Crying and praising!

I am crying!!! When I see Diesel prices keep climbing I see all those places I want to go just getting further away. Maybe it is time to park the motor home and start flying. I will have to discus this with my navigator.

When we lived here in another life, we had two swings hanging in the trees. We spent most every evening just sitting and swinging in the shade. We had some of our best conversations there. Yesterday Sherry and I sat in the only swing left. It was so relaxing just swinging and talking.

Talking has always been something we treasure, and has gotten us through some truly rough times. Swinging and talking, and walking and talking has always been a boost to our marriage. We like each other, we are close. We live close and are seldom over a few feet apart. Right now I take comfort and a lot of pleasure in that I can see Sherry in the bed reading. I have perks a lot of married guys do not have. I won’t enumerate, but there is no privacy here when she gets ready for bed. Somehow I manage to get into the bed room just before she turns back the covers! What a joy for an old man.

Today I was hauling a few wheel barrows full of dirt to repair areas where erosion has taken place over the past few years while we have been gone. I was thinking of my girl, and what all she has done in the last 50+ years. Once I left her and went overseas. We could not travel together. Later she had to have the household goods packed, ship them to me. Ship the car. Get her and two young boys to the terminal for the military flight. She did it all without ONE hitch. I am one lucky guy.

What I was thinking today was: Women are saddled with a lot to do, but Military wives are doubly hit. I have known women with three or four kids, some in diapers. Leave the East Coast and travel to the Far East making connections shipping etc. handling delays. You gotta give it to the Girls, they are gutsy.

Thanks for coming this way.

Nite ShipsLog

PS: Just for you girls!

PIECES OF ADVICE TO BE PASSED ON TO YOUR MUM, YOUR DAUGHTERS OR GRANDDAUGHTERS, NIECES, AUNTS, GIRLFRIENDS, ETC.

Don't imagine you can change a man - unless he's in diapers.

If you wan t a committed man, look in a mental hospital.

The children of Israel wandered around the desert for 40 years. Even in Biblical times, men wouldn't ask for directions.

If he asks what sort of books you're interested in, tell him check books.

Remember a sense of humor does not mean that you tell him jokes, it means that you laugh at his.

Sadly, all men are created equal.

WHAT? You already know them?

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#6 Comment from lucille4364
5/7/08 8:44 PM | Permalink

Isn't it strange how you even connect with someone ouit of your life for sometime through Mort in the UK. I am truly amazed at what the internet has done for us. As I said before you and Sherry have a very special bond no one can break except the one all powerful God, and pray that is way far away. Joe always says if I go first, don't stop cause he will run into me. Lucy
#5 Comment from darn36
5/7/08 10:57 AM | Permalink

That brings back a lot of memories. Jim and I would swing for hours in our
swing back at 4110 until it finally broke we moved to wicker rockers. I also
remember Dick and Kat in the same swing. Just remember the swing you were
in is own private property. You posted the signs. You might ask your new
neighbor if you can use the swing. LOL

Shirl
#4 Comment from sugerb6
5/6/08 11:33 PM | Permalink

Whoops! Forgot to say I hope you and Sherry don't have to park the motor home because of the price of fuel. It's something both of you enjoy together.
#3 Comment from sugerb6
5/6/08 11:28 PM | Permalink

We too found it quite relaxing sitting in the swing and talking to each other, sadly our swing wore out and we had to get rid of it. Now, in the evenings during the summer we sit out on our patio in our glider and relax together. Many nights we have sat out there among the moon and stars and talked until the wee morning hours, it's so peaceful. I look forward to it again this summer.
It's refreshing to hear a man speak of his love for his wife after so many years together.
Debbie
#2 Comment from maxway1
5/6/08 10:31 PM | Permalink

Hey friend,
You done already brung tears to my eyes.
I read the Journal to my betterhalf. And she sure enjoyed it. How could she not enjoy it. What priceless and owerful words.
My gal and I have # 55 coming in about eleven days. What a wondeful journey.
She has ben a real home maker. And of course she is the mother of three beautiful daughters and one not so beautiful son. But sons are supposed to be beautiful, so in that regard, as with many others, we are blessed.
God bless,
Pas C

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