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Sadie called this morning to say that they ...
August 30, 2002 by Sue in Wielesek
Sadie called this morning to say that they were in Minnesota
and making good time. Hoped to reach Detroit this evening.
I think Smith must be a couple day drive from Detroit.
We had fun watching Sam last night. Hope to have some time
with the other grandkids soon. Love to all, Mom
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Well, this has been an eventful few days
August 28, 2002 by Sue in Wielesek
Well, this has been an eventful few days. Dick and I went up to Portland an hour or so early on Friday, so I could stop at Daisy Kingdom and another store which sells fabric. Sadie's plane arrived right on time, but traffic coming south was bumper to bumper even after we hit I-5.
Saturday was a flurry of activity, including Dick and me scurrying out to buy a dryer while we still had the pickup. Finally got a pretty snazzy model at Costco. The kids next door in Reardon's old house helped us unload it. (Read- they unloaded it in the time it took Dick and me to get our shoes on. They were headed to the Burning Man get together - hope their "classic" VW van makes it!)
Sadie's friend Anna came in by plane Saturday night - they were up bright and early Sunday, and with a little help from our friends - and family- we had a good brunch on Sunday morning. The kids were all cute and fun, and a good time was
had by all. Everyone needs to ask Yayoe to bring her famous
Faux Pate sometime again in the future.
Monday had its share of stresses, although Sam certainly sailed through his medical drama in great good humor. Adam, Jamie, Sam and I were waiting in the Stage Two waiting room, when a nurse came in with a "knock-out" cocktail for Sam. She
told Adam and Jamie that he would get "a little loopy". They
both looked at her, and, as one, asked, "And how will we know?" He was so funny - someday this kid is going to be the poster boy for legalizing mood altering drugs.
The rest of the day, from an attorney point of view, was pretty weird. I represent a sweet 70 year old trying to divorce her loud, overbearing husband. He alleged she was daffy and filed a Petition to be appointed her guardian. We
started our hearing on Monday afternoon.
At about 2:30, I looked around to see Anna and Sadie sitting morosely in the back of the courtroom. Since I thought they were long gone, I asked the judge for a recess so I could say
good bye. Bless her heart, she has kids too, so she didn't even holler a little.
Well, Sadie and Anna looked so morose because my pickup guru, who was just back from vacation on Monday morning, and who promised to give the truck a going over before the kids hit the road, had told them that the clutch might give them trouble. His kid graduated from one of the back east schools, Harvard, I think, and when I talked to him just before he left for vacation I told him Sadie was driving back and I wanted him to let me know if he would have let his daughter drive the truck 3,000 miles. He sent the message, via the girls, that he wouldn't. I trust his judgment, and I didn't really want them broken down in the middle of Indiana, so the girls and I did a quick key switch.
And so it's another winter of us driving either the truck or the really ratty Subaru to the symphony,while Sadie tootles around Noha in my 2K2 Honda.Anyhow, Sadie promised they would call today, and sure enough, they called from Butte, Montana. Apparently the driving is going well and they are making good time. Sadie said that they camped last night, but because it was a time zone change, an hour later, they were staying at Ed's Motel, at $38 a night. Probably no mints on the pillow.
I had to be in court this morning, but came home to change clothes and have lunch. Jamie had Sam out for a ride in his cart, Sam wearing nothing but a shirt and Chanel No 5 (old person joke) He and I started a game of checkers. I want to retire. Soon.
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Well, I'm embarrassed to say that I'm posting...
August 14, 2002 by Sue in Wielesek
Well, I'm embarrassed to say that I'm posting because the computer is in the basement bedroom/study, which is the only cool room in the house. It was hot at the office, and miserable in the courthouse. I wore a short loose fitting dress which buttoned down the front to trial this morning, with the minimum legally required underwear (read that as no petticoat). Fortunately, the dress waited until I was back at the office to
lose a strategic button. Ingenuity being a reasonable substitute for advance planning, I found a spring clip and guyed myself together.
We had an e-mail from Sadie - she and another girl in the program were mugged, but the other girl kicked and screamed and the would-be mugger walked away. They were not hurt, fortunately! I want Sadie home. Now.
I'm looking forward to Jordan's birthday tomorrow evening. Cute cute kid.
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August 08, 2002 by Sue in Wielesek
So what's a "cheese park", anyhow?
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This has been a difficult summer so far
August 04, 2002 by Sue in Wielesek
This has been a difficult summer so far. Just received news that Uncle Phil died last week. Us older Jones grandkids can remember the five kids and their spouses when they were young - a more witty, educated, boisterous lot would be hard to find. I
certainly learned my love of poetry from my mother, grandmother, and aunts. Phil was, I think, 95 when he died. His letters were so funny that when Meg was helping mom or Betsy clean up old correspondence, they decided Phil's letters, though scatological, were too good to throw out.
On the brighter side, we are nearly moved in. We put in five or six hours of gardening and cleaning up, with no chest pains for me. The beta blocker meds must be working.
Dick and I are thinking about going to Kowloon's (the bar part has a different name - Tsunami's, I think) tonight. They have a comedy night, and I think one of the people is a guy I
went to law school with. It would be fun to see him.
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