Since Bobby was unable to attend Adrienne's honor society
evening, Ted and I were pressed into service. First of all, the Jazz band played for entertainment. I hate Jazz. It was
all of 90 degrees in the gym where the ceremony was held. Even Adrienne's being in the Jazz band didn't sweeten us up
for the ordeal. Secondly, a woman who had to weigh 400 lbs,
and who had three undisciplined children sat next to us. It
was all I could do not to ask the mother to control the children. Ted did not suffer gladly either.

An airconditioner is a necessity in Oklahoma and Texas. I
can remember long, hot car trips before air conditioned cars
were usual and summer nights when we actually slept outside
because the heat was so bad. We lived on the farm and every
one in that gentler time moved their beds outside in the
heat of summer if they didn't have a sleeping porch. On
vacations, we could hardly wait to get to a motel with a
pool.

The summer that Linda was born, we lived on the army base at
Fort Belvoir which is right on the Potomac river and it was
so humid you could almost wring water out of the air. I
had to change Linda from breast to bottle because she couldn't stand the heat from our body contact. The
pediatrician was distressed because at the time almost no
one would breast feed their babies and to have to put one
on a bottle who was getting such high quality milk seemed
insane.

Bobby was so anemic when he went for chemo on Wed. that they couldn't do it so he has to wait until next week. I
think I will fix something for him today that is both high
carb and meaty. Lasagna comes to mind.

Thinking back to the time when we slept out of doors and did not feel in the least threatened, I think about now.
We all have security systems and sleep behind locked doors.
Life in America has changed.