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So much has happened since I last wrote.\u00a0 My Grandpa John (my mom’s dad) passed away the Saturday before Thanksgiving.\u00a0 It’s hard to even know what to say about it, as you can imagine.\u00a0 It was sad.\u00a0 He was so funny, talented, and bright, and he’ll be giving us all wonderful memories for the rest of our lives.\u00a0 The picture is of Grandma & Grandpa in their backyard, on their 50th anniversary.\u00a0 Grandma Hope was kind enough to honor my brother and I by letting us participate in the service – we both did a scripture reading, Randy did a beautiful and eloquent eulogy, and I sang.\u00a0 Grandma & Grandpa’s great-niece did a French horn solo, which I’m sure Grandpa loved!\u00a0 As sad as the occasion was, it definitely brings to mind how blessed I’ve been, with wonderful and loving family and friends.\u00a0 Thank you all!<\/p>\n
One of the funnier notes from the last few weeks (because I handle sadness with inappropriate attempts at humor)…<\/p>\n
Last Saturday, I decided to take the dogs with me to drop off Tina at the airport and go visit Grandma.\u00a0 They’ve been exceptionally well behaved and well mannered lately (except, of course, for Tillie’s unwavering obsession with getting my dad to throw her toys).\u00a0 And Reggie had been\u00a0a real blessing to have around\u00a0Grandma’s house, and she’d enjoyed him – so much that\u00a0she said if she\u00a0could find a dog just like him, she would have a dog!\u00a0 So, I thought, “bringing the dogs to Grandma’s house – great idea!”\u00a0\u00a0Well… after they got through the first 10 minutes or so, they were very well behaved and sweet.\u00a0 However – those first 10 minutes?\u00a0 NAUGHTY!\u00a0 We walked in , said hello, gave hugs, dogs did some sniffing, then walked out to the family room… where Grover immediately pooed on the carpet.\u00a0 Awesome.\u00a0\u00a0So we went outside.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Grandma and I watched the dogs for a bit, then went in to have some breakfast and left them outside to play.\u00a0 Looking out the window a little bit later, I noticed that I only saw Grover – no Tillie.\u00a0 So, I went out.\u00a0 I called Tillie, then heard a THUD from the down-the-hill neighbor’s fence.\u00a0 I went to look over, and there was my dog.\u00a0 Yep, she jumped the short side of the fence (the neighbors are down the hill), and landed in the much lower neighbor’s yard.\u00a0 She couldn’t jump back over, and the neighbors keep their fence locked, so at 8:30 on a Saturday morning, I got to go knock on a stranger’s door to tell them my beast had invaded their property.\u00a0 It was all uphill from there.\u00a0 Ha ha, literally, since we had to walk back UP to Grandma’s house.\u00a0 The rest of the visit was lovely – lots of good conversation, Grover got to snuggle up to a new person, and Tillie got to harrass someone new to throw her toy.\u00a0 Next time we go?\u00a0 Straight outside for Grover, but with supervision for the jumper!<\/p>\n
This is a long post!\u00a0 And I still have so much more I could write about.\u00a0 Maybe another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 So much has happened since I last wrote.\u00a0 My Grandpa John (my mom’s dad) passed away the Saturday before Thanksgiving.\u00a0 It’s hard to even know what to say about it, as you can imagine.\u00a0 It was sad.\u00a0 He was so funny, talented, and bright, and he’ll be giving us all wonderful memories for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}