Yellow Flower Pots

Today I filled your yellow flower pots with new flowers. The extended cold spell this past winter took it's toloon the old ones.

I need to get them repainted. I bought the paint but I need the wind to calm down first, then Gina a place to paint them.

Saturday Pool Time

 I was up early on a Saturday, 5:45, got my 3 mile walk in then walked up to Eli's for breakfast.

After breakfast and a shower I spent some time at the pool. This time of the year it is common to be the only one there. Laid out for a while to air dry before going home.

Then I ran some errands, haircut, Paddock Mall, and Walmart for some groceries and to pick up a picture I printed from Google Photos. I found a nice 5x7 wood frame for it. I currently have it sitting on the island since I am not sure where it will end up, maybe in the bedroom or by the TV on the back wall.

                                                   

Grief

I don't know what grief will look like tomorrow.

But I'll face it.

I'll feel it.

As your memory washes over me.

One day at a time.

One wave at a time.

For such a love, grief is the price of admission.

The cost of the human condition.

So, I'll pay it over and over again until I see you again.

The love was worth it.

    -Liz Newman

Magnolia Bloom

The magnolia trees by the front gate have been blooming for a while now but last night was the first that their scent was strong enough to notice.

Woodstock

 

Smile

 I miss your smile
You always had a happy with the world smile

Your favorite Greek fisherman's cap, the Burrito Works Taco restaurant in St Augustine that we always ate at, and your cat eye glasses.

Toothless

Found a good home for Toothless the Dragon.
You thought it looked a little like Stripe and sometimes you called her Toothless.

She will be Sharon and Dave's copilot, may she watch over them.

Sunrise & Rainbow

 I took to pictures on my morning walk, to the east at 6:20 to catch the sunrise, to the west at 6:28 to see a full  rainbow. I took 2, you would have taken ten to twenty. There is a big hole in my heart and life.

I miss you every day.

Rocket Launch

Out for my morning walk and I saw the trail of a Falcon 9 rocket launch at 6:13.

I knew there was supposed to be a launch but I had forgotten about it.

It is pretty cool to just go outside and see one go off. 

Pocket Watch

 From Jeni:

In jewelry box or dresser

Grandma Nina Miller Connor graduation watch

Chain with a knife

Jim Stroup won the chain and knife at a Spring Valley and give it to his grandpa Thomas Sheldon Connor

Fo Alyssa so that she will know the history of the watch and knife

Grandpa always wore the watch to church and sat in the front row

Had candies in his pockets so that all the kids sat with him to get candy