Coming up in July is our 39th wedding anniversary. So many things to remember. So many things to discuss from our past.
She was a year older this last November. Brad and I were blessed with two visits not long after she was born. Four days the first time and two days after that. It has given us plenty of things to talk about together, Brad and I...Great Grandpa and Great Grandma.
We also really enjoy reading together. We've done that since we were together. In this last year, we've had some great fun with some elderly books. We read all the Frank L. Baum OZ books. (There are 14.) His writing of these "children's books" included plenty about the period of time he was writing in. That period was similar to ours...a pandemic, the dust bowl, and the Great Depression. Fortunately for all of us now, many things were put into place to make those less harmful. Whether our luck in that will continue or not is a question, of course.
After we finished all the OZ books, we've moved to Charles Dickens works. Pickwick Papers is our favorite as it has so much humor in it. Dickens, of course, wrote a lot about the sadness of poverty in his time and the mistakes made especially by the courts and workhouses. He frequently spoke to the upper class to modify the massive poverty in England at that time. His powerful voice continues to effect people, especially with the recurrence of his Christmas Carol every year.
Brad and I see many similarities still in legal and political practices. Great to see writers who can reach out so many years after their writings were done. Long after their deaths for both those great men.
We continue to get plenty of deer. (We have an apple tree and two plum trees.) During winter, we feed to replace those sources of food.
