{"id":13119,"date":"2025-07-21T00:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=13119"},"modified":"2025-07-21T01:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:04:51","slug":"fifty-seven-years-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=13119","title":{"rendered":"Fifty-seven Years and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month David and I celebrated 57 years of marriage. \u00a0How can that be? We were just kids who loved each other enough to get married and start life together. We had all our lives before us. \u00a0We had no children, owned no property and didn\u2019t have much money. \u00a0David always tells people I was the rich one as I had money in the bank and he didn\u2019t. \u00a0Little did he know that after \u00a0I paid my college tuition, \u00a0I had no money, either. \u00a0And to top it all off, I got pregnant immediately and spent my last quarter at college trying not to be sick. \u00a0I was taking swimming classes at the time and doing belly flops in the pool. I never really learned how to swim until years later when we got a pool. \u00a0So I quit school, went to work at Stucky\u2019s Pecan Shop where I had friends there and had worked there before. \u00a0My boss actually bought me nursing bras as I was too dumb to know I would be needing them.
\nDavid worked at a factory and belonged to the National Guard where he had to be gone two weeks every Summer for annual training.<\/p>\n

We settled into an apartment in our little town, right across from the gas station and above a pinball store where we would spend time playing pinball. \u00a0My sister had washed, starched \u00a0and ironed some beautiful, frilly curtains for the windows that faced the street and we had bought a whole houseful of furniture for, get this, just over one hundred dollars. \u00a0With that money we got a bed, a couch, a chair, two end tables, a coffee table, two table lamps and a floor lamp. \u00a0I felt rich! \u00a0We still have the floor lamp, but have gotten new furniture since those days. David went to work every day and so did until \u00a0I got \u00a0too pregnant. Our baby boy was born ten months after we were married. \u00a0I see these young couples who wait years to have their first child, but I am glad I had mine while I was young. \u00a0I always say I grew up with my children. \u00a0I loved being a wife and mother..<\/p>\n

Anyway, David took two weeks off so we could do a few things and make some short trips as we like to do now. We drove to one of our favorite restaurants.<\/p>\n

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These are the doors of the little church where we came out of on our wedding day.
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\nClara\u2019s Restaurant has been there for as long as I can remember. \u00a0They sell Pizza King pizzas which are the best tasting pizzas in my humble opinion. \u00a0I worked at a pizza King years ago, but that is a whole other story! \u00a0The decor is beautiful and it even has a double deck bus you can eat your pizza in. \u00a0You place your order on a phone at your table. It is so much fun. David \u201caccidently\u201d ordered an extra large pizza so we had plenty to bring home to eat for days.<\/p>\n

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We initially wanted to drive down into southern Indiana to see this little town I hate to say I saw on one of my murder shows I like to watch. A young girl was shot there, sadly, but they showed the little town and it looked so interesting, I wanted to see it. \u00a0It is on the Ohio River. \u00a0I love river towns. \u00a0I could very happily have lived in one. They all have these amazing old houses. \u00a0And women have such beautiful gardens. \u00a0I always say when I see a beautiful garden like this one that the lady who lives there, and I are kindred spirits. \u00a0I would love to meet her and talk about her beautiful garden. \u00a0We passed several on our trip. We also drove through Indiana\u2019s first Capitol, Corydon, where we saw the preserved stump of the tree under which Indiana\u2019s first Constitution was written. David thought it was a fake stump, but I like to think it is the real thing.<\/p>\n

We saw flags waving along streets, beautiful murals painted on the sides of buildings and lots of old antebellum houses.We drove through sunshine and rain. \u00a0 \u00a0It was a fun trip. Plus in Corydon we found an ice cream shop with hand dipped ice cream that was really good. \u00a0We are always on the lookout for hand dipped ice cream. Today, July 20th is national ice cream day so, of course, we were on the lookout for some ice cream. \u00a0We went to church this morning and I was \u00a0telling David what day it was. \u00a0When we left church, lo and behold, a brand new ice cream shop had opened almost right next door to our church. \u00a0The Lord works in mysterious ways! \u00a0We had ice cream there and it was very good. We really needed a nice cream shop in our \u00a0town.<\/p>\n

It has been a good and busy month. \u00a0We are starting to freeze corn. We plan to freeze some every week until Summer\u2019s end so as to have plenty for the Winter. \u00a0We have a bridal shower and a wedding coming up. \u00a0Love is in the air!<\/p>\n

Hope all is well in your neck of the woods! \u00a0Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month David and I celebrated 57 years of marriage. \u00a0How can that be? We were just kids who loved each other enough to get married and start life together. We had all our lives before us. \u00a0We had no children, owned no property and didn\u2019t have much money. \u00a0David always tells people I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13182,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13119\/revisions\/13182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}