TheBanyanTree: Hunter's Moon

Sun Oct 2 08:19:26 PDT 2022

Oh Dale, Theta said it so eloquently…. Regardless that just the daily
routines of your life have always been fascinating to me, I appreciate you
sharing this now.   I actually think of you here and there and I wish you
peace… and loads of positive energy friend!💜

On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 10:48 AM Theta Brentnall via TheBanyanTree <
thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com> wrote:

> 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 spri
> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/ait+till+spri?entry=gmail&source=g>ng
> 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.
> >
> >   <mailto:Dale.M.Parish at gmail.com> Dale.M.Parish at gmail.com
> > --Toilet Stall Wall
> >
> > 409-790-2352
> >
> >
> >
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