Archive for September 28th, 2009

Today’s Business: 2009-09-28

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Went through all office files and threw out the ones no longer needed.

Noticed a problem with the DVR (digital video recorder).  Sometimes, it fails to record shows that I’ve programmed.  This just started within the past month.  I can get around it by checking the list of scheduled recordings periodically, and if there are some missing, I can reprogram them.  Perhaps a call to the cable company is warranted.

Made buttered chicken curry for lunch.  Quite good, and there are lots of leftovers to look forward to having later this week.  :-)

Sister Mary Ann stopped by.  We rearranged some furniture to make it easier for Mom to get around when she gets home; after her second opinion doctor visit this morning, we think she’ll get back here at around the end of October.  Mary Ann also recommends that we proceed with building a ramp for Mom, as she’ll be using a wheelchair for some months after she comes home.

Watched The Young and the Restless, Judge Judy, and listened to all pending episodes of the podcast  60 Second Science.

Moved the kitchen table into the back end of the living room.

Wrote the piece about   The Blue Mirror.

Did several small loads of laundry for Mom; they don’t offer laundry service at her nursing facility.  So every week or so, we get a bag full of stuff to wash.  I guess we’ve come full circle because she used to wash my laundry each week when I went away to school.  Now, here I am doing hers.

It rained all morning.  Then the sun came out during the afternoon and the humidity fell way low.   Lots of wind too.  The temperatures got up into the high 60s.

Tom Hesley

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The Blue Mirror

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Once upon a time, my maternal grandmother had this beautiful blue mirror that hung above her living room fireplace all through the 60s and 70s.  The color blue was always my favorite.  So, as a little boy, not quite tall enough to touch the mirror, I’d stare at it for hours from the floor below, marveling at its steel blue luster.  Occasionally, the afternoon sun would catch it and light up the whole room this deep yet somehow vibrant blue.

The mirror was circular in shape with a beveled edge a half-inch wide that ran around its entire circumference.  The glass was three eighths to one half inch thick, and I’d guess the blue mirror to be two to two and a half feet in diameter.  So it was quite heavy.  In fact, it sported a steel cable on its back for hanging, not just a simple adhesive-backed hook.  I got to see just how heavy it was because once, Gram took it down and allowed me to help her clean it.  I carried it for her to the kitchen table, where we sprayed it, and then wiped it off while she instructed me on the most effective ways to clean glass.  I remember thinking the first time I wiped, while peering through the streaks of glass cleaner that my towel made as it slid across the face, how truly wonderful that color was.

Unfortunately upon her death in 1980, Gram’s blue mirror disappeared, and I’ve often thought about it through the years.  That would have been her one possession that I’d have gladly claimed for my own, as a memento.  I’ve asked the family about the mirror, but no one knows where it went.  I’d so love to find another like it and thus, would appreciate anyone’s help who knows about mirrors.  Please respond here or write to me privately if you know where I could find such a relic, or have one made.  I’d love to have that mirror’s likeness hanging once again above Gram’s fireplace.

Take care.

Tom Hesley

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