Get-it-all~ma!
Went to Art in the Park with my parents today, which was a good time. Might be the first one since pausing in 2020, I certainly haven’t been to one in a while, and the weather was great, attendance seemed high, I was able to get a little purse and a couple of small prints (Godzilla rampaging through Martinez, and another full of highly local iconography that is harder to succinctly describe) and some cute earrings. My dad won one silent auction (for more earrings for my mom, made by a friend of theirs) and I failed to talk them into buying a large oil painting of the sun setting behind Mt Tamalpais that captured the light *so* gorgeously (I was not trying all that hard, I know they have no space left on their walls, but it was really pretty)
This is ruining my assertion that we have food in Ohio year-round!
NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS
I hope Tim's procedure is successful with no surprises.
Laura, I'm sorry to hear about your brother.
I'm so sorry, Laura. I'm glad you could be there.
I’m so sorry for your loss, Laura. Glad he could be around so many loved ones when he passed.
First, you already know Brendon is a superhero but once again he came through. A couple days ago I was telling him how we couldn’t get my sister Judi to see Jim because his room was up 4 stairs and she can’t do any. He went and bought lumber, built a ramp, with 3 others hauled her and her wheelchair up so she could be with him. Drove the round trip (6 hours) to do just that then came back and did it again the next day picking us up at airport and staying with us until the end.
Second, my brother has a complex familial history. Children with 4 women (that we know about) and stepchildren. Grandchildren with various kids and stepkids. Also in his large emotional Italian family many estrangements. Let’s just say writing his obituary is hysterical as we try various vaguespeak. We’ll figure it out but right now we are mocking his life choices. (We are omitting his two predeceased brothers in law from my branch)
