Last week, SigbinII visited our house as an extension to the December EB. Thank you very much Paul AKA SigbinII for your time, effort and for taking photos of my parents.
Macky’s parents Mr. Elpidio Ferniz and former Cecilia Sarmiento and 1 bored dog.
My forgotten Bonsai Trees (20 years in the making) since I was 22.
Papa and Mama relaxing
3 Lonely Manggas
Once again, thank you Paul for this pictures.
Appreciate your nice words, Grazie, Lumine, B:), Dabins, Brownman, Willmerit, Els,
They are old, but maintained their health through balanced diet and light exercise. My Father was 40 when they got married and I came 4 years later and my mother was 10 years younger than my father. So if I am now 42, that means, my father is now 86 and my mother 76. Sigbin noticed that we don’t have any maid at their old age. Me and my brother in CA and in Saudi repeatedly told them to hire a helper, but they are boneheads and refused to have one. They preferred dogs and chickens as their companions, so we keep it that way. Pero sa una daghan nang gipa-iskwela sa akong Mama, pero nang graduate na. When we were young, we are trained to do house chores, though we escape to hang around with our barkadas.
Jun, my mother is your co-Carolinian. She was one of the pioneer Boholana scholars of San Carlos, being an athlete. She graduated Education, Major in Home Economics, mao nga maayo mang luto ug manage sa balay. Dili gyud na mo sipyat si Jun mo agi sa balay kada bakasyon niya, just for the nice recipes of my mother.
In our backyard, we planted many trees. Mostly in commemoration to birthdays and anniversaries. The mango was planted a day after my eldest was born, being their first grand daughter. For my 2nd child, they planted Lanzones and for my third, also lanzones. For my wedding, we planted Chickos and mahogany trees in our land in Bilar. My father loves gardening.
The reason I asked SigbinII (Paul) to visit our house is to scan the pictures of the Tabaco Family, the father of Joey, in one of our souvenir album “The Bohol Circle†a Boholano organization in the US. Unfortunately, my mother could not find that book in her pile of old books. So Sgt. Joey, I will search it myself during my vacation this summer. Those pictures were too vivid in my memory as they were well featured as the first batch of Boholanos in the US. That book was given by Gaudioso Ferniz to my father during his visit in California in the 1950s.
Maybe you noticed here some continuity from last Dec EB, through the words I used such as:
“the dog†as in lonely Boy with his dog.
“Relaxing†as in Bambi relaxing
and “3 Lonely Mangoes†as in 3 lonely boys.
This is a sort of refreshing your memories as this is an extension to the Dec EB.
Hopefuly the next Grand EB this summer pohon would be more lively.
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