WOW...WHERE DO I PICK UP.
TWO YEARS AGO, WE LEFT OFF WHILE WE WERE IN WISCONSIN. WALLACE HAD BEEN HAVING SOME CHEST PAINS OFF AND ON. WE LEFT THERE AND HAD A LITTLE R AND R AT A COE IN ILLINOIS. FROM THERE WE WENT TO ANOTHER COE NEAR A LITTLE TOWN IN CARTHAGE, TENNESSEE. THE CHEST PAINS WERE GETTING WORSE WHEN WE FINALLY DECIDED SOMETHING NEEDED TO BE DONE. WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM THERE AND HE WAS IMMEDIATELY AMBULANCED AWAY...NEAR NASHVILLE WHERE HE HAD A STINT PUT IN...A HEART ATTACK!!!
WE THEN MOVED ON TO CAPE ROMAIN NWR IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHERE WE FOLLOWED UP WITH A CARDIOLOGIST THERE. HE WAS DOING GREAT, FEELING WONDERFUL. WE HAD TO LEAVE THIS REFUGE EARLY BECAUSE OF A HURRICANE. WE LEFT FOR OUR NEXT VOLUNTEER POSITION EARLY...SELA, IN LOUISIANA. ALL WAS GOING WELL UNTIL ANOTHER HURRICANE RAN US OUT EARLY.
OUR NEXT STOP WAS LAGUNA NWR NEAR SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, TEXAS. WE WERE THERE FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS UNTIL WALLACE HAD KNEE SURGERY. BELOW, I WAS TAKING A FEW PEOPLE OUT FOR SOME BIRDING.
IN THE BACK OF OUR MIND WAS TO FIND A HOME, AND GET OFF THE ROAD. WE BOUGHT A HOME IN MCALLEN, TEXAS, BUT CONTINUED OUR VOLUNTEERING BACK AND FORTH TO THE REFUGE TILL OUR TIME WAS UP.
INVITED SOME PAST VOLUNTEERS OVER TO OUR HOME FOR A WONDERFUL TIME. FOUR OTHERS ARE NOT SHOWN HERE.
A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE THEN BUT I WILL SPARE YOU MOST OF IT.
WE PARKED OUR 5TH WHEEL ACROSS THE STREET FROM WHERE WE LIVE...IT IS IN STORAGE AT THE TIME, AND IT IS HANDY TO KEEP AN EYE ON IT.
WE HAVE HAD TIME WITH OUR YOUNGEST SON AND GRANDCHILDREN...ALWAYS WONDERFUL.
HERE THEY ARE PLAYING WITH A DRONE AROUND OUR HOME.
WE TOOK A TRIP TO WEST VIRGINIA WHERE WE MET UP WITH OUR OLDEST SON, WALLY. HE SHOWED US AROUND THE TOWN OF FAIRMONT WHERE HE LIVES AND WORKS. IT WAS OVER TOO QUICKLY, BUT WE WERE SO GLAD TO SEE HIM AGAIN.
WE VISITED TWO STATE CAPITOLS. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINA AND LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.
WE ARE NOW BACK HOME....BUT THE ROAD IS CALLING!!!!
UNTIL NEXT TIME
