The Waterbed

My dear friend Edna passed away today she was such a sweet and caring lady. She always made me smile and I was looking forward to showing her my new hair, I told her I was getting it cut and she begged me not too, but you know me, I needed a change! ;-)


A funny story about Edna! -

One summer a long, long, time ago way---- before Maggie, I spent almost every weekend and even some week days with Edna,. She had a King size waterbed that had a ppuncture that wouldn't stay patched, so she had bought a new mattress. She called me and asked me if I wanted to go get lunch and help her drain her waterbed. I told her I was game, just to come get me, I couldn't drive yet. So she came and got me and we ate lunch and talked about how exciting it would be to go to Heaven and how we would see our loved ones again, she told me that that is what she looked forward to the most. After lunch we headed to her house to drain the mattress.... this is the funny part :-) She told me that she would think about this story and it brought a smile to her face and she couldn't help but laugh out loud!

We read on the hose kit how to do it , so we hooked it up to the stink and the mattress and turned the water on.... NOTHING, it wasn't draining, so I suggested that we hang the hose out the window and let gravity pull the water down..... NOTHING!!!! So then I said alright, if you tell anybody that I ever did this I will swear you are a liar, so I then began to suck on he hose like a straw to get the water started guess what.... It worked, but not before I almost choked to death on 20 year old water bed water and mind you this whole time I am squated down outside by her window. She laughed so hard at me while I was spitting that nasty water out , that she could hardly talk. The neighbors got a good show that weekend! ;-) After laughing about it for another couple hours she took me home and told me that she loved me and that I really meant a lot to her, she would never know how much she meant to me.

We would take long drives and talk about heaven and how wonderful it is going to be, tonight Edna is there and I am positive that she is smiling and NOT because of the silly weaterbed story, but because she is HAPPY and with our Lord Jesus Christ and will be forever more! She's the lucky one! She will no longer know pain or struggle only joy and happiness! She will be greatly missed, but I know one day, I will hear her tell the waterbed story again! And what a day that will be!