| |  I found a few old pictures of Sheryl, taken when we lived in Salina, KS, in the first house we promised to buy. I think we paid (or borrowed) about $23,000. Sheryl has always had long hair, at least ever since I've known her, except for a few short months when she tried a new look. We met at a dance at Fonner Park in Grand Island, NE, sometime in the autumn of 1969. We married one another at Rock Falls, NE (a pasture southwest of Holdrege) on June 6, 1971. We've always been close friends, as well as being in love. That friendship part is important to a marriage, we've found.
 We didn't have children for several years, not because we didn't want them--we just weren't having success. But eventually Blaise came along (January 1978) and a year and a half later Ember (September 1979). These two were great buddies, and I can still remember them eagerly clamoring to climb onto Sheryl's lap to read. Marks of the 70s in this picture? Macrome (sp?) hanging in the upper left corner, a large speaker in front of a turntable in the center of the picture. We bought the stereo from Jay and Pauline Holston. He had made the speakers.
 Here Sheryl gets down with Blaise and Ember to play. She's always been great with kids; indeed, she has taken care of other peoples' children in several places where we have lived (Salina, KS; Wenham, MA; Houghton, MI; Kearney, NE; Fargo, ND). We are looking forward to a visit from Blaise and Nicole in about three weeks, eager to see Alex and Conor, the grand children.
We've tried to do memorable things on our anniversary, but most of them blur together because they normally involve going out to eat. A few, however, stand out as distinct in my memory. Our first anniversary we spent at Mormon Island Park near Grand Island, NE, playing frisbee; our third or fourth we had a huge pile of onion rings at an empty VFW or some other such place in Dodge City, KS; we had death by double chocolate at the Downtown Bar and Grill in Peru, IL, in the early 90s; for our 25th, we got a room downtown Chicago and went to Lawry's steakhouse, a play, and the Art Institute; a couple years later, we went to the Morton Arboretum in a Chicago suburb; we bicycled along the eastern shore of the Keweenaw on Lake Superior in the late 90s and stopped for a picnic and nap on a secluded beach.
Today? We are going to watch "Land of the Lost" on the super screen at West Acres Mall and then go out to eat at Granite City (thanks to Ember and Drew for the gift certificate). I guess we can throw in our going to hear Three Dog Night at Rib Fest last night, though technically, that concert got over before our anniversary began. |
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