December 7, 2009

Well, today was a PEO companion day.   This morning Emily drove herself to her PEO book club across town on Mountain Creek Road.  They had read The Professor and the Mad Man.  Emily didn't find the book and so she had not read it, but the group all said that it was a really good book and gave her the assignment to read it. After book club she came home and another of her PEO sisters picked her up and took her up to a late luncheon date on Lookout Mountain at the home of yet another PEO sister.  They enjoyed a hot chicken salad and a fruit and cheese salad as well as a dessert and some good companionship.  It was after 3 this afternoon before she even got back home.

Emily spoke with both boys today.  It's a great comfort to her to have regular communication with them.  Steve reported on his pancreatitis.  The doctor had done an ultrasound thinking that his gall bladder might be a part of the problem.  Since that didn't show anything, he ordered an MRI which Steve had done today.  Of course, he won't get any results until his doctor's appointment. He did tell her that he's feeling pretty good.  She had a good visit with Russ on the phone as well.  He gave her a good progress report about Emerald Beach Property Management.  She was really pleased to see some of the day to day working of the business when she visited over Thanksgiving.
 
Emily's days go by very quickly she says - and often at the end of the day she says that she can't really see what she's done.  She has committed to working on her personal organization, and becoming more disciplined.  She is working every day on clearing some of the clutter out of her house and organizing her personal things.

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Sixty eight years ago today the Japanese Imperial Army launched surprise attacks on the United States.  The primary target was the Phillipine Islands and the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor.   Lieutenant Ben VanSant (1918 - 1945), the oldest brother of Emily, Frances, and Joyce was in the Phillipines training native troops. He was shot and left for dead before becoming a POW.  He survived the Bataan Death March and died on a Japanese ship that was transporting POWs to the Japanese Mainland near the end of the war.
                                                         courtesy Bob Edwards