Monday Meanderings - 2.20.2017

Try as I might to avoid weather as a MM topic, it just keeps showing up here. Eighty-eight degrees? What's up with that?

I came across an obituary the other day of an individual parked way out there on a distant limb of Barb's family tree. Not even a relative. Just someone distantly related to someone who was distantly related. I usually just log a name and dates of birth and death for these folks and move on, but this woman's obituary had a twist. It seems that the services were under the direction of the "Horne Hardware and Funeral Company."

You can't make something like that up. So I did a little research, and here's an advertisement that appeared in the Coleman Texas Democrat-Voice, April 3, 1930.

The mind boggles at how that combination might have been worked. "Jed, when you're down to Hornes to arrange for Martha's funeral would you pick up a new ax handle?"

I am reminded, for some reason, of Bob Newhart's comedy routine about the "Grace L Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Company." And yes, that is before your time, for most of you.

A recent post in the Nextdoor neighborhood news feed: "Lost. Sid Vicious Autographed tennis shoe. Last seen on North Lamar somewhere." See above about making stuff up.

Barb had a doctor visit this past week, and among all the paper work that a visit creates these days was the sentence, "Patient seemed well developed and well nourished." She said she wasn't sure if that was a good thing or bad.