Adventures with Geannii

 World’s largest Tri-State-Gas Engine and Tractor Show in Portland Indiana.    Forty acres (or more) of Flea Markets, Tractor and Engine exhibits. You may not know you need it, you will find it.    I kept telling myself, I need nothing. I am downsizing. I am window shopping. See what things people thought they couldn't live without and discovered, this item now needs a new home.    I never thought I'd find one, NOT that I needed it. A child's iron that actually works.  I picked it up and showed Pam.  This is exactly like the one  Dad brought home and gave to JoDee.  She was about three years old. (I was a much more mature six years old.) We plugged it in, it got really hot.  Mom Said, "Do not plug it in, if you forget it in a pile of clothes it can catch on fire and we can die in our sleep."     One day, JoDee  was being too quiet, Mom sent me to go check on her.     There she was with the doo...

 Who doesn't dream of playing on a Baby Grand Piano? I imagined myself in a black dress with a cape, I flip it back sit down ever so gracefully my audience holds their breath to hear the first notes.  What will she play? Will it be Mozart? Or William Tell Overture? (Better known as the opening theme song for The Lone Ranger.)   I sat at the Grand Piano heart racing, fingers poised to play something...    I am so proud of myself.  My moment has arrived   My six lessons as a kid has finally paid off as I hit the first note   'Yankee Doodle!' then I launched right into I Dropped My Dolly in the Dirt. The only two songs I know how to play.   My captive audience was not impressed.  (Not too captive, the door wasn't locked.)    I can now mark this off my bucket list. 

 Dinner with Son #5          Pam’s adult children make me feel very welcome and loved.  On my latest visit to Indiana, Son #5 wanted to meet at Texas Road House for dinner.      Pam mentioned to #5, we’d been by his house and took a self guided tour.     “YOU went inside my house?”  #5 was not happy, it is a bachelor pad after all.   I quickly assured him, "I didn’t go to look at how clean it is. We just went by to see it. I really loved the Harley Davidson room with two Harley Davidson motorcycles sitting in it.”  #5 was still freaking out more than a little.    Pam said to me, “I didn’t show you the mannequin standing at the window.  I didn’t want  bad words coming out of her mouth so I put an ace bandage around  her face.”   WHAT THE WHAT? Three pairs of eyes were staring at her from our table.   “You didn’t!” I am shocked. Human Trafficking came to my mind.     ...

   This year I’ve been invited to go with Pam and all her family to the World’s largest Tri-State-Gas Engine and Tractor Show in Portland Indiana    I went up a few days early to hang out with Pam and go shopping a bit. (NOT Wal-Mart she complained daily when John and I wanted to go to Wal-Mart.)     The first night, she talked son # 3 into coming over to let me ride in his ultra fast street legal race car. I asked if I needed a helmet…      No!     Mach1 , 480 Horsepower engine, 6 speed, rev matching transmission, Posi-traction rear-end. I buckled in and off we flew, G forces pressed me back in my seat as we zipped past cornfields in a blur.  I drove it. This car wants to kill you!!! We made it safely back to the house. I heard a text come into my phone, I ignored it, thinking it is an extended family group text I'm in, and it is rarely anything for me. it went off again. By now we ar...