RIP My friend Theresa

 

I received this notice from Matt, Theresa's brother:

My sweet friend, one of my heroes has passed away, she was such a warrior and a champion.......Good bye my friend, may you soar now.

Sadly, Theresa A. Arini (Guarnieri) has succumb to the effects of Pneumonia tonight at 8:42pm. How do you say goodbye to your strongest ally in life, the sister who made your life meaningful? It's like a part of my soul has been ripped away. Please pray for Vince, the husband Theresa left behind. He's a good guy and made Theresa so happy through the years. He will need strength to continue on.

Fall

Well, if this morning is an inking, then Fall is trying real hard to raise it's head.  It was a bit brisk this am and is supposed to be colder tonight.  The problem is it is then going to warm up for a few days...can you say "allergy season"?

Was going to go to the library down at WSU today while Al was in class but my body did no want to cooperate so I am home again today.

Trying to teach myself more computer lessons on software that is so difficult, not to great at this self-learning, very slow at it.

My book writing is somewhat stalled, just trying to get all the information in an orderly manner is taking so much time.  I guess I should not be surprised though there is 40 years of research I am trying to straighten out.

Still sad news about my friend Theresa, no final answer.

Labor Day Weekend

What a nasty Labor Day weekend for us.  Our power went out on Sat and then when we tried to get our generator to work it would only run for an hour.  I could not use my oxygen as it runs on the geni and I could hardly breathe.  Sat night was hell.  We went out to breakfast on Sunday to try and cool off and so I could catch my breath.  When we got back Al tried to get the geni working but without luck.  We called our friend Earl and he has a geni so he had some ideas.  Thanks to Earl and all his help they got the geni running and I could breathe.  Of course now the weather got cold and damp so we never got comfortable but we figured we were luckier than others.  Thanks to a good friend we got some things to work.
Hoping for a better week for the rest of the week...finally got a good night's sleep last night after the power came back.

It is so funny to me, years ago I would go primitive camping for a week or two at a time, by myself,up north and never even think about having power or electronics.
Now I was enjoying the silence of the neighborhood, but wanted to work on my book and I need power for that.  Times and wants do change as one gets older don't they?