UW Badgers. Nebraska. Camp Randall. 2:30 PM kick-off. A Badger win launches them towards season ending Big Ten Championship Game. It doesn’t get any better? Grasshopper No.4 and Tommy are charged with bringing home a victory. Incidently, Nebraska colors include red. Badgers are awash in red. It creates quite a spectacle.
My sister Addie passed away in October of 2008. We have not really visited at length with Brother-in-Law “Ike” since then. We did yesterday. He stopped with friend Julie for lunch. We got updates on nephew Mike and wife Heather and nephew Ryan and wife Luanne. Addie lived to enjoy her Grandchildren and she got to do that for 3-4 years before she died. Ryan and Luanne’s first child is Lucy (?). Addie knowing her inevitable fate with cancer, tried to live every precious moment with Lucy. Well, Lucy is now 9 years old on her way to being a teenager and brother Henry is in grade school. Whoa! Addie would be proud.
Nephew Ryan joined General Electric Corporation when he got out of the Navy. He is presently living in Chicago employed by the financial arm of GE (General Electric Capital). I asked Ike how Ryan got into “money management”? Ike just shrugged his shoulders. My guess is that the world is changing so fast, you adapt. Ryan is pretty good at that.
My thank you to Grasshopper No.1. I now have new eye glasses as a result of cataract surgery. She found a way through her company that does vision care, to get me a deal on prescription sunglasses and “back-up” glasses. It isn’t always “what you know, but who you know”. I’ve got connections!
I don’t know what a “polar vortex” is but it sounds cold and nasty. It must have something to do with recent daily temperatures in the teens and twenties. Sister Addie was part of a “weather memory”. We had Thanksgiving in Sheboygan with her and Ike in the early 1980’s and we grilled a ham outside in 65 degree temps (in shirt sleeves). Go figure!
Stay warm.
Love,
Dad