Pat and I send our condolences, Jeff; it is a hard time to experience.
We hope that you are doing well and that you will keep on writing; we
enjoy your posts.
Dave and Pat Grainger, Port Townsend.
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On 2021-02-27 11:38, Jeff Gibson wrote:
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My dear ol' Ma passed away yesterday at the age of 92 after years of
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suffering from dementia. Dad passed a couple of years ago, also with
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dementia. I've been here since 2014 and what a long strange trip it has
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been.
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This morning in a house empty of anyone except me and the cat, I took
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the time to honor Mom by counting ducks.
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You see, my Mom was kind of a duck freak. It all started back in the
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later 60's on a stop at the Rocky Reach Dam gift shop, which was
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inhabited by these cute little pine carved ducks. All these ducks ( a
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Mom and a Dad and 7 babies) are lined up on a shelf above the
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stairwell, picked up on trips to our vacation spot over several years
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in Conconully .
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It's a fact that just about any horizontal surface in this house is
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covered with ducks - wooden, ceramic ,stone, glass, mystery substance,
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whatever. My count was 86 ducks. Other birds include 3 loons, and one
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owl that I sculpted out of limestone found in a creek near Baker
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"lake".
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Mom also went through a wood carving phase of relief work featuring
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birds and plants in the mid 80's , and previous to that abstract
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bird sculptures in driftwood - my favorites.
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I probably missed a few ducks in my count but you can't take your
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ducks when you go.
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Jeff Gibson
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Missing Mom in
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Port Townsend Wa
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