Afternoon. You are waiting for Carol at the
VOA Centre’s Carter’s shop (boys clothes) and have a stop at Target and the pet
store for kitty litter. You had an excellent lunch, sandwiches and soup at
Longhorn’s and told your server, Jen, that you will be in more often for the
lunch menu. Earlier Scott and Eric finished up work on the house and cleaned
the gutters in three places where the leaves build up even though you have
gutter screens. They will come back for the gutters at the end of November when
most of the leaves should be down. Kim called and said the signing for the
house may be postponed until Friday morning and if so you are going back up
Saturday and move clothes, etc on Sunday so everything next week will go on
schedule – the movers come on next Monday morning. You are excited to see the
house and the finishing touches. Fortunately they had the grass put in on time
(three weeks ago) and it is coming up well for which they are thankful. You
thought they should sod but you are happy they didn’t listen to you and Carol.
– Amorella
1446 hours. I’m glad Kim and Paul are independently minded
enough to do what they think best even though they listen to our advice (when we
are asked). Good for them. We still have a few things to do but we are further
along than I thought we would be. Carol has clothes to wash this afternoon. What
is she doing in that store; it’s been half an hour? It is time for me to work
on this genealogy problem.
1637
hours. We are home from our errands. I have been working on Grandma and need to
make sure that the first chapter segment begins with Scotland and the other
chapters follow suit that way the reader should be less confused and there
needs to be a reminder clue in each segment as to whom we are dealing with –
Scotland or England.
Do you think anyone cares about this sort of
thing orndorff? No one is ever going to check, do you think? – Amorella
1641 hours. I care. I want the Dead in their proper family
order even if it is fiction. In real life there is no doubt a lot of fiction
resting in the ground and on the headstones for that matter. This way the books
will be in with the mix. Quite fitting actually since I’ll be in there with them.
Earlier
you were speaking about the fiction in the cemeteries. You did mowing and road/cemetery
maintenance work for Blendon Township for two summers during college, you
worked with your cousin Dave Short and you both gained employment through one
of the township trustees, Harold Freeman, a cousin to your Grandma Schick who
was a Freeman. After the second summer you transferred to the City of
Westerville. Uncle Ernie got you the summer job and the first summer you worked
on the sewer and road maintenance crews, the summer after you worked for the
water department, city parks, city electric maintenance crew, garbage crew and
cemetery maintenance; then the following summer it was grave digger and
cemetery maintenance. The final two years you did maintenance at the city
cemeteries and the sewage plant (waste management). Many of these summer jobs
involved work at varies township and city cemeteries. The first grave you dug
with an air hammer, shovel and axe made you tired enough to fall asleep in once
completed. One was a former junior high math teacher that you prayed to God for
most of that year – “Dear God, Please let either Mr. O’C. or me be dead by
morning so I won’t have to go to class.” And, you ended up burying the man some
years later. Another, while using an air hammer, you pierced a wooden casket
that was buried in a supposedly empty plot. Lots of stories about the Dead run
through your mind, many of them up close and personal. These books do not gloss
over your business with the Dead. A gravedigger knows things, and you were a
gravedigger. You know city sewage and trash collecting too. You had six summers
of public service employment and graduated from Otterbein College (University)
in seven years. – Amorella
1755 hours. I don’t think this is all that important but
one does learn things about people working for township and city government
services. Gravediggers though learn a lot about themselves while digging each
grave they dig and some of that experience cannot ever be accurately
articulated into words. Bodies within two feet all the way around and I went
right to sleep. Waking up from a sound sleep and climbing out of a clean,
shaded and cool grave plot into a hot afternoon sun is another. One does not forget these experiences and
many others. Most everybody has things they want to forget, but not me, I would
just as soon remember them all.
1812 hours. That is a somewhat spooky statement Amorella, but then it is October.
You
worked through the seven Grandma segments and have the dialogue settings
straighten out – they were in a mixed order of Scot and English. Now you have
to make sure that each can segment has a direct connection back to Criteria and
Renaldo. Eventually the Scottish side and the English side will marry and
eventually Robert and Connie and Richard and Cyndi will be directly connected –
descendents of Criteria and Renaldo. The point being that genetics lasts a long
time and there are connections and interconnections within the species that few
would recognise as an under-garden of mushroom-like elements attaching
themselves to hearts and souls that produce a gravity-like glue that allows the
metaphysical and physical to co-exist. – Amorella
2241 hours. I write without deliberation and wonder what
mistakes I might be making in translation Amorella but if it makes the book better
fiction I’m all for it.
This fits in the commonly held romantic
thought that two people are ‘made’ for each other. Sometimes it is more than
two but never less. If you want a mistranslation into imagination this is where
you will find it as far as these Merlyn books are concerned. – Post. Amorella
2245 hours. This sounds like fun – “two people made for
one another; and that’s only the half of it”.
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