Friday: You came so unexpectedly - wan't it just Tuesday?

Friday, you tricky little dog you, how did you come so fast?

Well, today was good, full and that curry never did get made.

I saw a friend for lunch and caught up on things.

I read here and there; did laundry; dishes; took lightrail home,

talked to my dear friend C who I have known for 20 years 

and that was so nice, esp as she sees me, including the humour in my life

and her laugh is one of my favourite things to hear. 

(And she reads my blog, I actually don't have many friends who 

have known me so long who do!)

And then I made lemon crinkle cookies.... recipe here! on my 

All the Ribbons blog!

I will, DV, update this recipe tomorrow as I have not tried them yet,

since they had egg and today was a fast day so... tomorrow breakfast, you are just

around the corner...

I hope tomorrow to wax lyrically about them, perhaps gushing a bit...

how can I not, it's a lemon crinkle cookie after all... 

I ordered flowers for Uncle Hank to be delivered.

My Mom was able to go the funeral home this afternoon

and my Aunt H. hoped to go tonight 

and this made us so happy, esp. since we can't be there. 

His funeral is tomorrow... 

I am really really glad for family.

I am really sad that being over 40 means losing those who you love

who are 2 generations up from you, like Uncle Hank. 

Tomorrow, my Husband and I will eat leftover beef stroganoff,

ironically the first time my Husband will have it as we had

pizza (semi-homemade) on Monday and he wanted to get those 

leftovers gone before anything new, so tomorrow,

we will have beef stroganoff and biscuits that I made

the day we lost Uncle Hank. 

Somehow it is fitting.   

I am thinking of doing a second cream sauce (I have milk that needs to be used up 

and the egg noodles, fully predictably, ate up a bunch of the sauce,

though the wonderful taste is still in full force).  

But I want perfection so... I hope to do this, I want it to be my best.

I remember when +Patrick died and I made all the desserts for his mercy meal

and somehow making this meal I made on Tuesday

for my Husband and I to be nourished by

in light of such loss,

seems like the best way I an honour Uncle Hank,

outside of my, our, commitment to Christ, which is the ultimate honouring. 

Wednesday: what can I say? You were not the easiest of days

Mr Husband was in the living room when I got up,

had my first-thing-in-the-morning blessed bread and holy water,

and walked towards him and asked about his Uncle.

Uncle Hank died last night, a bit before 11 PM.

We knew it was coming, even though it was all so sudden.

We are not able to go to the funeral but that does not stop our love,

 our grief; prayers tonight that I said out loud for us,

the ones we were saying extemporaneously (instead of written prayers which we also pray)

stopped and started a lot, as I kept thinking about loss, about my Husband's Uncle,

about other losses; about that we are in the second half of our lives now

and we have, as far as we know, a lot of loss in front of us,

to go through, in the next years.

[The things they don't tell you in University when you are in your early 20s.]

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So we watched the Walton's episode about Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

We found it well done.  I thought it was perfect watching since we are in grief

already and Uncle Hank served the US in Korea. 

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Cleo, the naughty cat, did not take her medicine well tonight.  :(

Do you remember her beautiful blue eyes?

They are yellow now, from jaundice. :( 

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I am really glad that my Husband is OK with simple meals.

We had toast and salad for lunch

and toast, salad and fruit salad for dinner.

***

I had wanted to make curry, but my Husband wanted it with potatoes,

which I did not have on hand, due to the fact that they often sprout so fast

in my pantry, that I am only getting them on a 'as-needed-basis'...

So I am getting some tomorrow and if all goes well, will make a curry on Friday.

***

Tomorrow is a go to NYC day.  At least to the dentist in the afternoon.

I am terribly behind on emails, so if I owe you one,

I will get to it, as I can, as I have time.

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I can't wait to have that meal I made yesterday again tomorrow. 

The plum torte is like summer to me and my Husband;

and now, the easy beef stroganoff and the best cream biscuits,

I will remember, always, liked to our dear gentle sweet +Uncle Hank.

May God remember him in His Kingdom!

Memory Eternal!

Memory Eternal!

Memory Eternal!