Notes - Hammond girls (1968) / Intihuatana /

Mid-morning on Sunday. Carol liked her Mother’s Day card. Breakfast and the paper early on, plus email and Facebook. A jaunt back upstairs, sitting in your black leather bedroom chair, and thinking on a nap, especially as Carol is talking to her sister Mary Lou on the phone. Talking about what they bought on sale at Macy’s yesterday, who would have guessed, huh?

         Funny, Amorella. The Hammond girls were born shoppers just like their dear and wonderful mother. Four girls. Poor Dad Hammond. As we were both readers, history buffs and researchers for special projects, I think we adopted each other early on. How else for the men to survive? Those were good and lively days in and around Sun City Center, Florida. Here is a photo of Mom Hammond and her four girls taken in Westerville about 1968.

Left to Right: Mary Lou, Linda, Gayle, Mom, Carol

         Almost noon and you are up from your nap. Still very cloudy and gloomy, but also green.

         True. The tree leaves are out, summer is here from that perspective. The green reminds me of NOVA last week, “The Ghosts of Manchu Picchu” I think was the title. Best photos of the spot we have ever seen. In fact, the place looks ‘spiffied up’ since we saw it in 1971-72. The rock walls appear to have been scrubbed. All that jungle citified. It is a spectacular place for a picnic I can tell you. It is funny how the myths have changed. The “Hitching Post of the Sun”, the Intihuatana, was supposed to be just that, but now, according to NOVA, its four cardinal directions point to four great Andes peaks – gods of the landscape– there was no mention of the hitching post myth. Unless, of course, I am confused or missed something. Now, how unlikely is that to happen.

         You were looking for your photo of Intihuantana but you can use the one from Wiki Commons. In your day there was no rope and you could sit on it, which you did.

Above from Wiki Commons

         I have to change more slides to digital. I would like this photo if it didn’t have the ropes. I suppose I could take them out but it doesn’t seem right to do so. I don’t really remember sitting on the object but somewhere we have a photo of Carol and me standing beside it. NOVA said the first ruler of the Inca built the place. We were told it was the Palace of the Virgins, something of that sort. The mystery of the place rests in my head not the photographs. The Inca were brilliant engineers, no question about it.

         An hour or so and you are off to Outback (Steak House) for 'linner' (too late for one to early for the other).  Post, old man, and enjoy the afternoon. – Amorella.