Happy Birthday Lady Jan, you are truly missed.
Jim today must be very hard for you my friend, your in my thoughts fella.
All the very best
Jason
Happy Birthday Lady Jan, you are truly missed.
Jim today must be very hard for you my friend, your in my thoughts fella.
All the very best
Jason
Fancy shooting your air pistols & rifles a bit more, then guy's & gal's come visit us at theUBC for loads of fun competitions for all types of air pistols and rifles.
Thanks, Jason. Yes, it was a rough day for me at times.
And no matter what people may say about rejoicing in heaven: I believe that Jan truly misses all of us, just as much as we miss her.
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
Rough day Jim. I'm sure Jan enjoyed your reading, you'll have to make sure you read her the rest. It will do you both good.
Take care
UBC Resident Cowboy
St Paul of 55
Been there, bought it, tried it, sold it
Yes, and a funny thing is that I read ahead on Moby Dick, after I left the grave (I took the streetcar, and read as I rode): but I will go back and reread (to Jan) these parts, picking up where I left off with her.
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
I don't know if I mentioned it here before: but (and I don't know if I mentioned this before here, either) Jan isn't buried in a grave and tombstone arrangement, but is interred in an indoor mausoluem crypt.
It's a conventional way to bury people here in New Orleans: either that way, or in an above-ground outdoor tomb. It's because of a combination of our high water table, and French tradition.
Anyway...all that is just to lead up to my point.
There are several crypts from bottom to top, and several in a horizontal line, making for a kind of wall of crypts, in a huge mausoleum with many, many such walls.
I haven't encountered even one other crypt there, out of the hundreds that I've walked by, that contains "anyone I knew": with the exception of the crypt directly above Jan, which contains the remains of a co-worker of mine!
She was like Jan: a truly beautiful woman, inside and out, and a good friend. She stuck her neck out for me during an office crisis.
She died in her 50's as well - even younger than Jan, and like Jan, her death was totally unexpected.
She and Jan were friends: and when she died, I inherited her office spaces, where I worked till I retired last December!
Is that weird, or what?
I'll bet she and Jan have some interesting conversations!
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
"Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened" Winston Churchill
http://planetairgun.com/index.php
OR, it could be BOTH No. 1. and No. 2.
By the way...The nonsense we're being fed about "we're all living to be 85..." is just that: nonsense!
There are 6 names on the vertical row of crypts where Jan is buried. One name is mine. The other five have already died.
I was born in 1951. Of the five who are already "in there", four have lived less time than I have.
And I see this throughout the mausoleum. The saddest tomb says simply, "Baby Curren 08-04-05" (meaning August 4, 2005, by the US dating practice).
The poor kid apparently died the day of birth, without even being named.
Very sad.
Last edited by Jim McArthur; 10-10-2010 at 11:16 PM.
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone