Mish Mash, Super Bowl, Obits, and what-not

I have sooooo many things to talk about today!  Firstly, let's just talk about the Super Bowl and get it over with, shall we?

I gave up watching NFL games with any regularity years ago.  Mostly because we lived out of the country and they weren't available. But a Super Bowl is usually a guaranteed good afternoon of t.v., food, half-time  music, commercials, etc.  The game itself was pretty good.  I was glad to see the Packers win.  Let's just re-cap this.

1. The game was good.  The team without an alleged sex offender won.

2. The half-time show?  Not so much.  I didn't get it.  What was the point of bringing out Usher?  What was the point of Slash standing there and Fergie gyrating all around him?  While ruining a perfectly fine song.  It was a low point in half-time shows, is what I am saying.

3. The commercials.  What a sad state of affairs.  Very very few good ones.  And even the good ones couldn't hold their own against any of the previous good ones.

Here is one of the good ones.

But the best one was from the local grocery store chain H.E.B.  For those of you who are not in Texas, you most likely didn't get to see this ad.  It is Jack Ingram singing at Gruene Hall, the oldest dance hall in Texas, and probably the most famous.  This is the same dance hall they used in filming that movie Michael with John Travolta playing an angel.  Remember this?

That was in Gruene Hall.  Anyhoo, back to the awesome ad for H.E.B.  This is the full length 3 minute long one.  The one on t.v. was only 1 minute.

Now, on to the obits!!  There were some fabulous old-school names listed!  Love the old antique-y names.

Sadly, Mrs. Elora J. Bump passed away at the age of 88.  She was married to Delmar E. Bump.

Louis Lorelli Guido, Jr. was married to Agnes known as "Tootsie".

Ronald G. Kruithof a.k.a. "Ron/Ray"

Nellie Knopp's family included Ben Mikolajczyk, Victoria Sczodrok, Bruno Knopp, Jimmie and Gladys Zigmond, Alphons Zigmond known as "Rusty", and Cheyenne, Chaely and Colton Zigmond, and Alex and Clara Mikolajczyk. When is the last time you met a Bruno, Gladys or a Clara?  Much less all of them in one family!  Love it.

Hiram Abiff Cockrell died peacefully.  He had 2 brothers by the names of Hansel and John Ross.

We had some unusual euphemisms for dead this week too:

"left this life peacefully"

"passed with her daughter by her side on Saturday evening, after an arduous battle with alzheimer's. The Lord released her of her suffering and took her into His arms."
**Isn't that the saddest and sweetest thing?  It just breaks my heart.


"after 83 years of laughter, love and joy, Janie was granted eternal life after 59 years of marriage to her loving husband, Leonard G."
**Okay, I was seriously confused by this sentence.  Way too many thoughts going on in there. 


"went to eternal rest with the Lord"

"F. Todd Spann, a loving gracious son given by the Lord to Delores A. Busher Spann and F. Rudy Spann, was born on Nov. 11, 1964. Todd was reunited with our Mother Christmas morning when he was welcomed into his eternal home. We rejoice in the knowledge that he passed the barrier of time as we know it and is forever at home with the Savior he faithfully served and his Mom whom he loved dearly."
**Whew.  I am beginning to think they don't charge by the word or the column inch, but rather by how many periods you use.  Why else would people all try to cram as much into each sentence as they do?




And the Most Interesting Obit this week goes to the writer of Cindy Cox's obituary.  Here is a snippet:

"Cindy Cox, born Sept. 27, 1923 in Valdosta, GA, died Feb. 1, 2011.  She was a farm girl during the "Great Depression". When a child, her family fed and provided toys for children and buried the kin of families who could not afford it. Her father, Morris Franklin Hobby (Dice) donated his own farmland for a school. Her mother, Kate Furney was a crack shot who could shoot a screech owl at midnight from 100 yards in the dead of night."
**Now, how could you NOT want to know these people?  Not only does Miss Cindy Cox sound like a wonderful person, her parents were awesome!  And whomever was left to write this tribute knew enough family history to bring their stories to life.  Good job, family of Cindy Cox!!


And since today is the 7th of the month it is time for another drawing of someone to receive a FREE BAG OF TEA!!  Straight from the tea stash of Lisa Pie's pantry.  Yea!!

Last month's winner was Sarah with an H.  I sure hope she received her lovely bag of tea alright and has been enjoying it.

So if you too would love to be chosen to get some FREE TEA, please leave a comment and keep checking back this week to see if you were chosen.  Woo Hoo!!