Today (Monday) I went to the post office and it was still there and still open. I went in order to send photos of John and the woman (Susan) he dated in his senior year to Susan. When the Lincoln High Alumni Association (LLAA) posted the list of graduates who had passed away, this woman made a donation to the Lincoln High Alumni Scholarship fund. I thought that was very kind of her and wrote a thank-you note which was forwarded to her by someone on the LLAA board.
I, of course, knew about Susan
before John and I ever married. I knew he thought of her with affection and was
delighted one year when he received a flower arrangement from her for his
birthday. I thought it was very kind and generous for her to make a donation in
remembrance of him.
When I was going through
stuff in the garage, I believe I wrote about the scrapbooks I found that dated
back to John’s polio days and his high school years. I don’t remember if I
posted that I found three cardboard holders with a photo of John and Susan in
each. Two of them also held the invitation and/or dance cards. One was the
senior prom. When I first met John, he told a story about drinking mustard on a
dare to earn money for the prom. He really did like mustard…a lot.
Anyway, in my thank you
note to Susan, I told her I’d found these photos and offered to send them to
her if she would like to have them. I received a very nice card in return and
yes, she would like the photos. She said she’d never forgot John or the time
they spent together but thought John being her first big crush probably had
something to do with that. In any case, I was glad to send them off to her with
the hope they bring her happy memories.
Following the post office,
I went to Costco for gas and a couple of other things. It was already so hot, I
debated with me and myself about purchasing a fan. Now, I know we had a number of
fans around here and/or in the garage, but do you think a single one was found
when Haley and I worked in the garage…NOPE!!! I argued with me and myself about
just going home and dragging the portable AC out and setting it up. I and
myself didn’t want to, so they forced me to go to Home Depot and buy a new box
fan. I just plugged it in and it’s blowing cool air on me as I type…love it.
The trip to HD was also
worth it because I checked for and found ammonia…lemon scented no less. I
bought two bottles, so the cleaning I mentioned several posts ago can now
proceed. I mean you really cannot clean windows unless you have ammonia and white
vinegar. Now, I have no excuse unless I want to use the one about it being too
hot to do anything besides lay in front of my new fan.
My new fan may also keep
the doggies away. They both like to lay on me even when it’s hot, although Kaizer
moves away fairly soon because he’s a little hottie. Karma is laying in the
front room in the sun and Kaizer is by her but not in the sun. It’s funny how their
bellies turn pink and white over the winter, but once the sun begins to shine,
that pink and white becomes very dark, maybe even black. I wonder if they
suffer reverse vitiligo?
I was also talking to
friend this morning and she saw an interview by Anderson Cooper with the
Washington State Attorney General. Apparently, more than three million people
voted by mail-in or drop-in ballots and out of that huge number, only 142 were
found to be fraudulent. I’m hoping she can find a link to that interview and
post it on Facebook. I would repost it and ask everyone who sees to repost it
as well. I mean, seriously, voting by mail isn’t calculus unless you take into
account what that tRump and his USPS person are attempting to do. OMG, isn’t
there some way we can get him arrested and thrown in jail NOW? I certainly hope
Pelosi and the House can get the USPS back on track.
Many many posts ago, I
referenced Stephen King’s book, THE STAND. Even Mr. King was unable to write a dissertation
as scary as what we are living through. Yes, there was a virus. Yes, lots of
people died. Yes, strange things happened, but he didn’t put an idiot in the
White House (that idiot died in the book if he was an idiot), or a bunch of
other idiots who were trying to change the entire country in very negative
ways. No, there were no major protests or interactions between people and the
police, but that’s because the majority of everyone actually died. I sometimes
think it might be better for all if our pandemic was more closely tied to what
Mr. King wrote. Of course, then most of us except for a very small percentage would be dead.
Seriously, I don’t have
any answers; and even if I did, how would I get people to listen? It just seems
to me that we keep going on day to day without making any positive progress or
being led by anyone who offers positive progress. Once again, people in Seattle
protested and protesters and policemen alike were injured. How does that help
anyone or anything? And it’s not that I don’t see a need for change because I
do, it just seems like the methods of getting that change done are more
divisive and harmful than not.
Okay, climbing down off
the soapbox. Think I’ll take a look at my China scrapbooks and digital photos
so I can regale you for a few days with memories of that trip. It will
undoubtedly require more than the two posts I did for Kenya…we were gone for almost
three weeks and traveled all around China. The best trip ever.