If you our reader, read this Post as if you were reading a chapter in a book, you might enjoy it.<\/p>\n
It’s about me sharing a real victory-over-self by putting another person’s wants and \/ or needs and wishes ahead of my own.\u00a0<\/p>\n
God IS first. You are second. I am third in the game of life.<\/p>\n
If I can share and celebrate this small victory-over-self, then YOU too can do the same with YOUR life victories.<\/p>\n
– – – – – – – –<\/span><\/p>\n Gullible wrote the following comment to yesterday’s Post..<\/p>\n You aren\u2019t going to watch the Super Bowl?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n – – – – – – – –<\/span><\/p>\n I responded..\u00a0<\/p>\n Where did I say or write that Gullible? <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Then I added the following sentence.<\/p>\n Please see The Rest Of The Story tomorrow on Monday the 10th of February. Cap<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n – – – – – – – –<\/span><\/p>\n This is important.\u00a0Gullible DOES NOT text message.<\/em><\/span> She knows how to text and she will text, but only<\/em> <\/span>when she must do so for certain reasons especially when she is travelling out of the country.<\/p>\n As a result Gullible did not receive a text message that some of you did on Sunday the 9th as Patti and I were driving South to Phoenix from Lake Havasu City.<\/p>\n – – – – – – – –<\/span><\/p>\n And now.. The Rest of the Story<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n During the 25 years that we owned our place up in Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, we had two next door neighbors. Ernie and Ann Russell, and Terry and Bea Russell. Ernie, who has passed away, and Terry are brothers.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ernie’s wife Ann, who has also passed away, had a sister Mary who lives here in Phoenix, Arizona. Through Ann, and all of our Mayo Clinic visits to Phoenix beginning in late November 2016, Patti and I have gotten to know her sister Mary here in Phoenix.<\/p>\n Mary, now age 94, is one very special lady. Mary is alone. Both her husband and only son, have passed away. Every time we are down here in Phoenix, we stop by Mary’s home and visit. Mary IS one very special lady.<\/p>\n – – – – – – – –<\/span><\/p>\n As we enter and proceed through the Phoenix Megapolis, Mary’s home is no more that one quarter of a mile off Interstate 10.<\/p>\n On the other hand, Mary’s home is a full 20 minutes South from where we locate while here in North Phoenix where Motel 6 and the Mayo Clinic are located. It is “Duck Soup” to visit Mary when we arrive here in Phoenix because it takes only 4 minutes to get to her home from I-10. During our Mayo Clinic visits we are busy, we get tired, and stressed out. So we visit Mary on our way into Phoenix and when we leave to return to Lake Havasu City.<\/p>\n The last part of the overall puzzle is this. We usually leave Lake Havasu City sometime between 11am and 1pm. It is a 210 mile drive. We take from 3 hours and 15 minutes (our best time ever) to 4 or more hours depending upon the weather, the traffic density and how often we stop en route here.<\/p>\n If we don’t stop, and the traffic is light, we have a 3 hour 15 minute trip:<\/p>\n Leaving at 11am we will be at Motel 6 at 2:15pm. If we leave at 1pm, we will be here at 4:15pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n We did not look at the timing of the Super Bowl<\/span> when we arranged our February Mayo visit beginning today.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n – – – – – – – –<\/span><\/p>\n “Doing the math.”<\/p>\n We actually pulled out of Lake Havasu City at 12:40pm. A fast trip would put us at Mary’s home at 3:55pm. Super Bowl kickoff was at 4:30pm Arizona time.\u00a0<\/p>\n What to do?<\/p>\n Bypass Mary, who has known since early December 2024 when we would be coming to Phoenix, and who almost desperately looks forward to seeing us!<\/p>\n Stop and make it a Bam Bam Thank You Ma’am 10 minute visit. Sorry Mary BUT .. we’ve got a football game to watch..<\/p>\n We pulled up to Mary’s home about 3:45pm (a best time ever trip<\/em><\/span>).<\/p>\n What will it be?\u00a0<\/p>\n Bam Bam Thank You Ma’am. But we’ve got a football game to watch\u00a0<\/p>\n .. Or a full, solid, satisfying visit.<\/p>\n We selected the satisfying visit. “So nice. Oh So Very Nice Mary to see you and to visit with you and your neighbor Bertha. It’s now 5pm and we can see you are tired.” She had put (literally) her head down upon her kitchen table as we left a little past 5pm.<\/p>\n Yes God?<\/p>\n Captain “You Got It Right! I am proud of you Captain!”<\/p>\n I texted the following to several friends as we were sitting at Mary’s kitchen table.<\/p>\n “We ARE now safe and sound IN Phoenix. Yes we think we may watch or \/ we may not (watch The Super Bowl). We are visiting a 94 year old friend here. She IS top priority over any football game!!”<\/p>\n Beginning with “Our Creator” and continuing with each and every single friend I texted, all said Atta Boy Captain! You did the right thing.<\/p>\n We checked into Motel 6 around 5:20pm.. We turned on the T.V. late in the 1st quarter and the Philadelphia Eagles were leading 7 – 0 over the Kansas City Chiefs. By the end of the 1st quarter it was still Eagles 7 – 0. Then, Eagles 24 – 0 at the half.\u00a0 Into the second half it became Eagles 34 – 6. Final Eagles 40 – 22.<\/p>\n Patti and I oh so enjoyed this game and a great, almost an hour and a half visit with Mary.<\/p>\n – – – – – – –<\/span><\/p>\n Monday, February the 10th a\/k\/a “Today” the date of this Post.<\/p>\n 11am the beginning of our Mayo appointments.<\/p>\n – – – – – – – –<\/span><\/p>\n Cap and Patti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you our reader, read this Post as if you were reading a chapter in a book, you might enjoy it. 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