Excuse the archaic language from my beloved Patrick O’Brian novels, but I enjoy that way of saying that today marks 50 years of marriage to my true, original, and eternal beloved, Juanita!
It just means “congratulate us.” Even lubbers should know that.
It’s been quite a celebration, and it will continue through the day. But it’s not just today. We’ve been celebrating since July 10. We have celebrated in England, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. We came back, and almost immediately ran off to the beach for a few days with the whole family — or most of it. In between those things, I crammed in what little paid work I could. At the moment, I’m sitting in an AirBnB that our kids rented at Lake Murray for today’s family party. The two of us spent the night here, and we’re waiting for the first of the kids and grandkids to arrive in the next hour or so, which is why I have a few minutes to send you this.
I still haven’t gone through email from July. I tell you that so you know why I haven’t been blogging.
Anyway, I’m going to go in a minute, because even though the kids are in charge of this, there are things to do. I don’t have time to tell you of my love for my wife — which would take something like Proust’s magnum opus. I’ll just note the obvious: longevity speaks to commitment, and commitment like that comes from the heart. I cherish every moment of it.
Gotta run. The picture at the top was taken on our wedding day. Juanita’s maid of honor had driven us from the reception to the parking lot of her mother’s condo, which is where we had parked the actual car that we were taking on our honeymoon from Memphis to the Grand Strand. We did this to keep Juanita’s four brothers from “decorating” it. It worked, which was good, because that was a long way to drive covered in shaving cream or whatever. Anyway, the version you see above was one in which I dropped out the background in Photoshop and added hearts to turn it into a Valentine a few years ago. Yeah, I know I look like a goof. It was the ’70s.
And here’s a picture from Amsterdam…
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Congratulations Juanita and Brad. Your bride is still gorgeous. You? Ok, there is still a “wrassler” in you. Continue the celebration. I pray you have many more joyous years.
I’m back in the States; Utah now, back to rural New York State Monday. It’s always an adventure!
Congratulations on your 50th anniversary!
Happy Anniversary, you two- congratulations!
Congratulations!
For our 45th anniversary in 2022, I wanted to do something different than say “Hey everybody, today’s our 45th anniversary.”
I opened Wikipedia and looked at the year 1977 and I pulled notable events from that year. There is only one start date that I remember, February 14, 1977, I started employment with NCR. I didn’t realize that I’d meet my future wife there.
Space Shuttle Enterprise has its first test flight. Star Wars premiered. Apple II goes on sale. Voyager 1 and 2 were launched. Elvis died. Those were just a few.
Happy happy joy joy!
Well done, Juanita and Brad.