Music : Reminds Me of My Daddy

My daddy had a massive heart attack when he was 66 and I was 23.  It's been a lot of years without him.  Still wish I had had more time with him.  My memories are less than I wish they were.  And life has filled in so many more memories some of those other memories are faint at best.  I will always think of Daddy when I hear this song.  Not exactly sure why.  It wasn't his favorite or anything.  I remember being in the car with him when it came on.   Just a song from the era when I was 5-7.

I hope you take a couple minutes and relive the music of the early 60s.

Music: A Childhood Memory

Music is a language I understand.  It means a lot to me.  In the next many posts I will share the range of music in my life and share a lot of music.  It will be quite varied, I am too!

This first one is one of earliest memories that wasn't a hymn.  Don't get me wrong there will be hymns but I see this as an introduction to what music has meant to me since I can recall.  Stick with me, you will be surprised by the huge variety of music that is me.

EARLY MEMORY

We had the Readers Digest selection of romantic strings.  I loved this sound.  Why?  Who knows!  But this was one of my earliest memories of music I loved.  Enjoy!  I did and still do.

A Re-post From 2014, Still Works!

Happy Birthday to the BIL

Today is my BIL's birthday.  This man is an amazing man.  He has been in my life since I was 5 years old.  He and my sister married when I was 6.  Besides being like the brother I never had, he gave me away when I married in 1981.  My dear father had passed away and he was the man of the hour.  He has always been there and has been the man of great honor all these years.  So it is with great pleasure that I dedicate this blog post to the BIL.

A Jetta cake for the BIL years ago.

Can you see the resemblance?  Another Jetta creation.

For all the time you have helped, comforted, supported, loved unconditionally, given freely, listened, and last but not least entertained in your own wonderful creative way, I love you dearly!    Thank you for being the wonderful husband to my sister, father to niece and nephew and Papa to 6 wonderful grandchildren, and of course the best uncle to my three children and brother(in-law) to my husband.  You are truly the best, a prince I believe my sister called you!!!

Happy Day!

Still applies after all these years!

An Era Passing...

No one said it would be easy losing loved ones, but it's been 2 years for Mother and almost 4 years for Jetta.  It doesn't seem any easier.  In some ways it just shows my weaknesses more.  It's like I am missing a leg and an arm.  I don't handle things as well because it seems that all my weak spots are being pressed and prodded.  Things about myself that I don't like are more visible now.  Did Jetta and Mother really help me that much?  I guess they did.  I really miss them.  There are times when I feel like I might not be ok without them, but I know I will.  It is just sometimes the loss seems to hit me especially hard, no rhyme or reason.  I am going through one of those times now.  I know I am not the only one going through this and everyone handles it differently.

On a lighter note I am looking forward greatly to going to OKC to see my Jo and Judy and Winford.  It will be so nice to go to our "regular" place to eat with Jo and Max.  Then I will LOVE sitting and visiting with Judy and Winford in a relaxed comfortable environment.  I always sleep really well in the room that Mother slept in.  Her spirit is still there.  No, she's not there but she had enough love to leave some behind.  I will eat at Cool Greens, LOVE that place.  And like last time I will go get macarons at a tea shop on Western.  Hilary wants Mutts, YUM!  It will be very good to see old places.

Winter has returned and I sure don't  mind.  We need the moisture so we don't have a devastating fire season.

Enough of my dreary feelings.  Better days coming.

Clouds

I love clouds.  I've been fortunate enough to experience interesting clouds.  After having lived in OKlahoma for many years I've seen lots of clouds.  But some of my best pictures of clouds have been from an airplane.

Clouds are pretty amazing.  I have plenty but more later.

Here's To Life

Here's to life, here's to love, here's to you.................

Remembering Jetta, my heart still breaks to say that.  She's been physically absent from my life for almost 4 years!  Why does it feel fresh?  This song again says it all.  "Funny how the time just flies how love can go from warm hellos to sad good-byes and leave you with the memories you've memorized to keep your winters warm.  For there's no yes in yesterday and who knows what tomorrow brings or takes away as long as I'm still in the game I want to play, for laughs for life for love.    So here's to life and every joy it brings, here's to life to dreamers and their dreams...may all your storms be weathered and all that's good get better, here's to life! here's to love! here's to you!"

Jetta, you are always right here, in my heart!  I love you !  You are sorely missed!

Kitties

I have the pleasure of corralling 2 kitties.  They truly have a mind of their own and I love them both so much.  They definitely have different personalities.  We have been away for one night and we both dreamed about Maestro.  Sweet little Maestro has a sweet personality for a cat.  Mr Kitty is a different story.  He is more catlike.  But even with their odd personalities they are still great companions.  Here are a few pics to prove this.

The last two are grandkitties.  Is that a word?  I just made it one.