one of the tornados of this week hit that street. I don’t remember any sort of threat while we were there, although we left in the fall, and I remember feeling as if we were being pursued by hurricanes when we made the trek from Pensacola to Corpus Christi; the two of us and 18 month-old Keith.

We have had some wild weather the past two days with rain, wind, and tonight we heard a clap of thunder. This is the first storm of the season, and I think there is more weather to come over the next few days.

Our youngest grandchild, Warren, turned twelve today. It seems what he really wanted for his birthday was a plane ticket to Roswell, New Mexico to check up on UFOs. That sounds like our Warren.

Steilacoom made national news with a 13 car train derailment here in town. It made the news simply because this is the main north/south rail line so the derailment has caused all trains from as far south as LA including Amtrak to be stopped. I think the line was supposed to be open again by this evening. It occurred right at the ferry crossing, so ferry traffic was held up for several hours too.

Ciao