Bye Grandma for now

Another tough weekend.  This weekend was grandma Aili's funeral service.  There have been far to many goodbye's this year to people so close.  My father-in-law Ray back in June, Dad in September, and now Grandma.  This was somewhat easier knowing that this is what grandma wanted, and as the pastor said at the service she had told him she was "ready to go" and be with god.  Still mutiplied by three it was hard and brought back thoughts of missing the others.  I'll always remember and miss you grandma, until we meet again. 

Running:
Friday before we left to head north I was able to get out for a 6.5 mile run.  Nothing significant about the run and did it in 54.02.  As has been my pattern most of November and December so far I took the weekend off from running. 

Hunting:

As I mentioned in the previous post, through Sunday was a state wide antlerless gun hunt.  Wasn't able to get out much this weekend.  I did get out with my brother Todd Saturday up in Bayfield.  There were so many deer tracks in all the fresh snow.  I really thought we would get something.  Nothing showed up at all for either of us in the 2.5 hours we had to hunt.  I got out in the back yard after getting back home last night.  Again lots of tracks appeared in the couple days I was gone, but nothing showed up last night.  There will be bow hunting opportunity until early January and if I choose there will be a gun hunt going on in this part of the state from 12/24 though the end of the season in early January.  Here's a cartoon that the Wisconsin deer hunters I think will enjoy

Gardening:
I am concerned about some of my trees and bushes at the moment.  The heavy wet snow is causing many of the branches to bend significantly.  A few have broken from the brutal cold and wind that followed the storm.  I'm hoping for a warmup so this stuff falls off.  I've read that shaking the snow off could potentially cause more damage than leaving them alone.  We'll see how patient I can be with this.