Last year I was a pall bearer for my step-father's funeral in the snow. This year I was a pall bearer for a friend in the snow. I have been to military funerals for friends and comrades and Masonic funerals for Brother Master Masons..
on my mothers' side no one left........just some cousins that I have not seen since 1964.......My fathers' side 2 first cousins and 3 second cousins ........THATS IT !!!
My Mother's was the hardest. I also had to plan it while feeling devastated and alone. I've always felt guilty that when my Dad died, he was divorced from my step-mother. He lived in Maryland and I live in North Carolina. He had donated his body to science and I had to set up the cremation. I had just started a new career as a teacher and I couldn't get it together enough to set up a memorial in another state. Of course the ______ he had been married to wouldn't help at all. So I have his ashes but haven't ever had a memorial or anything.
Certain age levels take you to certain events. 20-45 Weddings and christenings, graduations. Over 55 lots of hospital visits, and 60 and over funerals. Pretty much gives you the info needed for what to keep in the closet for those dress up occasions.
About 7 seven years ago my wife had called on me to play bagpipe at a funeral. I went and was playing just as I was supposed to. The family was in front of me, the highway was about 60 or so yards behind me while my wife was about twenty feet behind me.
Somewhere during "Amazing Grace" I felt a wee breeze and heard my wife giggling behind me as well as some air horns which would have been mounted on trucks.
I finished playing and as my wife and I walked back to the car I asked her, "What were you giggling about?"
"You didn't feel it?" she asked.
"I just felt a wee breeze, why?"
Then she said, "Well that wee breeze blue your kilt all the way up and you mooned three truck drivers!"
Ah well, it happens sometimes! She got a butt chewing from the her boss for "lauging" during a funeral and she just told him, "If you had seen what I did, you would have laughed too!"
A funny story to a somber subject;
About 7 seven years ago my wife had called on me to play bagpipe at a funeral. I went and was playing just as I was supposed to. The family was in front of me, the highway was about 60 or so yards behind me while my wife was about twenty feet behind me.
Somewhere during "Amazing Grace" I felt a wee breeze and heard my wife giggling behind me as well as some air horns which would have been mounted on trucks.
I finished playing and as my wife and I walked back to the car I asked her, "What were you giggling about?"
"You didn't feel it?" she asked.
"I just felt a wee breeze, why?"
Then she said, "Well that wee breeze blue your kilt all the way up and you mooned three truck drivers!"
Ah well, it happens sometimes! She got a butt chewing from the her boss for "lauging" during a funeral and she just told him, "If you had seen what I did, you would have laughed too!"
Em-bare-ass-ing to say the least.
and cocky with it!!