Yesterday's post was whimsical in nature and I was only kidding about the property, sorry I know some of you were already planning a trip
. This post and photograph deserve a spot all to themselves and I am going to delve into some of my private thoughts and happenings in my life. My Mum passed away quite a few years ago on Valentine's Day and like all your Mum's she was a special and wonderful lady and her and I shared a very deep bond even though for the most part I was over 7000 miles away from her. When she died my Dad was left alone and of course heart broken. In the years since he rebuilt his life and was happy but always had Mum close to heart. Most of you know my Dad died in October about 2 weeks before I was scheduled to visit him and my family in England. A story that I don't think I have told anyone is that on one of the trips that my Dad made to visit me in Nanaimo, I was staying in a lower apartment on a hill with a balcony that was about 6 feet of the ground and was a deer habitat. I remember coming home from work one evening and there was Dad beaming from ear to ear and he told me that he had spent 2 hours in the afternoon enthralled by watching this deer in the cut just below where he was sunbathing. The deer did not know he was there and my Dad told me that he watched this deer bathe himself and that he methodically washed every single part of his body except behind his head. The way he told this story just made me smile but I knew there and then that deer and my Dad were integrated. So the morning that my brother, Malc, called to tell me about Dad, I was in my lower apartment , a different apartment now, with a lovely back yard and the windows are ground level, I went to open the blinds and in the yard were two deer, one was so close to the window where I was you could see his nose prints on the window. This deer was looking in and I believe it was the spirit of my Dad coming to me to say Les it is OK I am going to be with Mum. The next installment is on my drive down to Mexico, I mention it in one of my previous posts, I was tired and had driven too long and was looking for a place to pull off and go to sleep, when the biggest buck deer I have ever seen came from the side and ran across the road in front of the van. I was very close to hitting this deer and I thought then "That's my old man(that is not meant dis-respectfully)telling me to get off the road and rest". I do believe this to be true. Today I am in the Mesa Verde National Park, a beautiful place surrounded by wonderful testaments to the ancient people, with many sacred grounds and a place where your personal thoughts can be shared when I saw this large deer at the side of the road. I stopped and got out and went a few feet into the bush, where I took this photo, this deer just stared at me for many seconds before he turned and walked away. So what you think....., well this is what I think....before I left for the Mesa Verde I checked my bank balance over the Internet. My brother and I were so fortunate to have great parents who not only schooled us to be vibrant caring men, but they also were so kind to leave for us a considerable amount of money, the money that I was to receive was transferred and it came into my bank account this morning!!!!!!That was Dad again coming to me to say "Here you go kiddo, we talked about this, enjoy it" I hope this posting is not too much for anyone but these are my private thoughts and I wanted to share in this special moment today, thanks for listening..
. This post and photograph deserve a spot all to themselves and I am going to delve into some of my private thoughts and happenings in my life. My Mum passed away quite a few years ago on Valentine's Day and like all your Mum's she was a special and wonderful lady and her and I shared a very deep bond even though for the most part I was over 7000 miles away from her. When she died my Dad was left alone and of course heart broken. In the years since he rebuilt his life and was happy but always had Mum close to heart. Most of you know my Dad died in October about 2 weeks before I was scheduled to visit him and my family in England. A story that I don't think I have told anyone is that on one of the trips that my Dad made to visit me in Nanaimo, I was staying in a lower apartment on a hill with a balcony that was about 6 feet of the ground and was a deer habitat. I remember coming home from work one evening and there was Dad beaming from ear to ear and he told me that he had spent 2 hours in the afternoon enthralled by watching this deer in the cut just below where he was sunbathing. The deer did not know he was there and my Dad told me that he watched this deer bathe himself and that he methodically washed every single part of his body except behind his head. The way he told this story just made me smile but I knew there and then that deer and my Dad were integrated. So the morning that my brother, Malc, called to tell me about Dad, I was in my lower apartment , a different apartment now, with a lovely back yard and the windows are ground level, I went to open the blinds and in the yard were two deer, one was so close to the window where I was you could see his nose prints on the window. This deer was looking in and I believe it was the spirit of my Dad coming to me to say Les it is OK I am going to be with Mum. The next installment is on my drive down to Mexico, I mention it in one of my previous posts, I was tired and had driven too long and was looking for a place to pull off and go to sleep, when the biggest buck deer I have ever seen came from the side and ran across the road in front of the van. I was very close to hitting this deer and I thought then "That's my old man(that is not meant dis-respectfully)telling me to get off the road and rest". I do believe this to be true. Today I am in the Mesa Verde National Park, a beautiful place surrounded by wonderful testaments to the ancient people, with many sacred grounds and a place where your personal thoughts can be shared when I saw this large deer at the side of the road. I stopped and got out and went a few feet into the bush, where I took this photo, this deer just stared at me for many seconds before he turned and walked away. So what you think....., well this is what I think....before I left for the Mesa Verde I checked my bank balance over the Internet. My brother and I were so fortunate to have great parents who not only schooled us to be vibrant caring men, but they also were so kind to leave for us a considerable amount of money, the money that I was to receive was transferred and it came into my bank account this morning!!!!!!That was Dad again coming to me to say "Here you go kiddo, we talked about this, enjoy it" I hope this posting is not too much for anyone but these are my private thoughts and I wanted to share in this special moment today, thanks for listening..
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