Today is Saturday, June 22, 2013. My stats today: 37 minutes of walking = 2.0 miles for a June total of 43.1 miles. My weight was 161.8 pounds.
QUOTE from Margaret Mitchell: "Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect."
My THOUGHTS today are on some more of my memories about sister Jan from my days of youth. Here are a couplel I shared.
- Jan was the first of my 4 older siblings in which I have any real memories in my pre-teen years. I didn't start school until 1946. By that time brother Paul had graduated in 1945, sister Betty in 1946. Brother Don graduated in 1949 but he didn't stay at home as he worked for a farmer and lived there - as a result I didn't get to know Don real well.
Jan was 7 years older than me so she is the first of the those first 4 kids that I got to know and have some memories of. I told Jan that my first real memory of her was when she escorted me to school in my first week of school in 1946. I think I cried everyday that first week and she agreed - I did cry everyday when she left the room. Jan would have been in 8th grade that year.
Then I told about one day when she was babysitting with Mark, John and me. I was 8 and she and boyfriend Don Blattie were in the backyard laying on a blanket and doing some sweet talking. I proceeded to pester them by running around their blanket and generally making a nuisance of myself. Finally Don reaches in his pocket and pulls out a 50 cent piece and tells me to take Mark and John to Erdman's grocery store downtown and treat ourselves to a pop and a candy bar. I was so excited to have a 50 piece as I had never had anything bigger than a quarter. Anyway, I took Mark and John to the store and they got some privacy. I told Jan that I was in high school before I figured out why Don gave me that 50 cent piece.
I'm running out of time right now so will add a couple more tomorrow.
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