Friday

I meant to tell you in the last update that I have been printing your comments from the Blog and emails and taking them to Dad. The emails to the hospital are also getting trough albeit a little slow being delivered.

Mom and Dad really appreciate them as well as the Birthday cards and others.
Spirits are uplifted each time we read them.

One more thing and I hesitate to write this because of different sensitivity levels. but Dad got a kick out of it so here goes.

Sometime back Dad had asked me to take a picture of him for his obituary because he didn't want an outdated picture of him (like when he had hair) used when the time came. I kept putting it off and never got around to it. One day, Jim Pat Bell came by to visit Mom and Dad, and Dad knowing of JP's photographic talents asked him if he had his camera and if he would take the picture. So JP took a series of pictures of both Mom and Dad. While visiting this week, JP took me aside and very delicately whispered to me that he didn't want to be morbid but that he had brought the pictures that Dad had requested and wanted to leave them with me. I told Dad this morning that JP had left his obit picture with me and that there were several others of him and mother that were very good. He laughed and said that he wanted to see it because that was a year ago and he wanted to have the editorial prerogative to have another made if need be.

Sense of humor is intact.

Hope no one is offended by this story, certainly not my intention...

I didn't get JP's permission but I added a couple of pictures at the end of the slide show. (Many thanks JP!)

God is good!