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Comments (5)There is nothing wrong with an enjoyable extended weekend with spring doing its last hurrahs and summer looming around the corner. I do hope, however, that we never ever come to call days like this a bank holiday. It was the common people who let their own blood for this day. Farmers who put down their hoes, paperboys who traded in their caps for helmets, fathers, brothers and sons and also daughters, wives and sisters. I made my rounds to the cemetery plots to lay flowers and revive memories and more than a few of my family gravestones were adorned with the flags of veterans. My father's footstone records service in three wars from foxholes in Europe to the DMZ in Vietnam and many points between. My Uncle, his brother, who died in Normandy. A cousin who served in Vietnam, and died shortly after his return, a broken man. Two 2nd great grandfathers, both of whom were prisoners of war in the War between the States. A grandfather who served in Europe in WWI. I can go all the way back to the first line of my family to have come to this country.....Quakers who took up weapons against their own beliefs to fight in the Revolution. A great Uncle who survived the Spanish American War and volunteered to serve in the Phillipine Rebellion and died there, but his stone sits on an empty grave in the local cemetery. Yes, it's a day in our family we always remember respectfully....See MoreHappy Memorial Day --formerly known as Decoration Day
Comments (1)Thanks Zeffy. I always have my father & his brothers & brothers-in-law, the whole generation really, on my mind at this time of year & again on Veteran's Day, Pearl Harbor Day... Daddy was in the US Army, serving at Anzio & North Africa. He never talked seriously about it, always made jokes about laying telephone line & his buddies playing jokes on each other. I never even knew he was at Anzio until I got a copy of his records, too late, long after he was gone....See MoreRainy Day In GA
Comments (22)I think this is a really remarkable rainy spell. It doesn't seem to be running off anywhere like those big downpours that cause me so much grief. The ground just soaks it up when it is slow like it has been. I just hope I can still ammend my soil this weekend for that last bed around the new deck. Hope it's not too soggy. It can stop raining anytime now though. I was the only person at No Longer Bound today. I think they thought anyone crazy enough to be plant shopping today deserves a break and I got some deals. A 2 gal pot of Brunnera for $5! A new white iceplant (do you have that one yet Mike?) don't know the name of it. 3 new Huechera's I think I need every Huechera. I can't stop buying them. I really want Raspberry Ice if anyone sees it please let me know. Well the rain doesn't keep me from buying so my plant ghetto grows and grows....See MoreMay Tables, Mother's Day, Memorial Day
Comments (46)sandi, I think my friend got this one on ebay! I did see some at Ben Franklin before Christmas and they had a green one that I wish I would have bought because now they don't have any. :( luvstocraft, I am missing a couple of plates and saucers but otherwise still have most of the set (set of 8) and also the vegetable bowls and the big round platter. And NO chips on any of them! lol! The yellow tablecloth is as old as the dishes and has had lots of wear! kathleen, I didn't know there was such a thing as a olive tray before my friend sent me that one. I think they are so unique!...See MoreTina Marie
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