Haven't been around much, last year sucked

[CrustyCat]

As the title says.  Last year was a terrible year.  I think I mentioned it across the street, but I can't remember.  Anyway, November 2nd of last year I lost my wonderful wife to melanoma skin cancer.  She had been battling it for a couple years now, but eventually it metastasized throughout her body and eventually her brain.  I had her quit her job early last year so she could spend time with the kids and grandkids in Alaska, made a trip to see my family in Wyoming, plus other fun things she wanted to do with her lady friends.  After it went to her brain, it was very swift, affecting her mobility and speech.  She was out doing things with her friends less than a month before she passed away, that's how fast it went.  She was a strong woman.  She knew what was happening.  We went together to the mortuary a month before she passed to pre-plan because she wanted to have a say in what happens.  I have put off her celebration of life until next month.  I guess I didn't really want to deal with it.  I have had her ashes interred at the VA cemetery here, so at least now I know where I'll be someday.  Sorry, don't mean to be a downer.  Here is a photo of us together in Wyoming last summer.



Kevin