JUST LIKE VACATION

Yesterday was a beautiful day. It began a little gloomy but as the morning past it was wonderful. The sun came out and the wind blew and all I had to do was to enjoy it.

My neighbors, Jan and Phil Gautchey, were playing golf and so was Dave. The Gautchey's daughter Sharon was visiting from Chicago. Sharon is a "Linda Moss" kind of girl. She is so much fun to be with. She is 38 years old, lives right in the city and starts a wonderful new job on Wed. Flat Hunter will be traveling home with Sharon and then on to Penn. with her for a business trip. She is the same girl that tried to take Flat Maison to the Cubs game a couple of years ago.

We really didn't have anything special to do so we put some chairs in Dave's truck and headed for the beach.

While we were at the beach I saw this cute young woman in a bikini that looked like she was going to have a baby in March.

I remembered the 1st time I was pregnant (I didn't look that good) Dave and I went on a little vacation to Oprey Land. Dave had to keep stopping all the way down so I could stick my head out the window and I had to keep getting out of the lines so I could get sick. There was only one other thing I remember about that trip and David remembered it too. While we were sitting outside watching one of the shows there was a little boy about 6 and a little girl about 4 that had left their parents a few rows back and were sitting together near the front. Every once in a while they would get excited about the show and just hug each other. It was such a precious love. Many times after that I would pray for children with that same love for each other. Now, I also pray for that for my grandchildren and thank God for my own sisters.

When we decided that Sharon's white skin had all the sun it needed we headed to Naples for a delicious lunch at P F Chang's. We just shared our meal. That's the best way to get an appetizer, main course and desert and not feel like you are going to explode. I love that place.

Today it is cloudy and raining a little.

POOR DAVE IS SICK

It is really sad when a health care professional in the family is sick. He is the one that is sympathetic to the sick person and seems to know what to do to at least to make them feel better while they get through it.

Well Dave is sick. It is not a life threatening illness but he really is feeling bad. He sounds even worse. I insisted that he stay home today. Those little old people that he has for patients do not need to be introduced to whatever it is that has this healthy physically fit man in his 5o's, sounding like a frog.

He is having so much trouble breathing that he was up a 3:30am sitting in the bathroom with the shower running. He mentioned that he wished we still had the vaporizor we used to keep Todd breathing for his first 6-8 years.

On my way to work today I decided to go to Target to buy him one. Well when I got there I had the choice of buying the inexpensive one that I am sure worked fine or one shaped like an elephant or one that was a very cute light blue penguin (that brought back memories of some postal workers that I once read about) that ofcourse was more expensive. Well the decision was an easy one.

Even as I am writting this there is a 52 year old man laying in bed in the next room watching TV (breathin rather poorly but better than last night) with a cute little blue penguin spitting a mist of cool moist air in his face.

I wish you could see it. It would make you laugh!

FEBRUARY

WELL, MID FEBRUARY IS HERE. IT IS ENTIRELY TOO COLD FOR S W FLORIDA BUT THE 50'S DON'T SEEM QUITE SO BAD WHEN YOU SEE ALL THE SNOW FALLING IN THE NORTHEAST SECTION OF OUR COUNTRY.

I HAVE BEEN WEARING A SWEATSHIRT ALL DAY AND IT WAS STILL COLD OUT IN THE WIND.

I THINK TOMORROW NIGHT I WILL HAVE TO DRAG OUT THE OLD 'JACK GARNER' SWEATSHIRT. IT IS IN HONOR OF HIS 53 BIRTHDAY. THAT SHIRT IS 38 YEARS OLD BUT FOR SOME REASON I THINK IT HAS GOTTEN SMALLER OVER THE YEARS. AGE HAS A WAY OF CHANGING THINGS. HEE HEE