Paully and I spent the weekend in Idaho visiting Paul's dad, Burt, and the illustrious Vonna.
It was a really great, interesting, and heart-wrenching, experience.
Anyone who has seen alzheimer's can only imagine what poor Burt deals with on a day to day basis. I can't attempt to tell you how many times he had to tell her it was too cold to go to the zoo, or that Tara (Vonna's daughter) isn't coming until Mothers Day. His life isn't far from babysitting 24/7. It was nice to try our best to give him a break and get to know them both better at the same time.
We must admit though, we kept ourselves plenty entertained with conversation.
I don't have the pictures up yet...they are coming soon...but here are a few quotes for starters.
"What's your name?" --Vonna
"Kira" --Kira
"Bet you can 'hear-a' lot." --Vonna
"We're just waiting for the Magic Hour."
"Let's go to the Flea Market, that'll kill some time." --Burt
"Bye. I'm taking the Nissan to go see Tara." --Vonna
"Let her go ahead and try. The Nissan hasn't started for years." --Burt
"There's plenty of good stuff in here" --Vonna (pulling an empty, plastic, store-bought cookie tray from the garbage can)
"Genuine, authentic, Navajo pot."
"Well, she's got some big ol' tits." (the reason why the goat is suspected to be pregnant)
"Oh how horrible! Of all the horrible, gruesome...look at the death and the gore...I am going to tell him how horrific that it...I am going to tell him!" --Vonna (at the sight of a hoodie with skulls on it)
"No. No. Stay here. You don't have to look at it; just look at us." --Paul
(Vonna stares at Paul, cross-eyed)
"Can I tell you a secret? I HATE Idaho." --Vonna
"Tie him up...hold him down." --Vonna
"Why do they call me snowball, when snowball ain't my name" --Vonna (singing)
"You two don't look anything alike for being brother and sister." (to Paul and me)
"Burt hates when I whistle. He turns away and pretends he doesn't see me put my fingers in my mouth to do it. It is so loud, so right after I do it, I look around like everybody else like I am trying to find out who did it." --Vonna
"I am so good at fixing things because I was born a boy." --Vonna
I'll try to get the pictures up tomorrow. You have to see Paul's dad...I can imagine him in magazines, he is the perfect looking old man.
It really was a great experience and I think we will be going up again...we have been invited to see the kids (baby goat kids) when they are born in May.
10 comments:
Kira, you are so brave, and so big hearted to do this in the first place. After my VIP sneak peak at pics and convo yesterday, you missed thelling me some things for sure. I now have tears in my eeyes from reading. I can't wait to hear more and more and more. You forgot my favorite one those, i won't ruin it but it happends about 4pm, Burt told Paul about it in the shed.
Oh these are hilarious! Bless her heart. Big Ole Tits might be my favorite... even though I like to say tig old bitties haha You guys are sweeties to go spend the weekend with them!
Laura, that is "Magic Hour"
aaaahhhhhh!!!!! Please don't tell me my dad was talking about S E X! I can't take it. I'm so glad you went and saw them. They need some attention. Did you meet Vona's chicken? Did she try to give you a sewing machine? Did she try to get you to sleep on their sleeper sofa over and over again? Bless her ever lovin' heart! My dad is the perfect looking old man. John thinks he looks like the man that fixes toys on Toy Story.
We think he looks like the guy on toy story also! Promise to visit me when I am old....I will whistle for you too!
Oh my gosh Katrine...YES! She asked me like every ten minutes if I wanted a sewing machine, and she kept trying to explain that we could sleep on the sofa because it turn into a bed that is oh so soft! And she was pretty admit about me seeing the bathtub, which I told her I had already admired.
And if you think "Magic Hour" is code, it is, and it does have to do with being in bed, but it's not anything recreational...in fact, quite the opposite.
So wrong, but oh so right. Classic! I bet you and Paul were dying the whole time. I can just imagine you two with the giggles all weekend. Poor Vonna. She sounds like she's plenty happy though!
Oh my goodness. I didn't know you guys were going to see them. Did you keep a notepad in your pocket and pull it out every time something funny was said? That's what I would have done. And then I would have turned around and put them right on my blog. These quotes are absolutely perfect!
oh kira, thank you so much for sharing those comments.. Iam honored to be able to read them... you guys are amazing, and Im sure burt loved seeing you and pauely wog there. by the way zach and I always say we need to call you guys to hang out, so we need to hang out k
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I just linked from The Jason Show post about this. This post is too funny. I love the whistle part.
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