Happy Mother's Day With Mom At Arizona's Tortilla Flat

Incoming Mother's Day related emails from my Favorite Nephew Jason, aka FNJ.

The compiled text of the three emails...

FUD- 

Happy Mother's Day 2025.  I asked your brother last night if he was going to drive up to Lynden and bring your mother flowers. His response indicated that there is a slim chance of that happening. I myself am going into the restaurant to supervise, as Mother's Day is typically the busiest restaurant day of the year.   

Thought I'd share a photo with related mothers in it that I dug out this morning. 

But, I find searching for pictures of your mother is nearly an impossible task, as there are so few.  But I did find one of me pictured with some of your other favorite mothers.   I'm not sure of the occasion, but your sister Nancy appears to be lighting a birthday candle.  Grandma Vera is looking annoyed and perhaps isn't enjoying herself and probably just wants to go home, or to BINGO.  My best guess is that this was taken circa 2000.  By then I think you had left the state.

-FNJ

Mother's Day 2025 Addendum

And I forgot to tell you, that if you ever truly miss your mother, I have a fix for that. I can arrange for you to spend time with Shirley 2.0.

I have no clue where Jason is in the above photo, with his Great-Grandma Vera, and a pair of his aunts. Nancy, aka Shirley 2.0, on the left, with Jackie, in blue, next to Nancy, who Jason suggests is lighting a candle.

Saying I have no clue where Jason is in the above photo, I was referring to the location where the photo was taken. I know where Jason is in the photo. That is him, next to his Great-Grandma.

As for Jason suggesting Nancy is lighting a candle, okay, looking at the photo, at full-size, before I shrunk it for blogging purposes, I can see that it looks like Nancy is lighting what may be a candle, with matches in her left hand. Here is the zoomed view...

As for Jason having a shortage of photos of my mom, also known as his Grandma. I do not suffer that same problem. I have a lot of photos, with many taken in the years 2017-2019, including the photo at the top, taken at Tortilla Flat, on the Apache Trail in Arizona. 

That is me behind mom, with Linda Lou on the left and Big Ed on the right.

Renders me a tad melancholy, seeing that photo of mom at Tortilla Flat, and realizing that at that point in time, there would not be many more days like that. Wish I could live that day's Apache Trail drive to Tortilla Flat over again...