Into each life comes joy and sorrow...

And we deal with them both.  We are dealing, as family, with the death of Joker Warren during these days and then, October 4 pops up and that is Leigh Hearnes Hammond's birthday and she likes her birthday!!!!
And we like her!!!!   So today, Leigh, in spite of everything else, it is all about you!

Your dad used to call Betty "Lemonade Lucy" because she didn't touch the hard stuff.   But I have a new name for you "Lemonade Leigh".   You take the lemons, the hard stuff, and you make lemonade and just go on --good and bad!   And you don't feel sorry for yourself and poor mouth or get angry and cut yourself off.

You are the Queen, my darling!  I am the Queen in waiting!   You make us all proud every day and we all talk about you, Lemonade Leigh, with admiration and pride and wish we were more like you.

I love you in my soul.  And so did your grandmother, May!   She is still your protector and guardian!!!

Leigh, Catherine Hammond, and Betty Hearnes --three generations at my birthday party!