General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...For Friday, April 13, 2006 =^..^=, 1 by BabsERNurse

BabsERNurse wrote:
EEEEEEeeeeeeegaaaaaaaaaaads!!!!! I just got the start of my life. I booted up my computer, came in here and saw FRIDAY, April 13th for the thread!!! Holy cow....did I miss a day? I swore this was Thursday, April 13th and I start work this afternoon for the weekend! I looked at my calendar, my watch and the TV and they all said THURSDAY!!! I knew something had to be amiss as work would have called had I not shown up yesterday (if it had really been Friday). Oy vey!!! And it's a full moon tonight. I know I'm in for it already. If it's starting out like this, it's only going to get WORSE!!!!! LOL

I got a TON of work done Tuesday while it wasn't raining. I cleared out a whole section by the woods to the right of our driveway. I pulled weeds, grass and stinging nettles and planted lupines and larkspur and put cedar mulch down and made a very nice looking area that was a mess before. I also moved lots of rocks around and made a nice edging to the area with the rocks. It's actually on our neighbours property, but she gave me permission to clean it up and when I told her what I wanted to do, she was all for it. I kept the native ferns that were growing there, actually cleaned them up a bit too. I cut away all the old dead fronds, left the salal that was growing and the Oregon grape and made a nice looking area. It's where the corner of her property and the edge of our driveway meet. I'm trying to make it as maintenance friendly as possible because once her hubby is gone (pancreatic cancer) she will have this to contend with herself. I'll keep it up for now until we sell and move in the next couple of years.

We had supper with Mum last night as per our usual Wednesday evening habit. She was feeling pretty spiffy at the moment and I had made a key lime pie with Splenda for her and she chowed down on it quite heartily after supper. I had to laugh, she smacked her lips and said, "I've not had anything that tart since your Da passed away!" Love Mum's heart, she's still pretty spunky. She went on to tell me that Da was pretty tart as a young man, said he was a wet kisser, but dried up a bit with age. LOL It's hard to imagine ones parents being young and full of the devil, but apparently my Da was full of it at times. She also told us of a situation when they were first married and living in the same house as my widowed paternal grandfather. It was during the Great Depression and they had to stay together to make ends meet. She had fixed supper early as she knew my Da would be coming home to change clothes to go to his second job and had to eat quickly and leave. My Da had bent my Mum backwards over the desk in the parlour and had planted a BIG SLOPPY KISS on her just as my grandfather had walked in from the kitchen where he'd been inspecting the evening meal. She said my grandfather cleared his throat rather loudly, dropped his newspaper and tried hard to walk backwards back towards the kitchen. Grandpa tripped over the carpet laying between the two rooms, fell flat on his rump and said, "Well, I always knew my sons were just like me, but I never knew they could bowl someone over with a kiss!" LOL

I'm including a photo of this house that my parents lived in with my grandfather. When I was in Ohio two years ago, I stopped at this house and ended up spending the evening with the owners. I explained who I was and why I was interested in the house. It was purely magical. They understood my fascination and allowed me to come inside and they showed me around. My parents lived there from 1934-1936. We ended up calling my Mum on the phone and they spoke with her too about the house. Seems when my Grandfather remarried several years later, he sold this house to the father of the man who now owns it. The new owner was a veterinarian who used the house to live in (raised 5 sons and a daughter in this house) and had his practice in the basement and what had been the cistern became his surgery. The owner took me into the basement and showed me the sign that he had saved from his father's practice and there it was on the wall, just as big as day. My Mum remembered the man who bought the house from my grandfather and named him on the phone. The owner was so enthralled that someone remembered his father that they talked for almost 2 hours after that. My Mum remembered who had owned the little grocery store that had been across the street when she lived there and the neighbours who had lived next door. Oddly enough, the neighbours next door had only passed away a year before and they were both 100 years old! They died 2 weeks apart.

Isn't it odd how life can come full circle at times? How can anyone not say, we are all a part of each other, in some fashion?

Well, it's about time for me to get ready for work. I hope everyone has a great day and enjoys their weekend. Hugs to all, ~Babs~

*edited for typos (oy vey!)

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