We were rather disconcerted to find during our trip down south this winter, that our cruising range has shrunk significantly. Consequently we are unable to attend the graduation of our #1 grandson from the Air Force Academy as we had planned. We will still be able to get to our ancestral homes because the trip consists of a series of short trips between friends or relatives. However, they are our age or older so....
Needless to say, the family disappointment over our missing the graduation focused the attention of our children on our future. That triggered a family meeting on the Mother’s Day weekend, something every family ought to have at least one of.
We made decisions on executors, (our current now lives too far away so a new one is needed and we have volunteers) additional Power of Attorney, (authority to pull the plug) and on other useful items such as funerals and burials.
Most of the family furniture etc was disbursed when we downsized a few years ago. Everybody pretty well got what they wanted. What is left are items easily dispersed because nobody can use them, except for some 10 file drawers of family memorabilia gathered by Grampa over a lifetime. The oldest document (Grandmother’s Bap Cert from Bohemia) is dated 1868, the oldest photo (Grandfather’s wedding) 1888 and then up to the present day.
There was a remarkable lack of enthusiasm to take possession of that material when I no longer have use for it. However, there was unanimous support for having Gramp catalog and annotate all of it, scan it onto a thumb drive and give one to each kid. I expect most of the originals will eventually be preserved but scattered amongst the nine kids and 23 grandchildren.
I have started on the project and have been appalled at the amount of annotation needed so people not familiar with the context of the item have some idea of its significance to our family. I may have a life time task here.
Much of my contribution to this forum (besides driving DO into a fury) has been searching out, and scanning when needed, articles that I thought would be of interest. This is a very tedious and time-consuming process. For reasons noted above, I will be cutting way back on that.
To paraphrase the poet;
Promises have been made that I must keep
So I have miles to go before I sleep.
As for Hank Snow. He was a major country music element in the 1950's and had a signature tune titled “Moving On.”
And the 8th Army in Korea, after the Chinese ran all over them, came up with a parody known as the Bugout Boogie. (aka “Pulling a Hank Snow”)
We’re out of beer and the Chinks are near
We gotta get moving , we can’t stay here
We’re moving on, we’re past Pusan
We’re wasting gas but we’re saving *ss,
We’re moving on.
Then General Matthew B. Ridgeway showed up and the Bugout Boogie died an instant and ignominious death.
As for this forum, I may drop in periodically to comment but my day by day direct participation in this forum has pretty well moved on.
Needless to say, the family disappointment over our missing the graduation focused the attention of our children on our future. That triggered a family meeting on the Mother’s Day weekend, something every family ought to have at least one of.
We made decisions on executors, (our current now lives too far away so a new one is needed and we have volunteers) additional Power of Attorney, (authority to pull the plug) and on other useful items such as funerals and burials.
Most of the family furniture etc was disbursed when we downsized a few years ago. Everybody pretty well got what they wanted. What is left are items easily dispersed because nobody can use them, except for some 10 file drawers of family memorabilia gathered by Grampa over a lifetime. The oldest document (Grandmother’s Bap Cert from Bohemia) is dated 1868, the oldest photo (Grandfather’s wedding) 1888 and then up to the present day.
There was a remarkable lack of enthusiasm to take possession of that material when I no longer have use for it. However, there was unanimous support for having Gramp catalog and annotate all of it, scan it onto a thumb drive and give one to each kid. I expect most of the originals will eventually be preserved but scattered amongst the nine kids and 23 grandchildren.
I have started on the project and have been appalled at the amount of annotation needed so people not familiar with the context of the item have some idea of its significance to our family. I may have a life time task here.
Much of my contribution to this forum (besides driving DO into a fury) has been searching out, and scanning when needed, articles that I thought would be of interest. This is a very tedious and time-consuming process. For reasons noted above, I will be cutting way back on that.
To paraphrase the poet;
Promises have been made that I must keep
So I have miles to go before I sleep.
As for Hank Snow. He was a major country music element in the 1950's and had a signature tune titled “Moving On.”
And the 8th Army in Korea, after the Chinese ran all over them, came up with a parody known as the Bugout Boogie. (aka “Pulling a Hank Snow”)
We’re out of beer and the Chinks are near
We gotta get moving , we can’t stay here
We’re moving on, we’re past Pusan
We’re wasting gas but we’re saving *ss,
We’re moving on.
Then General Matthew B. Ridgeway showed up and the Bugout Boogie died an instant and ignominious death.
As for this forum, I may drop in periodically to comment but my day by day direct participation in this forum has pretty well moved on.
