Went to Victorville on Friday on October 27. After a nice lunch with my four of my high school classmates and two of their spouses where we were able to catch on a great deal of classmate updates, I went to the Desert View Cemetery to pay my parents a visit and to give my mother two dozen pink roses for her birthday. My brother who lives in Victorville had beat me to the cemetery and had already placed some flowers in each of my parents vases. A nice touch of class. However, the flowers were not pink. So while saying sorry to my father, I placed all of my brother's flowers in his vase and placed my two dozen pink roses in my mother's vase because pink roses were her favorite flowers.
I suppose some might find my gesture to be overly sentimental, but I am old school.
On the drive back to Fairfield, while driving on Highway 99 just north of Bakersfield, I was listening to the Art Laboe radio show when coincidentally a song came on which expresses my feelings perfectly. Maybe you might enjoy listening to it as well.
Peace,
Everett "Skip" Jenkins
Fairfield, California
October 30, 2023
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