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I am 56, married to Dave (who will be hereafter referred to as Mr Pie) for 37 years. We have three children, #1 son, age 36, #1 daughter, age 27, and #2 daughter, age 24. Mr Pie and I live in Anaheim, California, two miles north of Disneyland in a little house with a big backyard. We like to garden and we have two older cats, so the yard is a Good Thing.
I love my camera and I love my computer.
Most of the time.
Today I’m still in the process of recovering everything that I lost when my computer crashed on Saturday evening. Didn’t lose and photographs, thank Cod, but lost every driver for every device, al added software, and many links. One of my email accounts only receives, and does not send mail yet. Stupid Outlook Express.
I did get the Webcam working again so I can talk to daughter #1 in Seattle and daughter #2 in Toronto. #2 is in Toronto in rehearsals for Disney’s cruise ship The Wonder. She was hired to play Alice and Mickey, and to dance in the shows.
They train in Toronto.
In January and February.
For a cruise ship that operates in the Bahamas.
Makes perfect sense.
Daughter #1 is having “baby dreams”. She is married, they’re talking about having kids, but were not going to rush into it. Her husband has asked us to move to Seattle, so that their children will know their grandparents. We clarified this, and they are not looking for built-in babysitters, although we will do that sometimes. So, our son-in-law wants us to come and live next door to them… which we are looking into right now but can’t move until Mr Pie retires, which is a couple of years away.
And then there’s my dad, who is 88. Do I just move away from him, leave him in Claremont in that retirement center with all the old people dropping like flies and making him depressed? My sister and one of her daughters visit him fairly often. When I talked to her my sister told me to take him with us; she was angry with him because of his “girlfriend”. He isn’t allowed to have one, according to her. I’d rather he had a nice one because I know he misses Mom and he’s lonely. This gal is a stinker, what we used to call a prick tease. She’s about 18-20 years younger than he is, divorced, and plays the “you want it too much” game with him. Just like my cat. We think she wants his money, even though he claims she has a pot (we think it’s only conditionally hers, part of the divorce settlement) but he doesn’t have quite enough money to offset the loss of hers if she loses it by remarrying (not sure if there was a time limit, like before age 70), and she’d have to take care of him to boot.
I don’t like her because I don’t think she treats him very well, pushes him away every time she gets him really interested, but I want him to be happy and he seems to have a good time up until she pulls the rug out from under him. Again. I think it’s happened three times now. My sister just hates her. There are a couple of ladies closer to his age at his retirement center who are really cute (even though they’ve stopped dying their hair blond like the girlfriend) and nice, and intelligent and funny. I’d like him to consider one of them as a girlfriend.
#1 Son lives nearby, in Garden Grove. He lives with a bunch of techno-geek friends, a creative and entertaining bunch of guys. They come over once in a while and we feed them and they regale us with stories about the old Disney, Warner Brothers and MGM animation studios. They attend a lot of conventions for sci-fi and Star Trek and Comicons.
My sister lives in Temple City, niece #1 is currently attending LaVerne College and lives in Monrovia, and niece #2 is at Yale on a full scholarship.
So, that was a boring beginning but if you slogged through that you get a gold star, and I can start telling some of the stories I need to get written down because you know the basic cast of characters and some of the drama.
Wow. You’ve got your hands full. I just happened by here following a link in my site stats so maybe you accidentally wandered over there or followed one of my web posts somewhere? . My wife and I are a little younger than you (not much) and can relate to the issue of aging parents that you are having. I note you have adult kids (as do we). Didn’t get a chance to read up on your challenges with them yet, having spent a good deal of time reading about your dad’s travails with the new ladyfriend.
The issue is a little easier for me since all my biological parents are dead. I do have a surviving stepfather in Iowa approaching 80. Perfect health. Spends most of his time caring for his sick friends (helping them with their farms, running errands, etc). Mom died when I was 18 (I’m 50 soon). He never remarried and I don’t think he ever will. He does have what appears to be a steady girlfriend about ten years younger than him. She’s really sweet, but WILL TALK YOU TO DEATH!!
Wife’s mother lives in Germany. Her dad died when she was 13. Mother remarried 20-30 years ago. He’s 86, she’s 80ish. Incredible wealth. Problem…..they tend to fall for every expensive life extension scam out there!! They both still drive and are both in pretty good health, but the fear of death is something he has a hard time dealing with.
Best wishes for you and your family. I’ll bookmark your blog and check in on you occasionally to see how it all works out.
Tim Fuller
Jackson, MS
Hi Tim,
I think I followed your link from Firedoglake, and tried to post a comment but couldn’t; WordPress kept telling me to log in, etc.
Hope all is well. Looks like you survived the fires out there. Wonder if we can survive the last throes of the Republican presidency? For what it’s worth, I am a natural born conservative (midwestern born and raised). I made the switch you did a long time ago. Bush has destroyed HONEST conservatism (and with it the modern Republican party). We’ve no choice but to embrace the alternative because the devil we know IS worse than the one we don’t.
I wanted to let you know I’ve done a bit more work on my house here in Mississippi while offering my congrats on your finished kitchen. I still owe you photos of mine, but for now I hope you’ll find my deck construction photos time worthy:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timtimes/sets/72157603204872782/
Not quite finished yet, but I’ll update the photo set when appropriate. I started with NO PLANS and well…it sorta got more elaborate than initally envisioned, but it’s all good.
Next up: Inside media room/home theater. I gotta reroof and side the house as well…….
Enjoy.
P.S. I’m kinda jealous that your blog rates considerably higher than mine. Yours is somewhere around two millionth and mine closer to four millionth. Gotta get busy working on that. LOL
I am still a registered Republican. Just can’t bring myself to give up voting in their primaries and not quite ready to commit myself to the Democratic Party.
I don’t vote a straight party ticket so it doesn’t matter, and I’d really like to see sanity return to the Republican Party. They’ve driven away so many of the moderates, and called so many of us RINOs that it infuriates me.
Heard an idiot woman on BBC America yesterday, on a far-right-wing talk show saying she supported torture and John McCain didn’t support torturer so she couldn’t support him. WTF is wrong with people?