David Ferrari
Aunt Barbara, I sit here today on what would have been your 87th birthday fondly looking back on all the fun times we shared together. From the Saturday movie matinee's with grandma and dad at AMC Mission Valley, to the countless Sunday excursions that you and dad and I did together. Dad always said that you knew every back road in town....and boy did we travel them. Our countless Sunday excursions with dad were so fun and many. From going to Kobey's Swap meet in the mornings walking the rows looking for that one thing we just couldn't live without haha, to our lunches together either at Rudford's or The Chicken Pie Shop. Once done there, we'd be off to Balboa Park and on to sampling all the goodies and snacks offered at the International Cottages. Ohh how you'd laugh at dad and his pockets full of change he'd give as donations for the snacks. We'd eat and laugh and eat and laugh.....and if we stayed there long enough, we wouldn't have to worry about dinner hahaha. Those were fun times.
The dinners you'd make for dad and I were the best! I'll always remember your Italian sausage, bell peppers and onions spaghetti, your cucumber, onion and tomato salads, and your famous Christmas Fudge that we could never stop eating. Everyone who tasted it LOVED IT!!! It never lasted very long when you made it that's for sure! Then after dinner the coffee would start brewing, the biscottis would come out and we'd start our classic comedy tv dvd night. Ohh how we'd laugh and laugh and laugh till we cried....whether it was the old Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, old Carol Burnet Shows and old Johnny Carson shows. It was old school comedy.....for old school folks like us hahaha. Awwwww.....such good times.
Then there was the lunches out with mom at Casa Machado and just recently our last lunch together at California Fish and Grill....what a nice day and lunch that was, the weather was perfect and we had so much fun talking and catching up. Getting together was always so much fun with you and mom. You'd both always celebrate your birthdays with a lunch out together and I'd always come along to celebrate too.....I'll always cherish those times we shared together....
Today my heart still grieves on your passing and the sadness of it I still feel. But at the same time when just saying your name, thinking about you, and all the memories we shared comes to mind....a smile comes to my face. It's a feeling of sadness and happiness both at the same time. It's a feeling that is hard to explain....
Today is your birthday Aunt Barbara and even though we can't celebrate it together here on earth today..... I know you're celebrating it up in Heaven with Uncle Steve, Grandma and Grandpa, Dad and all you're friends and relatives who have gone on ahead and are there with you now. Your passing is not good bye....but just so long for now....until we meet again....with love......David Jr.......
