Time Alone!

We've been married for almost 54 years. And for the last five of them we have been pretty much together 24/7. I occasionally fly away for a few days to go to a Board meeting, but that only happens three to four times a year.

I usually get up an hour or so before Forry does and I enjoy that quiet hour alone with my cup of coffee, reading the paper on my Kindle.

This morning Forry had an appointment with his dermatologist at 11:30, then I had made him an appointment for a massage with Cherie at 2:30 this afternoon. I chose not to go along and encouraged him to just stay in Spokane until it was time for his massage instead of returning the 7 or so miles to Ponderosa Falls RV Park.

So what did I do with those almost six hours by myself? Not a whole lot!I spent most of it enjoying the quiet -- no TV! -- and working on genealogy records. Ancestor.com has been a big help in trying to document some of the information that we have about family. Today I discovered a picture of Forry's maternal great-grandparents, Edward Martin Steffen and Friedricka Grechau Steffen that had been posted by a distant relative:

We had a family picture of them with his grandmother, also Friedricka, when she was about fifteen or sixteen, but it was a delight to find a picture of them at an older age.

I could hardly wait for Forry to get home so that I could show him what I had found! So much for being alone...