Saturday

Well it was a busy day which helped with all the activity that surrounds a family when a loved one passes on. Much of the day was spent getting ready for GG to return to her house along with son Eric and his wife Diane as they escort her back from Michigan and making funeral arrangements for Pap.

After our quiet times and a bowl of cereal with all kinds of fruit for breakfast I headed out into the garden while Nancy got ready to head over to GG's. I transplanted a tray of bean seedlings as well as several tomato seedlings into the one garden that gets the most full sun. The weather here is just fantastic especially for gardening with the 50's at night and up to the low 70's during the day. I seriously doubt we will get any more really cold or freezing weather this winter. January is nearly gone and by February we usually start with the best weather of all for the year, much like Spring time in the mountains. I'm able to save a few tomato's and I'm ripening them in the window. The squirrels have gotten wise to my cage and I've gone catch less the last couple days, oh well!!!

We headed over to GG's with cleaning supplies and my rug shampooer. I spent a couple hours vacuuming and cleaning their carpets and I must say they turned out better than the last commercial cleaning they had done. Nancy scrubbed, dusted and clean bathrooms so GG won't be faced with all that after just getting back from a long stay, away in Michigan. I checked on and fixed a small drip from the water supply line in the bathroom as well as checked on the gutters. I need to bring my leaf blower over in a week or so and clean the gutters once again as their oak tree is really losing it leaves.

The funeral arrangements are set for Wednesday as I make this post at noon in Safety Harbor at the Sylvan Abbey Cemetery. We are expecting family up from Miami and down from Michigan so there will be lots of food preparations for family dinners and get togethers. Well it will be a bitter sweet occasion as Nancy is thrilled her dad got saved before his death and now we can celebrate knowing we will be reunited with him again. Bobby will officate the funeral as Pap ask him weeks ago do so. I know that will really be a tough go for him as well.

Well thats about all except we went through lots of old photos in GG and Pap's collection and they even found some post cards dated back to Pap's grand parents in the 1880's, wow that was only 20 years after the Civil War. It was interesting to hear the language used especially when writing about how the cow wasn't fresh yet( what that means is the cow hadn't had her calf yet). I remember hearing the term used when I grew up on the farm. LATER