if you are not going to...

[lei.talk]

...give your mother one of these (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GZAZ_enUS281US281&q=%22sigbritt+lothberg%22),
what will be your mother's day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day#Dates_around_the_world) gift?

[Beorn]

Mother's Day has been and gone in Britain. I sometimes remember to send a card, but often I do not.

To my shame, I forgot to get the kids to create a card for their mother this year.
Next year I shall make sure they make one twice as big and a hundred times more full of love.

[Æmeric]

Lunch followed by a trip to the cemetary. She loves to visit the cemetary. She want to see which gravesites are not being maintained by the families, who's breaking the cemetary rules with unauthorized stuff - like graveside benches. And she'll point to a grave & tell me what that person did to the person buried 2 rows over in 1955!

Actually, I've noticed a lot of old people like to visit cemetaries & do the exact same thing.:rolleyes2: God help me if she wants to bring 1 or 2 of the aunts along.

[Heimmacht]

A gallow, haha :thumb001:.

[Vargtand]

We'll have to see, maybe a priest to perform an exorcism? :P (she is a new ager..)
I’ll probably grace her with my divine presence and give her some flowers I guess.

[Lady L]

Lunch followed by a trip to the cemetary. She loves to visit the cemetary. She want to see which gravesites are not being maintained by the families, who's breaking the cemetary rules with unauthorized stuff - like graveside benches. And she'll point to a grave & tell me what that person did to the person buried 2 rows over in 1955!

Actually, I've noticed a lot of old people like to visit cemetaries & do the exact same thing.:rolleyes2: God help me if she wants to bring 1 or 2 of the aunts along.

Great story/humor... Æmeric!!! :D Sounds familiar indeed! :D

I do like visiting cemeteries myself. Something always peaceful in the air. :) I tend to like 2 kinds best, either being spooky or like I said calming :)

In high school I knew a girl who died on our senior week break, she was a senior as well. She was buried in one of those drawer things, thats what I call it. ?? Its a building full of folks in drawers...anyway it freaked me out. :tongue

And, I know I showed this on Skadi but since I am talking about graves, my dad went to Texas were my twin sister is buried and bought some new flowers, put them on and snapped a picture. Later when he got home he looked at the pictures...

http://i41.tinypic.com/29et541.jpg

I know this picture is small but if you look you can see a Koala Bear :eek:

[Æmeric]

In high school I knew a girl who died on our senior week break, she was a senior as well. She was buried in one of those drawer things, thats what I call it. ?? Its a building full of folks in drawers...anyway it freaked me out.

You mean an above ground burial vault. I think they are more common in areas where real estate is at a premium.


http://www.tmgardens.com/Glass%20Bronze%20Niches%20large.jpg

[Lady L]

You mean an above ground burial vault. I think they are more common in areas where real estate is at a premium.


http://www.tmgardens.com/Glass%20Bronze%20Niches%20large.jpg

That must be what it is. Do they just put the people in there with nothing over them..? Wonder whats the deal with those things ..?

[Brynhild]

http://i41.tinypic.com/29et541.jpg

I know this picture is small but if you look you can see a Koala Bear :eek:

Sorry to be pedantic but Koalas are NOT bears! :p

Our mother's day is always the second Sunday in May. I don't usually see my mum but I send up a card and a present - the kids will give me a card and something nice.

[Rainraven]

Oh no.... My mum is so hard to buy for. Maybe a nice book on art or cooking :confused: Or I'll see what my sister is going to get her and maybe go halves :)

[lei.talk]

last year
and the year before,
this book was stacked next to my cash-register

http://i42.tinypic.com/o048rd.jpg (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GZAZ_enUS281US281&q=%22mars+needs+moms%22)

the week before mother's day
and the week after.

stacked next to it
were padded mailing-envelopes.
added to the price was shipping via ups (http://www.ups.com/).

the many young men (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Base_Camp_Pendleton) that frequent my book-store
simply paid, addressed the envelope,
wrote a personal message in the book

and the ups-girl picked up boxes of them
each afternoon.

the second year,
the lady receiving my order at penguin (http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/publishers/yr/philomel.html),
telephoned to verify the number of zeroes
on my order-form.


the author/artist's earlier books
have always sold well in my book-store.
http://i41.tinypic.com/1z1tvtg.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Breathed)

[lei.talk]

you could e-mail to your mother
this url: http://www.hulu.com/collections/226