July 20 - Memorial Service to Birthday Party!

Today was a full day with the morning weeding flower beds and raking up piles in the grove to later pick up.

Another day for Joni to be down and out with something that seems like a migraine yesterday and today. I feel bad that she feels bad. Hopefully tomorrow as a new day and she will feel much better!

Memorial Service for Eldora Schultze today at the Lutheran church. I got to know Eldora the last 15-20 years. She was sister to one of dad’s classmates Eldon Erlandson. Eldora  helped outside the cafe at Threshermans making sure the condiments and plasticware were well supplied up until about 3-4 years ago! She was 99, she let me know early on that she shared a birthday with my dad on September 17! I only saw her 3 days a year at Threshermans and then we would only chat about 15 minutes each day! I learned at her service she was known for being spunky, loved to mow and loved to use of her burn pile! No wonder I liked her so much! Her picture in her program was of Eldora riding her mower!  All of my favorite hymns too! Great is Thy Faithfulness, In the Garden and Children of the Heavenly Father! Songs that I heard dad sing so many times! I don’t tend to be emotional but anytime those to songs are played or sung brings back happy memories!

Home for a couple hours, Joni was still having headaches so she wasn’t able to join us but Tom and I went to a 70th birthday party for our second cousin Margo Forbes, daughter of dad’s cousin Vivian Wilbur. I only knew two people at the party: the birthday girl Margo and cousin Julie! But I did meet a couple that would come out to Everett yearly to Boeing for work related trip, always an opportunity to meet someone new!

We didn’t get any rain from those clouds!

My helpers when I was gardening!

Really need a little rain. Tom decided he had to do a little watering.