sunday
A terrible thing happened yesterday. Candy's husband Bill died. He went deer hunting in the woods of Oak Hill and didn't come home when Candy expected him so she went looking for him and found him dead. Mara called me last night to tell me. He had been having some heart problems and was waiting to hear back from some tests that he took last week. I don't know much more about it but I do know how much Candy loved him and how brokenhearted she will be without him. I couldn't sleep last night for thinking about it. I will call her today and see if she wants to talk. They have 5 adult sons so she will have some support but life will be drastically different now for her. I feel for her so much and imagine what it would be like if I was in the same place. The emptiness. The hole that will be left in her life.
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I was talking to Johnny and Alison last night on the phone and showed them a pic of the baskets I was making. They both play dice games frequently and Johnny suggested I should make one that would be more shallow so they could roll dice in it. I'll send them this pic and see if this is what they had in mind.
Yesterday all day I had such a STIFF and painful lower back. I could hardly move. Walked like an old, old woman. I lay down on a heating pad a couple times and that might have helped a tiny bit but not really. It started when I was at PT on Friday and just got worse and worse. Though this morning it is better and not on my mind so much. I do not understand my body and its aches and pains. So many places in my body get tight and stiff and then those places change and the pain goes to other places. Neck, back, hip, right arm - up and down.
I'll be going shopping with Jules later this morning - our usual early Sunday morning at Walmart shopping. Not that I need anything but I just like to go along to spend time with him.
Oh, and good news. Dave got a buck yesterday so he doesn't need to hunt anymore. He'll have his meat for the year. Though he probably will be going out to help his friends hunt and he might want a second deer so he can give meat to other people. At least he won't be getting up at 4 am everyday to do that.
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I was talking to Johnny and Alison last night on the phone and showed them a pic of the baskets I was making. They both play dice games frequently and Johnny suggested I should make one that would be more shallow so they could roll dice in it. I'll send them this pic and see if this is what they had in mind.
Yesterday all day I had such a STIFF and painful lower back. I could hardly move. Walked like an old, old woman. I lay down on a heating pad a couple times and that might have helped a tiny bit but not really. It started when I was at PT on Friday and just got worse and worse. Though this morning it is better and not on my mind so much. I do not understand my body and its aches and pains. So many places in my body get tight and stiff and then those places change and the pain goes to other places. Neck, back, hip, right arm - up and down.
I'll be going shopping with Jules later this morning - our usual early Sunday morning at Walmart shopping. Not that I need anything but I just like to go along to spend time with him.
Oh, and good news. Dave got a buck yesterday so he doesn't need to hunt anymore. He'll have his meat for the year. Though he probably will be going out to help his friends hunt and he might want a second deer so he can give meat to other people. At least he won't be getting up at 4 am everyday to do that.