And I am going to do my best to enjoy it to forget the rest of this week.
I lost one of my Moms this week. Technically she was my step mom, but when she accepted all my kids, those I fathered, and those I adopted when their Mom and I married because their Dad was undependable, she became another Mother for me. Her health had really gone done in the past year and I did not call her as often as I should have. Strangely enough, I did call her a couple of weeks before her death and we had a long, great talk.
She was having a really good day and we talked about my Dad. About the many trips to the middle of Wisconsin to visit them, drink lots of beer, tell lots of lies and escape the southern summer heat. We probably had the best heart to heart talk we have had in years. It reminded me of the chats she, my Dad and I had over a cup of coffee there in Montello, Wisconsin. Dad and I telling fantastic fishing lies and her calling bull#badword# when it was needed. She was one of the great broads I have ever known.
Now tomorrow I take another old gal for he last trip the vet. Max (short for Maxine) has been a part of our lives for 16 years. She was a one year old rescue dog that was part lab and part something else undeterminable. She used to chase the deer in the yard in Mississippi, though I am sure she would never know what to do with one if she caught them. She never snapped at anyone or anything, unless she thought it was a threat to our kids. The past few months, her quality of life has become worse and worse till we had to give her pain meds to go to sleep at night. Tomorrow, I will take her for her last nap here in this world so she may pursue those deer and squirrels in the next.
And then Saturday I plan to watch football with all my kids and wife and let the chips roll where they may. No matter who wins, it will be a good day because I will finally be able to put this week behind and start over again.
I hope you guys don't mind but I am going to share this with my Facebook friends as well. I just don't think I can write it again.
