Happy Memories

I have so many happy memories of my Dad who passed away 3 years ago after a 12 year battle with Alzheimer's.  This time of year is the memory that makes me laugh the most because it makes me remember an occasion when my dad couldn't speak for laughing.

I look up to the sky, see the blossom, chuckle and remember Dad.  I remember he came in from work one day with a joke to tell us, as he was telling it he was laughing more and more until he was doubled over and crying while we were waiting for the punchline.  Here's that very joke....

A man goes to a pet shop and buys a hamster, he takes it home and pops it in its little house.  In the morning the hamster is dead so the man returns to the pet shop and tells the owner that the hamster he had bought the day before had dropped dead.  The pet shop owner tells him to put the hamster in a pot and boil it up to make some jam.  The man goes home, gets the dead hamster and makes some jam, he tastes it and it's so awful he throws it out of the window.  In the morning he looks out of the window and there are daffodils growing everywhere he threw the jam.  He goes to the pet shop and tells the owner about the jam and the daffodils and the pet shop owner says................
................."Don't be silly, everyone knows you only get tulips from hamsterjam!" boom boom

I have to rush now because I'm off to the seaside to see Paul tomorrow so I need to pack, I was meant to be going next week but his new job means he's going to be in Spain for 7 days from next Saturday................some people get all the luck!  I have a crop tomorrow before I go to see him so I  guess I'm not short of luck myself :)

Have a great weekend

Jo xx