Dupont:

Starting to recover from two unrelated sudden deaths last weekend.

I was planning to leave for Beaver on Weds and had appointments/visits arranged - now cancelled until further notice due to need to stick around for funeral and, hopefully, a Celebration of the Life of. Still not ready to cope. Grieving loses and also the missed visit with special friend. Had a good visit last Sunday with hospitalized very special friend; hope for another visit soon. I am still reeling.

I did manage to find COTTON turtlenecks for R as his have basically disintegrated and winter is here. Time on internet only netted one company with such and only one of their local chain of stores had them in stock! So, today I had a pleasant trip up the St. Lawrence and managed, with a stop for help, to find the store - wrong street number listed on Internet!! Lovely clerk helped me find the shirts and I bought two. Then with a what else can I do while I am here idea, I saw a bulk food store and found candied ginger and choc to replenish this supply. Got back in car to head north/homeward, I thought: having driven 35 minutes to get here, it is a good idea to get two more shirts. So I did; prob a life time supply! It was a huge spread out mall but nothing else of interest to me.

Returned a pile of books to library and came home with equal pile!

Keeping wood stove going after a couple warmish days. It is catching up after a couple down-to-freezing nights.