Tuesday, August 11. 2009
My parent's 50th anniversary
I put up the pictures of my parents 50th anniversary on Facebook, but then thought that everyone who reads me is not on Facebook, so I better do a blog entry as well! This is definitely not the condensed version, but the expanded version so mom could share it with her friends and family who could not be here.
It has been a rainy drizzly day here in Victoria. Bazza has his winter coat out, and is wanting to go to Walmart to get antifreeze, in amongst asking if they get blizzards in August here! Silly Australian!! I guess I cannot blame him, and it was nice to sleep in our RV for a week even if it has to go back to storage (and winterized in case we don't make it back this fall as those things tend to do!)
Fortunately yesterday for the parents 50th anniversary was sunny and warm. My dad is feeling better daily, (I can tell by what food he is consuming!!!) and my mother certainly had a lot of food for the 50th.
This is my mother, my aunt Bubsy and Bazza who was put to work on the meat slicing detail the morning off...
My father is looking way too chipper for someone who just got out of the hospital. I still say he was just glad to see his daughters!
Mom did something artsy and crafty out of roses and bowls. Personally I thought the $3.00 gold doilies were fine but....
My mother asked my sister and I to do the cheese and grape platters. You would think that would be something simple, apparently not for my sister!
Although I convinced her that random was much better then delicate little lines and she saw the smartness in that. I did want to point out the glistening on these grapes...I have NEVER EVER had grapes that looked like this in Tortola. The procedure in Tortola is IMMEDIATELY take out of crushed store bag they show up in, smell, (yep, they smell moldy) take out all the moldy and yucky ones and then rinse and quickly transfer to vegetable bags. And i probably paid about $9.00 for that privilege, don't even get me started on lettuce!
End of that tangent...Mom had spent a lot of time and effort getting the basement ready for this event, from cooking to setting out mementos of their life together. That was very interesting. She had the shirts from their 40th wedding anniversary out and hanging. I thought they should be modeled, but they did not appear to share my thoughts on this!
They had a nice board when pictures of them through the ages, their children, grand children and even Baby Ella the step great grandchild in Australia on it! Both my sister and I were glad to see that they kept it to current spouses and did not put up pictures of all our exes!!!
They had the wedding pictures of my mom being walked down the aisle...
Mom had even printed off the blog entry I did when dad was in hospital last week and we did not know what was going on and had it on the wall....
She showed a selection of wedding gifts and who they were from. I certainly remember the cookie jar on the left while growing up, but I swear it was a lot larger!
This coke bottle is 50 years old, and I think every female in the family may remember it as way back when, they did not have steam that came out of the irons. Since dad was in the Air Force, the uniform shirts took mom about 40 minutes to iron way back when. By the time my sister and I had to do the ironing, I think we had it whittled down to about 3-4 minutes! Now, the quality was probably not as good from us and the quality of the uniform shirts improved!. I don't believe either my sister or I iron nowadays. Ever. Just saying.....
Then there were sign posts to get up, since our RV was mostly blocking the driveway...
My Aunt Bubsy looks like she was caught with something she should not have been eating in her mouth here (and it is perhaps possible!)
This is Uncle Byrnes, Bubsy's husband, along with my sister, Sydney...
And my dad doing what he does best, sweeping. This is going to be his liquor bar for the day. This table underneath the plastic goes all the way back to being the picnic cooking table when we used to go camping when we lived in Europe in the mid 70's. I was not sure I was trusting it!!
My mother is the most outgoing and girly of the women in my family, my sister and I sure are not. She was ready and smiling waiting for all her guests to arrive...
This is rather an UN lovely picture of myself, although the other two look cute!
And my aunt looks really cute!
My dad is not a drinker. He has not drank any alcohol since his first bypass surgery in 1900 and seven or whatever it was! It was ok though, as some of us have made up his share over the years.
His idea of a bar is beer, (good), white wine (good, and usually fairly fresh as they do have guests who drink it), red wine (one bottle that we poured down the sink as being vinegar...You can only let at least semi good wine sit for 15 years and still expect it to be drinkable!) 151 proof rum (1/3 of a bottle), some white rum I have never heard off.. (a smidgen), some vodka (again, a smidgen), Grenadine (????????), tonic water, ginger ale, and coke. Well, a few other items. Vermouth and Martini Rossi...An entire bottle of each...no glasses or martini shakers in sight, so I can only assume that they keep on being kept out in the hope that someone will drink them!
Then I spied this little goody, a Crown Royal from 1965 (Shouldn't it be worth something??)
Then the piece de resistence for most every one there...An honest to god bottle of Lemon GIn Collins! Only a bit in the bottle, no bar code and no french on it, so you know, it was an early 70's model! It brought back BAD memories to many older females there, lets just say and I am surprised that there is actually any alcohol in it, and not just water down water from when I was a teenager as I am sure it is the same bottle!
He was so cute though with it all and we love him to pieces...The younger generation supplied their own vodka and cranberry for obvious reasons...
Some assorted guests...
and an assorted sister and brother in law pretending they liked each other (they do, everyone likes my husband)
Mom greeted her guests, all of a certain age I believe!
We did keep them behind bars for the afternoon as any good children would do so they did not wander and hurt themselves after the combinations of vermouth and lemon gin that dad thought would be such a hit!
More guests...
Presents, although they were asked not too!
Dapper Don, DJ Extraordinaire (although I did hear a lot of Danny Boy and I swear there was more then a tear or two in the house!) and holder up of the liquor table...
Guests milling...
A 50th wedding anniversary frame made out of Loonies...quite fitting for 50 loonies I would say!
It became too warm in the sun so we wandered out underneath the apple trees...
Well, most did, my sister and a few guarded the liquor table from anyone who may steal that lemon gin!!
Then my parents did a ceremonial dance or two........I was hoping we would not need my medical skills!
By this time it was food time! And mom had out did herself, although the homemade perogies/putaha and ham sausage was the hit!
My Aunt and Uncle generously tasted everything first to make sure there was no poison in it!
I really like this picture of my mother, she looks very young and vulnerable. One of my favorites even if a bit blurry!
Good thing my parents have a very large basement so we could feed 40 odd people in and there was NO PROBLEM with having enough dishes as we seem to have mountains from various bases with air force logo's on them!
They also received many bouquets of very nice flowers....
Then after all was said and done it was just the die hards!
Today was a "not out of bed until 11 after all it is raining anyways" type of day. We are left overs. Go figure!
It was then time to take my sister to the airport so she could go back to San Francisco....She looks like she is crying and Bazza looks like he would rather be anywhere else!
A Hucul family picture minus my brother Danny!
Both my sister and I were extremely glad that we could make it out for this, and we are happy to see my father looking so much better. Glad it was nothing too terribly serious at the moment, you just never know at this age do you? Thank you to everyone for their thoughts...
It has been a rainy drizzly day here in Victoria. Bazza has his winter coat out, and is wanting to go to Walmart to get antifreeze, in amongst asking if they get blizzards in August here! Silly Australian!! I guess I cannot blame him, and it was nice to sleep in our RV for a week even if it has to go back to storage (and winterized in case we don't make it back this fall as those things tend to do!)
Fortunately yesterday for the parents 50th anniversary was sunny and warm. My dad is feeling better daily, (I can tell by what food he is consuming!!!) and my mother certainly had a lot of food for the 50th.
This is my mother, my aunt Bubsy and Bazza who was put to work on the meat slicing detail the morning off...
My father is looking way too chipper for someone who just got out of the hospital. I still say he was just glad to see his daughters!
Mom did something artsy and crafty out of roses and bowls. Personally I thought the $3.00 gold doilies were fine but....
My mother asked my sister and I to do the cheese and grape platters. You would think that would be something simple, apparently not for my sister!
Although I convinced her that random was much better then delicate little lines and she saw the smartness in that. I did want to point out the glistening on these grapes...I have NEVER EVER had grapes that looked like this in Tortola. The procedure in Tortola is IMMEDIATELY take out of crushed store bag they show up in, smell, (yep, they smell moldy) take out all the moldy and yucky ones and then rinse and quickly transfer to vegetable bags. And i probably paid about $9.00 for that privilege, don't even get me started on lettuce!
End of that tangent...Mom had spent a lot of time and effort getting the basement ready for this event, from cooking to setting out mementos of their life together. That was very interesting. She had the shirts from their 40th wedding anniversary out and hanging. I thought they should be modeled, but they did not appear to share my thoughts on this!
They had a nice board when pictures of them through the ages, their children, grand children and even Baby Ella the step great grandchild in Australia on it! Both my sister and I were glad to see that they kept it to current spouses and did not put up pictures of all our exes!!!
They had the wedding pictures of my mom being walked down the aisle...
Mom had even printed off the blog entry I did when dad was in hospital last week and we did not know what was going on and had it on the wall....
She showed a selection of wedding gifts and who they were from. I certainly remember the cookie jar on the left while growing up, but I swear it was a lot larger!
This coke bottle is 50 years old, and I think every female in the family may remember it as way back when, they did not have steam that came out of the irons. Since dad was in the Air Force, the uniform shirts took mom about 40 minutes to iron way back when. By the time my sister and I had to do the ironing, I think we had it whittled down to about 3-4 minutes! Now, the quality was probably not as good from us and the quality of the uniform shirts improved!. I don't believe either my sister or I iron nowadays. Ever. Just saying.....
Then there were sign posts to get up, since our RV was mostly blocking the driveway...
My Aunt Bubsy looks like she was caught with something she should not have been eating in her mouth here (and it is perhaps possible!)
This is Uncle Byrnes, Bubsy's husband, along with my sister, Sydney...
And my dad doing what he does best, sweeping. This is going to be his liquor bar for the day. This table underneath the plastic goes all the way back to being the picnic cooking table when we used to go camping when we lived in Europe in the mid 70's. I was not sure I was trusting it!!
My mother is the most outgoing and girly of the women in my family, my sister and I sure are not. She was ready and smiling waiting for all her guests to arrive...
This is rather an UN lovely picture of myself, although the other two look cute!
And my aunt looks really cute!
My dad is not a drinker. He has not drank any alcohol since his first bypass surgery in 1900 and seven or whatever it was! It was ok though, as some of us have made up his share over the years.
His idea of a bar is beer, (good), white wine (good, and usually fairly fresh as they do have guests who drink it), red wine (one bottle that we poured down the sink as being vinegar...You can only let at least semi good wine sit for 15 years and still expect it to be drinkable!) 151 proof rum (1/3 of a bottle), some white rum I have never heard off.. (a smidgen), some vodka (again, a smidgen), Grenadine (????????), tonic water, ginger ale, and coke. Well, a few other items. Vermouth and Martini Rossi...An entire bottle of each...no glasses or martini shakers in sight, so I can only assume that they keep on being kept out in the hope that someone will drink them!
Then I spied this little goody, a Crown Royal from 1965 (Shouldn't it be worth something??)
Then the piece de resistence for most every one there...An honest to god bottle of Lemon GIn Collins! Only a bit in the bottle, no bar code and no french on it, so you know, it was an early 70's model! It brought back BAD memories to many older females there, lets just say and I am surprised that there is actually any alcohol in it, and not just water down water from when I was a teenager as I am sure it is the same bottle!
He was so cute though with it all and we love him to pieces...The younger generation supplied their own vodka and cranberry for obvious reasons...
Some assorted guests...
and an assorted sister and brother in law pretending they liked each other (they do, everyone likes my husband)
Mom greeted her guests, all of a certain age I believe!
We did keep them behind bars for the afternoon as any good children would do so they did not wander and hurt themselves after the combinations of vermouth and lemon gin that dad thought would be such a hit!
More guests...
Presents, although they were asked not too!
Dapper Don, DJ Extraordinaire (although I did hear a lot of Danny Boy and I swear there was more then a tear or two in the house!) and holder up of the liquor table...
Guests milling...
A 50th wedding anniversary frame made out of Loonies...quite fitting for 50 loonies I would say!
It became too warm in the sun so we wandered out underneath the apple trees...
Well, most did, my sister and a few guarded the liquor table from anyone who may steal that lemon gin!!
Then my parents did a ceremonial dance or two........I was hoping we would not need my medical skills!
By this time it was food time! And mom had out did herself, although the homemade perogies/putaha and ham sausage was the hit!
My Aunt and Uncle generously tasted everything first to make sure there was no poison in it!
I really like this picture of my mother, she looks very young and vulnerable. One of my favorites even if a bit blurry!
Good thing my parents have a very large basement so we could feed 40 odd people in and there was NO PROBLEM with having enough dishes as we seem to have mountains from various bases with air force logo's on them!
They also received many bouquets of very nice flowers....
Then after all was said and done it was just the die hards!
Today was a "not out of bed until 11 after all it is raining anyways" type of day. We are left overs. Go figure!
It was then time to take my sister to the airport so she could go back to San Francisco....She looks like she is crying and Bazza looks like he would rather be anywhere else!
A Hucul family picture minus my brother Danny!
Both my sister and I were extremely glad that we could make it out for this, and we are happy to see my father looking so much better. Glad it was nothing too terribly serious at the moment, you just never know at this age do you? Thank you to everyone for their thoughts...
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