Taking the good and the bad.

July 30, 2012

From Richard

We have had a good weekend in Willcox.    Leona is recovering remarkably well and she is getting better every day.    Peggy and Patty Jo and Marty , Dale and Ray, John, Loretta and kids, Megan and Jason were all here this weekend.      

  

I have been there for 40 years minding the store.    I will be 88 this year and we are getting pretty decrepit.    (Leona says, call me decrepit but be sure to call me to dinner.)     The future is always uncertain and this is no different.   

Its nice here.   It has not been too hot and has been raining on and off.   Lots of good food and good family relationships.   

 

Lightning n the clouds.

 Patty joking by being on her knees in the water over the street. 

 August 5, 2012

I am always talking a good talk about Willcox.    I won't do that tonight.   One of the worse things I can think of about Willcox is that a couple of days ago a big chasm,  a crack, happened close to the road north of town.     It is about 4 or 5 foot wide and several hundred feet deep.   It’s pretty long….  I didn’t see it so I am making that up as I go.  They have put several dump loads of debris in there so far and still haven’t filled it up.    The water from the subterranean area has reduced and caused the land to be disrupted.   It is kind of scary especially since the city water comes from near by there.   But so far so good.  Everybody has water problems somewhere.    But I don’t like it here!   

Fissure north of Willcox 

Its nice that everybody from the family is here taking care of me and Leona.   We are spoiled rotten.   Marty and Peggy and Patty Jo.    I just can’t have it any nicer than that.   

And they are going to go before long and that is bad.    Marty will go back to her boat in Florida.   Peggy will go back to California to be with Mark her husband.   Patty Jo has to go back to school teaching school in Willcox before long.     

Is that enough bad news?   So it is time to do some changes again.  

All of our businesses in Willcox are getting less.    The tourist business is off considerably partly because of the forest fires near by.  And automobile expense has hurt our motels and our eating places, filling stations and everybody who is associated with that is hurting too.    We hope that things are getting better but so far they haven’t revived to any great extent.     

Patty and Drew, her boyfriend, have been up in Cloudcroft with brother John this weekend.   I expect them back before long.    Loretta and kids will be back next week.     Marty and Dale and Ray are staying another week here.   They are getting their boat repaired in Florida before they sail again.  

Leona is getting better every day…   (that is not pessimistic)  but she still isn’t taking care of me.    

This is Dick Seidel on historic Railroad Avenue

Willcox influx

July 24, 2012

From Richard

Just keep it up and we will have more people than the party in Florida has.   Megan and Jason , her new husband, have now arrived.   He is Jason Friend.   The Friends are friends.  They are a wonderful couple.   Megan says when you are married to a Friend you will have a wonderful relationship.   

Marty, Ray and Dale are expected in from Florida on Saturday.    My son John from New Mexico will be here Saturday as well as Peggy and Patty.    I haven't figured them all in yet.        

Leona is back from the hospital yesterday.   I think she has had a successful operation on her spinal stenosis.  We are sure glad to have her back.   We are glad that Patty and Peggy are here to help with her.   They have been exceptional helpers.  

I hope you all have a good time in Florida.  

This is Dick Seidel on Historic Railroad Avenue 

Arizona Monsoons

July 15, 2012

This is Richard.    It is pouring down rain on Railroad Avenue.   I have my dog inside and I am inside on my new recliner and I am comfy.    

Peggy will be here tomorrow.    I guess she is going to take good care of us cause Leona will be in surgery the next morning.     Joe says she will dance but I don’t think she will the next day.     But if she walks straight without pain, without falling down we will be happy about that and our surgeon is very encouraged that he can do it.   It looks kind of complicated to me so I won’t try to explain it to you.   

The next couple of days will be busy with Leona and so on.    Too bad you can’t hear the rain pattering on my patio.   It sounds pretty good.    Monsoon season is just getting started good.   Peggy will be happy cause she likes to hear the thunder and lightning and rain.   Mya the dog doesn’t like it.   The Lightning is so loud you can hardly hear me so this is Dick Seidel on Historic Railroad Avenue.   

PS from Leona,    Thanks for your good thoughts and encouragements,  Love.  

Midwest drought

July 8, 2012

This is from Richard.  Everybody is complaining about the dry area in the Midwest.     I remember back in 19….    1936 was a dry year.    It was soooo   dry…   Dan and everyone says it is dry now but you could have seen it then.    It was blowing up all the ears of corn as if you had popcorn.    It was my first experience with farming.   My dad gave me 10 acres if I would help him out.   I had soybeans and it didn’t make anything.    I made about $30 off the ten acres and that was all the summers work.    They had dust bowls in the west and they had dry bowls in the Midwest cause it never rained.   But it did  get better by 1937 we had the best wheat crop so far and so that brought it us out of the Hoover depression.  

We have gotten a little bit of monsoon, not much.   A little bit yesterday.    Nothing that covers the streets with water yet.     The rains are just starting but it is coming.     If you hurry you can see thunder and lightning and rain.     

This is Richard from Willcox Arizona…  Historic Railroad Avenue