It’s Christmas 1960. My first daughter Susie (Carole Suzanne) had finished school in Omaha Nebraska and is working at Western Union in downtown Chicago.

Photo of the front of our 100 year old farm house taken in the year of 1960.

Our farm home is decorated for Christmas when she comes home on a train bringing presents for everyone and the biggest box is for her little eight years old sister Pamela, much to little Pam’s delight. It is hard to wait for Christmas morning to open that big tied up package to see what treasure it will reveal.

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That big black bear is walking right up to where my mother and father are standing (outside of their car) in the beautiful YELLOW STONE PARK in northern Wyoming.

As it approaches my mother, it stands on its hind legs and places its paws on my mother’s shoulders, looking her in the face.

Standing a few feet from them, very softly my father said to my mother “Stand very still and don’t look him in the eye.” And believe-you-me, that is precisely what my frightened mother did. After a couple minutes this big black bear appeared satisfied with what he saw, got down and slowly ambled away. Whew!!!!!!!

NOW…..my mother and father started breathing again!!! Well….at least my mother started to breath again, as nothing ever seemed to bother my father except those cactus thistles in the desert in bloom when he reached to pick a flower and pulled back a handful if stickers. OUCH!!!!!!!!

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You remember how I told you that just before I was 5 years old I started attending the York Center Methodist church and followed through my marriage and attending with our three little girls? When our three little girls were reaching teenage we changed and started attending the EUB church at the other side of this little cross road town of York Center Ohio.

Here is a picture of that church as it looked on a cloudy day in the 1960’s. A whole lot of drab! But the people in attendance were full of life and loaded with ambition for a bright, sunny future.

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How is that for a cozy little set up to enjoy a late lunch with a sparkling glass of wine, happy conversation and a “to die for” view of Siesta Key beach in FLORIDA at CHRISTMAS TIME?

Tracy, Terrell, Susie (Carole), me, Pamela is the photographer

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This is such a happy time of year. As you drive through the streets many homes seem to say MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Be sure to bring the inside of your home to a sparkling GLAD YOU’RE HERE feeling!!

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