A Year...

hen hearts are broken...

Today was another memorial  day for us and so many other families.  I mentioned the funeral home that handled my Mom's funeral was having their year end Memorial and since my Mom passed so near the end of last year she was included in this year's memorial.  So we drove over and did the drive up ornament pick up and later back at home we watched the live stream of the memorial..This is the second Memorial this year...the other was the Hospice she was a patient of for only 3 hrs before she passed...

We watched so many photos pass by names called and I know the grief behind each one...really sad. And then multiply that by all the loss of covid nationwide and we are a nation in mourning.  With a stinking spoiled President who says nothing who feels nothing who has not said ONE word to comfort the living and to memorialize the dead. 
I know a heartless monster when I see one.   

Later it was a cold and grey day so it was time for movies...but first my son and I took my van around the block...When I sat in the riders seat I heard nothing...he said he thinks its the exhaust system..I disagree.  So he had me stand by the road...and he blew past me 3 times...I heard nothing.  So we came up with --zippo.   Any one watching us from a window would have thought we had gone completely mad.  He stopped I got out he raced away while I moved to the other side of the road...he turned around and raced past me.  The he did a U-turn and raced past me while I stood with my hands on my hips...listening intently...then I moved to the opposite side of the road, he turned around once again and Zoomed right up to me, I stuck my thumb out he stopped and I got in and we zoomed off together.  

I can only imagine what must go thru the mind of anyone who was watching...lol.  It may be in the morning paper. 

So like I said then we just hit the couch and movied it up the rest of the day...I put Mom's ornament on the mantle with John's, his is an angel hers is a peace dove...both are nice crystal...and reflect the light very well....if I put up a tree they will hang there but if not they will stay on the mantle.

I did make out some season's greeting cards after breakfast this morning...as I receive  cards and enjoy hearing from extended family who live in Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Colorado...and some friends also from other states, so I am happy to send the same...a greeting of peace and the wish for a  Better New Year. I do not send out one single local card...I did in years past but no longer. 

I need and have many trash cans I use to collect the sticks that fall and I pick them up to be part of the nightly fire.  It saves me time of taking them away or dealing with them in another  ways.  I never buy trash cans or storage containers for this job.   I like the storage containers because they are square, easier to pack sticks in but I also use the round ones...Today when we dropped off our trash I pulled 2 excellent condition plastic trash cans off the top of the Miscellaneous bin. Both very clean...one has a broken handle, one has a chip missing out of the top...they will replace one that got completely destroyed when a tree we were cutting last year fell on it...and the other a round can that had splits up the side...so a good find.  Both of these have been in use tho with duct tape holding them together, so now they have finally expired!  

Why buy a trash can that sits out behind the shed it's entire life when I can get them for free?