Well, the rains have started in the Northwest. We had a glorious spring and summer, the best I have ever seen in the forty plus years I have been here. So now it's time to pay the piper for our beautiful greenery. Mid-summer I lost my mother, who had been residing in Florida, so we brought her ashes up here and put her in with my father at the national cemetery. They met during World War II in Washington DC. He was in the Army and she worked for the Bureau of Ships.
She told me that she used to have conversations with a Navy commander who was kind of an outcast at the time for his strange ideas - he turned out to be Admiral Hyman Rickover, the founder of the modern nuclear Navy. My late husband worked on some of the early nuclear subs in Groton. Connecticut, and one day he was overseeing repair work on one of the subs (after a famous collision at sea) and was very intent and not looking where he was going and accidently knocked over Admiral Rickover. He apologized profusely but the Admiral just told him, "don't worry, son, just keep up the good work!" My Navy son during his enlisted years served on a Trident nuclear sub based here in Washington State and we took a family cruise and took my mother along. Back in the days of World War II and Korea when she worked for the Navy, women weren't allowed on the ships after they were commissioned. She was so thrilled to be on one. Talk about coming full circle and six degrees of separation!
We have some new custom albums available in the store, and for the first time some civil war stickers have come out. Karen Foster has a new military collection and we finally have some rubber stamps for firefighters, EMTs, police and sheriffs.
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