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<DIV>So things have been in a bit of an upheaval around here. I know some of you
are caring for elderly parents like we have been doing for nearly 15
years.. My Dad, Martin (97) chose Dec. 24, 2007 to make his departure.
Wasn't entirely unexpected, but still kinda shocking since he took it upon
himself to speed up the inevitable. Confronted with the outrageous expense
of running an obit in our local paper I have opted instead to put both my
parent's obits on our website at <A title=http://www.logrhythmmusic.com/page7
href="http://www.logrhythmmusic.com/page7">www.logrhythmmusic.com/page7</A> and
another epilog to the Biggie Book/journal regarding the deer behavior
surrounding Dad's passing.</DIV>
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<DIV>Going thru parental possessions is an arduous task but is also very
revealing. The single biggest lesson that we can share is to not wait for your
elderly to leave without going thru their papers and possessions in detail. So
many questions arise like who is that in the picture, and when & where did
you get that whatchamacallit, and who gets it when you are through with
it? Then too, there is a bit of guilt that tags along with not
having done certain things and asked questions when you should have.
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<DIV>Some of you are already aware that we have more than 50 years worth of
letters that my parents (mostly Mom) wrote to their parents and Mom's sister.
They are very entertaining reading being weekly diaries of our lives,
and one such letter about my brother's and my aspirations for the future goes
something like this: Mom asks my brother, "David, what would you like to be some
day?" He responds with the same answer that he has used for 2 years with " a
farmer."</DIV>
<DIV>Keep in mind that my brother was 7 and I was 5 at the time. </DIV>
<DIV>Then she asks me "and what would you like to be Per?" to which I respond "a
snowman." Upon hearing that my brother immediately went about trying to convince
me that there was no future in being a snowman, and so we both
ultimately settled on becoming soldiers. To this day I still haven't
experienced being either a snowman or a soldier, and I think I like it that
way;-)</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers,</DIV>
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<DIV>Per & Eileen</DIV></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Start the year off right. <A title="http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489" href="http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489" target="_blank">Easy ways to stay in shape</A> in the new year. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>