Uncle Frank
K and I drove to Uncle Frank's memorial service yesterday.
Three and a half hours each way - from temperate to winter in a morning.
Uncle Frank was a very dear man and it was wonderful to hear his son recount his gentle life whilst looking at slides of his carvings...he was good and old and lived his life the way he liked to.
Back at K's cousin's home (surrounded by family and three feet of snow) we ate that delicious kind of food you really only eat after a funeral...casseroles and hams brought by neighbors, desserts designed to cheer - we couldn't wait around long enough to sample the homemade (!) cream puffs but we ate well enough to feel stuffed on the ride home.
So, that was yesterday.
Today: housework, laundry and waiting for a storm.
Three and a half hours each way - from temperate to winter in a morning.
Uncle Frank was a very dear man and it was wonderful to hear his son recount his gentle life whilst looking at slides of his carvings...he was good and old and lived his life the way he liked to.
Back at K's cousin's home (surrounded by family and three feet of snow) we ate that delicious kind of food you really only eat after a funeral...casseroles and hams brought by neighbors, desserts designed to cheer - we couldn't wait around long enough to sample the homemade (!) cream puffs but we ate well enough to feel stuffed on the ride home.
So, that was yesterday.
Today: housework, laundry and waiting for a storm.
Comments
Comfort food...mmm.
Paola
I'm sorry for his loss, though.
A storm? With snow?
Sounds rather wintry.
It was 52 degrees and sunny here today.
My daffodils are finally starting to poke through the ground.
A friend of mine now pays her 12 and 15 yo boys $25 each to help her clean their house - to her standards. It cuts her time way down, the boys are learning life skills and they have their own spending money which is teaching them budgeting. They are also responsible for providing one meal each a week. They can elect to purchase prepared food, but it comes out of their money, not the household money. If they cook, she buys the ingredients from a list they prepare. She said these things have changed their lives. I don't know if I'll have the chutzpah to do this with our sons, but I'm watching her success and going hmmmmmmmmm? She said it was 6 weeks of hell getting them to clean properly and not whiz-bang through stuff and the worst was the 'pick up/put back where it belongs' ahead of time.
You drove Australian distances to get to his memorial.
Thinking of you and your family dear bb.
I hope those who are grieving him most are doing okay.
jbhat
My family tends to live into their 90's. Funerals are the only times all the cousins see each other.
PS: Spring is in 3 weeks.
ErinH
It's lovely that you have such warm memories of your uncle.