Disturbing news

This week we learned that my son-in-law, Rob Shay, had fallen while he was hiking with his fiancé at Aspen last week, and fractured the C2 vertebrae in his neck. That would've been bad enough, but x-rays showed that that vertebra had already been compromised by bone cancer. Test results are not all in yet, but blood tests point toward the likelihood that he has multiple myeloma. Our hearts go out to him as he goes through many more tests and decisions are made on treatment options. We are praying for as good a result as one can hope for.

The day we were absorbing that news, a lovely  bird hit the glass sliding doors leading to the patio here at the condo and we found it's dead body on the floor of the patio. Ellen made a little casket out of cardboard, Max named the bird Dave and made a little gravestone, I dug a hole, and we buried her in a little grave just  over the berm beyond the patio. We are going to make hawk silhouettes to put on the patio doors so that, hopefully, this will not happen again.

                                     R.I.P.  Dave