My Sister Claire

We are on our way to snow at Echo Summit, and had dinner with family last night in Sacramento. My mother's birthday (#87) is today and several others joined us, including my sister Claire. Claire has often remarked that I am negligent in posting my thoughts on this blog. Yes, it has been a year since my last post...but she still checks daily for an update. So this morning's blog is mostly from a guilty conscience about wasting my sister's time. (I think that I will intentionally make some historical errors to force her to respond in comments to this blog!)

Claire is the middle child--in many ways: the 4-th of 7 siblings with 2 brothers and 1 sister older and 2 brothers and 1 sister younger. She is normally quiet...until something needs rectifying. Then she is a tiger. She is also Miss Dependable. I think that the whole family concedes that she has the highest IQ: she learned to read before kindergarten--but that was probably the result of the superior tutelage of attentive older brothers and sister.

I need to quickly close now...the snow awaits my grandson. But I will edit and build this over the next few days to elaborate on...

* The love of her life: John Lillie.
* Her status as the Greatest Grandmother in the World to her 5 grand kids.
* As newly-weds, their first brand new car--a Ford Maverick and turning over the odometer at 100,000 miles.
* John's rationale for selecting his musical instrument of choice.
* The 500 tubas playing Christmas Caroles at Disneyland this last year.
* The Ophir Prison Marching Kazoo Band and Temperance Society.
* Boston Fish House Punch
* Cowboy Boots
* Overcomming the fear of flying

So Claire you will have to check frequently, as this blog builds, to make sure that I have my facts correct.

Thank You God for these pleasant memories.
Don Kolafa