Why our RV is called Vilia.....
Bob had the Randels as next
door neighbors since he was born....Janises
were very close to them....we always visited with them whenever we went to Connecticut....Mrs.
Randel always did scrapbooks for all her
trips and I loved looking at them with
her.....In the 1960s they had a Motorhome.....they travelled with it but often put it on a piece
of property in the woods in Vermont that
they owned....( good sense of
humers....they cleared the property of some trees, leaving the stumps...and named the property "Stumphenge".....They named the
Motorhme, Vilia....which is from a
Wagner Opera and means "witch of
the woods"....Bob's parents often visited the Randels in Vilia in the summer....so we
always heard lots of Vilia tales....long
ago we talked to Randels about our
buying a motor home....and told them we would name ours Vilia....In the 1990s, when the Randels were
in their 80s, they sold their MH....and
shipped us their set of Corelle dishes
that they used in their MH....I hate the pattern (blue) but we use
them anyway as we feel the spirit of the
Randels is always with us in our travels....The Randels were so nice....when Bob was 8 years old Jeff
Randel went away to college, leaving his
full set of drums in the Randel's
basement....The Randels let Bob come over anytime to play the drums....he spent hours there, teaching
himself the drums....can you
imagine....you get rid of your drumming son
and you let the kid next door pound on the drums in your house....They were Saints!
Aha, the answer that I have wanted to ask. Great story!
ReplyDeleteI was always impressed by their generosity and kind spirit. This was evident to me as a young kid, and hopefully has helped to shape my values and behavior as I go on through my life journey. Barb
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