Today we honor all the Veterans and Servicemen everywhere that do so much for us and have done so much for us to keep our country free so that we can enjoy this wonderful country we live in.A couple more stories---One more story about electrical outlets. Donna reminded me of it. We were living in Buckley and I was having a Birthday party, probably for David. Donna wasn't getting to participate in a game they were playing. She remembers being bored and she had some scissors and stuck them in the outlet. The lights all went out. In that house we had fuses. A lot of things would be on one fuse and it wouldn't take much to overload and cause a power interruption even without sticking scissors in the outlet. Another child testing electricity.
Donna is lucky that she only got a shock.
The other story is a Richard story again. When we lived in Bonney Lake we had a large field next to us. There was a hill that the kids used to run up and down on. Your dad had made a rope line that you could swing down the hill on and then pull yourselves back up. Also he had this barrel that he filled with water to test his boat engines. He finally let you kids use this barrel to roll down the hill in. The rule was that you had to be completely inside so you wouldn't hit your head on anything. Richard being one that was never really good about following rules, went down the hill with his head sticking out. He remembers it and I am sure it really scared him. It was a miracle he didn't get a serious head injury. I cannot believe that your dad and I were a party to such a dangerous activity. Somewhere a guardian angel was working overtime to watch you kids.
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