August 6 At Hot Sikes Lake Takes Me To Mom & Dad's Wedding Anniversary & Hiroshima

It was to nearby bucolic Sikes Lake I ventured on this first Tuesday of August to do some nature communing in the natural sauna steam bath.

The temperature was only 95 degrees, with the humidity making those 95 degrees really feel like 103 degrees.

I was what is known as a sweaty mess by the time I made it back to the air-conditioned comfort of my motorized motion device.

Looking at that peaceful looking Sikes Lake photo documentation, you see above, it does not look like it is blisteringly HOT.

It looks refreshingly cool. 

As is so often the case, looks can be deceiving.

Due to the day after day after day after day of high temperatures and no rain, the humidity has gotten less humid, and the biting bug population seems to have diminished, at least so it seems since I am no longer suffering multiple bug bites every time I enter the outer world.

If my math is correct, and it sometimes is, today we would be celebrating my mom and dad's 73rd Wedding Anniversary, if mom and dad were still able to celebrate such.

The last time I went to one of my mom and dad's Wedding Anniversary parties, it was on Saturday, August 11, 2001. Mom and dad's actual anniversary date is August 6, the same date in 1945 that a big, bad bomb was exploded over Hiroshima, Japan.

63 Years Ago Today My Mom & Dad Got Married 6 Years After Hiroshima Got Atom Bombed

Today, August 6, 1945, a date which lives on in infamy, wait, that's not right, the date which lives on in infamy is December 7, 1941, that being the day the Japanese sneak attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing about America's entry into World War II, which in about three years brought the utter defeat of the miscreantic countries who started that world-wide mess.

August 6, 1945 was the day America dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, which soon led to the end of the war.

Six years later, on August 6, 1951, 63 years ago, my Mom  and Dad got married.

Which means today is my Mom and Dad's 63rd Wedding Anniversary.

This morning I text message Mom and Dad a "Good Morning and Happy Anniversary" text message.

Mom and Dad text messaged back saying "Thanks, we are going out for breakfast with J & J & J & J.

J & J & J & J are Jack and Jackie  and Jake and Jill. My brother-in-law, sister, brother and sister-in-law.

Last night I tried to make a composite picture of my Mom and Dad and the atom bomb exploding over Hiroshima. That composite picture did not turn out too well, as you can see above. It sort of looks Mom and Dad are standing in front of a giant head of cauliflower.

As you can see, my Dad is in uniform. An army uniform. Soon after my Mom and Dad got married Dad got sent oversees, to France, during the Korean War. My Mom stayed home.

UPDATE: Someone with the unusual name of Anonymous made the following comment regarding my Mom and Dad with The Bomb....

No, Durango, No! Mom and Dad with The Bomb? You always have tasteful and well done pics and graphics. Don't "Jump the Shark" on me!

Let us see your Peeps with a great period photo.

Well, really, I think I jumped the shark a long long time ago. But, just for Anonymous I've added the photo of Mom and Dad with The Bomb removed.

I wonder what color Mom's dress was. I could ask, but I doubt Mom would remember.

Happy Mom & Dad's 61st Wedding Anniversary, Sad Hiroshima's 67th Atom Bomb Anniversary

On this date, August 6, 61 years ago, 6 years after the United States of America hastened the end of World War II by exploding an atom bomb over Hiroshima, Japan, my mom and dad got married.

A date which lives in infamy, along with other dates which live in infamy.

The last time my mom and dad had an anniversary party was on August 11, 2001, a month before another date which lives in infamy.

The 2001 anniversary party was held on August 11 due to the same reason such a party would be held on this August 11, if there were to be a party, this year, that reason being that in 2001, just like 2012, August 6 was a Monday, with the following Saturday being a day when it was convenient for people to make their way to an anniversary party.

None of my relatives, except for my two oldest nephews, knew I'd driven up to Washington for mom and dad's 50th.

I have not driven up to Washington since then.

The first couple years of my Texas exile I drove back and forth to Washington 5 times.

I got back to Texas a couple days before 9/11 in 2001. I guess I blame 9/11 for stopping my roadtrips to Washington. Why 9/11 caused this, I have no idea.

Even though flying became a big pain, post 9/11, I have flown back to Washington 6 times since that infamous date.

My mom and dad's 2001 50th anniversary party took place at my sister's house in Kent. This is the sister who is currently lost in Alaska, with no one having heard from Rosie the Rat Dog and her entourage for days. The last we've heard from them they were in the Valdez zone, where they were having multiple encounters with bears.

I do not know where my mom and dad are today. On Saturday I was told that at that point in time they were somewhere in Utah.

Happy Anniversary, mom and dad. Sad Anniversary, Hiroshima.

August 6: The Day Hiroshima Exploded And My Mom & Dad Got Married 60 Years Ago

Looking through the bars of my patio prison cell at a glowing blue pool on the morning of the first Saturday of August, Day 6.

An A-bomb boomed over Hiroshima on this day in 1945, followed 6 years later by my mom and dad getting married.

Happy 60th Anniversary to my mom and dad. Whereabouts currently unknown.

We are starting to see some positive effects from the record breaking HEAT scorching North Texas. Mosquitoes do not do well with HOT dry air. Fire ants burrow deep to avoid being baked to death.

Today will be Day 36 in a Row of 100 degrees or higher. The official temperature recording station at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport has measured record breaking temperature for the past 5 days.

It is currently 84.1 according to my temperature measuring station, heading to a predicted high of 106 today. Meanwhile up at my old home zone of the Skagit Valley it is currently 55.3 heading to a scorching high of 70.

It is now that time of the day when I go swimming in that blue oasis, currently heated hotter than 84.1.

In Texas Thinking About Atom Bombing Hiroshima & My Mom and Dad's Anniversary

You are up early, under cover of darkness, sitting out on my patio with me, drinking coffee on August 6, the 65th Anniversary of the day Hiroshima woke up to an atom bomb exploding overhead.

Six years after an atom bomb exploded over Hiroshima my mom and dad got married. This makes it easy to remember my mom and dad's anniversary.

Yesterday I read somewhere that there was some upset over the refusal of America to apologize for blowing up Hiroshima. This seemed bizarre to me.

I've no recollection of Japan apologizing for what it did on December 7, 1941. Maybe there was a Japanese apology and I missed it. Japan did a lot of bad behavior in the 1930s and 40s that would seem to require a lot of apologizing.

I must remember to call my mom and dad today.

Gators, Whitewater Rapids & Thinking About Hugging Aversion At Oakland Lake

I was up late, slept in late, well, til 6. Didn't feel like getting wet so I stayed out of the pool.

I got some good blogging fodder from one of my best Washington corespondents. I like getting good blogging fodder. Or any type of fodder for that matter.

Speaking of fodder, my therapist, Dr. L.C. wants me to go to a Hugging Aversion Therapy Meeting with her tonight. I am averse to any type of meeting, particularly when any type of hugging is involved.

We are under an Extreme Heat Advisory today and tomorrow. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with such advisories, so I decided to go on a walk at Oakland Lake Park and ponder what I should do about the heat.

One of the first things I saw upon arrival at Oakland Lake was what appeared to be an alligator slowly making its way northward in the middle of the lake. Other lake life, like the ducks, seemed to be avoiding whatever the partially submerged moving big thing was. You will need to click on the picture to see the possible gator.

Another odd thing. It has not rained in several days. Usually this means the creek, or ditch, or whatever it is that feeds water to Oakland Lake is pretty much dried up. But today, as I neared the creek/ditch I heard the sound of wild rapids.

When I saw the source of the sound I wondered where all this water was coming from. The whitewater rapids almost made me want to go home and get my inflatable kayak and do some rapid running. But the urge passed.

Tomorrow is my mom and dad's anniversary. I should remember to call. They got married on the same day Hiroshima got nuked. Not the same year, but the same day.

Happy Mom & Dad & Hiroshima Anniversary

If my math is correct, and it often isn't, today is the 63rd Anniversary of the dropping of an A-Bomb on Hiroshima, hastening the end of WW II.

Six years after the dropping of the first A-Bomb my mom and dad got married. Which makes today, again if my math is correct, mom and dad's 57th Anniversary.

The last time I experienced Hiroshima Day, in person, with mom and dad was in 2001 for their 50th. That event was not actually held on August 6, due to that date being in the middle of the week.

Instead mom and dad's 50th was held on August 11. Which happens to be my birthday. No one, but 2 of my nephews, knew I was going to be up here for mom and dad's 50th. I drove myself north and arrived late for the party.

Precisely one month after mom and dad's 50th Anniversary party the events of 9/11 unfolded. One month after that they were in Texas for their one and only visit.

Today all of my sisters are taking mom and dad out for lunch in West Seattle at a place called Dukes. I don't remember if I was invited or not. I'll be heading towards Olympia today while they are all having fun without me.

I'll try and remember to wish the parental units a Happy Hiroshima Day.