Great Memories.

Sorry I haven’t written anything in a few days. Work has been very busy after the long weekend & December is always a busy time in the corporate world. Everybody is trying to finish the year’s work & stay on top of things for the holidays. Between work & a video job I am doing it seems like I hardly have time to eat. Oh well.

It seems to be the week of death in my family this week. Elicia’s great grandma died on Monday & the funeral is tomorrow. My dad called me today on his way home from seeing my grandpa & his time is very short. My grandpa’s death I think will be very hard. I think it will be the first person to die that is close to me. Any other death that I have experienced has been people or family that my parents knew or were close to & didn’t have the effect on me that my grandpa will. I heard that hospice said that if my grandma was going to have Christmas to have it now. It sounds like my dad is going to go back up there after the weekend. If the family is getting together for a last Christmas than I may try & leave next week to go be with them. I told myself that I wasn’t going to go up there until he died, but the more I think about it I think I really want to see him again. I would love to have him hold his grand daughter, only the second Brancheau girl. I would love to hug him again & tell him that I love him. Life will be very different with out him. What a horrible time of year to die. I think my best memories of him were at Christmas time, the old farmhouse on Manning Hill, snow on the ground & the smell of wood smoke from the chimney. I can remember waking up to the sound of my grandpa banging pots & pans & the smell of grandma cooking breakfast. We would come downstairs & sit on the giant vent from the wood stove to warm ourselves, Christmas music playing, the whole family was there including Jimmie (Grandpa’s somewhat adopted child). Breakfast was always good, we would open our gifts & play with our toys, watch Christmas specials on TV, & grandpa would pin us to the ground & wrestle us & our parents would have to call us in from sledding or playing with our toys for Christmas dinner. That is the way I always want to remember him. I will always have those great memories to hold on to.

Well we got 3-4 inches of snow last night. I was kind of excited because I wanted to see how the snow fell & drifted at the house. We didn’t have a lot of wind with this storm so I couldn’t really see how well my snow fences work. My philosophy is if it is freezing cold than there ought to be snow on the ground. So I don’t mind a little white, beside it’s Christmas time & you need snow for Christmas.