Monday, May 19, 2008
GRADUATION.....
After a very nice weekend I am home today and the weather is wonderful. Becky arrived home by 4:30 pm Friday and we enjoyed our TGIF-night pizza. The next morning we left to attend the graduation of Rocky’s granddaughter, Sara. We all met for dinner at a restaurant and then went on to the high school for the program.
I was amazed at the large graduating class as Rocky and I graduated together in the largest class ever in our little town…..a whopping number of 72. Of course that was many moons ago as they say and next year will be the 60th year since that event. To say the “towns” have changed would be an understatement. Sixty years makes a lot of difference in anything……there were over 200 in this class.
The families and friends filled the bleachers and were very spirited at appropriate times. Thankfully the crowd listened most of the time which made it much more pleasant. They had an excellent speaker system which aided in the ability to hear.
Holly and Eddie dropped us at the motel where we were staying and after sitting on a bleacher seat for 2 ½ hours it felt good to lie down. We left early the next morning as Becky had to come back to leave for Jefferson City this coming week. She will be teaching a class from the “school” she attended last week.
As for myself, I am getting things prepared to take to Harrison where we will open a second booth the first weekend in June. I am trying to get as much priced, marked and packed to go so one large trip will fill it. A friend is going to put what we have on a large truck of his so one trip will do it. Becky will be glad to have completed her training/teaching obligations and it will be nice to have her back.
So another milestone has been made with Sara’s completion of high-school and in the fall she will begin classes at the local college near where she lives. Students throughout the land will have participated in the same ceremonies and will be looking for their summer’s job to take them through until classes begin in the Fall.
Congratulations to all those graduating this month and may every success come your way. Hard work, honesty, a good plan….it will take all the effort you have and turn it upside down but you will find what you’re made of….and it will shape you for the future.
Good luck and God speed to all.
Essentially Esther
I was amazed at the large graduating class as Rocky and I graduated together in the largest class ever in our little town…..a whopping number of 72. Of course that was many moons ago as they say and next year will be the 60th year since that event. To say the “towns” have changed would be an understatement. Sixty years makes a lot of difference in anything……there were over 200 in this class.
The families and friends filled the bleachers and were very spirited at appropriate times. Thankfully the crowd listened most of the time which made it much more pleasant. They had an excellent speaker system which aided in the ability to hear.
Holly and Eddie dropped us at the motel where we were staying and after sitting on a bleacher seat for 2 ½ hours it felt good to lie down. We left early the next morning as Becky had to come back to leave for Jefferson City this coming week. She will be teaching a class from the “school” she attended last week.
As for myself, I am getting things prepared to take to Harrison where we will open a second booth the first weekend in June. I am trying to get as much priced, marked and packed to go so one large trip will fill it. A friend is going to put what we have on a large truck of his so one trip will do it. Becky will be glad to have completed her training/teaching obligations and it will be nice to have her back.
So another milestone has been made with Sara’s completion of high-school and in the fall she will begin classes at the local college near where she lives. Students throughout the land will have participated in the same ceremonies and will be looking for their summer’s job to take them through until classes begin in the Fall.
Congratulations to all those graduating this month and may every success come your way. Hard work, honesty, a good plan….it will take all the effort you have and turn it upside down but you will find what you’re made of….and it will shape you for the future.
Good luck and God speed to all.
Essentially Esther
