Well, it is supposed to be pleasantly cool today but tonight it will hit freezing for the first time this year. And, by the weekend they are predicting the teens with at least a week of really cold weather. They are even saying we may have a little snow on Christmas Eve. How I would prefer Christmas in Australia.

This is my memory wall. I know it looks like some sort of shrine and, in many ways it probably is, but I call it my memory wall because of a fear that is growing inside me. I have read over and over about how people "heal" the loss of a loved one over time resulting in often forgeting even what they look like. That is something I can never allow to happen. Robert was the center of my universe and always will be. So, I set this up in my new place.

It has a picture of Robert, the cross we put over our door when we bought the farm, a saying I found after he died ("always and forever kind of love"), a little chotskie he treasured that I named Pancho Plumpo, his business card holder and his ear muffs (which like his sweaters and some other items I will use to keep warm this winter). And, of course Timmy's old harness (Timmy now has a nice new bright orange step in harness).

As long as I don't put votive candels there or leave little plates of food out then it really is not a shrine.

OMG! I just took my first sip of coffee this morning and I can actually feel my eyes coming into focus and my heart starting to beat. Maybe coffee was the fuel of the Frankenstein monster. Look out world...it's alive!!!