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Memorial Day Monday Six Word Memoir

We hung the hammock. The end.
Post notes: We actually eventually got out of the hammock to visit with a neighbor who was home from college and had dropped by. Later, we talked insurance with a salesman at the porch picnic table and picked greens from the garden for lunch. Joe shoveled manure and made a compost. I made some long over-due phone calls, cleaned out the bird feeder, and walked to mailbox but got no mail because it was a holiday, after all.
Photo album photos of loved ones enjoying our hammock in the past like we did on Memorial Day yesterday:
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1. My sister Sherry and her husband Nelson.
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2. Me with my sister Kathy.
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3. My great niece Sam (Kathy’s granddaughter) and a four legged friend.
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4. My dad, who passed away in 2005, and my mother.
What did you do on Memorial Day? More six word memoirs are HERE.

12 Responses | Add your Own

  • 1 sandy k:

    I remembered all the men in my family and women gone on before and how each has contibuted to this /Sandy memories memnories

  • 2 bluemountainmama:

    i played music for a rowdy crowd of bikers, rafters, and fishermen at a local campground. there was lots of alcohol and we could have played ‘mary had a little lamb’, and they would have loved it. you haven’t seen anything until you see a bunch of tattooed,long-haired, biker dudes putting their arms around each other and singing along to ‘you are my sunshine’ at the top of their lungs.

  • 3 On a Limb with Claudia:

    We just hung out. Went breakfast, then went for a walk with Rose. D. spent some time with his family and we had an amazing dinner with a friend. It was a very nice, slow day!

  • 4 sandy k:

    P. S. Foliage and gardens look nice and verdant

  • 5 Sara:

    Hung out at home…read, watched tv, knitted…and then in the evening I went to my quilt guild meeting.

  • 6 Sherry:

    It was funny going on your blog today to see me & Nelson there.
    I especially LOVE the picture of Dad & Ma.
    I went to Foxwoods with Nelson. We didn’t win anything, but had fun. xo

  • 7 Deana:

    Your daddy looks like he was enjoying his time in the hammock, bless his heart. Those were great- we did the “round the house and yard” chores too. Just seemed like the perfect time…and what great weather we were blessed with.

  • 8 Shephard:

    A hammock. How fun! Just the perfect thing for a relaxing memorial day!
    Michele sends her regards!
    ~S 🙂

  • 9 Debi Kelly Van Cleave:

    25 years ago today I gave birth to a beautiful little girl with a head of black hair and a little button nose. When she was three, I gave her real watercolors for her birthday. Today she is an artist. Check out her blog–she’s really cute: http://www.GreenLovesYou.blogspot.com. I thought about her today while I got 300 lbs. of grain, a hot pink saddle pad for my little (other)daughter’s birthday, and zucchini plants. I also thought about our veterans and how young our soldiers are. Children really. Then I wrote stories.

  • 10 Sunny:

    I went to an international foods and wine garden party. Charming and fun.

  • 11 kenju:

    I did absolutely nothing. It was well deserved, too.

  • 12 Beth:

    That hammock holds a lot of memories, doesn’t it? I love the last picture of your Dad and Mom in the hammock.
    On Memorial Day, I mowed the lawn, planted petunias, and sat on the porch.

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