Coming and Going

Tomorrow Sophie will be 3 weeks old. New life is so precious. So much hope and potential - What kind of person will she be?


We sadly experienced the other side of life today. We went to the funeral of Kathy Douglas’s husband. Both Penny and I worked closely with Kathy the last year we worked and Penny had worked with her many years during her career. Kathy is a strong woman and we thought she would take her husbands death rather stoically. We couldn’t have been more wrong. She looked shattered, weak and broken. We didn’t know her husband well so we weren’t feeling the loss for him. Seeing her in so much pain did hurt – a lot.


We are in that time of life when you get to see people at weddings, baptisms and funerals. This memorial service was attended by a number of our friends from work who we haven’t seen in about a year and a half. It was good to see them.

I personally don’t miss my work. I miss the people I worked with. I know that’s not unusual but the last office I worked in really was the best from the people standpoint. We were working on a special project and because of that the office was staffed with the best people. (I still don’t know how I got there but I’m glad I did) We put in long hours and got to know each other well. Everyone in this office knew they belonged to a special group and it was the first office I worked in where everyone was accepted without question and all opinions and ideas were not only listened to but also encouraged. It was a great place to end my career – I feel I finished on a high note.


After the service Penny didn’t feel like going home to make lunch. “I want to be waited on”, she said. We were both feeling down and lunch out was a good idea. We also have some gift cards we were given by thoughtful friends so lunch out did not cost us anything. We went to Olive Garden where Penny loves to get soup, salad and bread sticks with a cool glass of raspberry lemonade.

The rest of the day was normal – it was time to mow the lawn again, keep up with the house and finish catching up on things we didn’t do for the 2 weeks we were in Jacksonville. We are pretty much caught up and moving on to other things. Penny is getting back to crafts and I’m cleaning up the shop.


I haven’t looked at the cat feeder to see how hard it will be to fix. I’ve been feeding the cats the old fashioned way, by hand. We have 7 regular customers. We haven’t seen Unsub since we’ve been back. She’s disappeared for a couple days at a time in the past but has never been gone this long. Time will tell if she gone for good or is coming back. Meanwhile we have a 7-cat frenzy twice a day at feeding time.


We haven’t been out in the kayak now for about 2 months. Tomorrow morning is looking good for us to go. We will see how the bayou has changed in 2 months of summer.