Pictures below are Marge and I getting ready for the Christmas party here at Westminster Oaks and a few shots of the party. Also our dog watching!!
It was a great party and well attended

Pearl Harbor Day
69 years ago today, I was being driven back to Ann Arbor by my parents after spending the weekend at home in Detroit. I was a freshman at the Univ. of Mich. We were listening to the radio. It came on, Pearl Harbor has been bombed! I asked my Dad " where's Pearl Harbor" Neither of my parents knew, but my Dad said " this could be serious, might even be war!
One year later. I was in the air corp, beginning my training that led to becoming a first pilot on B-24s, and flying 27 sorties over Germany and other targets until the war in europe ended.

Yesterday, Nov.17, Marge was admitted to Hospice as a patient
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PLATEAUS

Marge has been fairly steady for the last few weeks until about a week ago.
The change has been quite rapid, and quite scary! She has been staying in bed
for up to 20 hrs. She just stays quietly sitting when she does get up. She now relies completely on her walker, and she had been scornful of it, and wouldn't
use it at all. Of course all of this has been expected, but the change has been
sudden. We, Deb and I, now know that the next step is looming. That is, getting
much more care than I am capable of, and will probably include moving her to
Parry center for good. Of course that's one of the reasons we came here to
Westminster Oaks.
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PS Marge will be 86 this Sunday, Nov. 21

This n that

Below are three new posts:

Debbie's dog Trixie cosying up to a fake dog!


Me with a new mustache, which I have already shaved off!

The front of our house here with a view of my rose garden

of which I'm very proud!!!

 

Alzheimers disease

Today the NYTimes had a feature article begging for fed funds to find a cure for
this terrible disease. I heartily applaud this effort, but grieve again about the timing. Marge was diagnosed with Alzheimers about 5 years ago. At first, we hardly thought about it. But it has gradually got worse, and now, our daughter and me, are seeing the long slow culmination that cannot be stopped, or easily slowed down. The article firmly predicts, and I believe, that it can, and probably will, see a cure by 2020. This is a time frame that prevailed for the demise of polio and the cures for aids, flu, etc. That's great, but too slow for us.
When polio was cured. I had a friend who was probably one of it's last victims. What a tragedy for him to go thru life knowing that he was last to get the disease.
We see that happening to Marge. NO CURE AVAILABLE NOW!

lifelong question

In line with my lifelong passion for water, I crossed the gulf stream about 70 times. You learn to realize the awesome power of the stream. It never quits, and never varies much. Now I know it is very deep at it's axis but near the shore of Florida, it's maybe 600 or so feet deep. I have always wondered why you never hear of plans to build turbines on the bottom that could provide endless power
and would never quit. Anybody got an anawer?

woodstock

The picture below is the entertainer at the Woodstock festival. Has to do with
animals, but mostly birds. Debbie, our daughter, entered some pictures, and won a first prize. The picture below is of the entertainers. Real hill billy, but quite good.
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Woodstork

Thoughts on politics;

I have been a republican since I voted for Thomas Dewey. I want to see us get to a balanced budget and then to a reduced debt. We owe China too much now. I would like to see us get out of all wars and stay out unless we are actually attacked. I can't understand gays, queers to me, but I would see them have what would be a nice life to them. I favor stem cell studying. So why am I pontificating?
I abhor GLEN BECK! I find it hard to believe how many of my old friends feel he's the second coming! I feel the same way about Laura Ingrahm. I don't feel like Sara Palin would make a good president, I would favor Mitt Romney at this time.

Speaking of religion, I guess I'm an agnostic. I was raised Episcopalian, but I can't
believe in the teachings of our church. If there is a benevolent God, how can there be a holocaust. Only one of the myriad number of religions can be right, so all the others are surely wrong! The world was created somehow, and I can't begin to explain it, but it aint the bible way!
Back too Glen Beck, if any one reading this is 80 or older, remember Father Coughlin, the Catholic priest in Detroit (a suburb). He was finally shut up by the Pope, and I hope someone shows up who can shut up Beck.
I have more thoughts to add, but that's all for now
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