Father's Day
Today is Father's Day and it's the first Father's Day I can't drive to the cemetery and visit my father. I couldn't on his birthday this year or Christmas. I know I promised I was done writing about the storm and that this blog was genealogy full steam ahead. So this may be considered genealogy adjacent. My dad's ashes were left behind in Florida. I wanted to break him out and bring him with me but it would cost me about $4000. So I had to be practical. I needed every dime I had to move. I will get him soon. I stopped to say goodbye and make sure the neighbor's flag wasn't blocking his name one last time right before I got on the road. I know lots of people don't like cemeteries. I know people who bury their loved ones and never go back. Those people think I am strange. I love to visit cemeteries. I always have. When I was young, once or twice a year my dad, would take my nana to the cemetery to plant geraniums. She would tell me ab...