Chatfield

Balloons in the mornings. Continuing the slow recovery from the bug; we’re both about 90% better. Once in a while we’ll start to think we might be 100% but then reality jerks us back. Patience.

On a television program, some guys were giving a Japanese guy a hard time; helping him study for his U.S. citizenship test, and asked him “In what year did America discover Japan?” I thought that was pretty funny; a poke at the U.S. really, as if the rest of the world could be measured by the United States calendar. After all, Japan had its own people, own customs, own civilization long before any Anglos stumbled onto it. It’s not like, say, Columbus discovering America in 1492 is it……..?

An old guy about our age, maybe a little older, wandered by our camp and struck up a conversation. We chatted for a while, but the more we talked the older he got. He was stationed at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station right after I was born. He’s twenty years older than us and still vibrant. I want to be like him when I grow up.

Spaghetti for dinner tonight. Yum.