Well I can't say that we are looking forward to 2008, but since it's 12 minutes away there isn't much we can do about it. It seems so wrong to be moving the calender to a new year without Chris. It's not right, but it's how it's going to be. So we will move on, remembering Chris, and the way he fought his illness and lived his life.
I would also like to mention two other young men that will not see 2008. Sgt. Scott Kirkpatrick, who lost his life August 11th in Iraq. Scott's father in law is one of my best friends in the world. We served together in the early 80's and saw each other for the first time in 22 years this summer. Jay could not speak highly enough of his son-in-law, and what a fine man Scott was. His family like ours will be missing their son as we move into 2008.
The other young man is Maxx Wendell, who died December 6th. Maxx had a similiar type of Lymphoma to Chris. Like Chris he fought bravely and was an example to those that knew him and loved him. We will all miss our children going forward in 2008.
May it be a better year for all of us.
God Bless You
Rod
Monday, December 31, 2007
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Dec 2, It's raiders day.
Tomorrow is 2 months since Chris died. Today is the Broncos raiders game version 2 for this year. The last game Chris and I watched together was the first Broncos raiders game this year. We were supposed to be at that game. That was going to be my "Your in remission and beating this damn thing" present for Chris. It wasn't meant to be. I'm not even excited about the game. I guess I haven't been that excited about football this year, or any thing else for that matter. I will be thinking of Chris during the game and how much we enjoyed giving each other a bad time about this rivalry.
I haven't been out caching since Thanksgiving, too cold, to crappy. I'm getting to lazy I guess. I need to get out and get 31 more caches by the end of the year to get to 1200. I've got two friends that have started caching this year, so I'm going to have to get up to Colorado next year and go caching with them.
One painting for the year. I need to post it one of these days. And then I need to do some more painting, get some of this stuff out and on canvas.
Hmmm, lets see if I can get more than 1 post for the month of December.
I haven't been out caching since Thanksgiving, too cold, to crappy. I'm getting to lazy I guess. I need to get out and get 31 more caches by the end of the year to get to 1200. I've got two friends that have started caching this year, so I'm going to have to get up to Colorado next year and go caching with them.
One painting for the year. I need to post it one of these days. And then I need to do some more painting, get some of this stuff out and on canvas.
Hmmm, lets see if I can get more than 1 post for the month of December.
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