Wednesday March 24,2021

Good morning everyone, today is Wednesday March 24, 2021. Sorry guys it looks like a cloudy one today but on the bright side it is hump day already. It is truly amazing the older you get the Time just seems to go faster even though you don’t have as much to do.

The trip yesterday to the cemetery was uneventful and Justin joined me as he always does. I guess someday it will be his job. Of course he had to bear with a million stories but I don’t think he really minds after all the protest. Of course there is a bit of nostalgia on these visits there has to be. On our return home we passed the Presby Iris Garden, that is a well known place in Essex County and has been there for years, I guess someone donated the land and when they bloom there are thouseands of iris to see in every imaginable color, it really is quite beautiful, people photograph them, set up easels and paint them, it is like a painting itself, I think the garden club of Montclair might run it now. You can even buy the bulbs of the different varieties. As a child I used to like to run up and down the aisles of flowers as my mother and grandmother walked through. Now my mother of course was a member of the Garden Club so she bought many bulbs to do the perimeter of our house. It always looked nice. I still don’t know where she got the time to do the things she did , being a nurse and working and doing a million other things. I guess she worked 11 to 7 shift so she would be home with us , take us to school, cook , have dinner and when we went to bed she went to work. I guess god realizes he would call her home very early in her life so he just let her cram as much as she could in her time. Now my mother was a severe asthmatic, but the doctors of ythe time could never figure out what caused the asthma so they speculated on it and our life changed all the time. Once she had such a bad attack she was in the hospital for a long time, responding to no asthma medicine of the time. The doctors this time felt it was spring and maybe the flowers blooming had something to do with it, so she had to quit the Garden Club, my father hearing this was so frustrated because nothing seemed to help her one Sunday while she wa in the hospital took the lawn mower and mowed down all the iris near the house actually any flower near the house and ripped up the bulbs, they never grew again. When she returned home I will never forget her disappointment. So we never had flowers again. The thing is it did nothing she was sick a few months later. Now almost 60 years later and all the medical advances and given my own lung issues I tend to think she didn’t have asthma at all but suffered the same affliction I had.

I think that is why I try to stay positive most of the time and enjoy my life. I guess when you get a lemon you have to make lemonade . So today I don’t know what it will bring but I will try to have some fun, I expect the same from you, life is just too short to waste time. Have a great day enjoy . Til Tomorrow!