Live your Life

My next door neighbor passed away this week.
Its really a shock since he was only 6 years older than we are.

He had been working on some changes in his house with a contractor.
In recent months we had taken on a project to restore some dresser drawers.
He had even planted an apricot tree in front hoping that I would get some benefit out of a pollinator close by. He was one of those guys that did all of his traveling with the Army. His wife found a traveling friend and had been on several cruises and trips.


I always wondered why older people avidly follow the obits.
They always laugh and say they are checking to make sure that their names are not there.
Really they are checking to see if their lives are not there.
When you outlive the life of your kids its pretty sad.

He was a junior high vice principal and an elementary school principal. I think that management in schools takes its toll. You have to be everything to everyone at all times.

There was no mention of an illness in our sporadic conversations.
The family is a pretty private one. I only know of his passing through my daughter who is connected in facebook with his son.

The neighbor across the street noticed that an ambulance had arrived at his house early last week and left with him in it.

When he was younger he was given the nickname of pescau. This means fish in Spanish. He always had a fishing boat in his front yard. Its been a long time since he went fishing.

I am hoping that he has found it again in heaven.

: ) Pat