Thoughts from Crow Cottage (My Main Blog.)
crowbelle's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just A Little Remembrance Just a Little Remembrance... November 10, 1925 That was the day my mother was born. If she had lived, she would be 81 years old today. But she didn't. If she had never smoked cigarettes, she would probably still be alive today. But she did, so she isn't. I don't want to delve into the harmful effects of cigarette (or any other kind of) smoking here. Anyone who smokes knows only too well the risks they are taking, so it's not my place to lecture. I just wanted to take this opportunity to say Happy Birthday, Mom - wherever you are. Before she died, while she was here staying with us and going thru treatments for her laryngeal cancer, we had several long conversations about the things she believed in - vis a vis, life after death, etc. My Mom and I had never been that close before. And I was surprised to learn that her beliefs were almost parallel to mine in this regard. She said she had always known there was a life after death - of some kind - and I sure wish now that I could hear her whisper in my ear just what it's like over there on the other side. But I can't. Since she would have turned 81 today, I thought I'd give you all a little piece of her - in the form of her web site that she built all by herself, after I gave her a WebTV box back in the late 1990s. She had no idea how to use the darn thing. She had never been a typist, but she taught herself how to pick out the letters and numbers on the keyboard, and she even figured out how to install the WebTV box all on her own (she lived alone in Florida at that point in time). Once I had learned some HTML coding techniques, I taught them to her, via emails and telephone, and it was hard going for a little while there. But she managed to learn it and became passionate about it. She built herself a little web site with lots of imaginative and colourful pages, and if you have the time, go take a look at This is the link to her Archives page, and just go down the list of her pages and click on any of them. You will find that she loved animals, and she has a lot of pages dealing with various critters. She has a nice page all about HER mother, who lived at our house until she died in 1976. I never knew my maternal grandfather as he died of a heart attack two weeks before I was born. My Dad was 26 years older than my Mom, so his side of the family only consisted of one brother who died when I was under 10, so I never really knew my Dad's family at all. The only grandparent I ever knew was my Nana, and Mom does a nice page in tribute to her. I hope you enjoy it, if you have the time. As for me, I'm supposed to be working, but I thought I'd take the opportunity, while I'm up here on the computer, to just put together this little journal entry in remembrance of my Mom, Janet. Happy Birthday, Mom! Love and cheers, Bex 8:55 am - 10 November 2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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