Good day everyone,<br /><br />I am going to have to try and cheer myself up today.  Very upsetting news yesterday after I got off.<br /><br />What has happened is a wonderful friend of the family and neighbor for 45 years died yesterday afternoon.  He was 82.  He and his family already lived in the neighborhood when my family built here 45 years ago.  I grew up playing with their youngest daughter and my brother and sister did the same with their two oldest, a boy and girl, who were just about the same ages as my brother and sister.  <br />This family was the type you went to each others birthday parties, weddings, sat on the porch with, went camping with, and now...go to their funerals.<br /><br />The youngest daughter became a teacher and now teaches  at the same school she and I went to all our lives...the same one my children and her children now attend.  <br /><br />No word yet on when the funeral will be because the son has to fly in from New York City.<br /><br />Sorry for the downer, I just needed to share...<br /><br />Thanks friends<br />