Pavane for a Dead Princess

At my niece's, Lindsey's, wedding, Jim, her new husband, and his friends played the music, "Pavane to dead Princess." He was telling about the song and my mind flitted to a song I sang often after both Carla and Carol died. The music helped me handle the profound grief I was feeling. When Jim began to play the music I gasped and then I just sat there and cried. It was the same song I have been singing for so long. I never knew the name of it and I knew I didn't have the words exactly right. I was sitting between my Mom and Eric, Jim's brother. When the song was over I told them about my song. Eric wasn't aware that there were words to that song so I wondered aloud if maybe Mr. Burkett (I think that was his name, I would ask Carol or Carla, but . . . ) had invented the lyrics to go with a favorite song. Eric's comment energized me to look online and see if I could find the lyrics, I found it so I thought I would share it with you all. I wish I had remembered the end of it, I only remembered to the place, "yet here she lies in stillness." And yet, as I read all of it, I wonder at the grace of God to teach me this song when I was 14 and here, so many years later it comes, I hope, to touch all of our lives. Thank you to Jim for bringing it back to my mind so that I can share it with those of you that loved both Carla and Carol

“Soft, a blossom falls from flow’ret white
Soft, a birdling calls as falls the night,
the night that came too soon
Too soon for knowing.
So like the palest blossom was her face,

And hers the grace, the grace of birds in flight,
Yet, here she lies in stillness.
Night falls, but in the tender dusk
No more we hear her singing,
Her sweet voice singing.
As night has brought the darkness,
So morning brings another day
For her who knew not sadness, no never sadness
Somewhere she walks in gladness.
Soft, a blossom falls from flow’ret white,
Soft, a birdling calls as falls the night
An we who watch are mute at beauty’s passing.
Grieve not, for she has found another day,
another day, and on her way she moves, moves in joy.”

Our New Home

This is our new home. I think the current owners will be taking the swing set. Maybe we will have to come up with something for the grandkids. They have planted a lot of trees, we will probably add more. There are rose bushes in the front of the house and a huge garden off to the side. And, to add a little more color, we drove over the mountain and the leaves were changing. It was beautiful!

The leaves are changing colors

I went to Pegram today to visit the Relief Society there and speak, with Trudy Hatch, in Sacrament meeting. All went well, it was a beautiful day and the weather was perfect, but I noticed the leaves are changing. I love it when the leaves change, football, and the start of school. I hope we have a long fall this year. I especially prefer a fall with enough rain to keep things beautiful and no snow for a while at least. One of the brethren in Pegram said that it could rain now cause he had his hay bailed and safely put away. Reminds me of the song, "all is safely gathered in err the winter storms begin." I will put some fall pictures up after I get out and take some. I didn't notice if the bush on the hill in Dayton was red, I bet it was and I just forgot to look. Maybe next week.

Labor Day fun

We all got together for Labor Day, Thomas and Cynthia were up, Sara and Christopher traded work shifts, and Daniel and Loni got a free day and Janelle and the kids all went to Jason's and Camille's. We watched the parade.




Then we went back to Jason's house and ate and played.

We had Loni take family pictures and Daniel kept us all in stitches

Then we watched BYU beat Oklahoma and watched weird videos on YouTube. It was a great day.

The next day Thomas and Cynthia got to visit with our neighbor Edra.

Thomas and Cynthia had to leave a day early - orders! But it was fun having them here and our family sure laughs a lot when they are together.

Hi ho hi ho it's off to school we go

Summer "vacation" is over. I have decided that next year I am going to keep track of all the unpaid hours I put in at work over the summer. Then the next person that says, "it must be nice to have the whole summer off," will get told how many unpaid hours I work in the summer. Fortunately I love what I do. I love learning new things and trying new ideas. It is easier in the summer cause the kids aren't around and I can get so much done! When we were on vacation this summer we took a lot of sky pictures - Sara wanted this one. It is gorgeous.

Ostler Reunion 2009

Ok, so it didn't go as planned. When I woke up in the morning to the lovely sound of rain on the roof, I knew we were in trouble. Then Sara and I drove out to the lake hoping that it would be brisk air. It wasn't, it was windy and cold and freezing and we jumped back in the car. Fortunately we had a back up plan and contacted everyone, kind of in a chain call, and we headed to Dingle to the church. We still had a great time. Games were a bit last second pulled together - thanks to my family - but we had a good time. The reunion has been changed to even years - that will make it less conflicting with a few other reunion. I am glad it went as well as it did. I am also glad that I am not in charge next year.

Friends

Last week a close group of friends I knew in high school got together - it was fun. We have only gotten together a few times in the last 30 years. We always miss a few people but it is fun to be able to talk to ple who share my teen-age memories. We laughed a lot and remembered and smiled. It was so pleasant. This picture includes my Mom and the spouses cause they share the memories too.


We also went to Mt Rushmore with Sara. That was fun too. We read a book the whole way up and back. There is so much to do up there, we could have stayed for a week. Maybe another time. Oh, and you have to get a close up on the "facilities" that Calvin is standing next to. We took the picture because of the sign. It is great.