25 years and counting!

[Cal Blacksmith]

I guess I forgot to post here on time but Monday the 21st of

August was our 25th wedding anniversary. With the Mrs. having a broken arm and

one heck of a cold, we only wished each other happy anniversary and I gave her

a dozen roses. When the circumstances are better, we will go out for dinner or

something.

My best buddy and his wife gave me a week in his time share

for my birthday (well they knew about the anniversary also so that was taken

into account) and we will go somewhere to get away. His timeshare is in Palm Springs but can be

traded to go just about anywhere, so we need to decide where is best.

[jcmusic]

HAPPY 25 TH, and may you have many more. That is very special thing 25 years with the same woman.

jay

[oldbuckster]

Another Congrats..............Half your life with the same woman..........She must be something to put up with an Old Warhorse like you.........My Hat's off to both of you.....pretty darn rare in todays world.........Anniversary.....Birthday....Good month for Cal,.

Wish you 25 more of each...........................Peace, Buddy......................

[dtel]

HAPPY 25 TH, and may you have many more. That is very special thing 25 years with the same woman.

jay

That's easy for you to say ![] JUST KIDDING....... REALLY

Congratulations the 25th, you must be doing something right.

[lwhaples]

Congrats on your 25th! My wife and I just hit the 20th last week. Seems like yesterday.[]

Larry

[colterphoto1]

Congrats Wayne- that's Uber-cool! Says a lot about you as a person that you've been married that long.

Have a great evening out when the opportunity arrives. And don't skimp on dessert!

M

[Travis In Austin]

Congratulation!!!!!! Twenty five is extreamly impressive, it reminds me that I will have to start making plans for my parent's 50th next year.

Travis

[SilverSport]

happy silver anniversary!

Bill

[steve]

A hearty congrats! Working on 21 myself!! And happy like you.

But what happened to your wife's arm? Was it the champagne toast??

Steve

[www.records]

Congrats on 25 years!! Not many make that milestone these days. My wife and I had our 27th last May. May you have at least 25 more.

Steve

[Timmikid]

Congratulations! [<)]

[dtel's wife]

Congratulations and Best Wishes for another 25 years together.

You must love each other very much to have withstood the "test of time."

[Cal Blacksmith]

Thanks everyone, I am indeed fortunate. I found the right
one after a little searching and sewing of oats and havent looked back since.
I am the lucky one though as she puts up with all of my faults with nary a
complaint. In fact, I think we have had less than a dozen serious disagreements
in the total time we have been together. The more we are together, the better
things are. We both have our problems, hers are medical and mine are mental
(example this hobby) but we support each others goals and dreams. Again, the
longer we have been together, the more those goals and dreams are the same.

Oh, BTW, She broke her arm on the 3^rd of July,
while were on a working vacation to YosemiteNational Park.
I volunteer to blacksmith in the heritage village for 6 hours a day 5 out of 7
days in one week and the park service gives us a cabin in the park! We had only
just arrived in the park; un loaded our stuff at the cabin and had filled out
the volunteer forms at the ranger station. We were unloading the equipment into
the blacksmiths shop when we were approached by a park guest. She couldnt find
the bathrooms so after offering directions to them and the guest still being
lost,

Cyndy offered to walk the guest to the restroom. On the way, while
crossing the covered wooden bridge at Wawona, she tripped over a warped floor
board and fell. She broke her right arm, just below the shoulder, blackened her
eye, scraped up her face, banged up her knees and generally had a bad time of
it. A man came up to me in the blacksmiths shop (he was evidently from the
guests party) and told me that my wife had tripped and had a bloody nose and
that I should go to her. Having a bad feeling about things, I locked up the
shop and drove around the long way to get to her (this had taken about as long
as it would have to walk the short way).

When I got there, she was standing by
herself holding her arm and in very obvious pain. The guest was long gone and
just helped her to stand up before they split, so much for the kindness of
humanity. We spent the rest of the night in the urgent care hospital and the
next day, (the 4^th of July) Cyndy couldnt partake of any of the festivities;
she just stayed in the cabin, loaded up on pain killers.

We spent the rest of
the week up there though (her choice) and have been arguing with Federal workmans
comp to get the medical appointments taken care of. It has been 7 weeks now and
we have only seen the orthopedic doctor one time. Her next doctor appointment
is on Tuesday, 8 weeks from the accident.