Friday, March 2, 2007

Today it is near 50 here. Sunny, but very windy. Dad probably wouldn't have played golf today.

Instead, he would've most likely gone to the grocery. Seems like he went every day or at least every other day. Then, he and Mom might've gone to Walmart or CVS to pick up something. I ran into them at CVS a lot and sometimes Walmart. Sometimes Lowes. We were always seeing them around town.

I would've had an email from Mom by now today. Then, when I went home for lunch at Noon, I would've called her to tell what birds I had on my feeder and ask her what ones she had on hers. This reminded me of the 5 pigeons that flew by the church at their funeral. Pigeons! Man, Mom hated pigeons. I spent an entire summer once trying to shoot as many of them as I could with the pellet gun for her. Not something I'm really proud of, but I did it for her. She hated them so much! She didn't like them eating the bird seed. And she didn't want the Grackles or Starlings to eat it, either. She'd stand at the back door and clap her hands to chase them off. Or tap on the window in her bedroom that looks out on the feeders. Mom probably wouldn't have tried to go walking today due to the wind.

Of course today being a Friday in Lent, they would've gone to Church for the Stations of the Cross or whatever Lenten service was being held. They would've also prepared their classic "Friday during Lent" supper: scrambled eggs and "Kraft Dinner" as Mom always called it. Just mac and cheese, but she always called it "Kraft Dinner". Or, she might've made tuna salad for sandwiches and asked me to come over for lunch and have one. Sometimes they fried fish, too, on Fridays. They had just discovered Talapia, I think. Made it recently.

Went to the house just now. Watered some plants. Brought a planter back to the library. Someone had taken the covers off Mom's front porch furniture and put them under the furniture--maybe to keep the wind from blowing them away? Not sure who did this. Maybe a neighbor?

Susie

1 comment:

Susie B. said...

Yes, Susie, your Mom would not have liked the wind today. She would come out of church on a windy day and say "It's too cold to stand out here and talk today" and off she would go walking home. They would usually walk to church but since your Mom had not felt good all winter, your Dad would drive up so she could go with him. Usually you always saw them in church together but this winter there were many times when she just didn't feel well enough to go.

They both loved to go to the little family reunions we would have but this fall when it was at Eddie' Farm again , she didn't feel up to it. The day before we left for Arizona , (Feb 8th) I was talking to her and she seemed to be feeling so much better and was looking forward to Spring .

Bev