Saturday, December 12, 2015

THE FOG by listener's Mom


My mother painted this when I was a child and I watched her do it.  She won a ribbon for it at an art show in Newburyport, Massachusetts.  The night before she died, in 2001, Mom told me that she wanted my sister to have this painting, my brother to have another, and I could keep the one I already had.  We didn't know she was going to die at that time, it's just that she and Dad were moving into a nursing facility the next day.  Anyway, all this time I thought my sister had this painting.  Turns out my brother had it in his garage!  Since he is putting his house on the market, he passed it to me.  So I had it cleaned and restored (it was coated in awful cigarette smoke and had been stored poorly in the garage too), and got it framed.  And today I am taking it to my sister, who lives near the Atlantic Ocean, and am happy to be fulfilling Mom's wish at long last.  RIP Mom! ♥

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  1. Howard would be first this very warm 42nd day of dark.

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    1. Hallo all! Thanks for the notes!

      puddle…we tied or broke "record high" records all over the eastern part of the country today, including WVA!

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  2. Interesting coincidence. The Chicago area has a dense fog alert until midnight, although I don't see any fog outside my window.

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    1. Bill, how cool that Chicago had fog along with the blog Fog! :-D

      We had some fog yesterday on Lake Champlain even into the afternoon. Mother Nature seems so puzzled.

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  3. From The Atlantic's column on the Paris talks:

    "China and the United States engaged in months of secret diplomacy to arrive at a bilateral climate-change pact that signaled a real deal might finally emerge this time. (Ironically, China wound up choosing a market-based method for its climate policy, while the U.S. hews to a command-and-control approach.)"

    And good for you listener--I am sure your sister will be pleased.

    Time for lunch now.

    --Alan

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    1. Well, given that China's free market is already a command-and-control approach and the USA's Markets can't be trusted to do the right thing out of the goodness of their hearts, it sounds about right. ;-)

      My sister was indeed pleased! It's a big deal for her 65th Birthday, too. Plus!! She has been collecting a ton of information about our lineage and I learned we are 61% Irish (Mom would have loved lording that over Dad who always said he was all Scottish). Ha! Well, somewhere in there we are English, Scandinavian and Spanish as well! Wow!!

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  4. The Irish were called Scotti in mainland Europe--there were some famous Irish monks who bore the appellation. Hmmmmm....Scotch....Irish....Spanish.... The Spanish isn't from a shipwrecked survivor of the Great Armada of 1588, enslaved by the Irish, I suppose?

    --Alan

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  5. I refilled my father's Parker 51 fountain pen with ink, and it works perfectly; as I suspected, it has a fine nib. I should use it, but it is too personally valuable to risk losing it; the compromise is to use it at home.

    Clear and cold outside now (8 PM), but clouds and rain are predicted for tomorrow. I topped our tangelo tree this afternoon. Now back to The Woman in White.

    --Alan

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