David
My brother David died yesterday. We was 64. On May 14th he'd been hit by a car while riding his little motorcycle and broke his leg. They put in two rods and some pins and told him to rest up for two weeks. He did the opposite of that, doing many many things; I think he thought he would be OK and he didn't need to rest. He had always been active, swimming three times a week, riding his bike all over the place, and doing lots of manual labor. He was thin and active and healthy. He was desperate to keep working because he was self-employed, working for power wheelchair companies that sent him...
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running and painting near the end of October
first of all, Kevin replaced the second bearing on his truck yesterday. the first replacement took a day and a half and the second only four hours. soon he'll be replacing the mysterious bearings...
more happenings in October
the white pelicans are back and as usual i keep trying to get a good close-up. this one on october 16th wasn't too bad. the problem is that when i walk down to the water they start to quietly glide...
Mostly Riley in October
First, to clarify - my last post had a photo of Kevin on the sailboat wearing a lovely lavender t-shirt from bev and wrote that she got it for bowling. yesterday she informed me that she'd bought a...
ricocheting from one thing to the next…
i can't say why i've been so productive lately. On Friday it was, indeed, really warm outside and I dug up most of my gerbera daisies but when i was done putting them in pots i realized i'd missed a...
projects!
this might be the last warm day of the year; it's already 63 and it's supposed to get up to 81. tomorrow the temperature is going to plunge throughout the day and rain is in store, so if i'm going...
Kangaroo Kitty
I have plenty of photos for October but right now i just have time to show you this incredibly funny photo of Riley. Kevin took him for a walk in the back yard on Sat. October 10th and Riley bounced...
wrapping up september…
Mom, Kevin and I had a lovely weenie roast on Friday Sept. 25th. We've been having them every friday night since then, and it's a fine tradition. Kevin goes down to the dock about an hour early and...
More from september,
now that it's the ides of october... i finished painting the front porch and i realize i didn't take a photo. i'll have to do that sometime. in september i also decided to tackle cleaning the walls...
here in october…
...are a few photos from september. I love this picture so much, Lovey sitting in front of my pelican/goose collection. Shortly after that she sprawled out on the floor so relaxed, at least for a...