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Thank you for sharing your story. It's full of life; trials, adventures and good memories. I really enjoy getting to know people who are happy to chat, volunteer to help and form these warm communities of people. I wish I'd known him. I'm glad you have so many fond memories of him. Really, to leave such a great legacy is what many of us hope for.Blues had a heart attack on Valentine's Day at a gig in 2015. (there's another story for another time) He survived and got 6-1/2 more "bonus years" during which we welcomed a parcel more grandchildren, went on a couple of music cruises and did a lot more living. He said then he was playing with House Money. We did meet at Lit. He moved in with me and inherited 2 angry teenage girls. The first years were "difficult" in many ways. We filed paperwork to be official/legal domestic partners. We later learned the social security administration doesn't recognize common law unions unless you file 6 sworn affidavits from 3 relatives on each side. Blues was the last of his line. He did not have 3 living relatives so I said, "Or we could pay the $75 and get married" which he decided sounded like a plan. We always recognized the domestic partner filing date as our anniversary and both couldn't remember the actual marriage date. So weird. We both depended on Facebook to remind us in our memories. Anyway, he had serious life long lung issues and then heart issues. We did so well through the whole lockdown thing, until we both went to our doctor in late Sept. 2021 and caught Delta covid from him. Of all the things, right? We both ended up in the hospital -- me in isolation, him in ICU. I got better and he didn't. He died Nov. 1st. I have a lot of anger about the way things happened at the hospital, but none of it changes the fact that he's gone. I lost both of my parents the year before Blues died and that was sad. They both made it to 85. I was not prepared for the grief of losing a spouse. I thought it would be like it was with my parents. Sadly, it's not. Total solar systems apart. Part of it is that you grieve the life you had together and the person you were with them -- in some ways your identity. All that is finished. It isn't something you get over or get through to the other side. There is no other side. It's something that will always be there, but you learn to live WITH and adapt. We had such a good life together and OMG he was so funny. So weird and so funny. I could write a book of all our misadventures. He never had kids of his own -- and was afraid of babies -- so who knew he'd end up being the best grandfather ever? My younger daughter and her 2 little boys moved in with us when she divorced her 1st husband and she went through rehab. She credits Blues with saving her life. After everything she put him through as a teenager, they ended up being really close. Blues was the Maid of Honor when she married her 2nd husband --who Blues really liked. Blues virtually raised her little boys for several years when they lived with us. (The older one -- 12 at the time -- gave a speech he wrote at Blues' funeral. I was so proud of him.) We'd sit at the dinner table and I'd say "How was school today?" (boring, I know) Blues would say, "So...you're stranded on a deserted island with your family. Who are you going to kill to eat first, and why?" And make them discuss it. They were like 5 and 7, or 6 and 8. [They decided he was the first one they'd kill because 1) he was large and the meat would last a long time and 2) he was old and had already lived his life.] The older one now excels in contemporaneous speech and debate -- just like his grandfather did. The younger one has a shrine to his grandfather in his bedroom and was an absolute wreck at the funeral. Blues also walked them to school (3 blocks away) and back every day, making them stop to thank the crossing guards (both ways) for keeping them safe. He became a "flag pole mom" in the afternoons, waiting for school to be out. He knew EVERYONE. We'd run into some woman in the grocery store and they'd chat. He'd tell me: "You know who that is. That's Sally's mom. You know!" No. I don't know. I don't know Sally and I don't know her mom. hahahahaha happened all the time. One of his flag pole mom-friends was the mormon gal a few houses down. She and her "sister" had something like 7 kids between them. Blues swore it really was her sister and I just shook my head...Dude.... They all went back and forth at the same time he walked our 2, so he offered to walk their kids home to give them a few extra minutes of quiet. Then the latch-key girl from the cul-de-sac asked if she could tag along. He was like the pied piper -- and made them ALL stop and thank the crossing guards. I was leaving for work when they were getting ready to leave one morning and a woman in a big black SUV stopped at the end of our drive, rolled down her window and said to him, "Excuse me sir! I noticed you walk all these kids to school. Would you walk mine to school too?" He was rarely without words but it took him a second to figure his way out of that one: She lived too far down past our house and he didn't want to walk all that way to ensure her kids made it home. After he died I received cards, letters, money and food from people I did not even know, but who knew him and whose lives he touched. I never knew anyone who had more genuine friends and lifelong friendships than him.
By "Eternally Yours" you mean people who have been missing for a long time, those who continue here through thick and thin or those who have passed?So who is going to start the reference "Eternally Yours" eternal-thread thread? Maybe a poll is in order. Vote for your all time favorite.
Cheap Ass Spices
HUGE Sea Green
Killermuffin's If I had the Powwwah
Ass Cancer
Others to add?
No, there's already a thread about those who have passed. Someone in one of the accessory threads of the Cheap Ass Spices collection referred to that needing to be one of the Eternal Threads -- i.e., one of the top threads of all times. I thought that was a good name, but if it's too confusing, call it something else. It would be nice to all the "special" thread links in one place.By "Eternally Yours" you mean people who have been missing for a long time, those who continue here through thick and thin or those who have passed?
No, there's already a thread about those who have passed. Someone in one of the accessory threads of the Cheap Ass Spices collection referred to that needing to be one of the Eternal Threads -- i.e., one of the top threads of all times. I thought that was a good name, but if it's too confusing, call it something else. It would be nice to all the "special" thread links in one place.
Good people in that thread.Here's a start:
What is the greatest thread
Hah.I had you figured out until you kept posting after Bernie Mac died.
Where's the link to the original ass cancer thread? Anybody?So who is going to start the reference "Eternally Yours" eternal-thread thread? Maybe a poll is in order. Vote for your all time favorite.
Cheap Ass Spices
HUGE Sea Green
Killermuffin's If I had the Powwwah
Ass Cancer
Others to add?
Who isn't?In other news...
Cheyenne is busy amusing herself by poking fun at Republicans on social media.
it's too easy.Who isn't?
And funit's too easy.
I hope you've been able to eat some good food on your vacay.And fun
It doesn't matter.I have a sense that a lot of threads here this week belong on other boards. But maybe that's just me.
That's no fun. A little snark is harmless. It weeds out the thin skinned.I keep having to remind myself that there are newbies on the board who don’t realize what the tv like and I should probably be nice rather than snarky
Oh I have pics that I would share if it wasn't for the image sizeI hope you've been able to eat some good food on your vacay.
There is a nifty free image resizing app for iPhones.Oh I have pics that I would share if it wasn't for the image size
Samsung.There is a nifty free image resizing app for iPhones.