My Knight in Shining Armor.
This morning we had a hard time getting up – I was relying
on 6 o’clock Charlie to zoom by and be the wakeup call – but he must have used
his car today instead…………..and so we were late in getting up. Bill was still in bed and said,”do you have a
kiss for your knight in shining armor?”
I looked at him and all I could see was a 68yr old fellow missionary in
maroon pajamas held firmly in place by the mattress monster with no hope of
getting out of bed and being ready to go to the archives today. Besides that, knights have sleek white
stallions decked out in ribbons, fancy blankets and custom made saddles and the
knight himself has polished chain mail and a lance and shield ready to do battle. Bill had none of that so that is why I did
not recognize him as a knight in shining armor.
When he finally got out of bed, he was still 68 years old, still wearing
Maroon Pajamas and I think that the sleek white stallion was really our navy
blue Altima parked in the parking lot.
Reality is such a stitch sometimes.
Charles, the young married who lives in the other building
still roars off in his car each morning.
Yesterday he gave us a Thank you card from his wedding. I had wanted to see the wedding pictures but
they are not back yet and I do not think they will be here before we
leave. He is a really nice young man and
he helped me a lot when the ice was treacherous by throwing sand out onto the
surface so that I could get back to the building safely. As he threw the sand out he said, “this ice
is wicked slippery so be careful.”
My adventure for the day was twofold. I finished up the 1807 court records for
September that year and asked to be taken to the records area so that I could
look for the missing records and instead, we found some records from 1801 that
had not been prepared at all and Jeff said he would prepare them tomorrow
morning. There is two bundles and I can
get them done quickly but the only problem is that there are no more boxes
available to put them in and the box they should go in is jammed full of
records.
I am really glad that I took time to re-examine the first
records that I did because I noticed that I left out one piece of information
on the sheets and also found one sheet that had not even been written on. Boy, am I glad that I got the time to go back
and fix this error.
The second adventure of the day was to go to Friendly’s Ice
cream parlor with the ladies from Church and we had ice cream together. We talked and we laughed and we had a lot of
fun together. Tomorrow night the men and
Bill are going there for Ice Cream.
Friendly’s will laugh all the way to the bank as a result.
In the atrium of the archives and museum today they had a
‘bugs, beetles and butterflies’ set up and loads of little kids from the area schools came by to see the
displays. The Mantis’s were the big hit
with kids picking them up and putting them on their friends with lots of
squeals and shouts. There was a man
there who had a very old Tarantula there and he said it was 19 years old. He even had the last molt there for the kids
to see. One man had a FAT green
caterpillar chomping on leaves and he had originally had three of them but one
had built a cocoon during the night so he only had two. I loved the whole thing and the kids were enthralled.
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