and the birthday of Jerry Garcia...
He played 18 holes of golf in Vermont with a pack of his pals. then he and my mother met up with 2 of my brothers/sisters-in-law at a local la
ke [in NH] for swimming, etc, then festive lavish BBQ at parents' house, topped by my mother's famous strawberry shortcake for dessert.
When I called was put on speaker phone -- we sang HBD with many part harmony -- my father even joined in he was having so much fun, and loves to sing. Things like this I miss about being on the East Coast sometimes.
This is my father last October in a costume shop in Haight Ashbury--I love that he's always **game** for anything, and tho he's a very strong and quite opinionated person, he almost never complains about people, life, situations, the world, or is negative. And always up for FUN!
