I guess it won't be much today but promise of a doozie next week.....thank goodness I'm going to Arizona on Sunday. Atleast it won't be as cold as it was yesterday....but I wasn't out in it much so it didn't bother me. Seems like it is always cold and windy at cemeteries.
Spent the evening at Buck's wake. It was hard at the beginning, the tears kept running down my cheeks, but after most of the hugs of Ann and her sisters, I started to dry up a little. Hard to be in the same funeral home as Gene was, and so many of the same people there. Then Annie S. (my daughter) and I took over the job of keeping the private family room filled with food. Actually Annie brought it all, and I just helped pay for it and set it out and keep it cleaned up. So that was something to divert my attention and give me a purpose to think about. Then at 6:30 they had a small memorial service, and people were asked to tell stories about Buck, and that led to lots of laughs and some more tears, even some of the grandkids had a few stories to tell, and Nathan, Wendy's 9 year old, got up and read a poem that he wrote, and it had the whole room laughing through the tears. Later Nathan proclaimed to me, that when he grows up he was going to be a Stand up Comedian and tonight was his first gig and he had 200 people all laughing! What a wonderful smart kid....but I'm sure he'll go a lot farther than that! Or if he is....he'll be a really successful one!
Today we'll go back over to the funeral and then to Jimbo's house for the after celebration. Oh, I say we'll cause during the night my son Tom drove up from Chicago to go along with me. A nice surprise to me....but I guess other's knew as they asked me during the evening when he was going to get here.
I did get a note from Janet yesterday that Jeannie is getting better each day. Working hard doing her exercises. Janet keeps encouraging her a long the way. Please keep the prayers coming for her....along with all my other requests! Love and prayers, m
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