Holiday read

 

It's Memorial Day Monday and I have a little bit of guilt cuz I'm not going out and decorating Graves that's never been a big deal for me. I never really quite got what Memorial Day was all about except for it was a first family get together of the spring/summer but I remember growing up. I was much more interested in getting together with the cousins and potato chips and such that I was headed out to the cemeteries to put flowers on graves. I really didn't know anybody who lived in a grave that was all to come later on. Of course the parents and grandparents all did and this is a pretty big deal for them. I think my grandparents never got into the mood of calling the day memorial day it was always Decoration Day as far as they were concerned the day to go out and decorate the graves. I know a couple of dead people here in Salt Lake County area but I'm not really sure where their grades are at. My ex sister-in-law Sheila she was great and died way too soon and I wish I knew where she was but I just can't seem to find her. I know the cemetery she's at of course but I can't seem to locate her grave. I've even gone to the place at the cemetery that's not supposed to know this kind of stuff and because I'm not really sure of what name she used when she was buried because of the whole married name versus family name thing the fact that she was married previously it's all gets confusing and nobody that I've been able to find so far knows how she's listed and I can't find it. Maybe if that was my quest this summer because the cemetery is on the same street that I live on just further down south I can spend a couple days searching that would be kind of interesting. But then I'll be set for next year to have some where to go and decorate.

For a holidaay today was kind of productive. The day was very warm temperature wise which meant there was sunshine so I was able to sit outside in the sun for a while reading and forcing myself to finish the book finally. It took a couple hours but I finally did get on the outside of the novel. The whole volume was weird I thought and I think I must have missed 95% of the whole thing. I may have to hold on to the book maybe and read it again at some point or maybe major parts of the book at some point. Once again they claim the book was a comedy and at times I think I saw slivers of humor come through the writing. But I had the same issue with Don Quixote. My boss at the time was a physician that I wrote circuit with in the last century. He had a really thick addition of Don Quixote and he would sit in the back of the van and just laughed himself silly reading the book quite enjoying the exercise. I picked up the volume a couple years later in college and I couldn't see anything humorous about it so I think it's me somehow I'm not registering the humor that smart people do when they read these kind of volumes. It should be nice to get that kind of humor from a book- - these are certainly times that need it…