A Story

Like many other things with our family there is always room for humor. These stories will be retold like some that were shared at Dave's service.     I need to set the stage for the first one.  The last weekend of September was the Walk to Defeat ALS.  Kari had been in Fresno for most of the week and flew back to Portland so she could see cousin Robin and Aunt Margie before they flew out very early Sunday morning. Sunday morning Garrett and his mother Susan came up for the walk.  That morning Dave did not feel well so decided to skip church.  He had already decided the walk would be too much. We did not want to leave him alone so he chose Kari to stay with him.      After the walk Garrett and Susan went back to Eugene with most of Kari's clothes.  We had an appointment with our lawyer Monday morning and she planned to head to a work meeting right after that.  As it became apparent that Dave was not doing well plans changed and Kari did not have a change of clothes.  When talking with Cindy, Kari asked if Walker would mind if she borrowed a shirt.  Cindy mentioned one shirt that would be perfect because it had the old style big wheel on the front.  Walker said it would not fit because it was almost to small for him.  Kari put it on and said see it fits perfectly.  Walker muttered something about it being to tight.  With that Cindy explained that girls wear their shirts tighter than 10 year old boys.  Following Dave's example the shirt story was repeated often on Tuesday.