Mondays With Mary January 1990

In last week's Mondays With Mary, the report on January 1985's weather is quite different than today's calendar entry on January 1990.  As my Uncle Bill always said, "If you don't like the weather in Iowa, stay around for 10 minutes because it will change." I know other people, actually lots of people, say the same thing but it is Uncle Bill's variation that sticks with me. He also said, "Company is like fish. After staying around for three days, they begin to stink." I don't agree because I love company, but I do admit that sometimes it can be true.

Monday, January 15, 1990

23 degrees @  8 a.m. warmed up to 65 degrees today.
I went to quilt & to Joyce Terrills for coffee
afterwards - Vern cut wood in garden
John Eich here to talk about buying gravel pit
talked to Tom & Margie to-nite.

Tuesday, January 16, 1990

43 @ 8 a.m. foggy - Short here in a.m.
Duane out to feed cows.  sent Tom the tax papers.  I went to Jeff for a piece of blue fabric
finished putting blocks of wood in cow yard from
mulberry tree.  went for nice walk in p.m. - quilted awhile.

Friday Fun

How to rite rite

1. Don't abbrev.
2. Check to see if you any words out.
3. Be carefully to use adjectives and verbs correct.
4. About sentence fragments.
5. When dangling, don't use participles.
6. Don't use no double negatives.
7. Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
8. Just between you and I, case is important.
9. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
10. Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.
11. Its important to use apostrophe's right.
12. It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.
13. Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.
14. Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should begin with a capital and end with a period
15. Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.
16. In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart.
17. Watch out for irregular verbs which have creeped into our language.
18. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
19. Avoid unnecessary redundancy.
20. A writer mustn't shift your point of view.
21. Don't write a run-on sentence you've got to punctuate it.
22. A preposition isn't a good thing to end a sentence with.
23. Avoid cliches like the plague

Wordless Wednesday

 

The Place: Brooklyn, New York

 

The Time:  World War II

 

The Heroes:

 

Left to right- A nameless friend, Ed Barr, Thelma (Pat) Grisso Barr, William Grisso, John Grisso

 

They were young. They had fun. They served their county. And now only one remains.

 

With the exception of the friend, these are my uncles and my aunt.

 

Uncle Bill remains and we are gathering on January 17 to celebrate his 90th birthday.

 

Happy Birthday, Uncle Bill.

Mondays With Mary-2016

I am encouraged by the personal comments I get about Mondays With Mary. I am glad so many of you enjoy this feature.  However, my ability to write from those calendars is limited due to my winter location. I only have a few of these treasures with me. One of those calendars is from 1985, and I thought I could do a little 30 years ago series. Oops. I guess it will have to be 31 years ago. Happy New Year.

Friday, January 11

 4 degrees below - windy at 7:45 - we stayed
home all day   watched T.V. - read -
and quilted - windy & cold all day.

Saturday, January 12

2 degrees below at 7:45 a.m.  sun shining
warming up - went to Scranton in a.m.
for dog food - read & quilted
most of day.

Sunday, January 13

36 degrees in a.m. warmed up
to 40ties - Vern drove up to Dales to look at
his calves - I quilted and read to-day.

Monday, January 14

12 degrees high winds this a.m. at 7 a.m. cold day
Vern helping Dale load calves for sale at Carroll
I quilted - wrote letters to L. Keithley & Midge
Went to town for lunch with Ardea- we drove over
to Jeff to 2nd hand shop - got 2 sweaters   home at 2p. m.


The morning temperatures for the rest of the third week in January are recorded as 10 degrees, 18 degrees, 26 degrees, 18 degrees, and then Saturday, January 19 starts off with "13 degrees below zero" "high winds - getting colder" and ending with "22 degrees below to-nite".

Now I know why I am writing from a warmer climate.

Grief

A dear friend posted the following on Facebook. I do not have a source for this writing. Hopefully, the plagiarism police can't find me.  The year 2015 was full of deaths for us as well as family and friends. The year seemed to be one long grief period after another. We started right out on January 1, 2015. Maybe I should have seen that as a sign. Some deaths are so recent that the healing has yet to even begin. I hope this writing will be a comfort to those who read it.

                                   GRIEF 

                              I had my own notion of grief.
                                I thought it was a sad time.
                    That followed the death of someone you love.
                             And you had to push through it
                                  To get to the other side.
                       But I 'm learning there is no other side.
                              There is no pushing through.
                                              But rather,
                                     There is absorption.
                                            Adjustment.
                                            Acceptance.
                    And grief is not something that you complete
                                   But rather you endure.
                              Grief is not a task to finish,
                                        And move on,
                              But an element of yourself-
                              An alteration of your being.
                                   A new way of seeing.
                                A new definition of self.

Our Town

Monday's quote solicited responses to the origin of the words. Today I am telling you the source. This comes from the play Our Town. I find it very thought provoking. If you come to my funeral someday, you will probably hear it spoken.

 

I guess this is why genealogists keep digging for information about those ancestors who came before us. We realize they are eternal as are we.

Who knows?

The following is one of my all time favorite quotes from one of my all time favorite novels.

 

 

 

Who can identify it?

 

And now I have another paper to toss.