PICTURE OF THE DAY-FEBRUARY 5, 2009
(http://www.vtgrandpa.com/photos/albums/Mike-Cains-Picture-of-the-Day-Archive/feb09tracks3.jpg)
Another shot of the tracks on the ice on the Lamoille River from Tuesday.
ANOTHER EDITION OF "ODDS AND ENDS"
The e-mail switchover had gone OK for me until Wednesday. It gives me my e-mail addressed to my Fairpoint account. But when it checks for the ones coming to my old Verizon account, it won't acknowledge my Verizon password. Not sure if I have to change something or not. Margie reset my account manually on Saturday, because I couldn't log into the Fairpoint e-mail update thingy. Margie is more of a computer whiz than I am.
We lost Dad 19 years ago today(Thursday). An awful day. It really was.
Mom will have been gone 20 years on the 18th.
It really doesn't seem possible. They have been gone for 2/5ths of my life.
February used to give me such high hopes. They were racing in Daytona. Then they were in Richmond, VA, and then Rockingham, NC. If they were racing down south, spring was coming.
But we lost Mom's father on February 3rd. Mom was on the 18th. Dad, the 5th. Speedy Minor was mid-February. Back when, Sara Meade passed away on a Sunday in 1973. Bill Meade was her husband, and they had a son, Mark. They lived on what is now Meade Road. They were the only house on that road for a long time.
Now we try to get through the month as best we can.