Last year, April 2024, I received a Happy Birthday email from my High School Sweetheart, whom I had not talked to in 47 years. She sent it through my website, and it required that she put her phone number in the form before she could send it. Naturally, I called, and she immediately hung up on me. She said, "I can't talk now, I have to go!" and hung up. I waited about an hour, and she answered again, and this time we talked for a while.
We met in High School Geology Class, sitting in the back of the class. We flirted, and I am the reason that she got a "D" in Geology Class. We both loved rocks from a very early age. For me, I was always walking around at our family cabin in Aitkin looking for Agats. We started dating in my Senior Year, and she was attending the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. We continued dating after I enlisted in the Air Force. I finished Basic Training, and she, her mother, and aunt came to see me while I was at Chanutte AFB for Tech School. We spent the weekend in Chicago seeing the local sites, and it just happened that the Air Force Thunderbirds were performing over Lake Michigan.
After completing Tech School, I was assigned to Minot AFB, ND, where we continued our long-distance relationship. That was, until I got stupid and broke up with her.
After 47 years of not having any communication, we were once again talking. I flew her to Albuquerque to meet and see if there was anything still there. Well, on November 1st, we were married in Chariton, IA. We will be moving there in January 2026 to start our new life in our new building that will have our Home upstairs, art studios on the main floor, and wood and other storage in the drive-in basement.