Wish you were here with us to celebrate, we miss you!!!! Love you always!!!

Over the years, both Vee and I enjoyed looking at cookbooks.  She could look at a recipe and tell how it taste, what could added and in what quantity to improve it and if it was right for us(both having diabetes and weight issues).  We began to collect them as we went to estate sales, and acculated quite a trove.  In Vee's memory, I donated them to the Research Library at TWU.  They counted 694 items - books, pamphlets and loose recipe collections.  Vee would have enjoyed  being remembered like that.

At one point, while we were struggling to keep up with the house on Chesley, which we loved but which was too big for us, we decided to sell some sterling silver.  We went in to one of the various places that buy silver, and began the transaction.  As part of it, he was to use half of the total weight as the basis for paying us.  The following exchange took place:

Salesman: That's 1800 grams, and half would be 600 grams.
Vee: No, half of 1800 is 900.
Salesman:  Wow, you're really good at math.

Vee was really tickled by his response, and always after that, when she made a calculation or wrote a check or made any kind of comment, she would add, "I'm really good at math, you know."