The Diary Game #45: Bidding farewell to my landlady on 22/06/2024!

Greetings,
To the beautiful and handsome steemians all over the world, a happy weekend to you all.

It was a beautiful Saturday morning as I woke up to the sound of the brass band in our compound, Friday was the vigil night of my landlady that died few months ago which I wrote about earlier on this platform Read here, so I couldn't really slept well the previous night due to the loud music from the life band, she was a retired officer of the law. And Saturday was the burial.👇

So since I woke up late, there was nothing much for me to do, my younger sister had already taken care of the house chores and has also left to the market to buy things in order to prepare soup, with no time she was already back from the market, so she began to prepare the "editan soup".

so all I had to do was to take my bath and prepared to join the burial; when I finished taking my bath I was just contemplating on what to wear, then fortunately for me power holdings brought light and I was glad, because they came through at the right time, so I immediately removed my clothes and iron, then I stepped out to the burial venue.

But before I got to the burial point, I decided to do a tour round the compound just to get a glimpse of all the activities that was going on and to also take some pictures.

So I entered the backyard to met the women cooking the burial food which I took a shot👇

Came out to where the burial was conducted by the presbyterian church, and I met my high school class mate, she was surprised to see me after many years; so she was like "what are you doing in our burial"?. I told her the woman in question was my landlady; she was like "wow what a small world". Then we did some chitchat. But I don't know why it skipped my mind to snap with her.

everywhere was jam packed with people and there were no more chairs and the sun was very fierce so I had to enter one of the canopies excused a little boy from his seat, sat down then I lapped the boy.
There was an over flow, people were just seated anywhere possible 👇

They were just rounding so as to move to the graveside because it was in a different location; so they called on the family to make the announcement concerning entertaining people before the final song was sang titled "when peace like a river attended my soul", then everyone were asked to moved to the graveside since it was in the next street, I learnt it's where the family cemetery is.

So a group of guys known as the "undertakers" were asked to come and carry the casket, since it was them that still brought in the casket from the mortuary accompanied with a brass band.

Then everyone moved in groups to the graveside, so food and drinks were shared to the people that were around; it was not burial rice that hungry me to eat, I came back to my house to eat correct home made soup prepared by my sister, although I didn't meet her at home for she also went for a burial; one of her friend's father died.

It was already evening o'clock, so after I finished eating I freshen up and climbed my bed to began to work on my phone; that's how I slept off.

All images were taken from my phone