(SR) I was so excited, I reached for the lam and it went out in the snow bank. This was in March.
(DR). Otherwise, we’d have been high and dry without a car, or ad to borrow someone’s or something.
Yes.
(DR) Anyhow, divine providence or something guided me to take the necessary steps to repair that.
(SR) And then he tried… I didn’t know. It was eight months. I had no idea what was happening, and it wasn’t time. But he said we’d better go to town. And I said, “What for, this isn’t time? It’s not nine months.” So he dialed the phone, (actually) cranked the phone, but somebody in the park answered. He said, “I’m trying to get outside.” Dial again. The next person answered. We woke up everybody.
(DR) Everybody in the park.
(SR) Anyway, we finally got (through by phone) to the hospital and the nurse screamed, “Crater Lake! Get on your way in a hurry and take those curves easy!” Seven miles of curves.
(DR) I was trying to straighten them out. We went down there in about an hour and 45 minutes, which was considered good time in those days.
(SR) When we got there, she said, “Oh, we’re painting and I don’t know where I’m going to put you. There’s a lady at Crater Lake that has to have the delivery room. I don’t really know what to do with you.” I said, “I don’t know anyone else at Crater Lake that’s having a baby and we called you.” Then she started scolding us for taking those curves so fast and getting down there so fast.
(DR) But the next night (there) was a blizzard. We were just in between storms. I wasn’t able to get in (to the park) the day after the birth. I stayed, of course, for the birth.
(SR) This nurse gave him a pillow to sleep in the car.
(DR) I wasn’t able to get in. I was just one of those divine things that happened.
