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Issue #1214

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Hi Guys…… Well, here we are at the end of ‘summer’. Actual summer goes on for another 3 weeks or so but this last weekend of August, the Labor Day long weekend, is the psychological end. Even those of us who have been retired for years still ‘feel’ this on some weird level. I guess it all started for me when I was a kid helping with the haying up on the farm and they had to drag me back, kicking and screaming, in order to get ready for school. I hated school, period. Therefore, I hated the ‘end of summer’, period. Anyway, I digress…. Here we are at the end of summer and I guess its time to get this letter back up and running, assuming there is interest out there to do so. I’ve actually been doing a little, secret Squid each week and simply posting it to my web site (see the link up at the top of this page). Its my way of keeping track of whats been going on in my life for the past few of months.

As stated many times in the past, I and we, can’t do this thing without you guys. We lost 2 amazing regular contributors early this year. Both Greg and Russ will always be missed but not forgotten. We do need your help, by simply writing up a story about what you have been doing or intended to do, or intend to do. Write about your summer, your interests, your gripes. Its all interesting to the rest of us. Nova Scotia Sus has kept us involved in her east coast life. We heard from Gary at times, from Wayne at times, from Carol at times, and so on. We need to hear from all of you once in a while or even better, regularly.

So, bottom line, let us know if you are interested in continuing to receive this letter and do give some thought to being part of it. If the interest is there, we’ll start back up next weekend, Sept 6^th. If you are not interested, let me know so I can remove you from the list. If there’s someone you know who might want to be on the list, let me know.

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A bit about my summer…. it’s been fairly restricted and uneventful in that with Sue’s condition there has not been much freedom. We’ve gotten out on the Harley to ride to Horseshoe Bay on Sunday mornings, and we ride to the gondola most week day mornings. Aside from that there has not been much going on. I’ve gotten Sue into a Wednesday afternoon day program aimed at Alzheimer patients that she seems to like, and we’ve just started having a home support person come in once per week for 2 hr and that gives me a very brief window to simply go and do something on my own. Its more for my mental health than anything else. Her good days are never as good as the previous good day, and her bad days are always more bad than the last bad day. And thats pretty well what dictates everything. I had hoped to take her back to KW for a visit this fall but I no longer think that is an option. If we could depend on each day being a ‘good’ day it might have worked but it takes very little to trigger her and so being away from home with its familiarity and as little stress as possible, wouldn’t work.

And there is a little bright spark mixed in with the stress and uncertainty of life as a care giver, my music has taken a rather interesting and unexpected and enjoyable turn. I’ll follow up on that in the next week or so.

Doug

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