My "little" sister...

Just got back from my sister Barbara's. She's not very well and fell flat again last night!!!! She keeps doing that!! Said she felt very sore but O.K. otherwise. Got me to thinking about the great times we've had! When I first moved up here to Lodi, Barbara and Babe had lived here for years! I really didn't like Lodi but things got to the point where I had to go to work and I wanted to get out of the L.A area with my boys after Cappy died! Barbara asked me to come up to Lodi but I had in mind that I would like to go to a little place called Sutter Creek. Dick, my second son was born there ! We didn't live there but that was the closest place to go to have a baby! There was a mid-wife there who had a hospital in her home. I really liked the town after the few times that we had seen it to make the arrangements for Dick's birth. Well, the boys and I went to Sutter Creek, Jackson, Mokelumne Hill and another few places in the Mother Lode country of the Sierras. I wound up finding a place in Jackson, where we, (the boys, Steve and Tom, my two youngest) moved and Steve was enrolled in College in Stockton and Tom had a couple of years of High School. My landlady decided that she wanted to sell the house so Steve got himself an apartment in Stockton so he could work and go to school and I wound up in Lodi! It's another story about Tom. Barbara drove me around where I got a job and finally was able to buy a car and learn to drive! (At 51 yrs of age!) But after Tom was married and I got other jobs, and then Babe, Barbara's husband died, that left her and I to really start to gad around! We did a lot of things together from then on so it's really sad to see her in such a bad condition! I'll tell you about some of our trips later! Keep you chin up, Barb!!!!