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Best Week Ever

Best Week Ever

On Memorial Day, we planned to go to Dunkirk to take care of my ancestral graves. And our friends who own a farm in Otto, NY, needed some help setting up some hardware/software, something I don’t usually do, but it had been a while since I’ve been out...

A Primal Urge

I can’t describe it, but I just NEED to visit my ancestral graves each year. Between weather and busy-ness, I never got out there to plant flowers this year. So last week I just up and left for Dunkirk. Some of the graves were bare with grass, and needed some...

Birthday Reflections

A wonderful day, and I couldn’t be happier choosing to spend it with my eternal soulmate. Visited my mother’s space at the mausoleum, something I usually do on Good Friday, but had a prostate biopsy. (It was scheduled previously but the prep instructions...

Revisiting Myself Through Others

We’re at the edge of the snowbelt for the first snow of the season, getting almost two feet here while those to the south have driving bans and those to the north have green lawns. Our usual Sunday visit of “the Daves” to watch old Dr.Who episodes...

Nearby Fire

Across the street from us is Linda, our cat-lady neighbor, and next to her is an empty lot where an abandoned house was torn down some years ago. The deer like to hang out there, mostly ignoring those who walk by. On the other side of the lot is (was) a house with...