A diary of ties

I was going through our walk-in-closet today and did something I haven't done in years. I took all of Ketils ties and sorted them out. It was the funniest thing I've done this week aleast.
It was like taking a crash course through our marrige..... Remembering when we bought this or that tie, or when somebody gave one to him... and how good the looked back then. Some don't look all that hip today - some even so unhip that if he desided to wear one, I'd tell him: ok, but you're going alone tonight honey.
I remember the first summer we were married - we were invited to a retirement seremony from the US Navy up on the old navybase... we had some friends there, since we had a small band that regularilly would play in this black gospel church (now that's a whole different story I have to tell you someday). Anyway one of our friend was retiring, and they invited us to attend. It was a very formal thing and you had to wear suits and all - and at that time Ketill didn't own a single suit. So he had to borrow one from somebody else. The trousers were like 4 inches to short - but it was a suit. We did go and buy him a tie - one of the many I went through today - and it looked so good on him. Looking at it today, I just burst out laughing... 'coz it is TERRIBLE, has like thousand colors in it and just.... well there just ain't no way to descripe it.
And on it went - working myself through time - "tied"up in time.
Funny how things can bring up all kinds of memories. So today, it feels like I've been reading the diary of our time together... some pages brought on laughter, some tears.... but it was good!!!
Sometimes you just have to let all those boiling feelings out. And going through your closet isn't such a bad idea - you get your closet all tidy and you get to refresh upon some, maybe long lost, memories.
I don't know why I'm sharing this with you, maybe just because it brought so many smiles to my face, that I wanted you to have one to.
But atleast you can say I've been VERY TIED UP today.
H&K
Ella Gitta.