THE VERANDA 8/17/17

BY WAY OF REVIEW: These stories are drawn from two lives that came together by chance..like marbles rolling around life's roulette wheel and just happened to fall into slots right next to each other. Blythe Anne Fishback used to be named Blythe Anne Spanos....Gus was born in Greece and learned the art of preparing delicious Greecian dishes...better known as cooking. He moved to the United states when he was in his twenties and found himself in Sacramento, California, where he started his own restaurant business.  His restaurant took off and it grew to the point that Gus became a millionaire in five years.   He met his future wife there and Blythe Anne Spanos was the result.  Blythe's story must be paraphrased as it too lengthy for detail.  She had a very happy and trauma free childhood, and became The editor in Chief of the Sacramento Bee.  She was on a sabbatical and decided to learn the art of camping. As fate would have it, she found herself at Chilao campground in the San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles.   Another person was also in search ...not only for a camping spot, but a search for himself.  He was a retired Child Psychologist whose practice was in Glendale, Calif. He retired at 78 years of age, never met the right woman to share life with. and wondered what life was all about and what the point of it all was.....Blythe was normal, but never found the man that was worthy of what she had to give.  She wasn't snooty, she was just particular. I think she was looking for a man as wonderful as her Father. She idolized her Father, and it about killed her when he passed away.  She tried to hold onto him and memories of her childhood by never leaving her childhood home, It was way too big for her, a beautiful old Victorian home in well to do section of old Sacto.  The back yard was at least an acre, studded with old Oak Trees,winding pathways, and beautiful bushes of all kinds,  The Veranda on the back of the house over looked this garden of Eden.  So, back to the roulette and the game of chance.  Bob's first sight of Blythe showed a petite fuming lady trying to untangle her tent. He watched in amusement and then offered to help.  This set into play a scene that is described in a story down here somewhere named "Cat and Mouse in the Forest.....but, only if you are interested......(to be continued)