Free lunch withRobin and Mary 10-6-2013

Robin and Mary came today and we went over to get Kay and go out to lunch.  They brought me an orchid, I had called and asked them to not give her anything but a little snack to keep her from getting too hungry if we were delayed.  We found an Old Country Buffet at Lakewood I think it was.  We had a great time as their food is like home cooking compared to this place where we eat and sleep.  Why is it that  what we get here is nowhere like home cooking but OCB is?  I just pick at the food here.  The CDC did a huge survey and found that low salt has no benefit at all as far as living longer is concerned.  When something gets ingrained it is hard to root out.  

Kay really enjoyed the  outing and recognized Robin right away when he walked in.  When we left he thought she might have had a tear in her eye. I  called over about an hour of so later but they told me she was getting along fine.  Smiling and interacting with the other people there.  It is so sad to leave her there.   

Return to Salzburg 1996

Blue Eyes Brown Eyes.

It is heart breaking to listen to Kay try to get out something that is in her mind and can not do it.  We had come back from Old Country Buffet and I was sitting at the computer looking at a video Bob and I had made several years ago.  She came in and watched it with me over my shoulder for a while then tried to ask me a question about her mother.  As far as she could get was "Did you ever think that ...... "  She tried rewording it  several times and could never quite bring out the words she needed for me to get what she wanted to tell me.  I couldn't quite make out what she was driving at so in the end she had to give up and leave.  I tried a couple times to answer as if I knew what she was trying to tell me but I don 't think I quite made her think I knew what she was trying to tell me.  After  a few minutes I went in to comfort her if it was bothering her a lot.  She had been thinking about it all that time and brought up the subject again and this time began asking me if I ever wondered if she was "dark" because her eyes were brown.  Of course I had never wondered because she was very white skinned. Anyway all her family are white so I didn't question it.  But it really had bothering her for some reason when she was looking at the pictures.  I asked her what color eyes her dad, Shirley, and her mother were and she knew instantly.  Her mom was brown and her dad and sister were blue.  So for some reason looking at the wedding pictures of her sister got her to wondering for some reason.  I was able to tell her I never wondered.  My mother told her that she was the first person in our family not to have blue eyes.  I have no idea if that had anything to do with the question today but it  did make an impression on her those many years ago. Maybe it has been with her all these years. 


I feel better since she got it out.


Bill Sheldon June 17, 1920. April 4, 2001. Four years in the 3rd Infantry Division WW2 His story. Find it at Four years in the 3rd Inf in WW2
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Kay seems to be continuing to improve.

 Kay seems to continue to improve although she has times of lots of pain.  There was another development that was very upsetting however.  I took her to the Old Country Buffet for a take out dinner.  After we got home she mentioned that she could never have found her way here.  I didn't understand until she said this a couple times that she didn't know where she was.  I told her this was out home.  Going away apparently she got confused by leaving the area and was not aware of where she was even though she was in  the surroundings she had lived in for 5 years.  Depressing.
So unless she has a relapse I will post other things.  

The popularity of the show Worlds deadliest Catch reminds me of some seafaring experiences in my past which could have ended disastrously.  Growing up in the baby boomer age our kids pretty much did their own thing.   The government did not make a lot of effort  to see that you grew up to pay your fair share of taxes.  Child restraint car seats fluoride in the water and other safety measures were still in the future. They pretty much allowed you to chart your own course. Today it may be looking at it's statue of limitations on child abuse laws after it sees this boat built in the bedroom/Robin wanted a boat and the only way to get one was to build it.  He had no money and no job of course because he was still going to either middle school or high school.  So he decided to build it in his bedroom. What you see here is the result.  Here he was using a paddle to get around with.  He later got an old 7.5 horse motor and got it to run just once that I know of.  Seven and a  half horses on this small boat is a lot of horsepower.  I guess I didn't take a still picture although I did take some film  But here we have three kids in a boat without life jackets.  Robin is pushing it around with a paddle but just a few feet out it is deep.  This is the slough going from Lake Sammash to Lake Washington here at the mouth of the lake on the left. But it turned out OK. 





Take a look at Bills war. His widow created a story of his service with the 39th FA in WW2. Find it at Four years in the 3rd Inf in WW2