Dad's birthday & tornado in Joplin

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     Dad's birthday party was great.  He chose a menu of plain sweet potatoes, roast beef, and fish.  I offered to make salmon but he wanted to pick and came home with tilapia.  We can make that any time since when I seasoned and baked it, it had no fishy odor at all.  Three cheers!  We ate almost all of 4 pkg. of broccoli, most of the rolls, and half a chocolate cake.  Jenny made tapioca for Dad and we ate all of that, too.  I'll have to make him some more.
     Now that he's 75 he's referring to himself as an old man and told all the kids they can call him Grandpa.  He's still a long way from being bent over and needing a cane though.
 
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     I talked to John, who said the tornado in Joplin was about 3 hr. south of them.  It wrecked one side of a large Joplin hospital and many pediatric patients were sent to the Children's Hospital in Kansas City, where John usually works.  When it filled up, patients went to the Truman Medical Center in downtown Kansas City where Tim trained and where John is now plenty busy.