9-9-09

Today would have been a good day to retire. 9-9-09 -- But Julie tells me NO WAY I need to wait till at least 11-11-11.
My words were if I wait that Long I want to stay till after Christmas and get that Christmas bonus.

Selfish aren't I?

As I open my e-mails this morning, I see that I won the give away from Lynette Kraft at Dancing in the Rain, and that the subject is where you first lived when you got married.

How appropriate since TODAY....is Forrest (Bud) and my 31st wedding anniversary.





31 years ago this evening it was 90+ degrees and the church had no air conditioning.
Yes, while kneeling at the alter when the lady was singing the Lord's prayer, I had sweet rolling down my back.

Someone later told me they wondered why we chose this lady to sing at our wedding, but when she opened her mouth to sing the Lord's prayer they knew. Said it was awesome. (Do you think I remember her name? no way, she worked at the same place Bud did at the time, and since I didn't know very many singers here in town - I said sure I'll let her sing the Lord's Prayer for us.)

We were to leave for Spring Green, Wisconsin to go see The House On The Rock that night. Reservations were made for a hotel in Bloomington the first night. However, God must have had other plans for us.

After the wedding and reception


We headed north out of town. Got as far as the mall. YEP, only about 4 miles from where we started. And my Chevy Chevette overheated. So, we had to have them tow it back to the place I worked and they took us back to our apartment. Now we thought we were going to be gone, so there were some visitors staying at our house.

Mary Dawn slept on the single bed in the dining room and David slept on the sofa.
And we slept in our own bed that night.

OH & YES, he was hungry so at midnight on my wedding night I made him an egg sandwich.

Since I had the week off and we didn't know what all was wrong with my car. We hitched a ride with his friends from St. Louis and we ended up going the complete different direction from where we were planning to go. We stayed in St. Charles, Mo and walked all over town.

Pat and Donna did take us to a fancy restaurant and they played the violin for us.

OH MY, later we found out that the motel we were scheduled to stay in at Bloomington had fire that night. (We were not supposed to be there), and much later we found out that the restaurant we ate in with Pat and Donna also had a kitchen fire the next morning. (It took over 2 years before Pat got that bill on is credit card, and when it did come there was a copy of bill attached and it had scorched edges).

So on our honeymoon we
l.) Hitched a ride with friends.
2.) Walked all over town.
3.) Took the bus to downtown St. Louis to see Corporate offices of Bud's employers.
(We were the only white people on the bus).
4.) Amtrac from St. Louis to Springfield ( to go home)
5.) Trailways bus lines from Springfield to Decatur.
6.) And a taxi cab home (Tho we could have walked it was less then a mile).

When we arrived at home we find a 5 day eviction notice on our door. They had sold the duplex and wanted to remodel it. Now I had just moved my stuff in the week before and got it all unpacked. Wham, now I get to do it all over again.
So we rented a one bedroom apt in the complex his mom and step dad lived in.
It was a lower level apartment and the windows looked out ground level.
I don't remember much about the apartment except that some dog wanted to use the bush right outside my kitchen window for his potty and I didn't want the smell in my kitchen, so I threw hot water out the window at him. And he never came back to use my kitchen window shrub again. Or at least not when I was home.

That was only the start of all the moves we have done in the past 31 years. (But that could be a totally different blog entry.

I do remember that Bud suffered a detached retina 4 weeks after we married and had to have major eye surgery at Barnes in St. Louis.

So hop on over to Lynette's blog and check out other peoples stories.