It's summertime so I expect the frequency of postings to hubbo.com will decrease.

On the way to my in-laws vacation home on Wednesday afternoon we dropped in on my 92 year old great aunt Edna. She's my paternal grandfather's sister: the second last in that generation. She seems to have multiple problems including heart attack, small strokes, falling often, breathing problems — she's on O₂ right now. She looks far older then when I last saw her at my uncle's funeral a couple of years ago. It's very sad, she told us she was ready to go now. Her life now is a semi-private room from bed to chair and back again.

You may recall that my son and I packed a truck full of furniture from this vacation home a couple of weekends ago. My wife and I helped to pack up the "the little stuff" left over, only about three full-size vanloads full! Who would have guessed there was so much stuff in all the cupboards and closets of the place — the detritus of 15 years I guess.

I have a driving arm sunburn as our 10 year old van has non-functional air conditioning and it was pretty nice day yesterday. Now I am off outside to plant peonies, irises and early blooming daylillies I brought from the (now former) Howards place in Bobcaygeon. I don't keep things usually but I do have a collection of perennials from various places. Some of my daylillies are descendents of those planted by grandfather over 30 years ago, for example.

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