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Saturday, December 31, 2016
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Its been 6 years since Mum has passed.
It has been 6 years
since Mum has passed away.
That time has gone by fast is the common phrase I use in my
memories of this wonderful Woman, Mother and Grandmother. The Grandchildren ask
about ( GG) and Nana tells all the stories she can remember before the spirit of their youth
takes over and they change the subject and go off to play.
Mum has two sisters
still living and they are battling the effects of advanced age and all its precautions
that go with it. When we visit them it’s like were looking at Mum as well
because they remind us so much of her. Nana looks like her mom and one sister
burst into tears when she sees her.
When the Family gathers, we easily discuss the memories of
Mum and for a short time all kinds of stories come out and they run from early
child hood to the present day and we discover new information each time. Is it
new or have we forgotten since the last time we met.? I feel we have forgotten.
I know I have, when asked about certain questions about
events I draw a blank, it shows, first words are” you remember that, you were
there”. Well, maybe I was, but seriously it does not seem to register. Luckily,
others chip in and they fill in the blanks, saved again.
Each one of us handles the anniversary of Mum’s Angel Day in
a different way and when we discuss this in a group, I look around and watch
the expressions on the faces. Some are happy; others sad and a few are in
space. The ones in space have been doing this complication for a long time
which at any given moment, that person will go into a “trance”.
The looking through the old photographs and obits seems to
be a past time as well, but only to the people endowed with the sixth sense
would understand, it’s not everybody. (Our ability to perceive the unseen world
of angels, apparitions, Heaven, auras, etc. is what is known as our sixth sense)
and not everyone believes, so it’s a thing you keep to yourself, all Moms are clairvoyant.
We all do it and it’s a process of living your life and it’s
a good way to confirm we are ok and the sorrow of her passing is healing and
pleasant thoughts are hopefully more frequent as well. We go the cemetery and
pay our respects and leave flowers and have a small conversation with the loved
ones and express our love and how they are missed,” indeed; that time has gone
by fast”.
Mary Etta (Mae) Jones-Alton 1898-1951
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=111759398
Hard to believe that the grandchildren of this Lady had no idea what she looked like because she had passed away when they were just less than 5 years old. Photo`s were not taken too often because of the cost of them and few people had camera`s.
How this photo came to our possession, it was in a shoebox of Family photo`s that belonged to her husband and this man was their Grandfather.When the Gandfather passed away all of his personal belongings went to their Father and when he passed it came to his daughter.The shoebox of photo`s and Family bible where in a filing cabinet for a number of years,until I started looking at them.
The search for whom this women has taken several years of research and questions to as many people that were related.Most of it was found through Ancestry network and Latter Day network. It was casting a stone into a pond and the ripple effect was how this unfolded.
Monday, October 24, 2016
Kim Routledge remembered as kind, selfless person
Kim Routledge remembered as kind, selfless person: Kim Routledge saved her mother’s life last November by donating one of her kidneys to her mom, who had no remaining kidney function and required dialysis four days a week.
Sunday, September 25, 2016
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Sunday, April 24, 2016
Camp Ipperwash India Company
July 17th 1964 Camp Ipperwash |
July 17 1964 Camp Ipperwash |
- Any of you "old" guys remember this place?
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
The Cabin Fever Rant n Rave.
The Cabin
Fever Rant n Rave.
Dear Joe:
Today, I am
getting some cabin fever. Not that the winter has been too long, it’s just I
not getting into it this year. As you know my wife and I are raising our ten
year old grandson and he is getting smarter by the day as I seem to be going in
the opposite direction. The wife is not having this problem. Why is that?
Gravity is
the answer. I am on the slippery slope and seem to be picking up speed. That is
scary. Yes, I have turned a milestone year in my life according to the experts
in the Family. I was always blessed with a lot of smart people in my life aka
“know-it-alls”. So, you know you are automatically stupid as soon as they are
in our house.
I usually
call it our Home, but they quickly reduce this to a house and I want them
out-ta my house. Furthermore as much as I try to love them, I don’t like them.
Know, whom I am speaking about? The, pain-in-da-butts, but that is not nearly
an accurate description.
Shit, they
have an opinion about everything including my recent operation to “parts
unknown” and they know all about it. How in the hell did you find all this out?
I have not said a word other than it was a “mannish problem”. Well, if they got
paid for all this knowledge and shared that with me, I would be well off and a
free man.
Next, I
don’t want all the advice, I rather learn on the run. And, assuming they never
had, what I had, I don’t want to know what the worst case scenario might look
like. That is scary enough knowing they know, what I don’t know, you know?
What’s,
worst, they think I am the salt of the earth and they love me and profess this
to me constantly. Wtf, am I doing wrong? I treat them nicely because I don’t to
embarrass the Family and this makes me a saint. “They”, say Karma pay-back is a
bitch. Seems, I need to examine my soul and find out where on the road I fell
off.
Well, its
ten o’clock somewhere, I need to have some red wine, which I keep hid behind
the computer monitor, camouflaged and I
drink this from a 500 mL chili sauce jar ; will that will throw them off? Aka,
why is poppa so happy?
So, what the
hell was I talking about? Another sip of the golden nectar will surely make me
recall. You have noticed that I have successfully rambled on about nothing and
you have learned that growing older gracefully can’t happen to everyone. Everybody is nutsy and you tell them that and
they laugh. I, guess they know already.
Sorry, I
better close off before this becomes well-worn. I have just aged to the 70 year
plateau, which means goose egg to me, but everyone else is celebrating. I
always thought they were nuts and this proves my case. Well, thanks for
enduring this and you should be on your second 500 ml jar half-full of wine by now.
Thanks for
fixing the snow blower, be sure to drop in soon and we can have some distilled mosquito
bite to ward off the cold.
Yours humble-bull-lee,
Bruce
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