Well… the memorial plans for my grandfather have been set.

May 20th: Memorial service in Mt. Vernon for the people in the community and in their church

June 10th: Family service and internment of ashes in family cemetery in Oregon.

Jon and I are going to fly out on the 8th and stay with some former neighbors of mine in Salem and then will head south to Albany on the 9th.Â? We fly back to Montana on the 12th.Â? It’s going to be the first real vacation we’ve had in probably a year and a half.

I’ve gotten to the point where I can actually say “my grandfather passed away” without twinges of grief.Â? It might be that I went through the 5 stages awhile ago or something but this hasn’t been hard to grieve.