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Monday, October 3, 2011
Getting ready to go to Indiana today. It will be different because Mary and I will have the whole house to ourselves. Wendy, Chuck, Mathew and Liam are renting a home closer to work. Well, actually, Wendy and Chuck are renting the home, Mathew and Liam are just going along for the ride. It will make it easier to stay longer, but I'll miss getting up in the morning to Mathew's, Liam's, and Krypto's cheerful personalities.
Short trip this time. Will stay longer on the next trip.
I have a voice in my head that I call the Preacher ever since I was in Bible College, who would observe something in my life, say, a sunrise, and turn it automatically in to a 3 point sermon, complete with alliteration (power, praise, purity!) to make it easy to remember, an intro and a conclusion. Now the voice speaks in stand alone phrases of less than 140 characters.Monday, October 10, 2011
Getting ready to try my new method of posting for a little while. Printed up my collection of inspirational sayings (99% my original sayings) and humorous sayings (1/3 mine, 1/3 friends, 1/3 Tshirts and twitter) and it came to 37 pages, single spaced, 11 pt print, almost 1000 quotes.
I'm going to post a quote along with a shortened link to my blog to both Twitter and Facebook. I'll be watching reactions to get an idea to see how much of this I should and or can do. I'd appreciate your prayers.
Looked up fall colors on Google today and found that Michigan has a fall color drive that runs right by Mary's condo. Today we drove Milford Road from New Hudson past Holly. Beautiful arching trees and panoramic views, plus beautiful company. Good day.
Mary's happy tonight! Detroit Lions are ahead of the Chicago 21 to 10. Normally I have the remote, but tonight it's in her hands. Either one of us will sometimes fall asleep while watching TV, but she laughed when I reminder her of this. NOT DURING FOOTBALL! she said...
Mary's had a good day... a fall color trip, I bought pizza, the Detroit Lions won.
I feel so bad for the fans of Dancing With the Stars who missed their show because of Monday Night Football... snifff!
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Mary and I drove another leg of the fall color route we found was right in front of her condo. Drove 9 Mile Road from South Lyon through Pinckney and on to Stockbridge where we turned around. Next time we may drive all the way to Mason, my brother Tim Dittmer's old home town. Beautiful, beautiful colors and very nice company indeed.
Wednesday October 12, 2011 Trying to figure out why I was so tired today even though I am feeling well, and remembered it's the anniversary of Lynne's death 3 years ago. I knew it was today, but hadn't associated it with the fatigue. I know this day is also hard on my family.
Mathew using his computer
to help the hospice nurse
and her computer

An observation that saddens me and encourages me at the same time: Mathew was 2 and 1/2 years old the time of her death. My daughter Wendelyn Daly says Mathew says almost daily that he miss his Grammy. So does his older cousin Zach, who was 4 then, 7 now. Although it's painful, I'm glad they remember her. I can't, I won't, I don't want to forget her. 


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