I am aware that Memorial Day is a day to honor our Veterans and pay tribute to the one's that gave their lives for us.
BUT...when I was a little girl it was one of the highlights of our year. My mom would get up early and pick as many peonies and she could, put them in a bucket of water and we'd get all dressed up and drive to the cemetary in Ipava.
Here she would decorate her parents graves, my dads parents graves, and my dads grave. There would be old friends from her youth there and they would all visit for what seemed like hours to me. If there was a grave with no flowers on it someone would usually find extra flowers to decorate it.
In this particular cemetary was an old mosoleum. When I was real small I would always ask to stop there and I would jump out of the car, run over to it and yell, "HELLO". I loved the silly sound it made never thinking it was not very respectful of the dead.
One time I took our girls to the cemetary and told them this story. We got out of the car and went up to it and yelled, "HELLO". Connie was just a little tyke and she said, "Nobody home". We got so every time we drove by a cemetary someone would say, "Nobody home".
I realize now what a sad day this is for many people. I hardly ever get to the cemetary to put flowers on mom's grave. Sometimes when we are in Illinois I will go and put flowers on it. I wonder if they still gather there and visit like she and so many others did 60 or 70 years ago. Somehow I doubt it.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Comparing My Body to My Computer
The other day I had a really neat blog written. It was fantastic - I kid you not. I was just checking it and suddenly it disappeared.
So we took my computer in to be checked to see if it had a cold or tired bones or just what was going on.
Picked it up this morning and he was very kind when he told me my computer was getting old. He didn't say it but I saw him kind of grin. I've been thinking about that and here is what I decided.
Computer just gets kind of foggy in the middle of a program and closes the window. - I get really tired and either forget what I was doing or need to sleep a little.
Computer is SO slow sometimes - Well, I am not as fast as I once was either.
Computer seems to have some excess baggage that it doesn't need - I think that's what the Dr. was trying to tell me last month when he said what was wrong with me HE couldn't fix. Smart aleck Dr.
They could install a program that would make it faster for $200 but he said he didn't think I should do that on a computer this old. Man, they throw that word around so easily.
I guess my old computer and I will just have to work it out for awhile longer. The man at Staples was very kind and I guess maybe he has someone old in his family too.
So we took my computer in to be checked to see if it had a cold or tired bones or just what was going on.
Picked it up this morning and he was very kind when he told me my computer was getting old. He didn't say it but I saw him kind of grin. I've been thinking about that and here is what I decided.
Computer just gets kind of foggy in the middle of a program and closes the window. - I get really tired and either forget what I was doing or need to sleep a little.
Computer is SO slow sometimes - Well, I am not as fast as I once was either.
Computer seems to have some excess baggage that it doesn't need - I think that's what the Dr. was trying to tell me last month when he said what was wrong with me HE couldn't fix. Smart aleck Dr.
They could install a program that would make it faster for $200 but he said he didn't think I should do that on a computer this old. Man, they throw that word around so easily.
I guess my old computer and I will just have to work it out for awhile longer. The man at Staples was very kind and I guess maybe he has someone old in his family too.
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