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When we met, Helena was working. I told her that if my salary would be enough for her then she could quit when we got married. She said she would but asked for a set of tools so she could properly take care of the house. She got those for Christmas and from then on made most all of the repairs needed. Plus she took care of almost all of the outside work also. All I did was provide the money. It was a great working relationship. We decided early on that we wanted to travel. To take trips and do/see things. Neither of us needed a huge fancy house. So we were able to take a vacation almost every year. Went a lot of places, and saw a lot of stuff. So what pictures do I have for you today. The first one is a wedding picture. She was very proud of the dress. She only paid 25 dollars for it. She actually paid more for the veil than the dress. I know that every bride is beautiful, but in my opinion she is in the top 5 percent. (OK so I am biased) The second picture is her working outside our first house raking leaves. That picture probably is around 1977 or so. That is one job that we would do together. Our marriage was based in part on having fun in whatever we did. So it probably took us twice as long to rake as our neighbors because we played around a lot. The last picture was taken at the 1984 worlds fair in New Orleans. She is in front of the space shuttle Enterprise. We had a lot of fun on that trip.