Messages By: jadebear

That is a wonderful memory .........it sounds like he had a special place in his heart for animals. You will probably have other relatives and family members come up with other stories you haven't heard before and even ones you hadn't thought of in a long time. He would be happy to know that you remembered that and are working on a song. What a nice idea. You are very creative. Chris

We'll excuse anything before the first cup of coffee!:>) The PMS  probably  didn't help. What does a dressed-up hippie wear anyway??:>) I think I know what you mean.....  At least you weren't the 5000th customer or something and they had a band waiting for you with a reporter from the local paper!!!!!:>) Sometimes all you want is a cup of coffee....I'm with you on that one!!!!  It's a funny story. If you see her again,tell her you always come there because you're preparing for the return of the mothership and  you look forward to seeing her again soon...:>) She might switch Starbucks.:>)

Personally, maybe we can all enroll in charm school ,but they might need to put us in the intensive 30 day program.:>)  Oh,no, what if we don't pass?   All that niceness would just be too much for us to take!!! I'd last for 5 days maybe.:>) 

I'm glad to hear the MRI came back good . It sounded like the surgery went well ,just taking it easy on a few things for awhile. I  was thinking of you and the memorial service and how hard that must be. I hope you get through it OK. I got back from visiting my family. We went to my sister's and got to see my niece and nephew. My niece is taking hunter safety class so she can go dear hunting with her Dad in the fall when she turns 13. They are out in the country and they practice using BB gun rifles trying to hit Pepsi cans hanging from string in a row   between 2 trees off the deck. I got to try it and I was pretty good!!  My niece took pictures of us . The BB guns look like a rifle and one like an AK-47. If I show them to people here I can say...Here is my family back home........ Here's my sister with a rifle....here's my brother........ Here's me..... and here's Grandma!!!!(my Mom)  All you can see are us aiming them off the deck and the cans aren't in the picture. We look like an NRA poster family....the family that hunts together ,stays together.:>)  My Dad actually came over to my sisters from the assisted living place. It was a brand new beautiful 2 building  site, each with 20 or 25 residents. The staff is young and patient. He was very unhappy about being there (that is putting it mildly) But may like it better in time. He is probably overmedicated by claiming more pain than he really has and so far abusive to the staff and family when visiting. The little old ladies with their white hair  and blue sweaters and the men residents would gaze at us in wonder as we arrived to visit. Must be the most excitement they've had in awhile. They do have someone visit with pet therapy once a week and people can bring dogs in to visit relatives. That was the one time he smiled a lot - when a visitor brought her pomeranian in his room, it seemed to help. They have a resident bird  also. Nature seems to be healing,don't you think,for many things. God Bless...Chris