Do You Know When the Hen Broke Wind?

[auntsie_pants]

This beautiful, sunny Sunday afternoon past I was outside fighting the rampant ivy threatening to overtake our back porch (and, indeed, our home) and I suddenly realized, apropos of nothing, that there are only two people left in the world (my mom and sister) who remember the funny and somewhat odd phrases my dad used to use to describe various

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[crankyasanoldma]

When did you lose your Dad?

[auntsie_pants]

Oh . . . 1996. I hope I didn't make anybody seal and stamp a sympathy card or anything, because it's not a recent lost. Doesn't mean I don't still feel it, of course, but nowadays I mostly feel lucky and glad that I got him for a dad, instead of sad that he's gone.

However, even when I was feeling mostly sad that he was gone, he could still make me giggle. :-)

[crankyasanoldma]

Oh, i know how that goes, we found Mom-related things to laugh about not 30 minutes after my Mom died.

And your post hadn't necessarily implied a recent loss--I just recalled not hearing you talk about your dad much, so I wondered when he'd died.

[auntsie_pants]

Actually, what hit me hardest on Fighting Ivy Day was not so much the fact that he is gone, but the fact that almost everyone who remembers him best is gone. And since I'm the youngest of the lot, I may end up being the last person ever to use the phrase, "Teedy before Toady died".

Of course, by then I'll be old, and everyone will blame my senility. ;-)