Dee (Dolores) Struthers:  

12-24-08 Since my last post we were finally able to do the traveling that we had hoped to do. We loaded up the car and our 2 sons and drove to Seattle to visit family and friends. Unfortunately we only got to visit a few people because Duane ended up getting sick and had to be hospitalized at the Seattle VA. That man sure knows how to ruin a vacation...lol! Hopefully one day he'll be well enough to head east to the Chicago area to see what family I still have in that area and some old friends from school days. Right now we need to get him well again and a vehicle that he can get in and out of. His arthritic knees are giving him horrible problems with getting into the lousy truck we have. The darn Lincoln we were driving is now sitting in the yard covered in snow waiting for the money and a good mechanic to change the hub and such since the wheel decided to come off while driving. I'm spreading the word around where we live for people not to take it to the "grease monkies" that changed the brakes on the car. Did you know that over tightening lug nuts will cause you not to just loose your wheel but also the studs they go on. Thank God we had the truck to fall back on. Remember how on your birthdays y...Expand for more