2060 : Allen's 65th Birthday
Today, I want to write a bit about my 4th child, Alley Roy Eckman. He is 65 today, and will retire after this school year! He is an aid in the school in the seriously handicapped group of students. He knows how to help them, and is often needed, when they need a man there. A s Allen was growing up, he loved pets, and had several kinds of animals, some more than one at a time. He especially liked snakes! We have a special story about when he worked at a place in the hills where he brought home snakes now and then! I think it was a water treatment plant. But he loved to have them in his room, and he would make a cage which he vowed was "snake proof". One day Delsy went into our bathroom to take a bath, and lo and behold! There was a snake in the bathtub, curled around the built in rod designed to hold a wash rag! She came out screaming "Allen!" He rushed out to see what was the matter, and she screamed "There's a snake in t...