Here it is Sunday already. Normally I'd be asking where did the time go? Well I'm still asking lol. An extra day for the weekend. For paid holidays at the workplace, this was the long stretch. The last paid holiday was Jan 1st, New Years Day. Go figure.
Any holiday is a reminder of things gone by. Used to be we would all gather at mom and dad's for a holiday picnic. Sure miss them very much. So I was thinking back to some of those past Memorial Days and the holidays at my parents in general. We always cooked something on the grill. Just like about every American. One of the things we used to do was play Bocce Ball. If you ever have played it, this is how it starts, you throw a little ball which I just looked up that is called the jack. Wherever it lands is where you want to roller the bigger Bocce balls to get as close as you can get. Usually we played in teams. Well the lawn in our parents backyard wasn't the best for Bocce Ball. Sometimes just throwing the jack would disappear into the grass. I was chuckling thinking about this. So as we played on sometimes the roll of the ball would do funny things because the yard wasn't exactly smooth like it should be.
Anyhoo I miss our picnics but it's all part of life goes on. After I get things all settled and such, hopefully I'll be able to start some new picnics.
I finally got the lawn mowed today. It's rained for days. It was too wet to do yesterday. When I looked at my weather app Saturday night it was calling for rain Sunday morning around 11 a.m. I got started about 9:45 expecting I would just get done in time. It's turned out to be a pretty warm partly cloudy day. It's just after 4 now and I expect the thunderstorms are just about to get here. Hope it's not as severe as they say.
So take a moment tomorrow and honor our brave men and women......
What a strange weekend weather wise. Yes talking about the weather. It all started Friday. The forecast on the morning news said dry for Friday. Welllll early afternoon a thunderstorm blew on in. Then around 7 in the evening it rained some more. So today I was talking to a friend I knew from my last job on the phone and we were talking about how the weather people got the weather totally wrong this weekend. And I don't just mean our local people. Everyone was way off. It rained when it wasn't supposed to and was dry when it was supposed to rain. The weather apps and National weather service all wrong. So my friend reminded me that those who are studying the effects of global warming said this would be the case. That the storms would be unpredictable. They would happen without warning.
Also on Friday I saw another license plate. I was behind one of those big SUV cars that you can't see around and it had this plate: BHEMTH 2
Saturday my Buddyboy finally got his bath. I had to cancel the last appointment. It's nice to have a daughter who is a dog groomer and will groom our dog free of charge. She's been doing this for a long time now. It's starting to catch up to her now. Like me all the lifting and such over years takes it toll on the old back. Anyhoo she put one of those cute bandanas on him after he was done.
Another week has passed and here I am making another Sunday post. I was going to write about blogging itself. But today is another one of those special days. I was reading that the woman who got Mother's Day to be recognized had reservations that it would become too commercialized. And like other special days it has. So forget candy, flowers. Do something special with your mom. With love. Precious are those moments together. I sure miss you mom...Happy Mother's Day....
Well it's a Sunday already. I say that because the weekends fly by while the work week seems to drag on. So I thought I would write some more personal stuff today. To pave the road ahead and how this trip got me here. As I spoke in my last ramble it's been just over a year now since my dad passed on. The beginning of this year the purchase of my mom and dad's home became final. Took a long time. Governments whether state or federal are slow. So I purchased the home I grew up in by buying my siblings out. My gf the dog and me live here where so many memories seem fresh in my mind again. It's been an adjustment and there is still so much work to do to make it into a home. A lot more work than you imagine when you buy your own home. Still I think this is my parents home. I wonder when that feeling will fade away. This house was central to our family. For many years there were holiday get togethers. Until my parents couldn't handle all that action lol. Meaning grand kids and things like that. So I still think fondly of all those holidays and great family times we had together.
In the morning when the day begins
Hear the voices in the winds
That take you through your memories
Of days long ago caught in the breeze
Look around and find comfort
In the feelings gathered of a sort
That brings you back for you to see
The looking glass of when you were free...
~gw 5-7-17~
