Re: n to take up stick-shift driving again

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Glad that you got it, Kate. I have only had three cars--and I began driving 60 years ago--that have not beenstick shifts. Definitely, truly "shifty!"Love to you, Kate, and to ,nTo: MSersLife Sent: Mon, June 20, 2011 3:09:13 PMSubject: Re: Update on my friend, "Ducky" and more--new used car waiting

rofl. Thanks for that laugh!love,KateTo: MSersLife Sent: Mon, June 20, 2011 1:10:55 PMSubject: Re: Update on my friend, "Ducky" and more--new used car waiting

Kate, I'm pretty "shifty!"nTo: MSersLife Sent: Mon, June 20, 2011 9:57:09 AMSubject: Re: Update on my friend, "Ducky" and more--new used car waiting

For some reason, I never received the original post from you, n. I am so sorry to hear of Ducky's passing. She, as my dad is now, are at peace.

How exciting that you will be getting a car! I have personally missed all the reports of travels with you and Edna. Can't wait! Are you used to a shift? I never learned...long weird story I'll tell sometime about why I don't drive a standard!

love to you and Ducky's family,

Kate

To: MSersLife Sent: Mon, June 20, 2011 10:38:51 AMSubject: Re: Update on my friend, "Ducky" and more--new used car waiting

Hi n, I send my condolence to you and all the people that loved Ducky. All of you will be in my thoughts and prays.

Margaret A. Cote

To: MSersLife Sent: Sat, June 18, 2011 5:39:59 PMSubject: Update on my friend, "Ducky" and more--new used car waiting

I wrote some time back about the day that my friend who has MS,Edna, her son and I had with a mutual friend, Ducky Lucas ()a rather delightful and child-like last day--as it turned out--together.Ducky had terminal liver cancer.Shortly after our great child-like adventure on the carousel, the steamtrains, the Lawrence Hall of Science (during which I pushed Ducky inmy wheelchair, which served as a sort of walker for me), Ducky diedpeacefully with her favorite step-daughter (daughter of her deceasedhusband's first marriage) with her as she was "eased out."The daughter had phoned me when Ducky died--about a week afterI posted, and I had neglected to inform all of you that Ducky had passedpeacefully.So, now Edna and I are back to our usual tricks, and my offer to buya used car from a friend of a friend has been accepted--the womanneeds the car until about mid-August. Edna

and I should be backto "jaunting" and reporting on the wildlife (and human life) of the Bay Area and of Berkeley by the end of August!The "new" car is a used Mazda with stick shift; I rather think, that giventhe hills and dales of Berkeley and San Francisco, as well as of theElk country in Marin County, that I shall name the new little guy:"Sir Edmund Hilary," as he shall have to carry our combined weightup and down so many hills!I do so look foreward--much as we shall miss Ducky--to our jauntingaround once again in my gas-guzzling "wheelchair"Love to each of you,n, who rather imagines herself to be an automobile--I dream that I am driving! Now, if only someone would pay me to do those"Techron" commercials for Chevron gasoline stations!P.S. I know; I referred to myself in "3d person" again--was morefashionable in my day than the practice is now. . .

..M.~