God's Newest Angel

 ALittleBitofMiller@theDoubleD.bloggingmylifeaway

June 16, 2014

While reading the news online this morning, this blogger came across a very sad article about the lady hiker who went missing on Mount Rainer last Wednesday.  Search and rescue workers found her body after a three-day air and ground search.  Authorities assume she was injured while hiking in a rough section of the Owyhigh Lakes trail about 5,000 feet up and succumbed to hypothermia before the ground team located her.  An avid hiker and writer, her friends and family told reporters she came to the end of her earthly trail doing what she loved.  At seventy years of age, she was active, healthy, and living life on her own terms.  Can we ask for anything more?  Which brings to mind another woman, recently gone from this world, Silivia West Eaton.  Miss Silivia’s family said their final goodbyes on Saturday.  Over five hundred people attended the funeral and stood in ninety-five-degree heat at Miller’s City Cemetery to honor the queen mother of the Eaton family and, in some respects, the reigning matriarch of Miller.  On the surface, these two ladies have little in common, but when you dig deeper, you see that they both lived their lives on their own terms and inspired people to appreciate the world around them.  When one ponders the here today and gone tomorrow aspect of their passing, it begs the question: how many of us are prepared for this to be our final day on earth?  Our last hike, so to speak.  No sermon (although if that’s where your brain takes you, you should go with it), just a question for the masses.  If this is your day to go home to the Lord, what headline would grace the front page of the local paper? Leave a comment below and help Miller say a fond farewell to one of God’s newest angels. “Go rest high on the mountain, Miss Silivia.  Thanks to your example, we got this.” 

Now for the rumors about town, some started by this blogger, others heard here and there from people who really should learn to be more discrete.  Boy Next Door El Segundo (BND2) sat with the family between the former TV star, better known as Girl Next Door #3 (GND3), and her baby sister (GND5).  Not many people could tell which sister BND2 was laying claim to, but it appeared to these eyes that the boy was a bit more touchy-feely with GND5.  Hmm!  Maybe the rumors of a romance between BND2 and GND3 were nothing but the wishful thinking of the Mamas and the Papas (tMatP).  One other pairing of note, GND4 and the money man she swears is just a friend were inseparable. Eyebrows raised (^^).  Should we call him money man (MM) or just a friend (JAF)? State your preference in the comments below.  Also of note, Chef M hosted a dinner for the family at the Double D, serving all of Miss Silivia’s favorites.  The party/wake lasted into the wee hours of the morning, and a little birdy observed Chef M giving GND2 a ride home afterward.  Could it be that the chefs are cooking up a little sumpin sumpin?  You can be sure this blogger will keep said eyes peeled. Get it? Eyes peeled.  HAHAHA.  A little chef humor.  Checking in on everyone’s fav couple: you may have noticed Snowbird (SB) and a green-around-the-gills Farm Boy (FB) at The Filling Station (TFS) Friday morning filling up on blueberry waffles courtesy of the former beauty queen (TFBQ).  With their wedding just a few weeks off, FB is looking more and more like he would prefer to run to the nearest Chapel of Love and avoid all the hoopla.  DT at the water office has a pool on whether FB will talk SB into eloping rather than walking down the aisle at the church in front of three hundred plus guests.   This blogger is betting FB will man up and give SB what she wants.  The bride’s parents, aka the Golden Years Peace Corpsers, yes that word was crafted by yours truly, (GYPCs) are back in town for the nuptials but were not at breakfast with the lovebirds.  Rumor has it that the GYPCs were seen at the Double D trying to talk Chef M into adding some dishes from Belize to the wedding menu.  Last, but most exciting, our own DD, the Man of Steel has been nominated as East Texas’ Most Eligible Bachelor.  That’s news that should stir up our little town, especially when the hordes of female hopefuls arrive. Batten down the hatches, it’s about to get real, folks. 

Meanwhile, the fireflies are lighting up the woods at dusk.  These luminescent bugs are a type of nocturnal beetle and have some genuinely amazing characteristics—self-synchronicity, to name one.  With more housing developments, pesticides, fire ants, and light pollution, we see fewer and fewer of these captivating and charming insects.  Word of warning, if you go looking for fireflies, they live in damp areas, so you are likely to find the mosquitos more plentiful than the lightning bugs.   Be prepared.  Nuff said.

 

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