Oh, Sure ! Blame The Husband...!

We all have to learn to take responsibility for the mistakes we make!

If Mom is having a yard sale, and takes off and leaves Dad in charge...you just know that something bad is going to happen. This holds especially true, if Mom doesn't leave specific instructions about the things she does NOT want sold!

You know how this works, right? If you don't sell something, you're in trouble! If you do sell something and it turns out to be the wrong thing...you're in trouble!

Some days it doesn't pay to chew through the restraints! Here's what I mean...!

Grandma's ashes mistakenly sold

Published: Oct. 14, 2010 at 1:38 PM

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., Oct. 14 (UPI) -- A Florida woman said a potted violet containing her grandmother's ashes was mistakenly sold at a yard sale.

Piper Gaffrey of Fort Walton Beach said her husband was running the sale before she arrived last week and she soon found the potted violet holding the ashes of her grandmother, Marjorie Potts Gaffrey, who died in February at age 99, had been sold, the Northwest Florida Daily News reported Thursday.

Gaffery said she posted a message on her Facebook page asking whoever purchased the flower to take good care of it and she was surprised to receive a message in return from the buyer.

"Fortunately, it was (bought by) someone who knew me," Gaffrey said. "I was just glad to have her back."

My first question would be "Why is the violet planted in Granny's ashes?" Must not be that dang important to the lady if she is using grandma as fertilizer!

Maybe this is a new trend in showing respect for those that have passed. If it is, I must have not received the memo! Somehow it just doesn't seem right to me, but what do I know? I'm just a country boy at heart! The least they could have done, is to spread granny through-out the garden instead of keeping her in a potted plant!

Now, let's get some fresh coffee and sit outside while it's still cool! OK? OK!!