30 years and still going strong

Subject: 30 years and still going strong

Monday, February 13, 2012  is Cathy and my 30th wedding anniversary.  Over the past year we dreamed of spending this weekend in some very posh places.  We even set up a fund.  But then in June we discovered that our program funding had been cut 43%.  And we were in the midst of remodeling the basement and building a four stall horse barn...with all the pasture fencing that went with it. 

But such is Life.  We tend to be long suffering, having waited four  years to finally take our honeymoon...two wonderful weeks in Hawaii. 

But in the meantime we have given one another the gift of love, along with a totally finished basement with bathroom, two room apartment, big exercise room, huge store room and our command center.  The command center is where all our stuff like inverters, pump control, storage batteries, etc. are located.  So the basement is done, the horse barn is complete and my muscles have healed from over use of a post hole digger.  Which, by the way is the best overall exercise.  Just take a post hole digger out back and punch about 170 holes in rocky, hard soil...with roots.  It'll make a man out of any woman. 

So we are broke, but happy.  And we have packed our bags and have a weekend away from home despite being money challenged. 

Thirty years ago a fellow named Ken Hopkins stood up for me.  Now he and his wife Mary have invited us to spend the joyous celebration in Seattle with them.  We would bring Cathy's sister Marlene along since she stood up for Cathy, but we're leaving her here to feed the horses and care for Winston the Wonder Cat. 

 

Carl