Cousin!

Cuz!

Thanks for the wonderful card. It cheered us considerably. I especially like the artistic rendering of the Rockies' baseball stadium. I'm so glad they named it Coors' Field - after my native beer! I'm going to put it up in my office at work to remind myself of my roots. (Because Denver is the closest I think major league baseball will ever come to Colorado Springs!)

Yeah TW is quite a girl. She is suffering incredible pain just walking and standing. And she has to bear up worry about my sorry ass, too. It often comes to me, although I don't often dwell on it for obvious reasons: What might have come of me if I hadn't snatched her up just in the nick of time (40 years ago) to become part of my life? She definitely saved me from a short and dismal life.

Instead, I am death warmed over at the ripe old age of 70 (minus one month!). Trying to come to terms with appending loss. Loss of strength, endurance, wealth, boating. Gravity gets us all in the long run, my dear Cousin. Everyday, I ask myself the same old question with different predicate adjectives attached:

• Will this be my last dinner with Judy?
• Will this be my last shower?
• Will this be my last day at work?
• Will this be my last dog walk?
• Will this be my last dream? Will this be my last boat race?
• Will this be the last sentence I type on a keyboard?
• Will this be my last thought?

Whatever happens, if I have a single prayer - other than one of gratitude left - in my body, it would that I not inadvertently and helplessly become an additional burden for TW to bear. After all is said and done; after she has given me this extraordinary gift of her life-long companionship, this much more I dare ask - that I not become an added burden and drag her down.

Cousin, I don't know how I got so far off on this tangent. All I really wanted to write about was your computer education? How soon are going to be "computer literate" enough to begin sending us email so we don't have to keep licking these silly old stamps. Have you set goals? Howabout:
Emailing tomorrow! Blogging next week!

Well, since this is pony express, I have to end it now in time for the express pony's arrival; otherwise I could keep this jumble of words around a bit longer and refine some expressions and curb some of the more excessive phrasings. In order to cheer the tone this letter up a little it has been necessary to include some shots of a sea lion (we named Tipperary) which climbed on the stern of Psyche's Song a few days ago. Yeah the winds have been that light and our races have been that slow! The really nice thing Tipperary did was to jump off after about 20 minutes, swim around to other boats, only to come back and jump back on Psyche's Song's stern! Can you beat that for an endorsement?