After my wife died and it was left up to me to cook ; wash the dishes ; do the laundry ; clean the house for me and two son’s ages six and four I learned what my wife had done with her time . after doing a forty hour week at work and coming home every night and doing chores at home and on the week ends I was starting to get exhausted . Finnally when I did the laundry ( I had a Washer but no dryer ; I hung them on a closeline ) I would start bringing the clothes in and throw them on the bed . After about a month if we wanted clean clothes we had to dig through the clothes on the bed to find them . The closets were empty ; the drawers were empty ; every thing we had was on the bed wadded up in a pile . Finnally I said “ that is enough . “ I spent one whole week end folding and putting away clothes . I still do my own laundry and to this day it gets put up when it is done . Before my wife died people would ask me where does your wife work ? I would say “she doesn’t work .” Boy was I wrong .
After about a year of loneiness and being by myself I started to date a divorced woman that had five children of her own . What a circus . It was fun but Holy Cow . We went fishing one time with my seven year old and five year old ; her six year old ; four year old ; eight year old ten year old and a twelve year old . The only thing we did was untangle lines . We dated about four months until her and husband got back together .
It was summer time then and I decided to move back to Oklahoma to be around my family because my good job had wanted to start working the midnight shift like I was hired to do and I couldn’t work midnights and take care of two son’s . So I moved to Tulsa Oklahoma where my brother lived .