This picture was taken back in the happy days on the farm. I loved that woman, I still do.
I walked to Aldi’s after not going there for 2 days in a row. In the store, I was walking down the aisle and this huge woman was wider than the shopping cart. I was trying to slide past her when she said: “Your shoelaces are untied.” I thanked her for possibly preventing me from tripping and falling. The woman was very nice and there were two others as big as she was in the store. When I see someone that big, all I feel is sorrow for their condition. I don’t know what caused their issue. It could be their mothers over feeding them when they were little. I know about that first hand.
I was outside returning my shopping cart when a very nice older woman there lamented that we were going to have another 100 degree day. I agreed with her and we parted ways. I understand how sensitive I am to the heat at my age. I keep my apartment cooler than I used to. I don’t go out walking in the heat anymore.
As I walked home, my mind took me back to the sixties onboard the USS Kitty Hawk operating off the coast of Vietnam. Working on the flight deck in the daytime the low temperature was 100 degrees, mostly it was 110-120. I was 21 back then and the heat didn’t bother me at all.
The last big shed the construction company had at Hampton Manor was being loaded onto a big flatbed truck. I went into the grocery store and when I came out, the big shed was gone. With that gone I could see a construction company churning dirt and gravel and parked right by the entrance of Hampton is a big industrial dumpster parked right at the edge of Hampton’s only entry driveway.
It kind of ruins the look of the old folks home.
