I went to a funeral this morning. A friend, Ann Piruung, lost her Mother last week. The service was at St. Dominic's and was very touching. The Mother was in her 80s and was apparently a very intelligent, loving, amusing woman and will be dearly missed. Poor Ann. Last night, they had an electrical "event". The wiring in her computer (they think) blew and started a fire and destroyed their electrical service. She had the eulogy that she had planned to deliver on the computer so had to wing it. She did fine.

I felt so near to this and Ann because my Mother is 89. She is still doing JUST great. Last week she has something scheduled to do every single day. Actually, she kind of complains about that as she likes a day off in between to rest up. Her only real complaint is that she gets tired. I am taking her for her physical next week. She just wants to be sure that her tiredness is just old age.
Eileen told her one day, "Mom, you have to remember that you are not 79 any more."

Then I spent the rest of the day picking up around here and sorting the avalanche of papers that appears on my desk every week. We did the first filtering on the second batch of Chokecherry Wine that I made this season. It is very raw yet but seems to have a pleasant taste. Should be ready in the Fall. We have a five gallon batch of Chardonnay to filter also. We will probably do that tomorrow.

Leslie called last night. It was good to hear her voice. The girls were both out. She sounds happy. They like it in Louisiana. Nora has a job and Sara is looking. It doesn't seem possible that they are 16 and 18 already.

Tomorrow is a busy day with shopping and Dr. Casey and a dinner in Elkhart Lake for us church people who have volunteered to play Bingo with the patients at Rocky Knoll. They really don't have to do that but since they do, we like to go.

Have a nice Tuesday and I will be thinking of you.

Mary

P. S. It was over 70 degrees today. Yippee.