Hi Bonnie …. It’s never easy to lose people we love, is it? I remember when I was a little girl, my aunt told me she still thinks of her mother every day. I was so surprised because my grandmother had died years and years ago. In my little mind, I guess I just figured it wouldn’t hurt anymore. Growing up sure comes with surprises. Thanks for the kind words.

I was a pregnant teen. We married young and somebody had to take care of business. He got to go to school I had to educate myself. You never forget Bookkeeping. He was and still is a man child. He is fun, funny, 73 year old spoiled brat and I spoiled him. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to tell him No! I spent most of the first 26 years we were married trying to make his dreams come true because I felt responsible because we had to get married. He is the only person I know who got all his dreams. I made it possible, he had to do it. He played football for the UofO, played in the Rose Bowl, played pro football, I helped him get a flying job with Delta, I even left my kids with a hired nurse and flew to Atlanta to go over and over the test material when he took all the FAA test. After a week of that I could have passed the tests. Eventually 20 years later he went on disability and I made all the sacrifices I listed in the other post so we could buy the most beautiful ranch ever created in southern Oregon. A little piece of heaven. He had achieved all his dreams and I mistakenly believed it was my turn. That resort house was in Sunriver, we were skiers too. We had a lot of fun and I believed we were were blessed. I started my first business when I was 28 and took care of all our business dealings. He counted on me to figure what we needed to do and then if it was agreeable to him we’d do it. I am not a modern Republican, I don’t know where these people came from. The only reason I’m not an independent is I’m not willing to forgo voting in the primaries. I believe in self reliance and paying the bills and that hasn’t been practiced by the present Republicans since before Regan. Truth I don’t like anyone telling me what to do and don’t b elieve I need to tell anyone else how to live their lives. In the old days the Democrats meddled in people’s private lives and today the Republicans are worse than the Democrats ever were. I have managed to have a lot of fun and survived working on reason and responsibility. I’ve never bowed to any man and I never will. When I ended up in southern Oregon on the ranch, I was horrified when people thought it was his ranch I’d invested more actual cash than he had. I felt like I’d stepped through a time machine. I decided twenty years ago that I was no longer capable of partnering with anyone. I used to swim in your brothers lake when I was a child. If he lives in Lake Oswego he is doing very well. After I salvaged what was left after my divorce I was no longer able to afford that area, although I’d have loved to have had a house in what they call first edition. If they hadn’t outlawed income averaging in 1986 it could have been different.

Anybody hear Luke Russert tonight? As soon as he gets the diff between I/me…ask his mom…I’ll just see what he has to say a bout his generation….