In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Back from my walk and all was dry. Computer graphic still calling for rain. Just have to see when it arrives.
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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.
Time SIX. Give yourself time.
My dad's been gone for over 40years and sometimes specially around Nov. 11th it can really hit me.
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Much ado about nothing with the snow.
My dad and aunt were missed completely and nothing stuck to the ground.
It was snowing, raining and sleeting here all day until recently, and it looks like a winter wonderland right now, but really there's only about 1.5" of heavy snow coating everything that will probably all be gone by the end of the day tomorrow.
What a weird weather cycle this week. Three different models out of Chicago had snowfall totals all over the map for today since Monday. None of them ever agreed with each other and they were all changing every couple of hours. We heard anything from 1" to over 20" at one point, and we hardly got anything.
Good deal. 
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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On sis' drive home from work she said it was slushing so heavily the windshield wipers had a hard time keeping up. Sounds ugly.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Yeah. I had originally planned to stay one more day at my Grandma's, but I can't get anything else out of the house until everyone else goes through it and my Aunt seems to be doing well. Didn't feel like lingering out there when this storm was coming up. I would have left there thinking it was fine and ended up with a nasty ride home.
Hopefully this is basically the end of winter. Except for the cost to heat and the few deep freezes, it wasn't really a bad one. We probably only got about 10 inches of snow all winter.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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The rain arrived in my area around 5:30pm and I think it still is. Part of a main highway will be closed until tomorrow as they got 70cm of snow and there is also a high risk of avalanches in the area.
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Off to get my laundry done then a walk in the rain.
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Quote:Laundry, positive step. Walk in the rain? Not so fun.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Off to get my laundry done then a walk in the rain.
I'm heading out to do some yardwork while it's cool and I can crank up the motivation.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Laundry, positive step. Walk in the rain? Not so fun.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Off to get my laundry done then a walk in the rain.
I'm heading out to do some yardwork while it's cool and I can crank up the motivation.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Yeah, every two weeks laundry. No the rain is not fun. It wasn't much when I went out but on my way back getting heavier. Computer icon says rain and reading 6C which is 42F. That's warmer than it has been for a while. Fingers crossed it is dry like the weather people are calling for next week.
Enjoy your yard work and the dry.
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Well, I made progress with yardwork altho it doesn't look much different. I emptied the 33 gal bins into a couple of big bins to go out to the curb... so difficult to lift heavy stuff so high, given my bad shoulders. I also managed to cut down all of those effing palm seedlings/saplings. Some had trunks as thick as my wrist. I'm trashed, but at least that part is done.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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