Gloria Jean and Bob's wedding last Saturday was really nice. I kow all brides are beautiful, but Gloria Jean, a classic beauty, was absolutely ravishing in her white gown. And Bob, beaming through it all, was looking good in his white tuxedo.
Funny thing, Uncle Mack was with us in spirit.
Before the ceremony got started, while people were still arriving for the ceremony, this woman (who obviously wasn't any of our family because we all know each other by sight) stood up, said 'hey there! I'm Debbie, my husband, Art, is the best man! Just wanted to say hi to you all!" and then sat back down. We all started laughing and crying because that's something Uncle Mack would have done in a roomful of strangers (smile).
This week's mail brought another wedding invitation. My cousin Nicole and her fiance, Corey, are getting married in early August. They've been going together for a couple of years and finally decided the time was right to tie the knot.
I know this is selfish, sort of, but I am so glad Gloria Jean and Bob got married here in the metro Detroit area, and that Nicole and Corey are marrying here, too. Hotel rooms, gas and gifts--it all gets pricey, you know?
I know whenever I go to Michigan City for a family event, at least until the price of gas went sky high, it's been the cost of the hotel room that's hit me hardest. I could stay with family, that's what most of my relatives do, but when you stay with someone, well, you never get any peace and quiet or rest. My family likes to stay up half the night partying and me, well, by 11pm I've had enough of seeing everyone and talking and I just want a quiet place to lay my head. Yeah, I know, I'm no fun, that's what my cousins say (smile).
Tawny
ww.tawnyford.com
Friday, June 18, 2004
I know I don't post very often. And I know that's not a good thing because a blog is supposed to be, like, a diary. I don't know why I don't write more often, maybe it's because I talk for a living and I'm all talked out by the end of the day.
Tomorrow, Saturday, June 19th, is the first big family get together since Uncle Mack got murdered and Uncle Gunk died. My cousin, Gloria Jean, is getting married and that's a good thing. She and Bob, her intended, make a nice couple.
A lot of the family is up here already for the wedding. The Michigan City relatives arrived this afternoon. My Uncle Robert from California, and my Uncle Walter from Mississippi, they and their families aren't coming. It was so costly for them to come across country twice in less than three weeks for the funerals that they can't afford to come again for awhile.
Aunt Sylvia, Uncle Gunk's widow, isn't here. The trip on the train was just too much for her. She has sent her love to Gloria Jean and Bob by telephone. One of my uncles said Aunt Sylvia wasn't coming because she used her train money at Bingo and lost it, but I think he was joking.
Everyone is used to Uncle Gunk not coming this way for events because he'd been sick for a long time before he died. He needed a new kidney, but......
On the other hand, Uncle Mack and Aunt Pearlie used to come north for family events all of the time. Last year they were here for my cousin Tiny's wedding and for Uncle Joe's funeral.
A party just isn't a party without Uncle Mack.
To be honest, when the Pistons won the championship the other day, that's the kind of thing Uncle Mack would have loved. He was a diehard Detroit sports fan. The family was glad the Pistons won, don't get me wrong, I mean, who really likes the Lakers anyway? But it just wasn't as much fun as it would have been if Uncle Mack was around to celebrate it with us.
So while we're all looking forward to Gloria Jeans' wedding tomorrow, it's going to be a little sad too because the uncles won't have to have a "Mack Plan" and they've always had a "Mack Plan" for a zillion years.
What is a "MackPlan"? Well, it's like this.
See, Unce Mack used to like to drink a bit. Okay, Uncle Mack loved getting his drink on (smile). And he had a habit, as many happy drunks do, of beig a little obnoxious if you didn't know him. He gave out hugs and told jokes and sang songs, all things we loved, but things that mae strangers cringe. So if Uncle Mack were still alive, well, the uncles would have had a plan to keep him from bothering Bob's family.
I'm looking forward to the wedding but I know I'm going to be missing Uncle Mack something fierce.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Tomorrow, Saturday, June 19th, is the first big family get together since Uncle Mack got murdered and Uncle Gunk died. My cousin, Gloria Jean, is getting married and that's a good thing. She and Bob, her intended, make a nice couple.
A lot of the family is up here already for the wedding. The Michigan City relatives arrived this afternoon. My Uncle Robert from California, and my Uncle Walter from Mississippi, they and their families aren't coming. It was so costly for them to come across country twice in less than three weeks for the funerals that they can't afford to come again for awhile.
Aunt Sylvia, Uncle Gunk's widow, isn't here. The trip on the train was just too much for her. She has sent her love to Gloria Jean and Bob by telephone. One of my uncles said Aunt Sylvia wasn't coming because she used her train money at Bingo and lost it, but I think he was joking.
Everyone is used to Uncle Gunk not coming this way for events because he'd been sick for a long time before he died. He needed a new kidney, but......
On the other hand, Uncle Mack and Aunt Pearlie used to come north for family events all of the time. Last year they were here for my cousin Tiny's wedding and for Uncle Joe's funeral.
A party just isn't a party without Uncle Mack.
To be honest, when the Pistons won the championship the other day, that's the kind of thing Uncle Mack would have loved. He was a diehard Detroit sports fan. The family was glad the Pistons won, don't get me wrong, I mean, who really likes the Lakers anyway? But it just wasn't as much fun as it would have been if Uncle Mack was around to celebrate it with us.
So while we're all looking forward to Gloria Jeans' wedding tomorrow, it's going to be a little sad too because the uncles won't have to have a "Mack Plan" and they've always had a "Mack Plan" for a zillion years.
What is a "MackPlan"? Well, it's like this.
See, Unce Mack used to like to drink a bit. Okay, Uncle Mack loved getting his drink on (smile). And he had a habit, as many happy drunks do, of beig a little obnoxious if you didn't know him. He gave out hugs and told jokes and sang songs, all things we loved, but things that mae strangers cringe. So if Uncle Mack were still alive, well, the uncles would have had a plan to keep him from bothering Bob's family.
I'm looking forward to the wedding but I know I'm going to be missing Uncle Mack something fierce.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Heaven, I'm in heaven.........!
The first season of Northern Exposure, on dvd, went on sale yesterday. I bought my long awaited copy at Sam's Club for $33 and some change.
I have been a big fan of this show ever since the first episode I caught on rerun on the cable channel A+E. I've seen the show, episode one straight thru to the final episode, oh, maybe three or four times. Ever since A+E took it off the air I have been having Northern Exposure withdrawal and I have to tell you, it has not been pretty.
But all of that is now a thing of the past. I have been happily and contentedly watching and rewatching the
entire first series since I got home from Sam's Club yesterday. And it is great.
If you're a fan of the show you need to take your sweet self to the store and score a copy. It is worth every single penny.
Now I'm just awaiting the day when the rest of the show's series make it onto dvd.
Tawny
tawnyford@webtv.net
The first season of Northern Exposure, on dvd, went on sale yesterday. I bought my long awaited copy at Sam's Club for $33 and some change.
I have been a big fan of this show ever since the first episode I caught on rerun on the cable channel A+E. I've seen the show, episode one straight thru to the final episode, oh, maybe three or four times. Ever since A+E took it off the air I have been having Northern Exposure withdrawal and I have to tell you, it has not been pretty.
But all of that is now a thing of the past. I have been happily and contentedly watching and rewatching the
entire first series since I got home from Sam's Club yesterday. And it is great.
If you're a fan of the show you need to take your sweet self to the store and score a copy. It is worth every single penny.
Now I'm just awaiting the day when the rest of the show's series make it onto dvd.
Tawny
tawnyford@webtv.net
Monday, May 17, 2004
Someone asked me 'what do you mean if Dave and Diane lost their home, none of us are safe?'.
It's like this.
Dave and Diane are good people. Salt of the earth, if you will. Flannel shirts and blue jeans, go to work everyday, work hard. No drinking, no drugging, no hard and fast living. No living large going on next door. No big screen tv, no SUV, no jewelry.
If people who are doing the right thing on a daily basis, living life as best they can, if they can lose their home..........
Bud, that's Dave's father, remember? Bud built that house fifty-some years ago. He built it from odds and ends, wood and fixtures he'd scrimped and saved to buy. Bud and his missus, and Dave and his sister, they lived there. Then Bud bought a small piece of land at the end of our block and built himself another house, again out of building materials he'd foraged for. He and the missus moved down there, and they sold the old homestead to Dave and Diane. It's the only home Dave has ever known.
So it's like not bad enough that Dave and Diane lost their home to the bank, but a piece of their family history is now in the hands of strangers.
Don't the folks who report statistics always say that most of America is only one paycheck away from homelessness?
hugs, Tawny
It's like this.
Dave and Diane are good people. Salt of the earth, if you will. Flannel shirts and blue jeans, go to work everyday, work hard. No drinking, no drugging, no hard and fast living. No living large going on next door. No big screen tv, no SUV, no jewelry.
If people who are doing the right thing on a daily basis, living life as best they can, if they can lose their home..........
Bud, that's Dave's father, remember? Bud built that house fifty-some years ago. He built it from odds and ends, wood and fixtures he'd scrimped and saved to buy. Bud and his missus, and Dave and his sister, they lived there. Then Bud bought a small piece of land at the end of our block and built himself another house, again out of building materials he'd foraged for. He and the missus moved down there, and they sold the old homestead to Dave and Diane. It's the only home Dave has ever known.
So it's like not bad enough that Dave and Diane lost their home to the bank, but a piece of their family history is now in the hands of strangers.
Don't the folks who report statistics always say that most of America is only one paycheck away from homelessness?
hugs, Tawny
My long time next door neighbors, Dave and Diane, moved two weeks ago.
They had a 'for sale by owner' sign on their front lawn for quite a while. A week before they moved, Dave told me they'd sold their house and were signing the papers the following Monday. Monday came and went and the 'for sale' sign stayed on their lawn.
The day he was moving the final load of their belongings, I went next door to say my goodbyes. I wanted Dave and Diane to know that I had appreciated having them as neighbors all those years, tell them I would miss them, and wish them well.
Dave's father was helping him put the last load on the truck. When Dave walked away, his father told me that they hadn't sold the house, they'd lost it. The bank foreclosed on them.
A couple of years ago Dave had gotten hurt and was out of work for a very long time. Diane was working, but things were tight on the one check. Apparently they started falling behind then and were never able to catch up.
Bud, that's Dave's father, said he wished they had told him they were having money troubles. While he and his wife don't have a lot of extra money, they would have done whatever they could to have saved his son's home.
Their house is empty, the for sale sign is stuck in the lawn. I guess the bank hasn't found any one to sell it to yet.
Whatwith all of the jobs lost in the last three years, either because the companies moved them overseas or economic hardships forced them out of business, there are probably going to be more empty houses where families used to be.
The way I see it, if Dave and Diane could lose their home, none of us are safe.
hugs, Tawny
(248) 615-1300
www.tawnyford.com
They had a 'for sale by owner' sign on their front lawn for quite a while. A week before they moved, Dave told me they'd sold their house and were signing the papers the following Monday. Monday came and went and the 'for sale' sign stayed on their lawn.
The day he was moving the final load of their belongings, I went next door to say my goodbyes. I wanted Dave and Diane to know that I had appreciated having them as neighbors all those years, tell them I would miss them, and wish them well.
Dave's father was helping him put the last load on the truck. When Dave walked away, his father told me that they hadn't sold the house, they'd lost it. The bank foreclosed on them.
A couple of years ago Dave had gotten hurt and was out of work for a very long time. Diane was working, but things were tight on the one check. Apparently they started falling behind then and were never able to catch up.
Bud, that's Dave's father, said he wished they had told him they were having money troubles. While he and his wife don't have a lot of extra money, they would have done whatever they could to have saved his son's home.
Their house is empty, the for sale sign is stuck in the lawn. I guess the bank hasn't found any one to sell it to yet.
Whatwith all of the jobs lost in the last three years, either because the companies moved them overseas or economic hardships forced them out of business, there are probably going to be more empty houses where families used to be.
The way I see it, if Dave and Diane could lose their home, none of us are safe.
hugs, Tawny
(248) 615-1300
www.tawnyford.com
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