Nonnie's Observations

Random Friday Five 1. My favorite mystery authors  are Faye Kellerman, Tess Gerritsen and Louise Penny.  I quiver with anticipation when I hear that a  new Gamache mystery will soon be published. 2. My favorite seasons are spring and autumn . Spring- because of all the new life: flora and fauna.   Autumn- for the jewel-like colors of the turning leaves. 3.My favorite home interior colors  are blue and brown with a jolt of candy-apple red. 4.My favorite car color is red .  5. A car I would have liked to own is an MG.          Here's my honey with his car.  This was  taken overseas while he was serving in the US Air Force. By the time I met him in 1957, he was driving a plain black 1957 Chevy.  Boo hoo! So it could not be said that I fell for him because of his sleek sports car! linking to Nancy Claey's Random 5 Friday ; visit and join in the fun!

MG car before I knew him loved his car By the time I met this handsome fella, he was driving something not sporty, a very plain black 1957 Chevy. He and I married in 1958. We kept the car till 1962 when we were expecting our third child. We bought a red (my color idea) station wagon; he gave the Chevy to my younger brother. He drove it till it was worn down. All three of us were saddened to see the '57 Chevy become a classic in later years. Who'd a thunk that a car  so plain looking  would rise so high? visit Vintage Weekly  

At the left is my cousin's uncle Billy, and at right is our uncle John. On the back of the photo, it's dated April of 1945. It was taken on Guam. Featured here is Uncle Raymond, who was on leave, and his wife Mary.  They are standing in front of the apartment house in which the uncle shown below lived.  And in the background is the house in which my grandparents lived. Uncle Roy John (served in the Navy attached to the Marines because he was a medic), Raymond (Navy) and Roy (Army) were brothers. I was too young then to appreciate the sacrifice my grandmother also made because three of her sons served in the military during World War II. During the Korean War, my uncle Charles was in the Marines.  I remember writing to him; by then I was a teenager. My husband served in the Air Force during that same "police action."  I didn't meet him till he was discharged.  He continued in the reserves for a few more years.