Once more, David
Vancil Funeral Home published David's obituary online on Monday and I burst into tears upon reading it. It just made it so real. It was a rough couple of days after that. Today it was published in the paper. Here it is. David's Obituary. Because I was prepared this time, I didn't have the viseral reaction. I'm just sad. His daughter Mercedes was going to put together a slideshow for his Celebration of Life but because she's so busy with so many death-related things that I told her I'd do it for her. So I've been taking pictures of pictures and many of them were from when he was a cute little...
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the night sky
the other night, lighting lit up the sky. it kept going and going, and I went out and started taking pictures, not confident that any would even show up. I started taking bursts of photos, up to...
is he the real live Rocket Raccoon??
early in the evening, when it was still light out, this raccoon appeared on the deck. look at his smile! if you inspect it closely you'll see the bird seeds stuck to the end of his nose (I didn't...
april…cats, mostly.
yeah, a mighty chilly april. I've either been busy working or sitting around waiting for spring to actually arrive. riley is doing his best to adjust to life-at-breakneck-speed that we have around...
finally spring, maybe? hopefully? hopefully.
yes. spring. it seemed that we've had now had a ritual of snow every sunday. snow on easter, snow the sunday after that, and the sunday we just had...well, no snow really til Monday, and then it...
sunday evening, right before it start snowing yet again…
i'm convinced now that we're going from winter to summer, no spring at all. my poor daffodils have been trying valiantly to bloom but it's a good thing they haven't because the snow is going to...
leaving the beach…
I hated leaving Seagrove Beach. but it was a great bit of time, and hopefully we'll either go there or maybe somewhere nearby next year. we had to vacate the premises at 10 on Friday morning, Feb....
last day at Seagrove Beach
next time i'd like to go for a week. I wish we could find a condo on the beach that allowed cats so we could stay for a month, but on the other hand, would we really want to traumatize our kitties...
biking in florida
we took our bikes with us on the trip and it was great to have them. on our second full day there, we biked down the nice bike/walking path alongside county hwy. 30A. 30A is a big deal down...
good news, mostly…
gee, lots has happened since last Friday...my cold reached an apex on Saturday, but now it's mostly gone. kevin took Winnie to the vet for an ultrasound yesterday, and he has something suspicious...