Early Mums

[cemeteryconsort]

I've been meaning to comment on how early the mums seem to be this year. Some mums at the cemetery have been blooming for over two weeks now. Others I notice just starting, and still others not yet ready. I always think of mums being fall or late summer plants. What gives?

My corn has flowers. But it's really short. Like a couple feet tall. One row

Comments

[sushioga]

Anwer to question: Been there, done that.IN real life as well as Dreamland.

I nibble on a single nasturtium every day when I take Pup into the garden. Makes me happy thinking I have grown something edible on my beloved homestead.

Pre-mourning

[luzclarita]

My husband's parents are older and he is incredibly attached to them. He also has a very strong memory of his grandmother, who lived with them when he was little, dying when he was in 6th grade. It affected him profoundly and he occassionally has spells of getting very sad and being almost inconsolable thinking about the fact that his parents will die and leave him some day. These spells happen about twice a year. He loves them a lot.

The task of the executor

[miss_whiplash]

Years ago I worked for someone who delayed retirement for a couple of years, only to find out that he was dying of cancer and unlikely to live beyond three or four months.

He spent his last three months going through his papers making sure everything was inorder so that his younger widow would not be troubled by such things in her grief.

I saw that and decided that it was the most terrible way to face one's own death, drowning in paperwork and other administration. I made my will 'in contemplation of marriage'; basically if you don't marry in the three months after the date of the signature of the will it is null and void. As soon as we lived somewhere large enough to accomodate one I bought a filing cabinet and filed everything, only shredding it after it was 7 years out of date.

I still think of George, tidying his life up instead of living the last bit he had left for himself. So sad.