BAMBI; Ocean Park-WA

Today started out slow - but picked up speed as the hours came and went.

Wind gusts blowing in off the ocean, and rocking Independence, is what woke me this morning: some of the gusts were hitting pretty solidly 😳

I checked my Tablet to see how long this rainy forecast would continue; and I could see that Holland was still up, so I joined him for a few minutes before heading back upstairs to catch a few more hours of shut-eye 🛌😴

Windy gusts of rain overhead, & Independence rocking when the gusts hit broadside.

Nothing about the weather forward, looks promising.

When Holland came to bed 2 hours later, the weather was still kicking up a fuss …

Four hours later, I got up for good.

I ate the rest of the last night's supper … and knitted a few more rows; listening to the wet gusts slap against the outside of our cozy little home on wheels 😉

Yesterday, Holland came home with Supper; from Corral's Drive-In, #2506 Pacific Ave, Long Beach, WA

Worked a few more rows on my latest project …

9 AM; Betsy is getting cleaner & the puddles are getting deeper.

Holland woke up sometime around noon - which is okay with me. We're retired, & my husband has trouble sleeping, so when he can sleep I don't disturb him: he needs all the 💤 he can get, when he can get it. Plus, he is taking an antibiotic 4x a day that makes him drowsy.

When he finished his cup of coffee, he suggested a drive to see the waves, and I agreed. We needed to spend some time outside of Independence 😊

We visited a couple beach approaches - and eventually ended up at the Ilwaco Marina, where we saw that Bambi has finally been repaired and repainted; the last 2 years, she has sat forlorn and a rusted white while she waited to be tended to. Every time we drove past her, I would laugh and tell Holland about the 'Bambi' Bembenek episode of the the early 1980's:

Contrary to the proclamation "The World's Longest Beach" emblazoned on the archway over Bolstad street in the town of Long Beach, the beach here is not the longest beach in the world. It should be called the "World's Longest Continuous Peninsula Beach" because it is the world's longest beach on a peninsula: it stretches 28 miles.~Bolstad Beach Approach; Long Beach-WA

Landmark Buoy, at Bolstad Beach Approach; Long Beach-WA

Boardwalk, at the Bolstad Beach Approach; Long Beach-WA

Bambi finally got painted 😁 Last year, Holland had spotted this wooden hulled boat … I laughed when I saw the name of it, & told him the story saga of {Bambi} Bembenek; Ilwaco Marina-WA

What To Know About Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek, Her Murder Conviction And Prison Escape: https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/2023/09/12/lawrencia-laurie-bembenek-run-bambi-run-facts-murder-escape-from-prison-cause-of-death/70794066007/

Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek - Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIRR04TdDCU)

We also took a side trip along the backroad, where we saw a brightly painted trolley in Oysterville; before parking Betsy.

By now, Holland's leg was really hurting - he had gashed it a week ago, and it is healing slowly. This is his driving leg, and the muscle was burning with today's use.

So, we called it a Day, and came home.

Where the rain picked up again, practically as soon as we got back inside … I cleaned his leg wound, sprayed it with antiseptic, and suggested we bandage it with gauze & a wrap tonight: Band-Aids stay on better, but I noticed that he also peels away some of his leg skin with the Band-Aid adhesive when he pulls it off. His skin is thin due to his medication; I don't want to risk secondary infection on top of the one his body is in the process of currently fending off.

I don't know how to keep the wrap from sliding down while he sleeps, but it will have to do. We're just 🙏ing his leg heals quickly without anymore undue complications.

City of Long Beach-WA Trolley; sits on a gravel lot, in Oysterville-WA

Holland's serious 'owie' is healing - slowly. He tore his calf open, on a raised concrete block flowerbed running along the Dollar General Store parking lot, in Ocean Park-WA. It worries me that he didn't feel it happen - he said he wasn't aware of the  injury until he felt something (blood) running down his leg and filling his shoe. That is concerning.

Still raining. And gusting.

VICTORY LAPS; Ocean Park-WA

Jelly Roll - 'Liar' Lyrics: 

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1__k8UwyxR0)

Always brings me to tears.

I love this song - so full of victory.

We got #1 down … and are working on a Home Run with the rest.

Elohim doesn't always put the people you "want" in your life; sometimes He puts people in your life that need the strength that only you can provide for them.

It can be mighty hard.

But it can also be mighty good ❤️

We are winning strikes, encouraging each other with "we're gonna make it", and holding tight while "going higher!" 😘

I love this song 👏

GOOD QUESTION

KEEPING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE

For a small amount of perspective during these crazy times, imagine you were an American born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.

When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.

As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great grandparents) survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, and we will get through all of this.

In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted. This too, shall pass.

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Yep …

But the Generation X (Gen X): typically defined as those born between 1965 and 1980; Xennials: a term referring to those born between 1975 and 1983, often seen as a transitional group between Gen X and Millennials; and Millennials (Gen Y): born generally between 1977 and 1995 … consider their parents and grandparents too "stupid", "naïve", or 'irrelevant" to "understand" anything.

WE understand more than they ever could - and our parents, and grandparents, understood even more.