Monday thoughts

It seems odd to be writing in daylight. The hospital bed, oxygen and related equipment, suction machine, wheelchair, bedside table, linens, and shower chair will all be picked up this afternoon. I signed the final paperwork at the cemetery this morning. Yesterday afternoon I finalized the funeral home arrangements and I'll meet with Father Brosmer in a bit to choose music and readings. It all seems somewhat surreal.

When Melissa and I went to Sunday Mass, we saw that both the Norton Rd. and Sullivant Ave. accesses were open into the parking lot at church. Road construction around there is awful. Same is true by the funeral home. Norwich St., where the funeral home main address is, is closed. You have to turn from Main St. in what's called Old Hilliard onto Center St., but that's good because one block later is the parking lot for the funeral home, on the left, actually at the corner of Center and Columbia, beside and behind a white house. The main entrance to the funeral home is on Columbia St.

The obituary was in today's Columbus Dispatch. There are two minor errors (Northwest Financial instead of Norwest Financial and home instead of him), so of course I was a little disappointed about that because I regarded that obit as a genealogical resource of the kind Ed researched about his family these past few years, plus we all know how obsessive I am about editing and proofing. I didn't realize there would also be an online registry book associated with the Dispatch obit for people to express their sentiments. The Cincinnati Inquirer will run an obit Tuesday morning. I'll send a full article for the Norwalk, IA, paper later this week. (We still get that paper.)

I'm hoping for at least a little cooler temperatures for Wednesday morning; it's supposed to be 95 here today.