2 months have passed

Dear Family and Friends,

Our dear Nan fell asleep in Jesus 2 months ago. I can hear her calling like it was yesterday, I can hear her saying, come sit with me, you look tired, I can see her on the phone with Dana or Sharon or Jan or Mary or Pam or Irene or Jason or Nikki or.............

Why she had to go I don't understand and we all miss her terribly. I've never known anyone like Nan in my whole life, someone so selfless, so courageous, so stubborn, so soft and lovely.

I think she would have been proud of my production today. On time to Manteca this morning after an early morning walk at 6:30 am with Ken, it was a beautiful morning, still, crisp, pale blue sky, blinking stars. Then back for a quick breakfast of shredded wheat and wheaties, orange juice and mandarin oranges. After Manteca a short drive up to Lodi for the second of the day. Older guy with a perfect older home, then a phone call asking if I could do a quick commercial inspection in Lodi, amazing since I was already in Lodi so I did that, had lunch of senior 2 egg omelet with spinach, then back home to work for an hour, then to Brentwood to see #3 for the day, a home that two years ago sold for over $600K is now in contract for $360K. Very nice place in good condition. Then to Oakley to shoot left over comps from yesterday, then back to Discovery Bay to vote no on all the stupid ballot propositions and yes to Romney, then home to make wheat spaghetti with whole tomatoes, cottage cheese and a huge salad with mushrooms.

I've just come back from the bank where I made deposits of todays checks, then to Nikki and Steves to drop things off and Nikki had found me some special peanut butter for diabetics and also some special little crackers for those times you need something.

My new blue tooth is working wonderfully. I fielded many many phone calls today, one from Dana which was really really sad. Jonathan had to have a surgery for a pendicitus (sp). His appendix had ruptured by the time they got him opened up. Dana had been up all night and was heading home for some rest. It sounded like he is going to come through fine but it also sounded like things were caught just in time. Jonathan needs our prayers this evening and for the next few days, surgery is serious business.

I am grateful for good weather today, it was so nice that I could measure and inspect in shirt sleeves, a real change from recent days.

So we move on having endured our loss for 2 months now. Nan was a great and wonderful part of all of our lives and living without her on a daily basis is just that living, nothing exciting, nothing wonderful, just existing for now and working every hour of every waking moment.



Thank you for your love which you express in so many different ways. Let me tell you, it is all good and it is all appreciated deeply by the family and by me.



love to all



tim