Delores

At least the sun will be shining on us today as we all get together and celebrate Delores.  She had more ambition and zest for life than ALL of us put together.  Yesterday, as we were compiling photos and preparing for today, I looked around Wendell and Delores's house wondering when exactly it had changed into a home.  I'm thinking just about the minute she walked in!!!  So many of her family members have remarked that Wendell and her time in the good ole USA were the happiest 4 years of her life.  What a wonderful legacy that leaves for Wendell.  As we were chatting the other day about some necessities, he began to tell me a bit about Delores's life preWendell.  Everybody has a back story and hers wasn't all peaches and cream ( as no one's ever is).  Opposites do attract and sometimes what you thought you liked might change when you see how much that change makes somebody smile.  Delores never liked country music.... Alrighty then....I think those red cowgirl boots turned that 180.  And who would think Wendell would actually enjoy a trip to the Merry-Go-Round Theater?  A canoe trip down the inlet to Owasco Lake?....a picnic where venison was the main dish?...Giving up a snap front shirt for one with actual buttons?....A skinny dip in the pond....Oh the things we do for the ones we love.  As I looked around at the house yesterday, I remarked to Wendell that she sure left his life more beautiful than when she entered. A crisp, white table runner adorned the table with the shotgun shell hole and the beauty of it all was the vase of yellow roses in the middle. They were her favorite and she was his!

                                                           A new butterfly has her wings!