YESTERDAY

Yesterday we went to see Inklings and her parents and later on in the day to see my mother. Inklings Mom surprised me at how well she looks. She is still shaky and weak but I can't believe how much she has improved in the week since I saw her last. We were tickled to see the improvement.

My mother hasn't improved any and is still nearly tied to her chair. I talked to her hair dresser and she told me it makes her sad to watch my mother take 40 minutes to get from her chair to the bathroom and back. It makes me very sad too.

After visiting with mom we headed back home. We got a ways out of town and decided we could waste an hour until the sun went down so we could see the baloon festival night lighting on main street. We turned around and went back. We ate at one of my favorite fast food places and waited for the sun to go down.

The Smokey Bear baloon was there so we walked down to see it. I asked the guy if my daughter could get on the baloon. I told him who I was and what I did and he let her get on. I took a picture of her in the basket and focused on the plaque so she could read it. It was pretty neat that they let her do that.

We visited with a few of my friends and I had a good time. I think she was probably bored to death but that's the price you pay for going with Dad. At the very end I found out that one of my friends from quite a ways away was there and that he was trying to sell a Harley Davidson classic edition bike. I spent some time trying to find him in the crowd and told my daughter I was sure one of the bikes we looked at while we were looking for him was his. We walked all over around the crowd near that bike but never found him. Right when I was going to go we walked back to the bike and he had just started it. I tapped him on the shoulder and he turned it off and we visited for quite a long time (may have been close to an hour).

He told me about the bike he wants to sell and the price. I told him I would discuss it with Inklings and let him know. He and another friend both said it is easier to get forgiveness than permission. I told them it would be way out of character for me to spend that amount of money without full agreement from my spouse (unless of course it was a horse and those days are long gone).

Anyway the bike is a little smaller that what I really want but it does have a 980 cc engine so it is pretty close to the 1200 cc I want. YEAH I KNOW, GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL - GROWING OLD ISN'T. I haven't really ridden a motorcycle much since 1969.