This past week has been an avalanche of emotions and events.
I was assigned to cover the annual Blue & Gold Banquet here in Williamson, the annual ‘birthday party’ for Cub Scouts, and also a moving up ceremony from being a Tiger Cub to an official Boy Scout. I had the honor of meeting a gentleman who at 97 years old, remembers getting his badges (the most you could get then was 21) in the year 1938.
“Why don’t you write about that?” he smiled, as charming as he must have been when he was 40. I will.
My cousin by marriage and his beautiful wife just had their third child, on the same day as their first child, and which also happens to be on her birthday as well. What are the odds of that happening? “Somebody should write something about THAT,” he said.
The Pultneyville Historical Society is having a walking tour of several homes and the newest winery in town on June 14, an event entitled “Sailors Return”, and I was asked to do the write ups about each beautiful home and their owners. I’m really looking forward to writing about that.
My youngest son called and announced he got a promotion, moving to Maryland, and oh yes, by the way, asked his girlfriend to marry him. That would make two engagements in one year.
“No big deal”, he said, “but can we have an engagement dinner at your house? Everyone will be there for Easter anyway.”
“Man somebody should write about THAT” laughed my beloved, as he picked me up off of the floor.
What I really want to write about is how as going on 3 years of marriage and never receiving a wedding proposal or an engagement ring, I did receive both just in time for Valentines Day.
So I’ll write about all those wonderful things and more, coming up this exciting, frigid cold February. It is one of the best ways I know how to keep warm.
Stay tuned!
