“Yesterday was another Pearl Harbor Day. Thoughts, prayers, and thanks to all our service members in past and current.”
Two thoughts on that:
Dad, who doesn’t remember much and is moving to Assisted Living at the end of the month and is a Navy Vet made SURE to tell me it was Pearl Harbor Day when I saw him on Thursday, this week. :)
Secondly, there was a guy giving away paper poppies for a donation when I bought gas that same day and we had the BEST conversation about us both being Veterans. I LOVE it when I can (mildly) shock these guys by telling them that I’m a Veteran, too. I love it! I LOVE hugs from Vets that went before me!
*HEART*
Other than that, all I have left to eat from the garden is KALE and Sweet Potatoes and some Butternut Squash - which I need to get to real quick to bake and freeze.
I have spinach and salad greens growing under lights, and I always have salad sprouts sprouting!
We’re supposed to get our first snow tonight - only an inch or so - and it’s been below normal COLD by us - high 20’s in the day and teens at night. But, we got our furnace fixed and a fresh filter in her and the fireplace has been cleaned, so we’re all good. ;)
My Dad was in the Coast Guard. His ship helped sink the last German Sub in WWII - off of Point Judith Light (New England area IIRC). I have a picture of him and his buddies gathered around some of the debri, which included a raft.
On the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, he would tell me about being in school, and the Superintendent speaking at an assembly telling the students that they were at war, and they would be called to service.