27 January 2010
Today was the day I’d orchestrated to get the new sofa moved into the house. Paid for last weekend, the hard part seemed like it was going to be the transportation itself. But, one by one, the details worked themselves out. Sherrie offered the loan of her van, and wonderful friends with muscles came out of the woodwork to help move it. Curtis and Marcus and Arron met me in Addison, and in mere moments the sofa was in the van. Curtis followed me home, and Andy met us there, and again, with amazing speed the sofa was in my crowded little living room. I love it!
We finished all that, just in time to go to J. Gilligan’s where the Pub Guys were recording this week’s show. It was a great show, and a very fun evening with a great turnout of fans.
We got home from the evening and were greeted for the first time by our beautiful new sofa. Kyle hadn’t been seated on it for even five minutes before he told me he loved it! Woo hoo! Success. I was overjoyed.
Unfortunately, the evening wasn’t joyous for long. This was the night the terrible phone call came to tell us of the loss of our dear friend, Bert. We didn’t allow ourselves much time to digest the news until after a few important phone calls had been made, but once that first tier of calls was made, we cuddled on our beautiful new sofa and periodically wept, well into the wee hours of the night.
As one can easily imagine, the sad news turned our lives upside-down a bit, and created a couple of weeks of sorrow and chaos. We have fallen incredibly far behind in our daily postings and I am only just now, two weeks later, writing this. Most of our readers of The Daily KRuMB will have received the same news within minutes—and have hopefully not missed our daily posts, since you, too, were having two weeks of sorrow and chaos. If you’ve been wondering what the heck was going on with us . . . now you know. Kyle and I are both devoted to getting caught up and back on track as quickly now, as possible. Thank you for your continued support and patience!
