Tues., 9/11/24, Charlie’s Memorial Service was today! It was very nice. We sure are missing him! Packed all but last minute stuff in the motor home

 

Bruce put their new Stove in today

Melissa cooking on their new stove...She’s so cute!  She said it’s amazing! I’m so happy for them.

Sunset tonight...It was so orange and so beautiful.  Picture doesn’t capture all the beauty.

I got ready, then headed to Vikki and Rody’s to get the USB that Rody loaded pictures on for Sue to be used at Charlie’s Memorial.  Went to the church for the visitation at 9:30 and gave it to Brian.  We saw lots of long time friends and it seemed like a family reunion.  A little taste of heaven.  It was so nice talking to everyone.  Our family sat together, except Kimmy, Jared and the kids couldn’t come because they were still testing positive.  We all felt bad that they couldn’t be there.  Bob and Jan sat ahead of us and we had a really nice visit while we were waiting for it to start.  Bill shared some memories about Charlie and then read what I wrote out about my memories, and the girls memories.  Bruce added a memory too.  I knew I would have cried so I was thankful Bill could read it for us.  He read the obituary too.  The U.S. Navy had a flag folding and honored Charlie and then presented the flag to Sue.  Sue did good through the whole service.  There were lots of people there.  They announced that the meal was for family and close friends.  Because Charlie was so kind, everyone thought they were a close friend; he had a way of making everyone feel special.  They ran out of food and people were standing up eating.  Sue had only planned for 60 people and there were well over a hundred there.

We came home and loaded the Weber electric grill in the camper, then packed everything except for our last minute things we will put in tomorrow morning.  Bill mowed the lawn.  I watered plants because it has been so dry here.  I cooked up some burger to take with us to make pizzas on the grill.  Bill cut up a watermelon from our garden and it was so good.  Not used to having seeds anymore, but it was worth picking all those out because it was juicy and delicious.  

Melissa was happily cooking on her new stove.  Such a blessing.  It didn’t even look like it had ever been used when we picked it up.  

We read our Bibles in the evening.  Going to bed early as Bill has a VA appt. at 8 in the morning.