January 30, 2009
Saturday, January 30, 2010
It has been a long time since I wrote an update on my life. It was mostly because there is hardly any change since I last written. I still work in the bakery. I still live at home. Nothing new.
The only major difference probably would be the invisible. I just finish writing a book to meet my satisfaction. I was also pleased that the new version have only 59 pages, while the old version has 92 pages. I did hope that would be enough to make a pocket-size book, but of course we will see. Jean is being my editor, but she is busy woman, living in Guatemala and all.
Grandmother will be moving to old people's home on February 10. I am so glad that it worked out, because she is getting too feeble thus becoming too much for her own children to handle her at home. Our family would be glad to keep her--if my mother wouldn't have to worry about bakery and my sister Julia wouldn't have back injury. Still, Grandmother would enjoy company with other widows like her. Plus, we can visit her and our great great aunts at one place!
At the end of December, Aunt Bertha turned 100. That means two sisters are still living together for 100 years! Aunt Edith will become 103 at the end of February--if she live that long, of course. My sister, Susan urge me to write a book about them. I wrote up a questionnaire, but I am too slow to mail it out yet. I did bit study on their history with what I have, and their father was a deacon at Millers Church and he died in 1930. I tried to imagine how it affect those girls to lose their father and then Great Depression hit them so soon after. Their uncle was a bishop. Their great grandfather was a bishop.
So that means I am descended from church leaders in several ways!
The weather was warm for awhile, but now it is cold again. Yesterday evening I felt need to go on a walk, so I decided to don two coats, headgear with built-in earmuff, and ski gloves that Lisa gave me two or more years ago. I was comfortable enough with a freezing face. When I got back into the house, my legs got warm and then tingled from "thawing"!
Everything else, I am all fine, just wishing for more snow...and dreaming about Belize....
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Omar Burkholder
"Burky"
