It's been a mixed week this week. I've not been particularly creative. On Tuesday morning I received some distressing news via e-mail. My closest on-line friend Gypsy of Caravan Scraps passed away on Saturday afternoon. She was involved in a head on collosion and was pronounced dead on the scene. Her Husband Terry died in surgery a few hours later. Gypsy was one of the managers of my forum "The North Wing" and we are all devastated at her loss.
Her eldest son Ryan broke the news via e-mail and has been wonderful about keeping her online family involved. He sent me a beautiful rundown of her funeral "service". Eileen and Terry were laid to rest together, in the same coffin which was hand crafted by thier good friend "Carpetner Willie". They had recently sold thier property to a developer in order to pay of medical bills, but the developer granted the family permission to bury thier parents under the old oak tree in the meadow and will leave that area intact as a private cemetery.
Knowing how upset she was at leaving the meadow, its wonderful to know she can stay there always. Neither of them held any regard for religion, being more pagan than anything. So a "service" was held at dawn in the meadow.. attended by most everyone in the small mountain community. I was honoured to have been told that myself and the other North wing staff were named as Honorary pall bearers.
After such a sad start to the week I was cheered some when Christopher gained another badge at Cub Scouts on Wednesday.. He now holds the Animal Carer patch. On Thursday I helped paint my best friends fathers new house then we went for Curry club at a local pub.
We rounded off the week by baking our own bread, which is the theme I chose for this week's layout. Check out our bread baking slideshow!
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