The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

My sister (with some help from me) wrote my dad's final article for the newspaper.

http://m.somdnews.com/article/20150...inal-farewell&template=southernMarylandMobile

Read if you wish.

That was very touching--I even had a tear or two.

Blessings!

 

[bamadude]

That was very touching--I even had a tear or two.

Blessings!

X2

 

[Beer can]

That was very touching--I even had a tear or two.

Blessings!

X3. And well wrote.

 

[1FlewOver]

That was awesome!!!!! Obviously, this planet has lost a very special, caring human being who did a great job as a father....and will be sorely missed by many.....

I have a feeling my daughter's eulogy will sound more like a Martin Luther speech: "Gone at last.....gone at last....thank God almighty....gone at last!"

 

[drumstick diva]

That was beautiful, sorry we didn't get to know your dad through his columns.

 

[drumstick diva]

1 Flew over : I guess they can't use that for me, it would be plagiarism.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

That was beautiful, sorry we didn't get to know your dad through his columns.

I took his laptop plus his old laptop home with me. I know I can get into the new laptop without a password, not sure about the older one, yet.

I will be printing his stories and binding them for family and close friends. My sister and dad's aunt lived locally and got to read them, but I did not. My sister recounted to me that my dad was quite clever - in his stories he'd often embed something for someone special - like his Aunt... throughout the story he'd list her address or phone number. Not obviously, but all the numbers in his story would end up being her phone number... little things like that. She got a kick out of it.

 

[Alaskan]

Cool! That takes lots of smarts!

 

[perchie.girl]

My sister (with some help from me) wrote my dad's final article for the newspaper.

http://m.somdnews.com/article/20150...inal-farewell&template=southernMarylandMobile

Read if you wish.

That was a very fine article... a true testimony of your love and his life....

I soo love the Tulips and Daffodil story....

May I share the link with a friend who lives in Maryland?

deb

 

[superchemicalgirl]

It is public knowledge, so feel free to share. No sense of privacy when it's in the paper.

Dad and I used to drive around every spring a couple times and look at where he planted bulbs. We'd check on them, see if they were coming up, if they had started to form flower heads, and see when they had bloomed. It was a lot of fun as a kid. I am pretty sure it is illegal to plant bulbs along the side of the road - we'll find out this fall if anyone gets caught.