Roll Farms - Herdstock is over, and I'm feeling hung over, lol

[autumnprairie]

I totally understand missing your mom. I lost my mom when I was 13 suddenly due to a car accident. I wish she was still around to see her grandkids. I hate that she wasn't here for so many big things in my life.
to you.

to you too! A, lost his mom at 5 and his Dad in Nov.

 

[redtailgal]

You mother was bombshell movie material. lol, I'd think she'd fit in a James Bond movie with a figure like that.

Your description of your mom reminded me alot of my own mother......mother of five, dont a drinker but can get pretty mean at times.

Lotsa bad memories with my own mother. But she is my mother and I love her.

I'm sorry that you are missing your mother, but I am glad that you were able to move past the bad stuff enough to enjoy her while she was here.

 

[RPC]

That picture in the middle with her 2 oldest she looks like Risso(Spelling) off Grease. She was a very pretty lady. I don't really know what I would do without my mom. I wont lie I am a little bit of a momma's boy.

 

[Roll farms]

Actually, if you mean the pic where she's got the really big hair....that is her 2 youngest, me being the runt in front.

Thanks for the comfort, you guys really are more 'family' to me than most of my blood relative.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Good for you that you can forget the bad and focus on the good. Life is too short. Feel free to share any of your mom stories any time you want.

 

[Roll farms]

3BC, I'll try to come up w/ a mom story. But considering most of them I recall have some of her colorful language....that narrows my possibilities some.

She got hurt / was forced to retire from her job / got cancer / several other health issues popped up and was physically unable to go get her own booze, so her sobriety wasn't a choice she made, just a result of varying situations. I really don't think we'd have gotten as close as we did the last 10 yrs or so if she hadn't.

That's when I started cleaning for her (I already got her groceries weekly), and she would create little reasons for me to come by more and more.
By the time she died there was grocery day, cleaning day, have dinner w/ her day, read the Sunday paper w/ her day, stop by and pick up a cake she'd bake day....lol.

Here's one interesting little tidbit. She never drove. Now, she may have as a teenager, I dunno. But I know none of us kids ever saw her drive, and she never had a driver's license from anywhere. Her job was 3 blocks from her house, and luckily there was a grocery, post office, and our schools were all w/ in walking distance.
When I was a kid she bought a used cadillac and it just sat in our back yard (like furniture...) for just-in-case.

If we had to go somewhere that was further than walking distance, she'd pay someone (neighbor, one of the older kid's boyfriends, etc.) to take us in 'the boat'...

Ugh....3am is UGLY. Especially w/ snow on top of it.

You've heard me say before I work 'truck night' at TSC....?
The evil people at corp. changed it to truck morning....meaning I have to be there at 5am. I have to have time to wake up, shower, drink coffee, etc....so 3am and I are here together. We don't really like eachother much, but we're trying it.

It snowed a little, and of course nobody's touched the roads yet, so this'll be fun.

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.

 

[autumnprairie]

Happy Valentines Day, I guess I only sleep in 4 hour intervels now

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

I hear you on the 3:00 am. My job unfortunately has me awake all hours of the night. When a Computer System isn't working, someone, somewhere thinks it should be. So....

On the bright side, if you go in at 5:00, you are home with plenty of day light to get some things done.

Happy Valentines to you as well.

 

[redtailgal]

Wow. Around here if it snows a little, they scrap the roads, and then salt them. Then they cancel school and put out a news broadcast urging everyone to stay home except in emergencies.

I expect that they have to do all that to give the grocery stores times to recover, and restock the bread, eggs, and milk. (if the the weatherman says the word "snow", there will be NO bread, eggs or milk left in the county within an hour)

Cuz, us southerners FREAK out at a snow flurry. And apparently the city folks eat french toast the whole time.

It is funny though to watch the kiddies try to sled on two inches of slush.

 

[Roll farms]

We live out in the boonies, our road is one of the last ones to get plowed....but they don't bother til it's done snowing and at 3 am it wasn't done.
Unfortunately, by virtue of our 3 4WD vehicles, even when we do get a lot of snow, I've never gotten to use it as an excuse to stay home.

Darn it.