Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts

Monday, June 11, 2012

Pinky Ring - Memories - June 11, 2012


                                         This is not my pinky finger, just so you know.




It's just that kind of day.  Sort of melancholy.  You would think that it would be all of last week with all the rain, thunder, and lightening we had.  And we did get it good.  We needed it so bad. Hopefully this will keep the fires at bay.  And it is hurricane season.  Dang.  There was one clap of thunder yesterday that honest to pete, made the trailer shake.  Scared the you know what out of me.  Beulah had already been there since she sensed it coming.  I don't do storms very well.  It just brings home the feelings of being alone.  Oh well..
I started to knit.  Yeah for me...  ha ha.  Well, that may be a gross exaggeration of knitting.  I have learned to put the stitches onto the needle.  ha ha...  And I like that part so far.  ha ha...
I am trying to do some of the things on my so called "bucket list".  I think it's more of a "I'm bored I want to do.......". ha ha.  I have always wanted to learn to really crochet, knit, and quilting.  I am on my way with crocheting, and I love it.  My hands aren't always cooperating though.  With my carpal tunnel and arthritis, they get sore, but oh well, that just lets me know that they are still there. The saddest part of all that is that I have had to take off my pinky ring.  I just about cried.  I have had that on my pinky for 43 years.  I got it as a gift from my mom and dad for my 16th birthday, along with a great sweet sixteen party.  It was my initials DJB with a tiny diamond.  I always thought it sort of looked like a U instead of a J, but I loved it then, and I love it now. Wish I could find those pictures.  Anyway,  I will keep trying to get it on.  The strange part is how strange my finger feels without it.  Over the years my fingers have gotten fatter along with the rest of me, but it still fit.  Now old age is doing it for me. 
Well this was short, but need to take my baby girl out in this insufferable heat.  At least it's not storming.
Until next time.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

♥Happy Valentine's Day ♥ February 14, 2012

With today being Valentine's Day, I am missing Don so much.  I know he is in heaven looking out for me.  Lord knows I need it.  ha ha.
 
A friend posted on her blog her first Valentine Day with her hubby and it was so sweet it inspired me to write about mine. 
 
Neither of us liked to go out on holidays.  Way to crowded and it takes the intimacy out of the holidays, no matter which ones they are.  So for our first Valentine dinner I made Don a heart shaped meatloaf (he loved his ground beef.. me.. not so much), corn, and pink mashed potatoes.  I just added red food coloring to the milk when I whipped the potatoes.  Made another heart on top of the heart shaped meatloaf in ketchup.  He was blown away.  He loved it.  And so, every year until he died, I made the same exact thing.  The only difference is that when they came out with the squeeze type of Heinz ketchup I used that to write I Love You around the edge of the plate...  My grandson Justin, to this day remembers it.  He was with us one year, maybe more.  I loved to do these small things for Don.  I really believe it's the small things in life that matter the most. He would pick me flowers, and not just for Valentine's Day.  He bought them sometimes, but mostly he would pick them and they meant the world to me.  What I wouldn't give to just see his face one more time today when he handed them to me along with the biggest card he could find. ha ha.  He loved big cards..ha ha..
 
So as I sit here and reflect upon our 25 years of Valentine Days I can honestly say I had the best husband in the world.  He would always get my mom a box of chocolates too.  She is also in heaven missing them, and my dad telling her she should share.  ha ha.  I can picture them all there looking down and wishing me a Happy Valentine's Day... 
 
Love and miss you like crazy