We got Mom (Bea Johnson to the Blog World) a cell phone more than twenty years ago. With unlimited minutes we could talk whenever we wanted, and Mom enjoyed calling her brother Chuck every week and talking as long as they wanted. After Dad passed away we never failed to talk at least three times a day, morning, after work, and before turning in. Our last call was Thursday afternoon last week, and we could tell that it was the end. Mom passed at 9:29 Friday morning, November 10, 2023.
When she was living alone in her house, she got nervous about being able to protect herself, so she took up shooting. We would go out to the local range every time I went to Iowa to see her, and she went to Reno a couple times to attend Mike Gallion's Gun Blogger Rendezvous. She took the Iowa concealed carry class and qualified with her .45 Blackhawk because that was her house gun, and the big cartridges were easier for her to handle than stuffing .22s into a magazine. I put together a small collection of photos for those who remember Bea here on our little blog.
Habits die hard. Every time I look at the time, I think it is time to call Mom.
God bless you and yours with His comfort, and I will be presumptuous enough to assume she is in heaven. My condolences for your loss but the afterlife's gain.
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Thank-you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteShe is probably going through Michael the Archangel's boot-camp right now.
The passing of our parents is hard. I lost dad at the end of 2019 and mom in April of this year.