This Weekend, and Today
Sep. 16th, 2012 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
persisI am tired and have work in the morning, but here are a few place markers from this weekend.
Yesterday was a very good day. Superb weather for climbing, sunny but cool. Climbed Monadnock, ALL of us made it up, even Spencer who climbed at his own pace, and Talis whose knees and other joints were giving her grief, and Madeleine, who is 13 and thought it was the worst idea ever to climb a mountain. She was not fond of her grandmother, to put it mildly... she is too young to have known her Noni before Noni got sick. Talis has that distinction. We scattered Mum;s ashes just below the summit, after we had all stepped on the benchmark (which is NOT the highest point... go figure) and ate some lunch. Leslie for some reason had only packed snacky types of food, instead of sandwiches. and protein. We went off to the left, and scattered her over some blueberry bushes. I have pictures, will add to the post later. Talis says we need to climb again, and why did we wait so long.
And every one came down. Took me an hour to descend, Talis and Dakota were waiting for me. Spencer arrived about an hour later, and David half an hour after Spencer. David's knees were not happy. He said that if he never saw the White Cross trail again, it would be too soon. I am really proud of Spencer for making it up and down in one piece, mostly. He slipped on a wet rock on the way down, getting left shoe and pants leg wet, but he saved his glasses, and iPhone... That elevator was just not there for him. ;-)
Today was another beautiful day. I love my friends. Rick and L came up early, D and G too. Leslie was all worried about people showing up exactly at one and we would not be able to get everything done in time...and kept reminding me about the time... you don;t have time to put the pictures on poster board, it will take too much time. In 15 minutes, D and G and I had populated 3 large boards of foam core, and the big mirror in the back living room. She is too rigid about things like this. We started the speaking part just after 1:30, when I expected it to happen, I started, and asked Leslie to say somethings, and then we passed the zooms around and heard some wonderful remembrances. And people kept coming in, even after we were done telling stories and went back to having a wonderful potluck party; there was music... harmonies brought tears to my eyes, I was glad I had tissues in my pocket. There was plenty of food, and drink, and punch! (two batches of it!) and people hung around afterwards and helped clean up. I think we were all done by 7:30. I got home at 9:30 or so, Talis drove, and did a wonderful job negotiating the various 128 and 95 and 90 road constructions.
Well, I guess I had more spoons than I thought... There's still more, but enough for now. I do have to say again, that I have wonderful friends. My sister kept remarking on it... saying, "you have such good friends who are helping you with this". And I said, "yes, I am very fortunate to have such good friends". So many people came up to me and said what a wonderful time they had, and that Mum would have liked it. Even my BIL, and his brother, and a whole bunch of Leslie's friends... and mine, and people I didn't even know very well.
Kudos go to Spencer and David, who helped out so much so I didn't have to worry about the details. David makes a mean punch, I just have to say. ;-) And Spencer took my lists and ran with them. Both of them went shopping last night at BJ's so I could run off to TJ's for the wins and items BJ's didn't carry. And Spencer took my last minute list this am; he's a great list man.
OK, enough for today. More later. Hugs to you all. :-)
Yesterday was a very good day. Superb weather for climbing, sunny but cool. Climbed Monadnock, ALL of us made it up, even Spencer who climbed at his own pace, and Talis whose knees and other joints were giving her grief, and Madeleine, who is 13 and thought it was the worst idea ever to climb a mountain. She was not fond of her grandmother, to put it mildly... she is too young to have known her Noni before Noni got sick. Talis has that distinction. We scattered Mum;s ashes just below the summit, after we had all stepped on the benchmark (which is NOT the highest point... go figure) and ate some lunch. Leslie for some reason had only packed snacky types of food, instead of sandwiches. and protein. We went off to the left, and scattered her over some blueberry bushes. I have pictures, will add to the post later. Talis says we need to climb again, and why did we wait so long.
And every one came down. Took me an hour to descend, Talis and Dakota were waiting for me. Spencer arrived about an hour later, and David half an hour after Spencer. David's knees were not happy. He said that if he never saw the White Cross trail again, it would be too soon. I am really proud of Spencer for making it up and down in one piece, mostly. He slipped on a wet rock on the way down, getting left shoe and pants leg wet, but he saved his glasses, and iPhone... That elevator was just not there for him. ;-)
Today was another beautiful day. I love my friends. Rick and L came up early, D and G too. Leslie was all worried about people showing up exactly at one and we would not be able to get everything done in time...and kept reminding me about the time... you don;t have time to put the pictures on poster board, it will take too much time. In 15 minutes, D and G and I had populated 3 large boards of foam core, and the big mirror in the back living room. She is too rigid about things like this. We started the speaking part just after 1:30, when I expected it to happen, I started, and asked Leslie to say somethings, and then we passed the zooms around and heard some wonderful remembrances. And people kept coming in, even after we were done telling stories and went back to having a wonderful potluck party; there was music... harmonies brought tears to my eyes, I was glad I had tissues in my pocket. There was plenty of food, and drink, and punch! (two batches of it!) and people hung around afterwards and helped clean up. I think we were all done by 7:30. I got home at 9:30 or so, Talis drove, and did a wonderful job negotiating the various 128 and 95 and 90 road constructions.
Well, I guess I had more spoons than I thought... There's still more, but enough for now. I do have to say again, that I have wonderful friends. My sister kept remarking on it... saying, "you have such good friends who are helping you with this". And I said, "yes, I am very fortunate to have such good friends". So many people came up to me and said what a wonderful time they had, and that Mum would have liked it. Even my BIL, and his brother, and a whole bunch of Leslie's friends... and mine, and people I didn't even know very well.
Kudos go to Spencer and David, who helped out so much so I didn't have to worry about the details. David makes a mean punch, I just have to say. ;-) And Spencer took my lists and ran with them. Both of them went shopping last night at BJ's so I could run off to TJ's for the wins and items BJ's didn't carry. And Spencer took my last minute list this am; he's a great list man.
OK, enough for today. More later. Hugs to you all. :-)
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Date: 2012-09-19 12:45 am (UTC)