Michigan Visit

 From the Cataloochee Reunion, Trish and I drove up to Lake Orion, Michigan, to visit her mother, Betty.

Betty is ninety-four years old and is still living in the home where Trish’s family moved in 1966 when her father retired from the Navy. Trish’s dad died in 2019. He and Betty were married sixty-eight years.

We spent three days and nights there visiting and catching up on things.  Betty lives close to the Seventh Day Adventist church where she goes each Saturday.  Every week her church has a pot luck dinner after the worship service.  One couple from the church picks her up each Saturday and then her good friend, Ruby, stays for pot luck with her and takes her home.  She and Ruby also go out on the town a couple of times each week.

On Tuesday, Trish’s brother, Jerry, came over to mow the lawn.  He usually mows on Monday, but, it rained all day then.  So, we got to see him since he came a day late.

We had a good visit, but it was, for Betty, “just too short.”  We’ll come this way again whenever our travel routes make it possible.