HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GAL PAL L......

or as some came to call her last summer
Ms. Cannonball..

Gal Pal is 60 years young today and that is no April
Fool joke.

This is one of the loving, caringist (is that
a word?) people that I know. Always
careful not to hurt others feelings.

She is an excellent nurses aide. She goes the
extra mile for her people. She is doing home
health now and has for about 3 years.

We worked together at the same place. She jumped
out shortly after I did. And those who have hired
her for their love ones have praised her. She does
the extras that she isn't paid for. A trip around to
see the snow, or the leaves in the fall and etc.

She can make just about anything when it comes
to crafts... and also she swings a mean hammer.
She built last Spring, a porch for her back door.
She is Lucy to my Ethel, or Shirl to my
Laverne, depending on how old we feel that day.

We have gathered moss in the woods, scouted out
places that have good plants, crawled up rock slides
to pick out rocks for our gardens and even scouted out
wood piles left behind from contractors. That is what
she made her porch out of..that is before she broke
her leg... so our trips have been cut down since then.

Can't tell you where we find these piles...
after all, it is like having a private mushroom
patch. But these are the left over's that
they usually burn. And we have become quite accomplish
at hauling wood uphill and finding a way to get it
in which ever vehicle to take home.

She has done home improvements out of little to

nothing. Always figuring out how to make due.
Her self-accomplishments put me in awe...

So HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR GAL PAL...