It turns out, 20 years later, that eggs aren’t bad for you after all—or bacon either if it isn’t highly processed, but that kind of bacon is hard to come by. It isn’t often you see this many people in an A&J strip! Maybe that will make a good theme for us here this week: other people in Arlo & Janis. To be honest, I’ll have to think about that one.
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Misquoted Wilde but close enough for government work.
All women become like their mothers. That is the tragedy. No man becomes like his. That is his.
May still not be exact but close quote.
I am becoming like mine and since she was much loved it is just fine.
Jerry:
I will arrive on Wednesday, May 11th and go home on Friday the 13th. Ironically our Church got a great rate for next weekend and they arrive on Friday and come home on Sunday.
We honeymooned on Mackinac 34 years ago and could have stayed at the Grand, but I didn’t realize how much money that we would get at the reception. We have gone back quite a few times, but always stayed at a B&B. During the 2000’s we went nearly every year but about 7 or 8 years ago my hips started to hurt from all of the biking, so we stopped going. We’ve been too busy over the last few years to go back.
You have to wear a coat and tie for dinner and I had a hard time finding at bag to protect my jacket. I remember never having that issue 15-20 years ago.
Ghost, I never had a chance to do for my mom what you got to do for her today. I know that it has not always been easy, but I envy your time with her. That seems like a slice of heaven on earth.
Jerry, Nappanee is in Northern Indiana, just south of South Bend. I think Debbe is in very Southern Indiana.
We don’t get there until Sunday the 15th and it looks like we won’t connect but hopefully I will get better service by telling them that I know you. Thanks for the hint about dinner. I wore a tie to my mother’s funeral and I planned on that being the next to last time that I wore one.
I don’t know Indiana, but I know Michigan like the palm of my hand. I bet they’ve never heard that one before.
Happy Mother’s day to all the pertinent parties.
My mom could ruin my day just by calling my phone, no words necessary. She was irresponsible, irrational, She made me crazy.
My home is overflowing with the blankets she made me. She could identify the warbled tune I couldn’t get unstuck from my brain at midnight. I could be truly horrible towards her, yet she never held it against me when I needed her.
I love books, music, lopsided games of scrabble, ruthless games of rummy, and her oatmeal raisin cookies. I hear her voice when I speak. Because she was who she was, I am who I am.
Thank you, mom.
Well said, Lady Mindy. And yes, it is passing strange we can have all those contradictory feelings about our moms.
Steve, I’ve leaned to treat Mom as though every day is the last one I’ll have with her. Because as you know all too well, someday it will be.
Mindy from Indy, I’ve also conflicted feelings about my mom. She was a tough cookie, warm to her friends, demanding and controlling of us two boys. She’d fight to the death for us, but we never seemed to measure up to her standards. She could be downright cold for days before we figured out what we’d done wrong. And my wife couldn’t do much right by her. She didn’t warm up to our girls until they were old enough to converse with her. The two times she and Dad babysat, he did all the feedings and diaper changes.
Only during her last 18 months after having an operation to remove what looked on the MRI to be a simple glioma but turned out to be a glioblastoma multiforme was she able to accept me as an adult and treat me with warmth.
I am thankful, Trucker Ron, that you DID have a warm time with your mother. I can relate.
Maybe some of us will have to wait for a full reconciliation. Mom led a tough [not hardscrabble poor] life, some of it of her own making, some of it / others, some of it Wall St. out of control, some of it / a very bright woman in an overwhelmingly man’s world.
Today’s is still bad, and not being dealt with well by various constituencies, but it was much worse in the ’20s-’30s, and still into the ’60s. BSU’s new Prez is a woman, probably best of the applicants, looks to be a good match.
BTW, the Mom’s day grill-out at my cleaning lady’s was splendid, and I had to help an offspring w/ homework before I was allowed my ice cream. I also brought home some roasted cauliflower and grilled chicken breast. I am blessed, and well aware of it.
Peace,
Moming ain’t easy. Or so the tee shirts say.
Debbe 😉 When P&PHS finished having her way with me the other day, she applied a bit of some type of styling mousse to my hair. It smelled just like coconut. So naturally I had to start serenading her with (a version of) this song. She laughed so hard she said she almost wet herself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyaf1yMHx54
Thank you all. I tried very hard NOT to think too much about it being Mother’s day while at work. (And after a fellow asked me if I would at least get to spend the afternoon with my children and GRANDCHILDREN, it became much easier. My poor ego.) My relationship with both of my parents is/was complicated. The past few months have been harder than the immediate loss. So days are just better than others.
Ghost – I was expecting this one. https://youtu.be/nf670orHKcA
That might have actually caused P&PHS to wet her pants, Lady Mindy.
Today is National Lost Sock Memorial Day, but I’m guessing Arlo’s office doesn’t observe that as a holiday.
Ghost Sweetie, it could have been this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbgv8PkO9eo
Savannah GH Owls have fledged, Ospreys have added some Spanish moss, both on and flying nearby now. Watch for hanky-p.
http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/46/Great_Horned_Owls/
Peace,
Good morning all. Nice cloudy overcast day to travel. Lots of wild flowers the mowers haven’t gotten to yet.
And a van full of assorted colored cats that I have no idea how they ended up.back there?
Jackie: I hope that was supposed to be caps not cats. A little concerned about where you might be in relation to the current nasty weather.
Driving in northern Mississippi outside Tupelo. I just talked to my deputy, the tornadoes were hitting the town where his young son is and mom and son heading for shelter, Glen at my house.
Will keep ear and eye out for storms and get off road if tornadoes are in my path. Go to motel.
I don’t have much time to watch InterWebNet birds, but I have seen a fair number of them while sitting out with my mom in front of her apartment. Yesterday afternoon, I saw a mockingbird intercept and dive on a several-times-larger crow from six o’clock high. Said crow had apparently penetrated the ADIZ around the mockingbird’s nest.
I also saw several of a particular type of insect, some of which were flying solo and some of which were airlining it. (“Fly United”) They were of course the aptly named “love bugs” that invade this area a couple of times per year. They are vexing (in particular, they seem to love to crawl into women’s bras…while they are wearing them), and they make a mess of automobiles that encounter them. Because of that, they have several names that are less polite than “love bugs”. In fact, one of my all-female staff members has a name for them that is both highly descriptive and highly unrepeatable here.
FYI.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/5/9/1524802/-John-Oliver-promotes-real-science-a-comedian-gets-it-right
Peace,
Debbe 😉 ?
I liked this one better before they made a Coke commercial out of it. I remember a night on the Gulf Coast after a business meeting; the hotel bar; lots of spirits (not the Ghostly type); a young lady I’d had a strictly business relationship with for several years who sudden seemed intrigued with me; dancing with her while a pretty good band played this song; and…well, you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aVgFDEiUlI
Steve f R O
Gentle Giants (About draft horses) on RFD-TV did a show about the horses & Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.
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I was kidding you about vegetarian mushrooms as opposed to Carnivorous mushrooms.
As a medical study everyone that ate carrots before 1890 is dead (or soon will be)
ergo carrots must be bad for you.
So is Di-hydrogen-monoxide in large quantities.