“It’s Birthday Time and the FIRST of SPRING”

Mar 19th “It’s Birthday Time and the FIRST of SPRING”

Happy Birthday to Thomas F. Brady having his birthday on the 19th of March… which is the first day of Spring this year … due to this year being a Leap Year ... and as in most years, the first day of SPRING will start on the 20th of MARCH.

Just have to show a much younger photo of Grandpa Brady and his lovely wife Anne Elizabeth Smart Brady, and she did live long enough to be here when I was born.

The story that I remember best is… My Mother needed to go downtown on some business and I was still too small to take with her… and she needed someone to take care of me.

Grandma Brady said she would take care of me, but my Mother was afraid that she would maybe drop me… as she would want to play with me and Grandma Brady was in her eighties.

I was asleep in my bed and Grandma Brady sat in a nearby rocker and was rocking and rocking in hopes that I would wake up and she could play with me.

So when my Mother got back home, she hurried in to see what I was doing… and Grandma said, “All she did was sleep as I sat nearby rocking.” My Mother was happy that all was well and later on figured out what happened.

As Grandma sat nearby rocking… I heard that constant sound and it was a familiar sound, one that I liked… and it was so pleasant… that, I as a baby felt safe in sleeping as I would sleep in the car whenever we traveled and the car was moving, but let the car stop… and you would have thought… the end of world was happening!

My poor Grandma told my Mother, that all she wanted to do was play with me… but as she sat there, just waiting for the minute that I would wake up… I would just sleep.

So with those happy thoughts of me getting all the sleep that I can…. here is to wishing everyone great days with this best of times of a year starting… It is now… SPRING!

In the backyard and in the very same place, each and every year… there are some Tulips doing their thing…telling us it is time to come out and work in the yard…. come on out and get a fresh start on your planting all of those beautiful things… flowers… that will make your day! D.V.