Thanks, everyone. It's so good to be home. We have been so stressed that grief kinda took a back seat, but in this case that's a good thing, I think. Rather than focusing on our loss, we focused for a bit on Sharon's loss last night. She's been in so much pain over the last 5 years. Fell and broke her hip, her pelvis, her femur and one bone in her back. (She had terrible osteoporosis) She had 3 surgeries on just her hip, and she also had Parkinson's. All that would be tough for anyone to go through, but when you are "slow" like Sharon it was even worse because she didn't always understand what was being said or done to her. Robbie was incredible, but he wasn't with her 24/7 so she faced some of it alone. She's lost that confusion, that pain, and that frustration now.
Learned stuff about Sharon that we didn't know. Robbie had a motorcycle and her favorite thing to do was hop on the back of that thing and they'd just go...up into the mountains, over into Nebraska - just all over. She loved it. She and Robbie had dated for 6 years before they got married, and had been married for 27 years. He is so special, and his life is forever changed. All he's done for the past 5 years is work and then take care of her.
Oh well, I guess we've reached that age now. We've gone from attending more weddings and birthday parties to attending more funeral services.
The chislic looks fantastic! Um, I didn't see a cold beer there, though....remember, it's "chislic 'n' beer"!
Debby, if that's your idea of a duck pen, I have an old trailer house I'd like to replace here...hint hint! You need a sign that says, 'Quackmore Estates!"
