CORRECTIONS ONCE AGAIN

WE REALLY DID SEND PENNY TO HAMBURG, GERMANY ON HER MISSION AND ANNEKA WAS NOT HER LAST COMPANION MARY LIEBELT WAS. SHE HAS BEEN GOOD FRIENDS WITH BOTH OF THESE GOOD SISTERS OVER THE YEARS. I'M NOT SURE I SPELLED HER COMPANION FROM HOLLAND'S NAME RIGHT BUT CLOSE I THINK.

I WENT WITH CLAY , KAREN AND LANIE ON A QUICK TRIP TO OMAHA, NEBRASKA. WE LEFT ON AUG. 6TH RETURNED ON THE 9TH 2008. IT WAS I MUST SAY LOTS OF RIDING BUT I WAS WITH GOOD COMPANY AND THAT MADE UP FOR ALL THE MILES. THEY WENT TO PICK UP A CUTE PUPPY THAT IS CALLED 'EMME'. SHE IS SUCH A TINY LITTLE THING BUT WILL BE AROUND 9 TO 11 LBS WHEN FULL GROWN I THINK THE LADY SAID I MAY NEED CORRECTED ON THAT ALSO.

ON WITH SOME THINGS I NEED TO ADD TO MY LIFE STORY THAT I HOPE I GET CLOSE TO RIGHT.
WHEN CJ WAS VERY SMALL CLAY, KAREN,VERELAN AND I MADE A VERY GOOD TRIP TO CANADA. MARGE TOOK CARE OF CJ WHILE WE WERE GONE. WE SLEPT IN MOTELS AND IN A TENT. WE DROVE UP THE BEAUTIFUL ROAD THAT WAS NARROW AND WINDING IN TO GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. WE PUT UP A TENT AND AFTER DARK ALL GOT INTO BED. I WAS SOUND ASLEEP WHEN CLAY TAPPED ME ON THE SHOULDER AND SHUSHED ME AS A BEAR WAS OUT SIDE OUR TENT. WE GRABBED OUR CLOTHS AND SLIPPED INTO THEM IN CASE WE HAD TO RUN. THE BEAR WAS KNOCKING THE COOLER AROUND TRYING TO OPEN IT. IT DID FINALLY LEAVE AND WE TRIED TO GO BACK TO SLEEP THAT TOOK ME SOME TIME AS I DIDN'T WANT TO BE BEAR FOOD AND WHO KNOWS IF IT WOULD BE BACK. IT DIDN'T GET THE COOLER OPEN BUT DIDN'T LEAVE IT IN GOOD CONDITION. WE DROVE ON UP TO THAT BEAUTIFUL LAKE LOUISE I THINK THAT IS THE NAME. WE WENT INTO THE HOTEL AND LOOKED OUT AT THE LAKE FROM THERE. WHAT A MAGNIFICENT SIGHT THAT WAS.
WE DROVE ACROSS PARTS OF CANADA AND DOWN INTO SPOKANE FOR THE WORLDS FAIR THERE. WE SAW THE FIRST 3 D MOVIE THAT WAS OUT ABOUT THAT TIME. WE RETURNED DOWN THROUGH SOME PRETTY PLACES IN IDAHO. IT WAS A VERY MEMORABLE TRIP.
WHEN OUR KIDS WAS YOUNG BAKER AND JEANNIE LIVED IN ??? AROUND SEATTLE. THEIR WARD WAS EARNING MONEY TO BUILD A CHURCH SO SOME OF THE MEMBERS TOOK PEOPLE INTO THEIR HOMES AND A DONATION WAS MADE TOWARD THE CHURCH BUILDING RATHER THAN PAY A MOTEL. VERELAN AND OUR THREE ARRANGED TO VISIT AND ATTEND THE WORLDS FAIR. JEANNIE WOULDN'T LET ME HELP DO ANYTHING AROUND THE HOUSE AND SENT US OF TO THE FAIR. WE WATCHED AND LISTENED TO THE WORLDS FAIR BAND AND THE FELLOW CONDUCTING ASK FOR SOME ONE TO LEAD THE BAND CLAY STEPPED UP AND THE MAN PUT THE BATON IN HIS HAND AND HE DIRECTED THE BAND. THAT WAS SUCH AN EXCITING THING TO HAPPEN TO A LITTLE IDAHO BOY. BAKER AND JEANNIE TOOK VERELAN AND I OUT FOR DINNER LEAVING ALL THE KIDS HOME. WE WENT DOWN TO THE WARF AREA AND HAD SEA FOOD. WHAT A SPECIAL TREAT THAT WAS. AS WE LEFT THERE WAS A MAN ON THE SIDE WALK THAT WAS VERY MUCH UNDER THE INFLUENCE AND WAS THROWING UP HIS BIG SEA FOOD DINNER. HE LEFT HALF CHEWED CLAMS ALL OVER. THAT ALMOST RUINED MY DINNER BUT BAKER TOLD US TO TURN OUR HEADS AND KEEP GOING FAST TO THE CAR.

ON OUR WAY HOME FROM THE FAIR WE WENT TO SEE VERELAN'S FRIEND JOE DEHAAN AND FAMILY BUT FOUND THEY HAD BEEN TRANSFERED FROM SPOKANE TO SOME PLACE IN CALIF. HE WAS IN THE AIR FORCE. I COULD STAND CORRECTED ON THE TRANSFER HE MAY HAVE HAD A MEDICAL DISCHARGE AND THEY MOVED TO CALIF. I KNOW HE LIVED THERE FOR A GOOD MANY YEARS. VERELAN WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED AT NOT GETTING TO SEE HIM.

MORE ANOTHER DAY MAYBE I'LL GET IN THE MOOD TO WRITE SOONER NEXT TIME. I THINK ABOUT IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT BUT DECIDE TO TRY AND GET MORE SHUT EYE INSTEAD.