Mr. L is back!

There he was this morning, standing at his assigned post, clutching his walker for balance with one hand and his stop sign with the other. He's moving remarkably well for a guy who broke his hip less than a month ago. Is it his generation, his character, or a combination? My grandfather was the same way. Nothing got in his way. He was harder to schedule time with after he retired... Tues. was Blood Run day for the Red Cross, Wed., the Meerwald Schooner Project in south Jersey, Thurs. was the Boy Scout camp. All other activities between April and November had to be scheduled around the tides so that they could squeeze in the maximum amount of sailing on their 22' boat.

That Camp group was probably the most remarkable thing of all. Every Thursday he and a bunch of other retirees from the same large company (all engineers) gathered at "their" Boy Scout camp to work on what ever project was needed. They did this for 20 odd years, and as far as I know the "Thursday Group" is still functioning.

I guess it was from my Grandparents that I learned that if something is important, you get involved and volunteer. My Grandmother was very involved in the DAR and local histoical society. She served as docent at the historical society, the Ann Whitall house, and also sometimes a the school house in Cherry Hill, which is maintained (?) by the Colonial Dames. I know this because I often went with her as a child and by the end of the day, I would be leading tours. As a kid - 6/7/8 years old, it was "great fun" to do those things. It was wonderful to have such involved grandparents. We (my brother and two cousins) would go and spend weeks at a time with them and do all sorts of things. We went into Philly in 1976 (my cuz and I) dressed in period costume... I canoed on the Delaware (again, in costume) during a Washington Crossing the Delaware re-enactment. Grandma took my cuz and I to DC (at 8) and we tromped around DAR HQ, visiting our state rooms, then met my cuz's state rep at the capital and got a pretty exclusive tour. I sure do miss them!