Ted Wight's St. Louis Style

Happy Mother's Day!

Here is a picture of me and my mom during her horsey phase in the 70s.  Tonight I am taking her to hear Denise Thimes at The Sheldon.

Morning Garden Pics by Jack!

This mornings garden pics are by my nephew, Jack.  He wants to be a blogger and photographer and this is his first step.  We just finished making Red Velvet cake for a birthday party tonight.  This is why he has a little red splotch on his face.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Burial

Yesterday we enjoyed the lovely Spring day and buried my father's ashes who passed away in November.  I am glad that we waited for Spring to put him in the family plot at Calvary.

My brother works for Corning in Corning, NY and is a doctor of ceramic engineering.  One of his pet projects is something call Celcor that is used for industrial filters.  He is artistic and was able to use Celcor to sculpt an urn from it for my father's ashes. In some century in the future they will unearth the urn and wonder what was going on.

 

Burying Your Father

Last November my father died after a long struggle with colon cancer.  He got it back in the late 80's when colonoscopies were not standard. Over the years he had a little bit of his colon and intestines snipped here and there.  The last five years were bad...the last year was sad.  He was no longer able to eat solids and as we say..."had a bag going in and out". The day or two before his final hospital stay for problems, we found receipts for meals at Steak and Shake, Popeye's and a Chinese restaurant. I think I would have binged at Niche, though his mix was more of a killer for the tummy.

On Sunday morning when it was raining and cold, I went to Calvary with my mother and son to pick out a plot and decide on a gravestone. (He was cremated...that is why we could take our time.)  We scoped out the Berthold/Ewing plot where my father's side of the family is buried. See the pics below...a cold, rainy day was perfect to be in a cemetery.

I told my son that if this plot ran out of room, we had a nice mausoleum in New Orleans that had room for twelve and only two spots were filled!  See a pic HERE.

 

 
 

Band

My sons participated in symphonic and concert band performances yesterday with some other schools.  I wish I learned to play an instrument.  I guess I owe it to my ex-wife getting them involved with band....I am thankful  Wow!  What a way to start off the week, complimenting your ex-wife!  I wonder if she reads this blog?