Big Thursday
Thursday, October 19th, 2023 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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After sitting for a while in the back with the pets this morning, it was off to City Hall.
I got my city transfer stamp, then took the quit claim deed up to the County Recorder in Geneva to get it recorded.
After that I swung over to the Air B&B in Geneva and met with Colleen, Celina, and Sheila.
We went out to eat in downtown Geneva, and after that went to a discount clothing store where I bought a black pair of dress pants, a white button down shirt, a pair of black dress shoes, some white undershirts, and a big fleecy flanel for the fire pit.
I'm going to be wearing Dad's black suit jacket and blue tie, which he wanted to be buried in. So... I'm kinda wearing them for him, because... he was cremated.
After the clothing store, we split up... Sheila to the airport to pick up Michael & Kate, Colleen & Celina to do some grocery shopping, and me back to my lawyer in Aurora to drop off the deed.
Back at home, I shaved my head, and cleaned up the hair on the floor.
Tim and family have landed.
Dylan is in the air.
There will be some kind of gathering here tonight, at least for a few hours.
Wow!.. turned out to be a big night!
I managed to get the Halloweend decorations up inside before people started showing up, bu then the house was packed, with a headcount of 18 souls, including me and Veda's to young kids, Emberly & August.
Tim, and six of his seven kids, plus his son Frank's girlfriend, Megan, and Veda's husband Josh, who was here back in 2021.
Colleen, Celina, Sheila and her son Michael, and his fiance, Wendy.
The cats stayed hidden for the whole thing, and Yvette just chilled in the back room the whole time.
The missing party was Kevin, his wife Monica, and Olivia, Tim's other daughter, who came with K&O.
They were here in town, but did not show tonight.
We only know they are in town because Olivia dropped by to say hello to Veda, at their Air B&B, briefly.
Kevin has been like a ninja, texting nobody about anything, and not showing.
Dylan's still out there somewhere, due in at some point, but his flights were sketchy, and Michael's the contact on that, but he's not here yet.
Brian was out in DeKalb... still moving out of his rehersal space tonight.
I showed Frank (Tim's son) my studio, because he'd been an advisor on setting it up, and I showed him the music for, Closer To You.
He also emailed me two WAV files of music he'd been working on and we listened to that in the studio as well.
Great stuff!
Everybody was impressed by the sound quality of my speakers in there!.. something I wasn't even thinking about.
But I guess putting that subwoofer up high on a shelf, instead of down on the floor under the desk was a good call!
People leafed through the one copy I have of the house history, and I was able to regail a few people of the old legends.
Sunny, Tim's youngest, complemented my writing style... and is apparently an aspiring novelist, and quite well spoken and intelligent.
She was only 3 when last we met.
Both Megan and Wendy... the girlfriend/fiance's of Frank and Michael were very charmed by, and interested in the house and it's old legends.
Wendy is actually Irish and has family members living in similarly old cottages.
There was a lot going on, but now everybody's gone back in their rental cars to their rental houses for the night.
I've gotta be up and functional by 9AM, because Jason, an old friend of mine and Tims, is coming at 9:30. And We're going over to the church at 10:15.
The funeral mass starts at 11AM.
After that is the burial at the cemetery.
Then we all go out to lunch at a nearby restaurant.
Later tomorrow night is the first official fire around the fire pit, with the 30 rental chairs and so forth.
So, it's gonna be a big day and night.
It's unlikely that I will make an entry tomorrow, or even Saturday.
I expect to be doing a big recap on Sunday or Monday night.
So... nine months after Dad's death... we're finally here!
Everything's done.
Everybody's here.
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