Posting this on Thursday night because I really didn’t feel like writing yesterday.… On Wednesday we concentrated on remembering our doggies… And enjoying a day together.

I have some additional Pictures From Tuesday night. We had planned to get together for Latkes ..But we weren’t feeling like that. We had gone out apple picking after Chai passed And it had a “dreamy”… Which was at cider doughnut with maple ice cream. We were all pretty full. So we ordered sushi.

We got a birthday ice cream and celebrated… I know it’s strange… chai’s 17th birthday which had been the day before… Also the day she died. It felt both good and kind of weird to be celebrating our two doggie girls Without them…

We toasted them all night long

Before even went to bed we also did one other thing from the list. Mason helped us so open the sheet rock under the front stairs. We knew it had been wild off at the same time at the ghost room upstairs Which we believe was 1976… And we were very interested to see what was in it

To a great surprise… The only thing was in there was a bag full of well preserved cloth scraps.… Like something a quilter might have.

We went to bed… I slept soundly. I woke up really sad a few times… But the whole house felt peaceful in the morning. Diane made popovers… Then we all picked up Bolton… ‘Diane and I have been doing this for the last several months every Wednesday. It was Really nice to have the boys and their partners with us. Our friend Sumner hiked with us as well

I got the obligatory propeller head pictures

We took preacher devils playground down… And GabÉ was able to find the old tee pee that Eric and some of our other friends have made there. That long since collapse but it was really fun to see these things still around

In the afternoon we went over to chris and Kim’s to see them

Last night we crammed in a few more holidays. Earlier in the week we had celebrated Halloween and Thanksgiving… Tonight we celebrated Hanukkah by lighting the candles and making some like us. We also had a cake for Chai and Satori

And pop two bottles of champagne to celebrate New Year’s

Finally we did our last Halloween tradition which was to go decorate a tree outside with stable bagels and donuts for the animals. Instead of going deep into the woods we went over to the river which transitory love so much. We saw some wonderful shooting stars while we were out there… Messages for our girls

Definitely a bittersweet day… with lots of love going around

Nite all, nite sam

-me