What a March

I was looking at the last time I had posted a comment on my blog prior to yesterday and I realized so much has went by since. I almost feel like Ichabod Crane. I have yet to see any headless horsemen, but the campaign for the next US President has only just began.

First off, the family and business are healthy. I have been reading and writing plenty but not as much as I had wished. All of our kids still love us and Mrs. Pirate has been awarded more medals of tolerance. I have had more work then I could have ever wished for and like any other businessperson out there I wish for more.

I use to like to boast of having three grandmothers alive. One 103 years old, one 93 years old and a young one of 83 years old. Well this last two weeks we lost the two elder gals in the posse. If you want you can go back and read about my Grandmother Lucille in a post March 7, 2006. She passed away March 22, 2007 after being laid up from a fall where she broke her leg last Thanksgiving season. Then this last Friday my mother had called me to let me know my Grandmother that was 103 years old passed away in the Sacramento area.

Grandma Lucille had lived her last four months in a home where she was pretty much bed-ridden. She never allowed her humor or wits to leave her. Not even up to her last days. A month before she passed away I had just gotten back from a trip to South Carolina and wernt to visit her. The home had moved her to another room. When I found the new room I sent in and was not able to determine which elderly old lady was my own grandmother. After staring at two rather withered old gals fat asleep in neighboring beds with the same buzz cuts I told my daughter, who was with me, that this must be the wrong room. My daughter laughed and said this one is grandma, I think. The name tag above her bed had her name but the two weeks of my being away changed her so much.

She finally woke up and was so happy to see the two of us and began her discussion how she thought the Oregon Ducks and Portland Trailblazers were doing and what she anticipated their season outcomes would be. We then discussed politics of which she and I have never agreed on. She then shared a couple of family stories with us and then tired out. I told her how difficult it was to determine which one of the old gals in the room was her with their haircuts. She told me she thought the beautician had butchered her hair and she thought she looked like an old man or possibly a lesbian.

My 103 year old grandmother just suddenly took ill one day. She was taken to hospital where she had asked for her Bible and magnifying glass. Shortly after reading she went to sleep and passed away. Nine years ago my grandfather had passed away short of their 70th wedding anniversary. At the funeral grandma had told everyone she was disappointed in grandpa's passing because she had always figured they would grow old together. I guess being married a month short of 70 years after a two week courting was not long enough.

Along with the lose of these two fine women we dealt with four other deaths. So March was fairly sad.

Now with my health back and spring in the air I plan to get back to my once regular routine of work and blogging. I have so much to say about World affairs, current events, weird news, Oregon Ducks, a trip to South Carolina, business, Nancy Pelosi and her sisters in absurdity, Rosie O'Donnell and Mrs. Bill Clinton. I also look forward to giving my take on Barak Obama, Rudy G, and the other leader wannabes. I plan to blog about some of the books I have read, movies I have watched and other observations.

I also have a lot of make up reading to do of my favorite bloggers and to see what is new with the blog world.