Lovely Auntie

Our Lovely Auntie, daughter of the Knitting Grandmother (and needlepointing too), died on Sunday. She had been diagnosed with ALS a bit more than a year ago (I think) and the disease progressed more rapidly than we expected. We are all sad. We named middle after Grandmother and Auntie, so it is sad to have only Middle left now.

Life goes on though, and mostly it's been nice remembering visits with her over time.

We were in Oregon last week on vacation with Darling's family, even though Darling had a business deal come up that prevented him from being with us much of the time. I did get some work done while I was there, but still have many inches to go.

I'm trying to buy a different car as well. The old Mazda is just too tired and sad. While I would love to get one just like it, I think we will end up with a Toyota Sienna and that will be just fine. The current difficulty is that they want me to have a Texas driver's license (not sure if that's a requirement, or a want) but to do that, I need my passport (check!) and my social security card (where'd it go!). So looks like I'll need to get a replacement SS card, then off to the TX DPS. Hopefully the car people will sell me the car anyhow.

I'm off to North Carolina this weekend to say goodbye to Auntie along with Catherine and our parents. Our brother can't make it. I'm not sure if any other cousins will come. There will be another one in Memphis in a couple of weeks.

Darling will stay here to pick up Middle from Choir Camp and have a generally fabulous time.

I think that's about all I know.

3.5 hours on vacation, 11.5 hours total.

Margie