Jan 18 2012

Just as I thought my time would not be my own when we started all the preperations for the wedding here in Georgia for Jan 14th and I haven't even had time to think about the Blog but now I will attempt to catch up. 
We spent last Tuesday (10th) with Larry and Tracy showing them where I grew up, where Larry and I got married  and then we treated them to a fish dinner of "sucker sides".   Both of them are outdoor people so they wanted to see the whole process of how you fix the fish, something called gashing in order for the bones to be really small and when you cook them in hot grease the bones disolve.  Keith, my cousin, and Larry H, were in charge of the fish cooking.
Wednesday found us hitting the floor running and we never stopped until Monday.  It was set up time for the wedding resheral, helping the grooms parents, and then on to the setup for the reception with the brides family and frieds.    A few little glitches here and there but all and all everything went well.  Cara was a beautiful bride ad we are so happy for her, 
Monday found us making list again to return things, get Carolyn, mother of the bride, ready to go back to work which meant a trip to Atlanta for all week.  Tuesday was return day and after I got that done I actually spent the rest of the afternoon on the couch.
On Sunday afternoon we found out that Sheryl Kirkland (age 45), who is the daughter of Larry's first cousin Martha, was in very bad shape. She was diagnosed with leukemia last spring and was at Emory in Atlanta . She had been there since early December and received a bone marrow transplant but things did not go as expected and Sheryl died Monday afternoon around 5:30.  Our plans were to leave Bainbridge on Thursday to go to Dade City Florida to start working with Habitat but now we will stay for the services on Friday and leave later.
I did have a wonderful time on  Monday night having dinner with 5 high school friends who live in this area.   We just had a great time visiting . Thanks to Elaine McClendon Trammel for putting that together.


Hopefully I will be able to keep up with this blog better in the future.