Blossoming into the new week, nature walks, flowers, sports, and togetherness :)

Blossoming into the new week, with peaceful simple joys :) nature walks, tending our plants, sports radio, and writing :) Thank you angel friends, for sharing in the weekend with us :) We're finding lots of comfort, in enjoying peaceful simple joys :) it was nice, watching football yesterday, having foods, snacks, drinks, and getting into the spirit of the football sunday :) We look forward to many more football sunday's, sharing times with family and friends :) We're easing into the new week, with some peaceful nature walks, seeing lots of our nature friends visiting :) i've been putting extra goodies outside for them :) They love to gather the goodies :) We're watering our plants, helping keep them replenished :) we've had some chilly mornings, but it's been getting warmer as the day goes on. we have lots of beautiful flowers blossoming around our yard, and garden areas :) Fall season arriving later on this week :) the trees, and leaves will be changing colors more, as the season begins to blossom :) We've been doing ok, taking good care, and talking, sharing. it's very comforting, and uplifting knowing you all are here for us <3 Thank you angel friends :) We'll always be here for you all too :) i've been spending time here on DS, and Holly and i have been tuning into some sports radio today, with all of the football talk after the big football sunday yesterday :) We're gonna continue to take things a day at a time <3 Thank you all again ,for being here for us :) We're gonna have some treats tomorrow morning, and i'm blossoming into some writing time :) Wishing everyone a nice new week :)

Hi angel friends :) my family, Holly, and i hope everyone is doing well, healthy, and enjoying a nice day :) Wishing everyone a good new week, and continued joys of the season :) We enjoyed sharing in the weekend, with some simple joys, including our football sunday yesterday :) it was nice getting into the spirit of a gameday, watching football, and having some nice foods, snacks, and drinks :) my mom cooked a nice roast, with potatoes, and onions :)We had some for dinner :) We've been holding close to daily routines, weekly festivities, as it helps very much and is comforting, and uplifting :) Thank you angel friends, for being here for us, and for sharing your days, and seasonal festivities with us :) i've been finding lots of comfort, writing here on DS, sharing, taking pictures, talking with family and friends :) There's lots of september nature shining all around too, the birds and squirrels have been visiting our yard, they love gathering the goodies :)We've got lots of september flowers blossoming too :) Some chilly mornings, and warmer as the day goes on, it's amazing how fall season is arriving next sunday :) We look forward to seeing lots more of our nature friends visiting, and trees, leaves changing colors more :) We enjoyed some nature walks today, tending our plants, and also put our favorite sports radio on :) the sports radio is really good, especially after all of the football games yesterday :) We send our love, and our warmest caring sunny friendship hugs, from our hearts, and home to yours :)

This morning, we had a sunny new day, rising and shining with some birds outside our windows here, we've been hearing the sounds of the birds, crickets, sounds like late summer as the fall season approaches :) i enjoyed some nice time here on ds this morning, it's very comforting, uplifting, hearing from you, hearing about your days, ds brings me a really good balance to my days, i'm very thankful, and gives me lots of strength too :) i love giving support, and helping in any way i can, and that wonderfully comforting support you all give us, it means the world to us :) Thank you angel friends <3 i've been sharing your heart-felt kind words, comforting prayers, and support with Holly and our family :) We'll forever be grateful, and appreciative to have you all in our lives, we feel very blessed with your wonderful friendships :)

i gathered a really nice bowl of goodies this morning, peanuts, sunflower seeds, cheerios, and went outside for a nice early morning nature walk :) i love being greeted by our nature friends,and the sunrise sunshine :) lots of birds visiting by the feeders :) i put the goodies on the feeders, and also in the bird sanctuary area of our yard :) i heard a bluejay around, and saw sparrows :) the nature is very fresh,and anew, in the early mornings as a new day is blossoming :) i was taking in the peaceful nature moments, seeing the birds visiting, and the sunrise sunshine continuing to flow into our yard,and shining upon the trees, and leaves :) along with the nature sights all around, with lots of nature friends visiting, we have some september morning glory flowers, sunflowers, marigolds, cosmos, daisies, and more, plus our 2 pumpkins are in the garden :)

Holly and i want to pick the pumpkins in early october, to display :) we're happy some nice pumpkins have grown in our garden this season :) We love nature, and keeping close with nature, also helps us feel close with my brother Charlie <3 i want to share a special garden memory with everyone. When Holly moved here in 2019, she and i had our first gardening season together, and i remember that year ,we grew lots of vegetables, fruits, and more, including our best cucumber season :) i remember my brother Charlie stopping by often that summer,and Holly and i would give him 3 or 4 cucumbers each time he visited :) he was so happy, and would tell us how he loves those cucumbers :) it's a special nature, and gardening memory we have, of Charlie, and will continue to keep his love for nature alive, in every day and time we enjoy nature, we feel his spirit ,and presence with us :)

It was a peaceful early morning :) We enjoyed a nice breakfast, we've been eating well, and also keeping hydrated :) having some gatorade, water, grape juice, chamomile tea :) Holly and i put the sports radio on around mid-morning :) We love tuning into the sports radio, especially after lots of football games yesterday :) We've been enjoying the football talk, and all of the post-sunday football news, and interviews :) We look forward to many more football sunday's, and all of the foods, snacks, and drinks :) We've been doing some organizing, here and there :) keeping to routines in our days, and daily festivities has been helping us a lot. my mom's been talking with Holly and i :) my dad's been doing some uber driving to keep busy, and earning money. We're all taking things one hour , and one day at a time with things. Jenn and family had the lemonade stand/fundraiser for a little while longer on sunday ,to raise a bit more money, every bit helps <3

my mom and dad are planning to bring money in to the funeral parlor on friday, for costs of Charlie's care, and everything. the funeral parlor has been in contact with my mom often. Charlie's remains were cremated on the 11th. my parents have decided, instead of a service at the funeral home, we're going to have a gathering at maplewood cemetery down the road from us, for family, friends, to gather. The maplewood has a payment plan, for the plots, we reserved. There is a chance that we may keep Charlie's urn here for a short while, or may have maplewood hold onto it, until we make all of the payments, for Charlie's burial. it's all been very emotional, very sad, and surreal. we've all been pacing ourselves with everything, and all have moments from day to day, where we feel very low, but are keeping on keeping on each day. it's all been very hard, and a very sad, rough time for us all. Charlie's in our thoughts, and prayers often every day, many moments of reflection. We've been honoring him in comforting ways, that brings our hearts peace, from nature, to sharing stories, and memories .Earlier this morning, my mom was talking with me, about how last year, she and Charlie baked an apple pie together upstairs here, he brought his apple peeler over, and she was talking about how it was very special to her, and him, to bake the apple pie :) Charlie loved family times, and festivities like that <3 We're all doing ok, and doing the best we all can right now, it's a day at a time, and sometimes an hour at a time. We're still very stunned, by his sudden passing. We're gonna continue to talk, share, keeping strong, sharing memories, and will always keep Charlie's loving spirit, and memory alive in our hearts <3

Thank you angel friends, for all that you do for us, and for the special comfort, you all bring our hearts each day :) We're easing into the new week, and are looking forward to continuing to add some peaceful simple joys in our days, keeping with our routines, and festivities from day to day :) Holly came up with this phrase for us, when she first moved in with us, she says, "we're Timon tough" :) all of the comforting prayers, support, and well wishes, is very helpful :) DS, wonderful friendships, and being there for family and friends is helping me keep going strong each day, from waking up around my normal time, to signing onto DS, keeping with my earning sites, surveys, nature, and writing. We all need heart-felt times that brings a peaceful balance to our days, no matter what we face and endure in our lives, from day to day. We're very blessed, and thankful to have you all in our lives, our DS family of friends, we love you all very much <3 my mom, Holly, and our family says hi :) Holly and i are gonna try to watch at least 1 episode of our show tonight, and tomorrow with it being sweet treats tuesday, we're gonna get some iced coffees, and having our sweet treats tuesday breakfast :) one day at a time ,one hour at a time, we're keeping on keeping on :) Thank you all again ,our dear angel friends :)Big group warm caring, sunny friendship hug :) We hope everyone enjoys a peaceful evening and night :)

There's some nice sunshine today :) Holly and i enjoyed some nature walks, and tending the plants, seeing our nature friends visiting, and lots of flowers blossoming :) it's nice seeing all of the nature sights :) Soon, the trees and leaves will be changing colors more, as fall season will be blossoming :) i took some new pictures to share with everyone :)