Looking back...50 years and counting!!

The years have gone by so quickly it seems. Tomorrow will be the 50th wedding anniversary of my sweetheart and I. The few lows have been quite low, the highs outweighing them by far, our love growing through thick and thin. Just like a garden, love takes care and nurturing. Without constant weeding and watering, danger lurks, in the form of weeds that take over. I liken weeds to a withering of love, if not remembered daily, by both partners in love.

Love is a lot of work but is made easier when two are pulling together in the same direction. Hand-holding in the park, smooching in the movie and caring more about the other than yourself. These are the things it takes to stay together. Commitment is prime. It is so easy now-a-days for couples to ed a relationship over relatively minor issues. They may seem insurmountable to overcome when you are in the middle of them, but that is why it is so important to step back and take a breath before making life-changing decisions.

Our lives, mine and Russ', have taken us across oceans, continents, to other countries and back. The family we have created from our love grows and grows. We look at the children we have born and are in wonderment at what we started! Five children have turned into, at last count today, fourteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.....and counting!

From California to Japan and back again, our life began as a three year honeymoon. Our baby son was with us and we loved every minute of our time in foreign lands. California again and two girls later found us a few years later buying a farm in Missouri, where we took up residence and for the next five years created another little part of our Eden. The ground and I were both quite fertile, it seems and two more kiddies were brought forth...a boy and a girl, only 13 months apart.

Not long after the lat birth, we changed farms, going from the 130 acres to a little 20 acre plot. This is really not a history! I am just touching the high spots!

Manhattan, Kansas became our home for several years after that, about 10 of them, I believe. Hawaii became our home for about four years while I attended Brigham Young University, in Laie. It was a great time for Russ and I but school was a bit of a trial for the our two youngest still at home. So very few words here, for this time, but that belongs in a real history!

Colorado, then back to Missouri. And here we are, having planted children in lives of their own, growing their own little 'weeds', and turning them into flowers. As gardens do, this one continues to multiply, adding little flower treasures to our family generations.

I am going all maudlin on y'all! Memories take me back to early times and make me wish I were there again, starting all over again. Not much would I really change, just a few things. But then who knows what havoc that would wreak on the world! You never know, but remember how the flutter of the wings of a butterfly in the Amazon is said to be able to cause hurricanes far away.

So, my happy reader, this is our life in a very tiny nut shell. As time goes by, there may be more here on this very same subject, but then maybe not!

Come back an find out!!!

See ya on the go 'round

Long time, no see....

Well, so sorry I have not been on here lately...life is hectic, but I am not alone in this, right? My last post had a lot to do with my youngest daughter, Jill, and her dog/companion Fen. Well, Fen has stayed put and not gone exploring anymore. As a matter of fact, Jill has moved to our former house up on the hill for a while. The house she was in previously, that she rented from us, had roof damage from ice and wind. Caved in her bathroom ceiling, as a matter of fact!

So, as of today, roof is repaired, ceiling is not, and eventually Jill will relocate back to the town she moved from, but probably not in the same house. That one we hope to repair and sell. Move on, so to speak.

Russ and I have been trying to stay well, keep the home fire burning to keep warm and writing. We write articles for an international company and we have found it to be interesting, if not extremely lucrative yet. Time will tell. Jill is actually doing it as well. She spends much more time at it, so her results are sometimes surprising!

Tonight it will get well below freezing and start a round of freezing rain and snow for the next few days. We tucked in today, after filling the wood pile in the garage and making sure we had plenty of food. We are set for whatever. We are supposed to make a trip to Bolivar on Tuesday but we will see how that goes.

Keep looking back, I will do better at this blog thing!

See ya on the go 'round!!!