Feb. 4, 2019

Fact: I am just writing this as I go, so sometimes it will not all be in order, but I just want something so if down the road someone in the family wants to know something, maybe they can find it here.  My mom and dad never had a car (well one time dad had one for a week or so.  He won it in a card game and lost it the same way) Mom and dad did travel places though and seemed to be on the go a lot.  Mom always loved to go and I think dad did too.  Dad put many a miles on his feet.  One time he walked from Detroit Michigan to Waynesburg, Pa. Said he ate green apples and drank wiskey and wore out two pairs of shoes.  Probably would have taken longer back then to as I am sure the roads were a lot different than today.  
Memories:  Sometimes the fact and memories could be one and the same.  Talking about mom loving to go places.  I remember when she was in her mid 80's I went in to visit her and when I got there I asked how she was feeling and she said "Not too good."  I told her that I was going over to Waynesburg and thought she might like to go along. She said "Well, I do not feel that bad."  and up out of the chair she got and went to change her clothes.  She loved getting ice cream in Waynesburg.  I think that trait did not fall to far from the tree as I still love to go to and will most every chance I get.  
Reflections: Harry and I have never been sorry for the money we spent to travel.  It was not always far we went but we tried to take a vacation with the boys every year and then when we got older we still went just the two of us or sometimes with friends.  We have lots of memories I would not trade for what we spent on these vacations.  We did stay within our means, so sometimes it was not that far.  Mostly when the boys were young it usually meant going some place where there was water, either a pool, a beach or something.  For Harry and I sometimes it was just seeing our country.  We did love to cruise also, so we got to see lots of other things that way.  

Here is a couple drawings I did about growing up.

This was me riding Toby and next was having the monkey

This was the ground hog we had at grandpaps

   the next are some of the things I spent most my time doing as a youngest and a teen.

and swimming was another of our things growing up, but I have not done one of that.