Yellow Boots

Friendship is a wonderful thing. I cannot imagine a day going by without talking with my friends... Ralph Waldo Emerson asserted that there are two cornerstones to friendship. One is truth, the other tenderness. I agree. We have all three been the best of friends ever sense I was knee high to a grasshopper (wow, was I ever that small?) - anyway...
Carol and I were the best of buds taking our second year of Model Office class - taught by Mr. Darnell Halverson out at the Sibley County Fairgrounds. We were quite proud of ourselves as we met up with all those "Gaylord girls" - and I don't know fore sure anymore why they didn't like us - but, it wasn't long and we accepted Robin in to our friendship... we were now three - inseparable - lovable girls!! I don't remember a whole lot of that first year, Carol and I seniors and Robin a junior - I do remember boys and liking them alot. I remember Joe Prodahls light blue leisure suit, Joel Glaser a white leisure suit. I remember dusting woodwork, Ringos maroon car, the stuff all being to one side after she took a corner. Carol having me drive her parents car as she didn't want anyone to know it was hers, Jan driving us around in Gaylord, Mother Mary magnets holding the car together... the cops stopping her and telling her to take the car home and "retire it" Looking for a comb in a barn full of hay 2 days after we had been there, the smell of Brut aftershave and loves baby soft... losing my glasses... the carp damn... losing my 2nd pair of glasses...
...After I graduated we had a short time of falling out when I was in Willmar and Carol in the cities working and Robin finishing her senior year. I remember being in the Arlington Hospital for something to do with my bladder and giving Carol a call to renew our friendship. We have NEVER been a part sense! Oh, yes, we have a had a few disagreements but we have always taken the extra step of forgiveness and remained friends - for 33 years!! My only complaint is I wish we would have journaled more about all the times we got together through the years and all the things we did as families together. Ringo does have documentation of most of our trips to Grand Marias (If you are ever looking for it it is in a notebook, black one, I believe that she saved from high school- I also believe she is still using the same pencil)... otherwise the rest is just left to our memories. I will write some memories that I have of us and hopefully Carol and Ringo will do the same - the entries will be called "Yellow Boots"
One beautiful memory is when Robin told me she was pregnant with Brittany... shortly after I realized I was pregnant with Lacey and shortly after that Carol was pregnant with Miranda. We spent alot of time together. On New Years Eve 1987 we all got dressed up, and went to Gaylord for the evening. The place was packed, everyone drinking but us... I remember Curt telling me that night that there was no one more beautiful in that crowd of people than us three pregnant ladies... and he was so happy that I was his!