TheBanyanTree: Hunter's Moon

[Theta Brentnall]

Dale, thank you for sharing this with us. That's one of the reasons we 
like this place so much - we can share the pain as well as the good 
times.  My heart aches for you.  I wish I could hug you and make it all 
better, but I know that only time with ease the pain.  Not make it go 
away - when someone has experienced the union of true souls, the pain 
can never go away, but time can cast a veil over it.  Be well, dear 
friend, and know that we are sharing some tears with you.

Theta

On 10/1/2022 7:56 PM, dale.m.parish--- via TheBanyanTree wrote:
> The first of the month.  My WeekCalendar app reminds me that I need to put
> Chlorox into the AC condensate line, check the batteries in the smoke alarm,
> download all the bank statements for the previous month, reconcile the
> checkbooks, give the dog his heartworm medicine, change the AC air intake
> filters, and wonder what else I'm forgetting.
>
>   
>
> But first, I need to go to the store room and get out my winter vests.  This
> north wind has brought the temperature down into the teens last night, and
> the house is chilly.  I've got to work on the mower and get the grass cut
> this weekend for what I hope is the last time this fall, but we've had mild
> falls before where I cut grass into November.
>
>   
>
> But then it hits me-- it's been a month now since Cindy's death.  Not that
> it hasn't hit me every day for the last month, but somehow it seems heavier
> today.  Maybe because today's Saturday?  Don't know.
>
>   
>
> For the past week, I've been dreading tackling her office and camera closet.
> While she was on Home Hospice, she was concerned that her cameras weren't
> locked up while her grandkids were here, so the camera bags were stacked
> higher and higher in the locked closet.  And I forgot that the THC cabinet
> was behind all that stack and locked, and that the key to that cabinet was
> hidden somewhere in there.
>
>   
>
> It took me two days to get all of the contents of her main camera bags
> identified, inventoried and moved to the living room before I got down to
> the camera bags and tripods all covering that THC cabinet, and another day
> to find the key.  Still have the contents of that cabinet to do.
>
>   
>
> Beaux, our Australian Shepherd, is very clingy now-- I think he's aware
> she's not coming back.  He wants to accompany me every trip outside
> regardless of whether or not it will be only to the truck to retrieve
> something.  I try to let him come each time, but if he doesn't click that
> I'm going to an outside door, he just lays there, depressed, I think, until
> he hears the door open and then he's barking at the door until I return.  At
> least as the weather cools, I'll be able to take him more places with me and
> not worry about having to leave him in a hot truck in the Texas summer sun.
> Next spring will be a problem for him to understand why he can't go as
> often.
>
>   
>
> I haven't seen my grandkids in Florida for two years now.  Cindy had
> promised her loom to her cousin in Fairhope AL's daughter, and I'd sent him
> the measurements, but when he came to get it, he'd only measured the bottom
> of the tailgate of their SUV, and there was no way it would fit, so I've
> promised to deliver it to Fairhope and probably on to the daughter's home in
> the Florida panhandle before heading on down to stay with my son and
> grandkids.
>
>   
>
> He and I have talked more the past few days than we have in the past year.
> They lost internet service at their new house, but not power.  Some wind
> damage, and the water rose up into their garage, but not into the house.
> But since they both work for a major FEMA contractor--most of the reason
> they had to move to Florida--having no internet was a problem for them.  He
> would SMS me with a query and I'd Google it and SMS the answer back.  Which
> often prompted a follow-up call for specifics or more details.
>
>   
>
> But we persevered, and she's now managing the cleanup of one of the major
> struck counties on the Florida Gulf Coast while he plays Mr. Mom.  His jobs
> involve hazardous waste monitoring after disasters like fires and
> hurricanes, and superfund sites, most of which he can perform remotely as
> the on-the-ground technicians send him the monitoring station reports.
>
>   
>
> I want to cut the pastures before I go to Florida, but I've been waiting for
> two weeks now for a new PTO shaft for my mower. "Call for availability" are
> words you never want to hear at a tractor parts counter-- usually indicates
> that they only made this one model and didn't anticipate the failures and
> switched to a newer design because the old run is all used up.  I can hope.
> May have to wait till spring to cut them.
>
>   
>
> Hugs,
>
> Dale
>
> --
>
> Dale M. Parish                                   For All Of Mankind'S
> Supposed Accomplishments,
>
> 628 Parish RD                                    Our Continued Existence Is
> Dependent Upon 20
>
> Orange TX 77632-0264                    Centimeters Of Topsoil And The Fact
> That It Rains.
>
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> --Toilet Stall Wall
>
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>
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>
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