In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Got back from my pick up game around 5pm in the rain and grapple. I won the first round. We have a rule for pick up games which is the first person to get to 10,000 points we start over. I got over 13,000points with one hand being over 9,000points. Well that broke my stride and finished the second round with over 2,000 points.
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Mah jong done as well as errands. Bit of a rough morning though I did manage 3rd place. Had a couple of half decent hands.
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Just got back from my Grandma's house. Had a real nice time with my aunt and my dad while I was there. Saw my aunt at night and had dinner with her 3 nights in a row after she got off of work, and spent some time with my dad today while he was over finishing the last of the paperwork totes off. We spent some time going through some of the photograph totes. Huge memory lane trip for him there.
Got a literal ton of stuff out of the house and got half of the old trash out at my uncles and half of it out at my Grandmas. Pretty much anything inside any cabinets or dressers is out of the house completely except for my aunt's room. She's going to get all of that out the next two weekends. I can't push her on that.
I got almost all the junk furnature out of the house, and what's left is the good stuff and the kitchen table and chairs. (We're using the chairs for TV and light stands now... lol)
My uncle needs to go through all of the stuff I laid out on the tool bench for him to sift through before I take what I want and get rid of the rest. My cousin is going to be there on Saturday to go through the wall hangings and take what she wants. Then I'm going back for a night or two next garbage day and we'll get rid of the last of the loose stuff, make probably 5 trips to Goodwill and put out furniture. Already got my uncle and a good neighbor on board to let us put out 2 pieces on their lawns, and since I'm doing it early I'm hoping people take the good stuff away first and I can keep putting more out.
Everything left in the house that was good is in the dining room for family to go through, and really all that's left in there is a mattress and a TV for me and my aunt, her stuff upstairs and a grand piano.
The goal is to have my aunt completely moved into her own place for good by the end of next weekend. 
She seems a lot better now. I can tell that being alone is going to bother her for a while, but she's doing way better than she was before I left last time.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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I'm glad for the time you are getting with your aunt and your dad, SIX. That's what's important now.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I'm glad for the time you are getting with your aunt and your dad, SIX. That's what's important now.
Yeah. Everything will be alright.
I feel like I haven't properly grieved Grams yet. Maybe there isn't any such thing as proper. I was a lot more emotional when my other Grandmother died, but that happened right in the middle of the worst of my drinking and I didn't even go and see her before she died. Maybe a lot of that was more about me and my guilt. I dunno.
I've also been keeping myself so busy. Except for my aunt throwing things to the curb after they were out in the garage and helping me move a few of the larger pieces last year, her kids haven't had to worry about clearing any of the junk out.
I told my aunt and uncle yesterday that I'm finally finishing the job that my deceased uncle and I started when I was just a kid when we cleared out a room in the basement and collected a bunch of scrap metal in the garage and got 87 bucks for it.
My buddy and his family are going down to Florida for 10 days next week. I'll be over there patching up his daughter's room and getting it painted for her before they come back.
After that, unless it warms up here again, I'm going to have little on my plate for a while. It will probably hit me when I can't call Grams then.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I'm glad for the time you are getting with your aunt and your dad, SIX. That's what's important now.
Yeah. Everything will be alright.
I feel like I haven't properly grieved Grams yet. Maybe there isn't any such thing as proper. I was a lot more emotional when my other Grandmother died, but that happened right in the middle of the worst of my drinking and I didn't even go and see her before she died. Maybe a lot of that was more about me and my guilt. I dunno.
I've also been keeping myself so busy. Except for my aunt throwing things to the curb after they were out in the garage and helping me move a few of the larger pieces last year, her kids haven't had to worry about clearing any of the junk out.
I told my aunt and uncle yesterday that I'm finally finishing the job that my deceased uncle and I started when I was just a kid when we cleared out a room in the basement and collected a bunch of scrap metal in the garage and got 87 bucks for it.
My buddy and his family are going down to Florida for 10 days next week. I'll be over there patching up his daughter's room and getting it painted for her before they come back.
After that, unless it warms up here again, I'm going to have little on my plate for a while. It will probably hit me when I can't call Grams then.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
There is no proper way to grieve. It is individual to each person. Take it from someone whose done a fair amount of it.
Busy can be good to help deal with things. It's a coping mechanism.
Helping friends is good as well.
It most likely will. I had that happen when my favourite aunt died. I wanted to talk to her then I remembered that she was gone. It was awful.
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Out for an early walk in the dry. But I'm taking my umbrella just incase. March has been a lion up here.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
There is no proper way to grieve. It is individual to each person. Take it from someone whose done a fair amount of it.
Busy can be good to help deal with things. It's a coping mechanism.
Helping friends is good as well.
It most likely will. I had that happen when my favourite aunt died. I wanted to talk to her then I remembered that she was gone. It was awful.
Yeah. It's hard for me to get motivated getting my own house in order right now since I kind of have to do a tandem house/garage re-org and it's cold and snowing at the moment. It will be a lot better on Monday when it's warm and everything melts.
I felt a bit of it this morning. I talked to my dad for a while, but he's not much of a phone talker and we just spent a lot of time together just yesterday. My aunt and friends are all working right now. I wanted to call Grams, but yanno...
Didn't get emotional about it yet. Don't know how that's going to effect me going forward, really. I did have that good cry while she was still alive. Maybe that's all there's going to be.
It's different this time than with my other Grandma because I was there through almost all of it and I know it was a relief for her and everybody else when she finally passed, and I've been spending so much time and energy helping everyone else out so far that I haven't had any time to really process it while it was still "new". It's kind of shocking to think that it's only been 6 days right now. It feels like 2 weeks have passed already since she's been gone.
It's not like I don't have a ton of stuff to do here today and many, many days going forward. I just wonder where my energy and enthusiasm to work goes when I get back home. I was so amped up I could hardly sit still the last 3 days of helping over there, but now that I've home I've hardly done anything but a bit of paperwork since I've been up 4 hours ago.
I'm glad spring's coming. Warmer weather and sun always makes me feel better.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Aside from a healthy snowpack... 125% above normal northern snowpack to 200% above normal southern snowpack... and a lovely view of snowcapped peaks, some things I just realized heading our way
A burst of lupine flowers. They only bloom after moisture penetrates deep into soil, and that needs heavy sustained rain. I hope to see many of those lovely purple-blue flowers at the roadsides and foothills.
A superbloom of wildflowers - CA poppies, Clarkia, tidy tips, flowers I've never heard of. Coming soon!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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