Life goes on up here in the mountains at a much slower pace than in the past (Past meaning about 12 years or so ago when I lived down the mountain) . Back then I would often get bored and also had money, lol...to visit TJ Max, Kohl's, Marshalls and other fun places to spend money on useless items I didn't need. Oh yeah, don't get me started on Pic and Save which became Big Lots and was a black hole when it came to buying NOTHING i needed. Now my time is spent going through stuff and deciding what to get rid of. That's what keeps me busy or going through so many photo albums trying to figure out how to divide them up and give the photos to each kid without spending the rest of my retirement doing that (there are SO MANY PHOTOS)... now including photos of grandkids.
And to add to the above, my dad wrote out his biography a few years before he passed away in 2001 and it is very very long, many typed pages and handwritten pages also. With that, there is a whole lot of art work, poetry, and an album filled simply with his across country trip he took after my mom died. In that album are photos of each place he stopped, a poem to go with each state, etc. I literally don't know how to manage making copies of this for all four of my guys. The problem is a lot of it is handwritten and won't copy well so it needs to be typed up. Two of the guys especially want copies and I'm sure the other two would also.
I'll figure it all out next winter when we are snowed in again.
Thank God my mom didn't appear to have a lot of talents except cooking and playing the piano by ear. She could really honky tonk that piano. She didn't garden, paint, write stories, or put anything down on paper I would need to copy and put together. But, she loved to dance and really was a fun mom in her younger years when we were kids. She died in 1985 so as I got older I never got to ask the questions I would have but didn't think to in my 30's. Like who was she really - ...I have no idea, other than my mom.
Anyway a few photos from another trip down to Redlands to go to the Kimberly Crest House. I love to hang around the fountain and see the fish and lily pads. I've never taken a tour of the inside - one of these days we will. I believe the photo of the smaller building is in the back of the mansion and I think that is where some of the help stayed. Not sure about that. Next to this mansion is a beautiful park to walk through. I can spend hours down there.
