Who left the dimensional door open? - Thread 024

[Neets]

It happened so quickly, even I was stunned.

[habs4ever]

I have heard the new neighbours are complaining already.Excessive noise, they cry ;-)

[habs4ever]

Ah, them Robinson clan will keep you guessing.Maybe a banning is on the horizon ;-)

[Neets]

You gotz dat right.

[lodwick]

My theory is that with all the turmoil that is roiling about us, the JR's may be becoming more user friendly - I was shocked at how quickly the DD got its Daily Thread listing. Just my thought on the matter.

[habs4ever]

I'm still shocked that this small group even warrants a daily thread listing!!LOL

[Neets]

The Robinsons have always been user friendly as far as I am concerned but that's just my thought on the matter.

[lodwick]

The few, the proud, the dregs & flakes.

...MORE user friendly...

Things seem to be happening quicker these days, whatever the reason. Perhaps as JR's code becomes more refined, he is able to deal with personal requests much sooner than when the new format was still being developed.

[andysandmikesmom]

Good morning all....have not slept much last nite, just dozed for a little while...have been on the phone a lot with relatives, etc. and have spent time remembering all those our family has lost over the years, sparked by Uncle Harrys death over the weekend...

Have made the decision not to go to Chicago....the wake is today, and funeral tomorrow, and would have had to do a lot of juggling and rushing to even get to Chicago in time...Aunt Lee, Harrys dear wife, is doing ok, just is sad, of course, as would be expected....She would like to have seen me, but did not want me to go to the trouble and expense of having to come out to Chicago....there is much family in Chicago, her immediate family is all there..her two sons, and their wives, and their children will be there to support her, as well as Aunt lees own brothers and sisters....and Harry worked for the phone company all his life...so he will have I am sure, many mourners at his funeral...so I will mourn from afar...

Uncle Harry served in WW11 in the Navy, in both the Atlantic and Pacific theatres of that war...When BigDom and his friend would visit my uncle, on Bigdoms trips to Chicago, Uncle Harry would entertain with his war tales...I guess he had a pretty scarey time of it...one of the ships he was aboard, was actually hit by a Kamikaze pilot(this tale is relayed briefly to me by BigDom)...Uncle Harry was so proud of his role during WW11 and has over the years, collected memoribilia concerning the ships he was stationed on...

You know, they say, day by day, we are losing more and more of the vets who served in WW11, and soon will come the day when no longer any of them will be around...I see it now in my own family...my dad, my different uncles, BigDoms dad and his uncles....all now gone...

BigDom still has one uncle who is still alive, and served in WW11 in the Pacific in the navy, but when he is gone, just about all the members of our families, who served in WW11, will no longer be around...BigDoms Uncle goes to his Navy reunion, once a year, every year, and when they meet, there are always some who are no longer around...their little group is rapidly shrinking...we must cherish these vets who served to keep us free...

I feel so very sad this morning, watching my family shrink ever so slowly....often, family members, friends in real life, friends through the internet, have disagreements and little tiffs...it happens all the time, I guess its just human nature...yet in the grand scheme of things, these disagreements, and tiffs, dont matter a hoot...they are unimportant, especially when so often they are things that can be resolved and are better left forgotten...renewed beginnings, are always better than bitter endings...

Over the years, in our family, as well as most, there have been disagreements, harsh words, hard times...yet, bolstered up by knowing that we are family, that we share so much, we put aside our hurt feelings, or bitter feelings and begin again...

Death, in a family member, just makes us realize how important we have been to one another, and how very short and precious life is..

Friendships, whether in real life, or online, are kind of like big families, with squabbling and such...but in the end of it, we are after all, still friends, who love one another and support one another, and forgive one another...

I thank one and all for their sweet words to me at this time...all your words and thoughts have made me cry, but thats ok...grief time is a time to cry, a time to reflect, and a time to be thankful for what one does have, rather than what one no longer has...

I am thankful, that I have a belief in another life to come, after this hard life on earth...If I did not have such a belief, it would indeed be difficult to go on...the comfort that I will again see my Michael, my mom and dad, my brother, my aunts and uncle and cousins who have gone on before me, is the only comfort I have when times like this happaen...but it is also often difficult to wait to see them again, especially Michael....I havent seen him or held him in 17yrs. and my heart so longs to be with him again...soon enough tho, I will be with him again...

Depending on my mood, or how things go today, I may be around a little...

Again, thanks to all for thinking of our family at this time...




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[Neets]

((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[lodwick]

Thanks for verbalizing so very well what I've been thinking lately - another excellent essay for us to ponder, and from which to learn.

God bless and comfort you and your family and friends. JL

[Darksheare]

"Fairer winds and better sailing all the rest of your days."

[lodwick]

A beautifully done God Bless America flash movie

[Darksheare]

Thanks. And I apologise for my absence. It's been 90 degrees here, again. And my 'puter doesn't like to run when the temp gets up there. (Windows crashes all too often when the system gets warm.)

That, and the power company has been playing havoc with the electric here...

[andysandmikesmom]

That really was a beautiful movie, Loddy...I just sent it on to some of my friends...I am sure they will like it as well...

I especially liked the music, by piano...being an old piano player myself from way back, I think that is exactly how I would have played the Battle Hymn....

All piano players can read the same music, play the same tune, but each person adds their own way of playing something...this pianist(now that sounds more high tone than simply piano player) sounds like he/she has really given their heart and soul into this rendition...

Thanks for such a stirring movie...

[lodwick]

Glad you guys enjoyed the movie.

At the funeral service for an AirForce friend of ours, the Battle Hymn was played at the end of the service - it was so unexpected, and yet so appropriate, that most of the mourners completely lost it...myself included.

[andysandmikesmom]

I have no idea what my uncles family will be planning...but the Battle Hymn would seem an appropriate song for the end of a memorial or wake service, for a vet, especially one who fought in a war...

My one cousin,(not the deceaseds sons, but my other cousin, related to the family) has promised that he will give me a full resume of the wake and the funeral..this cousin is almost like my brother, as he is the son of my aunt and uncle who lived downstairs of me when we were all growing up together....there was me and my little brother, and my two boy cousins downstairs...it was like having 3 brothers....and almost like having two sets of parents, we were all so close...

But this uncle who died, lived a few miles from us...we were really a big happy family....aunts, uncles, kids, grandkids, grandma and grandpa...I was just looking some old family photos this morning, and came across pics of a big family picnic out at some lake when I was around 12...

There all of us kids were, with our parents, and the whole extended family of that, my growing up time...there were 16 of us in that big happy extended family, and now there are only 6 left...(of course, that not counting me or my cousins kids and spouses-just us in our growin up years)...but there was one pic, taken around 1958 or so, and there are all us kids, 7 of us, in our bathing suits, wearing swim goggles, and swim fins, and making funny faces for the pics....acting just like kids...and in the background is our grandmother, just beaming at her brood of grandkids...

And so, some lives end, and yet, there is always new life bursting forth....

I know grandma and grandpa have welcomed my uncle home, and especially he has seen his daughter and his grandson, who never got the chance to be born...and for my Uncle, I am happy, that he has gone on, to be with those he loved...

But the tears still flow, concerned for my aunt and for their boys...they must now go on alone...

But I agee, that Battle Hymn would be so appropriate for one who has served his country, in the military...

[lodwick]

Doing the math, it would appear that we both will hit the double-nickle + one sometime this year...sometimes I wonder if I were ever really twelve years of age - man, where has the time flown?

Over the years in our family, we've noticed that so very often when one of us leaves this earth, soon before or soon thereafter, will be born another to take the departed's place. Has this happened in any other's family?

Back after the dreaded grocery run. ;-)

[andysandmikesmom]

Loddy...your math is great...I will be hitting the double-nickel+two, next month....next April BigDom hits the big 60...

You are so very right...the time has flown...I can remember just about everything about my childhood from the age of well, very very young...for some reason I have an amazing memory....I remember everything single thing about my boys growing up times also...

Sometimes Andy will hand me a snapshot of himself and Mike, and ask me to tell where it was taken, what events surrounded the whole event, everything that went on...seldom, if ever, have I been stumped....dont know why, but my memory seldom fails me...

I had a wonderful childhood, and can remember just about all of it....even what clothes we were wearing, who was doing what, what people were talking about, I can remember it all...and for that I am so grateful, because my mind always had a safe and happy place to return to, when real present time life gets me down...I dont live in the past, but am overjoyed, that I can remember it when I want...

Often it does happen, that when one family member dies, another is born, renewing the family...I know of only one instance in our family where that kind of happened...

When our Michael died, my Aunt Helen from California, relayed the news to her one son and daughter in law living in Kentucky....these two had never planned to have children, and when they heard the news of MIchaels death, they called and were so good and kind to us...

Six weeks later, they found out they were going to have a baby...what a surprise...in spite of using birth control, which had worked for more than 17yrs, they were now going to have a baby....they were older parents by that time, and concerned about the upcoming pregnancy...but things were fine, ,and exactly 9 months after our Michael had died, their Gregory was born...co-incidence? I dont know, but it surely was odd...

[lodwick]

Guys, I'm in the shut down mode. We just learned that our beloved bil has advanced pancreatic cancer - we're in the numb stage at the present. Perhaps a night's rest will help clarify things here.

God bless those passing this way. Good evening to everyone. JL