Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #69 - It's time for a puppy

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #69 - It's time for a puppy

Hi Mom,

I felt it was time for a puppy to appear on this blog again. So, here's a picture of Satchel (a couple actually). Puppies make everyone happy. Though people who know dogs well and/or own dogs are happiest of all.

The Puppy of this household, Her Booness the Satchel-boo, has been missing Liesel who has been out of town for a few days.

I have been alone with the pets since early Thursday, when I have been here that is, and I have not been here the whole time.

today's picture of
Her Booness having a morning nap
1509.12

Dad and I went to dinner at Finley's. He remarked that you swore you would never go back there. Along with Red Lobster, where you also swore you would never go, Dad and I will reverse these decisions one by one. We had a nice time. I had coupons that expired Tuesday. I can sense that you are pleased by this choice.

We had a nice time. The occasion is that I took Liesel's old car, now Ivan's, to a place where I am going to store it for five months until Ivan gets his license.

Otherwise, I have been preparing my seminar that I give at Whirlpool Tuesday, various school work jobs, some grading, and housework (laundry, dishes, chickens, cat litter). I have accomplished a fair amount. I am continually impressed with the contents of the Internet. I learned a lot about facilitation today.

Maybe I have been doing too much with this blog. KISS, you know? Keep It Simple, Stupid. Right? This was only ever meant to be the continuing of our conversation. Our phone call today would have consisted of mostly this stuff with maybe a bit more detail and some private things I am not sharing in public.

It may be assumed, it may go without me saying it every day, but I miss you, Mom.

Enjoy these pictures of the puppyness. They make me happy.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 70 days ago


- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1509.12 - 19:51

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #68 - The Twilight Zone

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #68 - The Twilight Zone

Hi Mom,

I have random things to share today. I will go through them in no particular order.

I am still behind on the unfinished or "under construction" posts I made so as to keep up with my date and time stamp for each day. I could cheat and back date them. I think I figured out how to do that during the t-shirts year. But I would rather post incomplete entries and finish them as time permits. I don't think anyone is watching my blog so closely that this is noticed. If you readers are out there who do notice, drop me a comment. I don't post to Twitter and Facebook until the entry is finished, and since that's how most people find out about it, I feel safe.

Yesterday was the first day I jumped over those unfinished entries and posted yesterday's entry. Now the posts as they go to Twitter and Facebook will be out of sequence. I am okay with this result.

I had Ample Pantry for dinner. Dad still has dinners on the gift certificate I gave you for Mother's Day. Just another thing that he has to finish by himself now that you're gone.

I had a busy day: massage, lunch with a friend. hair cut, finished grades this morning, Satchel to Camp Fido, bought dog food, bought comic books, picked up my suit from dry cleaning, picked up Ample Pantry, fetched Satchel from Camp Fido. And now, I should be working, but then, I always should be working.

Cindy and Susan both say hi to you from Continental. I will get my picture taken there some day to feature here as I am going there, in part, as tribute to you.

I should get back to work.

I have tennis on the TV. Liesel did not realize that I like to watch the U.S. Open. Maybe I had not shared this with her yet in our marriage.

I am tired.

I had a weird dream about John Locke and a spinning coaster he had. He was obsessed with eating croutons and crostini. I should text him to share.

I should be working. I am trying to stay up a bit later with Liesel gone, but I got up so early that I am not sure if I can work too late.

At lunch, today, I was trying to explain how I feel, now, two months after you died. Yes, I did notice when the two month anniversary came, but let it go by unremarked.
I had been saying that I am still in the state of disbelief.
But I think that's changing. I am starting to get used to the idea of you being dead. Notice I write dead and not gone. I do not believe you are gone. I believe you are right here with me. With such a strong sense of you here, I feel I need to keep talking about you in present tense because, well, after all, you are here, right here.

Quite a while ago, probably back in either late July or early August, I conceived this post because I felt like I was living in the Twilight Zone. I felt like I was living in another dimension, which I have dreamt about. It's like this episode of the Twilight Zone.

The Twilight Zone: Season 4, Episode 11

The Parallel (14 Mar. 1963)

Click link above for IMDB.

LINK TO VIEW THE EPISODE

Astronaut Robert Gaines returns from space to a world that is not exactly the one he left from.

I feel like this. I am in some world, but it's not the right world because you're not in it, Mom.

But what I started to realize today is that this wrong world, this alternate universe, is starting to feel normal, to feel right.

I don't want it to be the normal. I don't want it to be right.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 69 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1509.11 - 20:27

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #67 - Throwback Thursday #2 - Mackinac Island 1989

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #67 - Throwback Thursday #2 - Mackinac Island 1989

Hi Mom, Throwback to 26 years ago.

Am I on the other side of this camera? I don't know. I may not have been with you for this trip. I don't remember.

All three of you look really happy, especially you Mom, so maybe I wasn't with you all. Ha ha...

That's a pretty classic look for you, Mom. I think that top may be among the ones Dad and Lori found when they went through your clothes the other day.

I love your smile here. This is a good way to remember you: smiling, on vacation with your family, radiating love.

Not much else to say. I am still behind with several unfinished blog entries. I will actually put this one through to Facebook, and try to catch up as best I can.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 68 days ago


- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1509.10 - 19:34

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #66 - Starting school - Fall term

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #66 - Starting school - Fall term

Hi Mom,


................. still behind.............. :-( THIS BLOG ENTRY IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION


Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 67 days ago


- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1509.09 - 17:10

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #65 - Ends and Odds - Traverse City part seven

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #65 - Ends and Odds - Traverse City part seven


Hi Mom,

A week ago today, we stopped at this place in Cadillac for pasties. I also bought a raspberry pie that I ate at the rate of one piece a day and finished Sunday. Five pieces? That's not bad.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 67 days ago


- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1509.08 - 19:41

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #64 - whiskey time! Traverse City pt. six

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #64 - whiskey time! Traverse City pt. six

Hi Mom,

I worked most of the day, but I am now lapping up some delicious bourbon that Dad and I bought in Traverse City. Dad bought one bottle, and I bought the other, but somehow, I now have both. Most peculiar.

I was hoping to not only catch up on the under construction items in writing to you by today, Mom, but also get the comic book stuff posted before the start of school (tomorrow). But I have learned my limits. I can only do so much. I can only work so much. There's a point at which I must stop to avoid certain misery.

More soon.

In Traverse City, Dad and I visited the Traverse City Whiskey Co.

Here's some photos.

I now am the proud owner of a classic bourbon and a cherry infused bourbon whiskey from this fine establishment.

Rang in the new year with some!

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 65 days ago


- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1509.07 - 19:28
and finished 1601.01 - 9:13

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #63 - our house - Traverse City pt. five

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #63 - our house - Traverse City pt. five

Hi Mom,

Still running behind. Have to get this posted, but first, I have to take the dog for a walk.

During our trip to Traverse City, Dad and I went to look at our old house on Long Lake. We showed up right at the time that the owner was cleaning the place, and so got to go in and look around.

It was amazing to see our old house where we lived from 1967-68 but then stayed many summers there after (most summers of my growing up years).

Here's some photos.

Damn, my paunch is too prominent

the  entrance

my old room

closet in my room is just the same

stairs to my room are unchanged

cubby desk in my room is much the same

The porch is very different though

COMPARE above photo TO THIS:

Other cabins on the property

the Neighbors

the beach and the cove

the point

down the shore to the left

another shore view, left

Long Lake

up the shore, right

Above is the beach where my father filmed my sister and I running every year. We need to splice those film clips together to show us growing up.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 64 days ago


- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1509.06 - 16:34
and finished 1601.01 - 9:32