FAMILY FROM OUR WEDDING

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

TUESDAY

AHHH a nice long weekend over.. actually mine was BUSY we got a lot of stuff done at the house.. I found some old cassette tapes that were recordings of old 78s .. My grandfather had one of the first recorders on the block in 1937 .. the tape has recordings of my grandfather, great uncles.. cousins .. my dad and uncle.. singing, playing clarinet.. talking .. etc.. all dated from the 40s.. I am going to take the tape and have it transfered to Cd.. I found all of these old movies from the 40s.. on 16mil.. etc.. going to have those transfered to disk as well.. Found a treasure trove of my family's history.. .. Ohhh wish my dad was around to explain it all.. one of my uncles has been helping me with the tape though.. It was amazing to hear my grandfather talk.. I never met him.. he died at the age of 47 nearly the age I am now.. My dad was going to be a doctor and was in Pre Med at Tulane.. when his father had a heart attack and died.. my dad was 17 and took over the family business instead ... so hearing these voices from the past.. is wonderful.. absolutely wonderful.. movies date from late 40s to the mid 1970s then everything switches over to VHS.. going to transfer all that to disk too... really neat stuff...
I am going to meet with my nutritionist this week and get signed up for the Healthy Weight for EveryBody class as well...
Wish me well
Wish you well too..

4 comments:

MargieAnne said...

What a wonderful treasure trove you have found. This must be such an emotional roller coaster for you.

Going through old stuff is full of all kinds of memories and here you are building new ones too.

Twix said...

What an fantastic treasure trove to have found! Ya I know I'm echoing...hah. You have to be absolutely estatic at coming upon this collection. Great that someone never through it out. (((hugs))) Have good Wednesday, take it slow and one day at a time.

Susie said...

That's really cool that you found that stuff! Enjoy! What a find. Good luck with the nutritionist!
Hope you are doing ok :)

Ann(ie) said...

How very cool. Probably incredibly bittersweet my friend. xo. Hope you had a great weekend!!