Certain songs do bring back memories of loved ones, who have passed on. I know you still miss your Mom after all these years. You will find someone to watch over you sooner or later. "Just the right time Maria." Pretty song! 

Thank you Allie. Have a terrific weekend. 

And give up your freedom?????  LOL

Hang in there--I will win the powerball tomorrow---$200MIL!!

wow!!! you're right.....sure dont want to give up my freedom!!!  Crossing fingers , toes and anything else that is crossable for you to win the big one!!

Maria!

The Lord will watch over you until a special someone appears on the scene. Gotta get out with nice groups of people. Try Church Social Functions. My wife & I go to a Church Senior's Breakfast (Pot Luck) every Tuesday. I'm not looking, but there are a lot of lonely people there. In the meantime, I get an extra hug now & then. Beautiful Music. I copied the Lyrics, so sentimental.

I changed my mind Con, I think I'm quite happy being on my own now..as Martin said, complete freedom comes from being on your own and independent. I like being independent. But thanks anyway. Yes, this is a beautiful song...it was among that list of 40's music you posted a link to.

Good to be independent, I was divorced for 8 years, it was lonely.

Lonely is not a good feeling, but I have heaps of friends and now that I'm back in Perth, I have my family too so it's okay.

Don't Worry, Be Happy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

One Day At A Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBnZ8bmEOTM

Loved them both Con, thank you very much.

Freedom and love are not mutually exclusive.

Who says you can't have both?

Do you know, I've still got a couple of boxes full of my mom's old LP's?  The only thing is, I dont have a player and I dont know if you can still get them these days...lol.  I've got albums and albums she used to buy from Readers Digest, collections of about ten to twelve LP's.  Dont even know who I would pass them down to....guess they'll end up in landfill somewhere one day....how sad.

All the songs and singers are available on YouTube, itunes, DVDs, etc.

I hear them on broadwayaccuradio!!

yup, which means this collection of LP's which she treasured more than anything else is destined for the dump eventually.....I wish there was a better place for them to end up in.

Maria~  My MIL passed away a few years ago at age 99.  She had dozens and dozens of those types of record sets, too....along with hundreds of books.  We had them, along with most of the other stuff out of her house, including tons of household  items, dishes, antiques, stored down at the barn/shop, planning on doing a big yard sale.  The barn caught fire, and every bit of that stuff was lost. 

oh my goodness!!!!  That's terrible!!  I dont know what else to say. You just cant put a price on sentimental value, can you.

I sure dont want my Mom's stuff to end up at the dump or get burned in a nasty fire for that matter....but I really dont know what's going to happen to them as I've got no one to pass them on to.

Any nieces, nephews???? 

Yes, it was a devastating loss for us.  What a mess!

yes, but they're totally not interested in any of that sort of stuff unfortunately.  Heck, they dont even want old photographs (those black and white ones) because they dont have a clue who the people are, so they're not interested.  They think LP's and 45's are funny and cant imagine music coming from anything but dvd's and iphones....lol.

You might be able to find a collector, online, who would be interested in purchasing them.There was a time, maybe 20 years ago, they were a hot item, and some records went for pretty big bucks...altho that's really not much the case these days.

We have a whole box of albums as well...and the same problem..nothing to play them on. We thought about seeing what they might be worth, but with no way to play them, how would we know what shape they are in. I've seen record players for sale - I guess we just have to buckle down and get one. Most of the records don't have the sleeves any longer and I did but some to protect them. Just need to get the chance to listen to them...one of these days.

They'll probably be worth a lot about two hundred years from now...just gotta find a place to keep them until then...lol.

yes, I wish I had a player too. It would be very nostalgic to be able to play them again.

ILC & Maria...there are companies manufacturing record players again.  Lots of them available online.  Just do a search for 'purchase record player,' or purchase turntable.'   Wide range of prices, but many less than $100. 

Maria, please read my comment to you and ILC just above this comment.

Did you see the threat PatriotDeluxe left on Charlie's page? Threatening to find him...look at his (Charlie's) last post. Some people never grow up.

Thx Kat - I've seen them. Just need to do it. We have those very thick old records....are they 75s? I know the 33 1/3 were big, 45s were small, these are a little smaller than the 33's but about twice at thick and heavy.

thanks mamakat, my girlfriend just told me that here in Perth there are still plenty of them you can get at garage sales including records. I love going to garage sales around my neighborhood so will check them out first.

OMG, yes I did...tiny hairs on my arms stood up.  The guy is definitely unwell.

I just wrote patriot a personal message. I know he's checking back since he wrote his farewell blog. He actually has some good points in what he write at times, but I told him he now has a "black eye" acting like a immature bully on a school yard. Unbelievable!!

Sounds like he took lessons from someone else we know who once threatened to find and harm people here, huh?

yup, you read my mind.

I think he is a very unstable person, anyone with common sense would not do such a thing unless they have so much hatred inside, it is destroying their sense of reasoning.

I did get a little bit of a giggle out of Charlie's post though.....did you read what he put as ''related tags" for his article?  It's hilarious!!

No i didn't but I'll go back and look. for some reason i've never been a "tag" person. i've seldom used them nor had a need for them.

She's always been close by, but sometimes she gives me to much rope to hang myself before she intervenes....lol.

Oh Puhleeze--you are still here--she knows when to cut the rope--she just teases you!

yup, have been back since 22nd December.  A bit hard getting settled back down to living here, still missing my fur-babies and Jakarta, believe it or not...lol.

maybe you should tell one of them (your grandkids) that this stuff might be worth a fortune in a few years time....maybe that will give them an incentive to hang on to your stuff....lol..

Absolutely Okie, memories are precious treasures.

oh Arkmama, I am so sorry for your loss. After the pain, the memories are what we treasure....I lost my hubby back in 2001, the pain is still there but the memories of the love is what dulls it. Your loss is very recent, it will take a lot of time and you must allow yourself to feel the pain so that you can move through it. It does get better, I promise you.

I'm so sorry about your husband, I didn't know about that.  This was a kid i had not seen since 1986 but my kids had been in close contact with him for several years and we spoke of him often and passed messages.  I had no idea his loss would affect me so much.  it would take days to tell all the good things this kid did although he was gone before I learned of most of them.

I just read your post, you wrote it very well. Writing about your sorrow can help a lot. I hope it helped you.

It did Maria and you gave me the kick I needed.  I've pretty much quit wearing out old photos.  LOL!

Good for you!!!!  Have a wonderful weekend arkmama...I'm off to have lunch with some friends. Havent seen them for almost ten years...so it will be great.

Have fun and thank you!

turntables that can plug directly into a USB port? well my goodness....isnt there anything sacred that technology wont touch?

nope, nuthin, lol. Its kinda cool, this way you can put them on a cd and not have to mess them up, they will be worth money one of these days, many of them already are.

Glad this post made your heart sing today Martne...