Love the ice sticking to paws!

We took the day off today from work to deal with funeral issues. I also had to get a hair trim and get groceries.

Tomorrow the funeral service is at 1:00, we will probably have to be there by 11. After interment, there is the reception. Then I guess the family is meeting for dinner at 6. Steve and I will have to run home before dinner to feed the boys. I will be giving them fresh bones from the meat market tomorrow to help keep them occupied.

We have to go the viewing tonight at the funeral home at 5:30. 

I'm currently reading on Kindle A WIDOW'S STORY: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates. Here is a description:

"My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a day or two. But in less than a week, even as Joyce was preparing for his discharge, Ray was dead from a hospital-acquired virulent infection, and Joyce was suddenly faced -- totally unprepared -- with the reality of widowhood. A Widow's Story illuminates one woman's struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century. Joyce Carol Oates shares the derangement of denial, the anguish of loss, the disorientation of the survivor amid a nightmare of "death duties," and the solace of friendship. She writes unflinchingly of the experience of grief -- the almost unbearable suspense of the hospital vigil, the treacherous "pools" of memory that surround us, the vocabulary of illness, the absurdities of commercialized forms of mourning. Here is a frank acknowledgment of the widow's desperation -- only gradually yielding to the recognition that "this is my life now." Enlivened by the piercing vision, acute perception and mordant humour that are the hallmarks of the work of Joyce Carol Oates, this is an extremely moving tale of life and death, love and grief.

It was published in 2011 and has 450 pages.  I was reading it as a preview to perhaps to give to my mother-in-law to read but I'm not sure.

I don't know what to have for dinner tonight, maybe pizza. I have Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta and Strike Back: Origins to watch.

I probably won't be able to post until Sunday unless I can fit it in in the morning. We'll see.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster