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Things have calmed down a bit
Jun. 17th, 2005 11:38 pmMother-in-law is greatly improved and was moved to a normal ward today. So that's good.
Everyone is somewhat dialed down a couple notches from yesterday, the only blow-up was Clare, the oldest of Russet's siblings, venting on a hotel in town that utterly screwed up her brother's reservation. Steven and Family had been in the same hotel as Russet and I, in fact, we ran in to them when we came down for breakfast today, but he had planned to go to the Oberlin Inn (recently prominently featured in my wedding bloggage) for the rest of his stay. Well, it would appear that they're back here at the Holiday Inn for the duration.
We went to the cemetery and helped pick out the plot for Russet's parents. Very nice place. It's next to the city golf course. And that spurs a brief story….
No kidding, a month ago Brian went out and played a round of golf. I don't know if it was 9 or a full 18. Obviously this was before he started radiation treatments for the brain tumor.
He parred a hole that he'd never shot par on before.
I think that is so cool.
Unfortunately they couldn't get a plot near that hole.
Anyway, got a nice plot, and the family is doing something unconventional. Brian always slept on the right side of the bed because he was left-handed. Normally couples are buried with the man on the left side as this is how they are presented as a married couple as if they had turned and were walking down the aisle and out of the church. Brian is going to be placed on the opposite side so that when ultimately his wife is laid to rest next to them, they'll be in the same orientation as they slept together for 53 years.
I think that's kind of cool.
And the plot is in the shade, so that's also cool.
One thing that I'd never seen before in a cemetery. They now do tombstones double-sided. You can see the name from either side. I thought that was kind of interesting, I hadn't seen such in Phoenix.
Well, scheduling is done. The visitation/memorial service is Sunday afternoon, the burial Monday AM. There's obviously a lot of paperwork and such that will have to be handled, plus my M-I-L will likely still be in the hospital. She doesn't think she's going to make it to either service and wants me to take pictures, several of her children think she'd be viable on a day pass in a wheelchair with an oxygen bottle. She's getting the upper hand against the pneumonia, but it'll take some time before there's a full recovery.
The obit appeared in today's papers, both local and area. In one, they spelled Russet's name with two T's. In the other, she became a son. I think she's more ticked off at the spelling than the gender shift.
And finally, in the hotel as I was coming back from dropping off my suit at the front desk to be pressed yesterday, I stopped to look at some tourist brochures. It turns out that the Ohio Scottish Games are being held about 15-20 miles away next weekend, June 23-25. There's a possibility that we'll stay for that. Russet has a lot of friends there, it's also the place where she twice earned the Scottish National Harp Championship. You can find their web site here.
Everyone is somewhat dialed down a couple notches from yesterday, the only blow-up was Clare, the oldest of Russet's siblings, venting on a hotel in town that utterly screwed up her brother's reservation. Steven and Family had been in the same hotel as Russet and I, in fact, we ran in to them when we came down for breakfast today, but he had planned to go to the Oberlin Inn (recently prominently featured in my wedding bloggage) for the rest of his stay. Well, it would appear that they're back here at the Holiday Inn for the duration.
We went to the cemetery and helped pick out the plot for Russet's parents. Very nice place. It's next to the city golf course. And that spurs a brief story….
No kidding, a month ago Brian went out and played a round of golf. I don't know if it was 9 or a full 18. Obviously this was before he started radiation treatments for the brain tumor.
He parred a hole that he'd never shot par on before.
I think that is so cool.
Unfortunately they couldn't get a plot near that hole.
Anyway, got a nice plot, and the family is doing something unconventional. Brian always slept on the right side of the bed because he was left-handed. Normally couples are buried with the man on the left side as this is how they are presented as a married couple as if they had turned and were walking down the aisle and out of the church. Brian is going to be placed on the opposite side so that when ultimately his wife is laid to rest next to them, they'll be in the same orientation as they slept together for 53 years.
I think that's kind of cool.
And the plot is in the shade, so that's also cool.
One thing that I'd never seen before in a cemetery. They now do tombstones double-sided. You can see the name from either side. I thought that was kind of interesting, I hadn't seen such in Phoenix.
Well, scheduling is done. The visitation/memorial service is Sunday afternoon, the burial Monday AM. There's obviously a lot of paperwork and such that will have to be handled, plus my M-I-L will likely still be in the hospital. She doesn't think she's going to make it to either service and wants me to take pictures, several of her children think she'd be viable on a day pass in a wheelchair with an oxygen bottle. She's getting the upper hand against the pneumonia, but it'll take some time before there's a full recovery.
The obit appeared in today's papers, both local and area. In one, they spelled Russet's name with two T's. In the other, she became a son. I think she's more ticked off at the spelling than the gender shift.
And finally, in the hotel as I was coming back from dropping off my suit at the front desk to be pressed yesterday, I stopped to look at some tourist brochures. It turns out that the Ohio Scottish Games are being held about 15-20 miles away next weekend, June 23-25. There's a possibility that we'll stay for that. Russet has a lot of friends there, it's also the place where she twice earned the Scottish National Harp Championship. You can find their web site here.
