sleepy/wasted morning, lunch and yardwork in the afternoon, first irises of 2006, dinner, grocery shopping, ‘emotional surgery’

tree wisterias, lily bed, Dan’s tree, Japanese maples, C3, PoV

got the official death certificates today. starting to make plans for the tee quilt and June memorial service, publishing the obits and a PoV article

DSL up: worked on EHCF ideas and N&O editorial response

Study on nicotine’s effect on lung cancer treatment

DSL still out; dinner at Sue’s; legalities; missing Dan; memorial plans slowly falling into place

N&O editorial; changing my work benefits; urn pickup; DSL outage; grief book. Memorial services will be here in NC on the weekend of June 10-11.

quiet day … started the greenhouse watering system, and have been dreaming up ideas for Dan’s memorial garden here.

One week ago tonight … it does not quite seem like Dan’s death just happened, but it doesn’t seem like a full 7 days either. (Probably because those days, like the 7 days preceding it, were so atypical of ‘normal life’, well, as normal as it got post-diagnosis.) Telling people Dan has died is […]

pruning, mulch, irrigation, Japanese maple inventory, more birds, pond UFO lights