Glen and I enjoyed living our lives to the fullest in the short amount of time we had together. So much so that it felt as if we had a lifetime together. Our minds and souls were in sync from the beginning.
We had recently been making more permanent plans for the future, marriage, because time had shown us what we had known from the beginning: That we were soul mates, deeply in love with each other, and that our lives were to be spent together forever.
The first time we met, Glen insisted that I be accompanied by someone, a chaperone.
I thought he was kidding but he was not. So, at age 58, my younger daughter and her fiance accompanied me to meet Glen. We had a great time and he was such a gentleman, always.
In addition to always being a gentleman, Glen was every minute of every day, generous and compassionate to everyone he met. No one was a stranger and there was no one that he wouldn't help.
In August 2015, Glen took vacation time. We spent one day driving up to Mt Rainier. Along the way we stopped at a place called "Recycled Spirits of Iron". The artist, Dan, makes art, more specifically animals, vehicles, etc, out of recycled metal. That is where I took the picture of Glen being eaten by the giant metal spider. We had so much fun looking at the over sized motorcyles, old fashioned bicycles, horses, fish, prehistoric birds, dinosaurs. We felt like kids running from piece to piece figuring out that horseshoes had been used to make the rump of the horse and an 18 foot fish, wrenches were used to form jaws, a sewing machine was in the belly of one horse, and that horse was "Sewing It's Oats".
On another day during his vacation we took the Mt Rainier Scenic Railroad to Mineral. Glen had never been on a train until that day! It was a beautiful old steam engine train with the beautiful old passenger cars. Then in Mineral we got to see the logging equipment and learn about the logging industry from years ago. The logging companies would actually build the loggers cabins so they could be transported from camp to camp on trucks or railroad cars.
At Christmas we saw The Christmas Story at the Tacoma Little Theatre. Glen had not seen live theatre before and the The Christmas Story was his favorite movie that he watched each Christmas. He was instantly hooked on live theatre and we were going to attend a play in Lakewood next.
And on Christmas Day I surprised Glen with the ultimate gift that he had wanted but didn't think he would ever get: a beautiful bench made of wood, a wagon axle, iron spokes, parts of a horse harness, and a beautifully painted backrest. It left him speechless! And for those of you who knew Glen, that's hard to do! Ha ha
Babe, I love you. Our time was too short but we will meet again. We lived and loved fully while you were here. Thank you for that, Christine
