Last Monday i made a highly satisfactory loaf of buckwheat blender bread. I added rehydrated and blended dried figs from 2022 as part of the liquid, that worked fairly well but the previous loaf with chunks of dried figs and dates held promise ( Read more... )

Dad called this morning to say ( Read more... )

From a chat thread with my siblings and father, just archiving:
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The gloomy weather has had a few windows of dryness and brightness such that some mowing occurred and lunch in the yard went well today. (More later). But i just scampered in because of a downpour and was able to greet a sopping Christine and Carrie with a towel ( Read more... )

Much going on. Mom's birthday was on Wednesday, and I went out with my sister, her son, and my Dad, returning with them to home and a condolence cheesecake that i had saved to share, as cheesecake was my mom's favorite (or what my dad thought of as my mom's favorite ( Read more... )

Yay, oral prednisone prescription to fight the asthma. The weather has been so mild and i have been so lethargic. I have a mild cranky for a might-have-been if i'd had the steroids two weeks ago. Whatever ( Read more... )

Mom passed June 1st at 11:25.(This is twenty-one years after Christine's father passed away on the same day. Christine refers to it as the universe rhyming.) My sister was with her. She had brushed Mom's hair and washed her face, and was listening to John Denver's "Sunshine on My Shoulder" when Marie's breathing slowed, slowed, and then gently ( Read more... )

I spent most of Monday with Mom, leaving for lunch and after dinner ( Read more... )

I've spent the day (as i sit next to mom breathing so loudly) on a timeline at DreamWidth - https://elainegrey.dreamwidth.org/895487.html -- it's terribly long and filled with tiny family details. I didn't want to duplicate it here, but thought i'd point to it.

08:17 i had hoped to wake to a rescue inhaler prescription but no go. I took much of yesterday off because i felt exhausted & enveloped in brain fog. I didn't help Dad make it to the monthly support group because of that, plus a power outage at his house and Mom's distress in bad weather ( Read more... )