tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post718175952102693702..comments2024-03-29T10:25:17.813-04:00Comments on Jungle Red Writers: Parading, picnicking, rememberingJungle Red Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16646429819267618412noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-65944802816260975202016-05-31T07:41:01.639-04:002016-05-31T07:41:01.639-04:00Hank, I went to bed thinking about plot for Decora...Hank, I went to bed thinking about plot for Decoration Day, fell asleep and dreamed a great on. Of course now I can't remember any of it except it had four men, soldiers maybe, and it didn't end well Ann in Rochesternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-61804727774187520192016-05-30T19:25:41.926-04:002016-05-30T19:25:41.926-04:00OOh, it WOULD, Ann! xxoo Let's do a whole bl...OOh, it WOULD, Ann! xxoo Let's do a whole blog someday about what the story could be… <br /><br />(Not a cozy about interior design.. :-) )Hank Phillippi Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420701704169428286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-36437698605850324632016-05-30T14:09:39.381-04:002016-05-30T14:09:39.381-04:00Wouldn't Decoration Day makes a good title for...Wouldn't Decoration Day makes a good title for a novel?Ann in Rochesternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-14405140975088382602016-05-30T14:04:56.621-04:002016-05-30T14:04:56.621-04:00Happy Anniversary to you, Roberta and John! Enjoy...Happy Anniversary to you, Roberta and John! Enjoy your day and your later trip to New York. <br /><br />I think it was yesterday's post I described how Memorial Day was when I was a kid, and it was like Ann's, except it was my mother cutting flowers from her garden. I didn't realize until much later how interesting it was that my father was very much involved in making sure there were enough flowers. He was absolutely as focused as my mother was on it, and later, I began to think that maybe he was a bit of an aggravation to my mother, although she never said anything. As my grandparents were dead when I was born, going to the cemetery on this day was an important connection for me, and my mother would talk about her parents as we placed the flowers. I also remember the name "Decoration Day" being used.<br /><br />Kathy Reelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17004247271452356577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-34694660958336907102016-05-30T13:06:34.126-04:002016-05-30T13:06:34.126-04:00Happy anniversary Roberta and John!
Decoration D...Happy anniversary Roberta and John! <br /><br />Decoration Day! My parents called it that throughout their lives. The towns I grew up in had no cemeteries so I always knew it as Memorial Day. It's a gorgeous day here in central Florida sunny and hot, but afternoon storms are expected so we cooked breakfast out and are planning fajitas for dinner. Always good to have a plan "B."<br /><br />I too am working on the word count, and this is the first town I've ever lived in that has no Memorial Day celebration. Flags mysteriously appear at the War Memorial. So there is no temptation to wander out.<br /><br />Happy Memorial weekend everyone.Kaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07758348842858993203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-78490481236287890892016-05-30T12:28:30.215-04:002016-05-30T12:28:30.215-04:00Richard, don't you love autocorrect?
Deb, stay...Richard, don't you love autocorrect?<br />Deb, stay safe... <br />Mary, sounds like a nice place to live.Hallie Ephronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04759439029582054503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-60701843779467652982016-05-30T11:33:08.062-04:002016-05-30T11:33:08.062-04:00The Boy is a scout, so he's always in the loca...The Boy is a scout, so he's always in the local parade. Actually, his day starts much earlier. They have a service at the river around 6:30am to honor those who died at sea. Next is breakfast at the firehall. Then the parade. It pauses at two war memorials on the route and ends in the Oakmont cemetery which is not new, but I'm not sure how old. The hardest part of the walk is the last part - straight up a hill. Some years it's so hot it's a brutal walk, but this year is not bad. Sunny, but only 60 degrees.<br /><br />I used to walk the route, but now...not so much. So I start the day with The Girl. We go to the local bakery for pastries and chai lattes. Then we watch the parade and drive up to the cemetery to pick up the menfolk, drop them back at the parade start (to get the hubby's car). Then home for grilled whatever and hanging with the neighbors.<br /><br />Happy anniversary Roberta!Liz Millironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04919409969263609919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-47001021272033954082016-05-30T11:21:18.953-04:002016-05-30T11:21:18.953-04:00Very dark here, more thunderstorms in the forecast...Very dark here, more thunderstorms in the forecast. Fingers crossed we actually get to cook those fancy Waygu beef hotdogs on the grill. <br /><br />I love the stories about Decoration Day. I'd never heard that, and obviously my family didn't do it. What a sweet tradition.Deborah Crombiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16988750789088153601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-84455776238083330842016-05-30T11:20:22.298-04:002016-05-30T11:20:22.298-04:00Dang, that was supposed to be "creamated &quo...Dang, that was supposed to be "creamated " Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-42834166948848458172016-05-30T11:19:18.981-04:002016-05-30T11:19:18.981-04:00We remember family now departed, but there are no ...We remember family now departed, but there are no graves (cream aged), so we just remember them in our hearts. It will be high 70s and beautiful here, so time in the garden, then ribs cooked low and slow, potato salad (yesterday's recipe) and apple pie.Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-85520370570461090152016-05-30T08:38:24.584-04:002016-05-30T08:38:24.584-04:00We are driving in the rain, heading home from a we... We are driving in the rain, heading home from a weekend on the Cape. Which was fabulous! It is a dreary day, and good for staying inside, and good for remembering. Decoration Day-- yes, how sweet… I haven't heard that for a long time. Hank Phillippi Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420701704169428286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-41758164325625015022016-05-30T08:29:05.012-04:002016-05-30T08:29:05.012-04:00thanks to all for the good anniversary wishes--thi...thanks to all for the good anniversary wishes--this is 24, and we greedily want at least 24 more...<br /><br />Ann, the crosses at Normandy blew my mind. I think I cried all the way around the space. Lucy Burdette aka Roberta Isleibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660402177299546055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-16600942395546886582016-05-30T08:15:18.479-04:002016-05-30T08:15:18.479-04:00Parades through town to the cemetery--ours and the...Parades through town to the cemetery--ours and the neighboring town--we have to schedule one after the other because we share a high school and the band! The band plays by the memorials to the war dead. It is always moving--it always makes me cry. My mom told us often of decorating the graves in the family cemetery--tucked away on a ridgetop in eastern Kentucky. I will go to the cemetery here much later, after the parades, when it is quiet.<br /><br />And I can see those rows of crosses, those mason jars, those rolling hills and sweeping lawns of other places. Here, today, the weather is beautiful, so we will eat well and walk in the sun. Happy anniversary, Roberta and John--Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-9351147694571512702016-05-30T07:51:12.297-04:002016-05-30T07:51:12.297-04:00Ann, I love your remembrances... especially visiti...Ann, I love your remembrances... especially visiting the grave of a grandmother whom you never knew. Speaking for me, death isn't as scary as being forgotten.<br /><br />Here in New England it's a dreary day - rain and in the 50s. Yesterday it was hot and 91, and our cemetery was teeming with families visiting graves, knowing today would be a washout. <br /><br />Hallie Ephronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04759439029582054503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-6230912309213972482016-05-30T06:55:40.138-04:002016-05-30T06:55:40.138-04:00I'm in book jail (book due June 1), so I'l...I'm in book jail (book due June 1), so I'll be working, too! Plus its raining. I hope to get out and plant some flowers if it stops, and make a strawberry-rhubarb pie, too. Happy anniversary, Roberta!Edith Maxwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388006370860482509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-57603902050878116032016-05-30T06:48:34.535-04:002016-05-30T06:48:34.535-04:00Ann, thank you for telling of your Decoration Days...Ann, thank you for telling of your Decoration Days...much like my family tradition. You have stirred good memories for me.Elisabethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-46202650593051692402016-05-30T06:33:47.124-04:002016-05-30T06:33:47.124-04:00We called it Decoration Day when I was small. My ...We called it Decoration Day when I was small. My grandmother cut flowers from her garden, lilacs, mock orange, iris, whatever was blooming, arranged them in quart mason jars, and off we went to the cemetery. We put them on all the family graves, and there were a lot of them. In particular she made sure I went to the grave of my paternal grandmother, whom I never knew. And she told me Grandma Lettie was watching over me every minute. Yikes, did that ever end the nose picking for good.<br /><br />Today Julie and I will visit her family graves and plant a few pansies that will possibly survive winter on the tundra.<br /><br />A few years ago we were in the cemeteries in Normandy. What a sight. Did you know that the French identified as many German soldiers as possible and buried them there too? But most names were not known. Those have a little marker that says Une Deutche Soldat. Many of the identified were 14-15 years old, children murdered by Hitler as surely as if he had pulled the trigger. Heartbreaking Ann in Rochesternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-19455655678029010852016-05-30T05:58:53.412-04:002016-05-30T05:58:53.412-04:00A day for remembering . . .
Here that includes a ...A day for remembering . . . <br />Here that includes a parade and a ceremony at the cemetery.<br />This year rain will make it difficult to grill, but we'll still have a hamburger and potato salad meal.<br /><br />Happy Anniversary, Lucy!Joan Emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06810313925049108163noreply@blogger.com