Happy Birthday, BB!  I love and miss you sooooooo much,  it's a beautiful day today and I'm thinking about all the wonderful things we did,,,,,,, going to the
beach, going to Cougar (like you and Rick did last year on this day)  so many
happy memories............you and Rob and the kids jet skiing at Newport.  Thank
you sooooo much for letting me part of your life.........I learned sooo much from
you ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I really did pay attention.  Ha! ha!  I miss your laughter and your
smile and your hugs...................you will live on in my heart forever.  Happy
Trails! 

Missing you so much Dad!

The memories are strong and always will be...  I love this photo of you at Waldport, dock fishing.  You caught one too!  It was just fun to be together...

On this day we all think of you, we celebrate your life, your legacy, your memory...and the wonderful person we will always hold in our hearts!
 

This was just something left on my Dad's little Sony video/camera device.  It was a Christmas present from my Mom (2012), but I don't think she knew that until it arrived!  He was very excited about this little toy - like a kid!

And like the wine maker that makes wine, optimistically for a future that he or she hopes to share with others, this little recording and my Dad's presumable hope to use the camera in the future - perhaps sharing with friends and family - is but a brief glimpse of him (or at least the sound of him) on one of his last days as "him."

Outside for a few minutes (clearly a guy waiting for his lovely wife), he makes the most of this time to video something he sees and makes a simple little comment.  That's all.  The plan was probably to view it later (which I think he did), get a sense of the possibilities of the device, and then who knows?  Maybe he could have filmed dance concerts, graduations, business meetings, road trips, the beach, or that elusive place in the country he'd always hoped to move to with my Mom...who knows?  But I sense something very simple and honest here and it's a bit comforting, despite the deep sadness of what we all know now to be true.

Here he is, looking forward; observing the world directly in front of him, if just for a brief moment.

It would be the video that I would see - one of only a couple - just days later as he lay unresponsive in the hospital and unable to share any of his hopes or dreams, and me, sleeping in the bed that he had been dreaming in just days before.  The camera by his bedside; knowing that it was something he was happy about.