HAPPY HAPPY YEARS

***** Tomorrow Chili Pepper & I will have been married 17 happy years . 17 out of 38 is a 447 batting average . No Major Leaguer has ever had that high an average .

NO ! Really every day I have spent with Chili Pepper has been wonderful . As the song goes " In spite of all the hard times , I've live 'em all again ". And I would.

Deborah deserves heaven's brightest crown for putting up with me for all these years . Maybe it wasn't so hard . After all ,I have four different personalities . She should have been able to get along with one of them .

For 15 years we lived the Gypsy Coach lifestyle . We made 7 major moves & lived in 11 different houses in those years . In coaching if you win you get a better job , if you lose you get another job . Not much stability.

A Coach's wife gets to make all the decisions & do everything cause Coach is never there . She plays the role of both parents & is running a partnership solo .

On Game day she sits in the stands & listens to people talk about how stupid her husband is . Of course , she already knows this .

One Saturday we were having one of those games where everything goes wrong . On first & second down we had lost yardage . We decided to run a draw to get room to punt . They blitzed & we lost more yards . My son who was 9 at the time stood up ,turned to the press box, shook his fist & yelled " Come on Dad on third and long you gotta throw the ball ". The crowd gave him a resounding cheer .

Chili Pepper did a great job raising our son & managing our home while I was on the field . She bought & sold houses , cars & trucks all on her own .

One year we we going undefeated , Chili Pepper bought a new house . I had never seen the place until she told me we were moving there .

Moving Day was the day of a playoff game . She wrote the directions to the new house , put them in my pocket & said " come to this address after the game . Don't go to the old house there is no one there ".

Chili Pepper is one of the most talented people living . She can make anything , decorate. cook & sing . She can & will do most anything .

When you come home you never know if there will be a new room or automobile , or project .

Chili Pepper is addicted to HG - TV & the DIY channel . Her creative mind never stops . From fish ponds to fences the girl never stops .

We are preparing to move into house number 12 . We will move as soon as She finishes her total reconstruction project at the house .

Her partners in crime are her equally talented sister & our multi - gifted nephew . They have performed a wonder . Just Amazing what they have done .

After going through this experience I told Chili Pepper , " You know I don't expect to live much longer but if you say resale ,investment or move you won't live as long as i do . "

Chili Pepper thank you for 38 wonderful years & I hope we have more to go . There is no better companion of life's journey than you dear .

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