You all will probably be laughing or shaking your heads-but my Sister-in -Law is insisting I now need a cell phone. Ha Ha
I will just take over Larry's phone and number but his phone is old and needs an upgrade. So I just bought an older Samsung model so it would just be the yearly charge for the service. If I were to buy there newest model I would need to also pay a monthly fee in addition to the yearly service fee. No thank you. I really have no use for a cell phone as I am home most of the time. Now being alone in the world-sigh-I can see I need a cell phone in the car. I am hoping learning to take photos will be easy too-and hopefully better as well.
I had been buying Larry a Tracfone ever since we bought our retirement woods property back in 1999. Wow that sounds so long ago now. I had insisted he needed to have a cell phone then during the long drive from the Wisconsin-Illinois line down to SW Missouri area. It did come in handy for him.
My sister in law's husband will teach me how to use it when they come down next week. She is helping me find a boat service with a captain to spread the ashes in the lake. I am not putting anything at all in the newspapers for my own safety. and just informing a handful of nearby friends.
I was so grateful that one of my neighbors came down for a long weekend to get their lake home ready for winter. They were so supportive. The 24th was by birthday and she baked up a small cake-sadly she didn't know I needed gluten free for my celiac. That was just so caring of her though.
Early on the 25th Larry had passed. The stress situation was that the hospice nurse on call over the weekend lived 3 hours from me and didn't arrive til almost 1 pm so that would have been difficult if my friends had not come down-they stayed with me til the nurse arrived and the nurse called the funeral home..
Back in the '80's during a 4 month period I lost my little sister to a head on car crash, then both Grandma's soon after, and then an uncle. So I have not gone to funerals since then
My sister in law is already talking that I must move to a condo or something smaller with no steps or hill-No way, I feel very safe here, still rural and there are good neighbors here on this circle road on the lake. Too soon to make any decisions. She is also wanting to talk me into staying with her and her family at her Florida home on the beach. Found out her home there is 10 minutes from my Wisconsin friends rental-where they stay in the winters now. I don't think I am up to that either. Someone told me I need 6 to 8 months to adjust.
Some how my husband's military records can not be found, and for some reason he has never kept a copy of his honorable discharge papers-I have never seen them ever. I was looking into this for the flag and possibly the ceremony as he did a lot in the Viet Nam war. The lady at the funeral home told me there were a lot of records destroyed in a fire years ago.
When my sister in law and her family get down here next week (they have a lake house here too about 30 minutes away)-she will help take the suburban in to trade for a new car for me-looking at the Equinox 2027 So a big week coming up. Perhaps too many changes-but I need a new car before winter.
I am working on relaxing if I can, spinning yarn, reading a book, etc. Today is a little bit better. We had been married for 44 years but had been together for 46 years. When I look back we had a good life together.
Did you get a good view of the full hunter's moon? It was spectacular here out my window over the lake. Hoping the camera on the phone will help me take better photos. Found this photo online-at Lake in the Ozarks Pretty much how it looked out my window.
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