Spent  another day mostly inside.. Temperatures hovered just above zero. Managed to get out with the dogs for a run on the flood wall. I swear it was like running on mars. I think it was 6 degrees above zero, but gale force winds.. I dont think I’ve ever been so cold.. but I, we needed to get outside. 

The cold  was perfect for sitting around and telling stories of Marcia. We had relatives dropping by including Joe, Pat, Steve, Denise, Marcia’s sister Fran   her husband tom, their son Tom Jr… 

 

 

we had a great time going through old photos. I love looking at these glimpses of Marcia’s lie.. .. here is Marcia with her sisters.. myust have been the early 1940’s 

 

here they are on the family car

 

marcia and her parents (marcia is the youngest) 

 

the 4 sisters.. all of whom will be here for the funeral.. except marcia of course 

 

 

marcia and her mom marjorie.. whom I knew well

 

 

abe and marcia at their wedding 

 

later this evening we went over to linda and davids to chill out..

here’s the picture of david I can share.. 

 

 

ok. time for sleep.. 

thanks to all for their good wishes 

nite all. nite sam

-me

Spent the day down in Endicott waiting. We’re in Marcia’s house, surrounded my Marcias things.. thinking about her.. 

the family is planning her  memorial.. It looks like  it’as going to be Wednesday..

I spent most of the day trying to arrange our  lives around coming together . it wasn’t hard.. just lots of details. I’ts amazing how the world adjusts when you need it to.   Thanks to all the folks who changed their plans to accomodate us. 

Diane and Joe spent time  going through some of Marcia’s old photos and papers.  

diane found some  of Sam’s asges.. we’re going to put them with Marcia on Wednesday 

 

in there they found this 1987 poster from IBM .. marcias husband, my late father in law was  in the center. 

 

small world.. I saw two other friends on there . Jim Doyle 

 

and my freind Clay ‘Chip’ Smith.. I foudn Clay on Facebook and shared the picture with him. It was fun reconnecting 

 

it was midday before we rememebred that this is Satori… our younger dogs ,, 10th birthday !!!!!

we made her a ‘cake’ 

 

theres our beautiful, sweet  girl .. stil; a puppy in so many ways.. 

 

 

older sister chai had her own cake too 

now 5 more days.. 

nite all, nite sam

-me

My wonderful mother in law Marcia Lou Mariano died unexpectedly this morning in her home in Endicott, NY. She’d been ill with heart disease for several months. We knew that her time was coming, but no one expected it to be so soon. Diane and I were down here last week helping her get set up for home care. She wanted to stay in her home.. and she wanted to be free of pain.. and she got both wishes.. 

I met Marcia  and my father in law Gabe in 1982 when Diane and I first  started to date . From the g of moment I met them , I really loved Marcia and Gabe. they were always so warm and welcoming. 

Gabe died in 2014… and Marcia has lived alone since in the hose Diane grew up in.   Thats where we are right now. 

Marcia was kind, generous and fun. She was always making something. She painted, knitted, did ceramics. her house is still full of all her crafts.. its strange  sitting here looking at all of that

We drove down here today as soon as we heard.  Before we left I took pictures of the pictures of marcia we had in our house. 

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Hannah and Deb generously lent us their 4wd car to drive as the snow was coming down.. and piled us hight with snacks for the trip .other of our  friends reached out to . which we so appreciate .  

 

 

It was snowing like crazy so it took 8 hours to drive. by the time we got here we were pretty spent . My brother and sister  in law Joe and Pat were here  as were our friends Linda and David who’d made us dinner. It was great to see them

we looked through pictures that Marcia had around.. many i’d never seen 

 

 

TOmorrow we’ll stsart figureing out what happens next with the service wetc. I’ll keep folks posted.

 

for now. thanks to everyone for their love and support..

We’re really going to miss Marcia.. We loved her so much 

ni

te all. nite sam

-me

 

Day 3 of 2018 and already its an interesting year.   We just had a nice dinner with John B (aka Gizzo)  , Lauren and Martina.. Gizzo wants to build a bicycle with wings that shoots fire.. I’d liek to work on that !. We played with fire a bit to get ideas.. great conversatiosn abotu religion, vermont, school ,etc.  

Very busy today with work.. but still managed to get out for an hour at lunch to ski.. we splurged on cross-country skis with metal edges…  they feel really nice.. as did the 27 degree weather !..

it’s amazing but true that in the last 36 hours we’ve had a temperature swing of -17F to + 27F ..  a swing of 44 degrees .

 

I don’t know many places on the earth where that can happen.. to put that in perspective.. imagine waking up one morning with it being 46 degrees..  

and having it be 90 degrees by noon…

oh wait.. thats burning man every year.. 

nite all, nite sam

-me