Summer 2011: Day 29

July 4th, 2011

Happy 4th of July!

Allen, Kirk & Jesse…glad you all still have all 10 fingers and your hearing.

Summer 2011: Day 27

July 3rd, 2011

Hotel beds!

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Summer 2011: Day 26

July 2nd, 2011

Tri Boyz of Summer off to Chisago to see how it all is roll’n.

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Summer 2011: Day 25

July 1st, 2011

When the heat index is 106 and you have found a tiny spot to watch the baseball game in the shade, of course you would also want to snuggle right into your mom’s lap. Really, who could say no?

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Summer 2011: Day 24

June 29th, 2011

70 miles of wind and serious whoop-ass. Thanks to Jackie and Di for pulling me all the way.

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It’s taken me awhile

June 29th, 2011

Today I pulled my Dad’s Caring Bridge site down from my links. I have thought about it often but haven’t been able to do it.

It’s like throwing away the left over cards from his funeral.

These are little bits and pieces that are left of him, so getting rid of them are difficult if not agonizingly painful.

To the living this is all we have left, the papers, the books, the sweaters, the tangible things we can still hold, touch and smell. Why on earth would you want to get rid of that? If that is gone you have nothing to hug and hold, feel or touch. But I can’t keep these things forever.

So we plant trees to visit, to sit next to and to summon the memories. Every time we drive around Lake Calhoun the kids want to stop and visit grandpa’s tree.

I took this photo a month or so ago. It says so much to me. The kids just hang’n out, playing and watching the sun set in one of the most beautiful parts of the city that my dad loved.

I find him here most. The memories come flooding back for me in this place. As the kids play, I know he is there taking part in it all.

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