Dec 20, 2002

A Performance You Won’t Want To Miss!!!

Just had an interesting conversation with my cousin, Yvonne, who lives in north Florida....
Yvonne is a nut.....but that is not really an adequate description because you will find over and over that description fits most of my family and friends....
Like mind......attracts like mind.....
And then there is family! More like minded than I care to admit!
Anyway, Yvonne and I don’t see each other very often since we both have very busy family lives.

Yvonne’s husband, James, is a heavy-duty big crane operator and spends months in various parts of the country. They recently returned from 3 or 4 months in North Dakota.
In January he goes to Maryland for a month or two.
It is said in the profession that James is so good that with a 300-ft. boom crane he can pick up a dime off of the sidewalk....
That’s a delicate performance for sure.
It is no wonder that at the age of 57, James has high blood pressure, hypertension etc. or it could be simply living with Yvonne is a greater challenge....
You see Yvonne is absolutely an astonishing person and......hilarious!
She called this morning at 5:55 a.m. full of life and fun.
As she related some of her recent antics, I found myself laughing my head off. Imitating family members and their nonsense leaves me fascinated by her exacting point of view and her general attitude of life.
She is ‘right on’ in life!

Yvonne......has no arms.
She was born that way.

Yvonne can do anything you or I can do....AND DO IT BETTER!
She is a worker.....a perfectionist, a motivator and has one of the best sense of humor of anyone I know.
She can cook a Southern meal for 25 people or so.....from food and vegetables that she has put into her freezer over the past year.
Her house is always incredibly clean as is their 35’ fifth wheel travel trailer.
Until recently, she had been mowing, with their riding lawn mower, their 5 acres of grass around their home. This she thinks is.....normal.
Getting a new home is why she quit ’that job’.
She also dresses with a flair and beauty that puts most women to shame.
A reflection of her general ’attitude’ was made very clear a few years ago when she and I went to get her some contact lens.
The young ’eye Doctor’ was kinda ’beating around the bush’ talking while trying to find out if she could adequately handle this new project.
He asked....“can you do this, can you do that.”?...
In her ‘be nice’ Southern lady voice she told him she drives a car, raised two sons, helps her family and friends etc.
He kept persisting that contact lens were awkward for everyone!
Finally she cut him off by saying, “Sonny, I haven’t seen anything that I can’t do yet!”
He burst out laughing with delight!
Upon receiving her new contacts, she along with 5 other new ’users’ were given a brief demonstration and then told to put them in for themselves.
They could not leave the office until it was proven they could do this.
Guess who was the first to get hers in?
Yep, it was Yvonne!
Yvonne is a class act for sure.
She could give one ulcers....or gray hair....or a different attitude of life!
Yvonne is what I call an “Electric Woman”.......
She has no equal!

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