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