This is what waiting for warmer weather looked like on our recent road trip to the White Mountains in NH on a -10℉ morning. During warmer days these porch chairs are the perfect place to relax, of course, in season.
Today is the last day of the month — The recent snowfall was followed by freezing rain and frigid temps, this week's weather was quite balmy in the mid-40s by the end of the week. There's a lot of melting snow and ice around here also large puddles and potholes.
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In an entirely different and not funny matter, we're going to NJ this weekend for a family funeral. Patrick's cousin passed away shortly after my college friend (mentioned in a previous post) died. What was interesting to me were a number of similarities in these passings. Both men were named Tom, their Irish surnames started with the letter C, both lived in the same state (NJ), their date of death had the same numbers (Feb 12 and Feb 21), their ages ended in the same number (79 and 89). Dissimilarly only one Tom was married and had children; the other was a lifelong bachelor and their professions differed as well.
The probability is statistically low, but not entirely improbable that two people with the same name would die around the same time. However, figuring out the odds of that happening is nearly impossible, dependent on factors like common names, population demographics, ages, lifestyles, life expectancy and geographic location. In short, it's a very complex and situational calculation. In most cases, like this one, it's purely coincidental and, according to some sources, a matter of chance, which seems to me as the same thing.
Just wondering — has anyone else experienced any coincidental situations ?
Enjoy Your Weekend, Everyone
Call a friend and/or family to say "thinking of you"
Life is short attributed to Greek physician Hippocrates; repeated through history
14 comments:
...life is filled with unexplained coincidences!
what Tom said sorry for your losses hugs
So sorry for your loss. Safe journey.
Life can be quite perplexing.
Sorry for both losses.
I would never tell her this, but one of my high school friend’s father passed away on my daughter’s birthday and then last week, her mother passed away on my mother’s birthday. Sort of strange.
No coincidence like that, but winter is staging a bit of a comeback after a few more agreeable days. 😊
I call them cosmic coincidences - and love to observe when they happen in any manner. But there are folks who really stretch things into a kind of irrational manner, oh there's a blue sky and you're wearing a blue shirt!...that kind of silliness. However, it's all irrational.
I don't know if you'd call it a coincidence but the doctor who came to my parents' home after my father's stroke had a fatal heart attack as he went up the stairs and a second doctor had to be called.
I'm so very sorry that you have lost a family member. The coincidences are interesting but one of those "who knows?" kinds of things. There's much to be said about serendipity, I suppose but I don't know what it is. I love that snow photo although not the snow!
My coincidences are for happier events. The children in my family tend to be born on birthdays of other family members. There are way too many to list. But these are close family members sharing birthdays.
Well, first, I am so very sorry. I always like to say there are no coincidences, and this surely fits. But to what end? I try to figure out the meaning or the messages when something like this happens. Is God trying to tell me something? But I am always left in the dark
Sorry about the recent losses. The older we get, the more losses we experience. A sad reality to the privilege of aging.
That first picture looks a lot like the Mt. Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, NH. Is it? Maybe not, but I can imagine it looking like that in winter from their porch. Such a beautiful place. I've never actually stayed there before, but have gone and toured the hotel back before it became the big Omni resort that it appears to be now. That's quite a trip to make in the winter, for sure! Any place in the Mt. Washington area is challenging in winter! Used to live in that area, and even though I loved it there, I am happy to be living here in Florida, especially in the wintertime!
Regarding the passing of your friend and cousin, etc., my condolences to you both on the loss of these two gentlemen. Regarding the coincidences, it is strange how things like that happen sometimes. You have to be paying attention to details to recognize these things, which I know that you do very well. Very interesting for sure. Saying farewell to our friends and loved ones is never easy at any age. My sympathies also to their loved ones and friends.
that photo tells its on story, it says, lovely, it says brrrr, it says hurry spring.
sorry about the two funerals. and this is a little uncanny. about calling a friend, I don't have any, by 5th and last friend died last week. I do have a few cousins left, I am pretty much the last man standing
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