Intro To Early Morning Tour After Bill's Passing
This short video is an intro to a sixteen minute video that I made early yesterday morning when, after I got up for my usual night time visit to my bathroom, I couldn't get back to sleep. I will post...
View ArticleEarly Morning Tour Or Our House After Bill's Passing
Good morning folks.This video is one I made yesterday morning.I woke up about 3:30 AM and couldn't get back to sleep. So I decided to share with you this short video tour of where Bill lived.Yesterday...
View ArticleBrining Bill Home
Me at the funeral home with Bill, taking him home with me Tuesday, February 27, 2024 I brought Bill home.Bill helped me.Here is the story. My appointment at the funeral home was for 1:30 PM. I was...
View ArticleBill Kelly Obituary
Bill Kelly obituaryBill's obituary appeared in our local newspaper today, the Cape Gazette.I wrote Bill's obituary. I think I captured his personality. I wished he could have read it. Even though Bill...
View ArticleOne Week
My Alexa device in my bedroom, time displayed this morning before I got upOne week ago, early this morning at 12:20 AM Bill died. Last night, I awoke early this morning. As I lay on my side I looked...
View ArticleNew Dawn
Yesterday was a Sad Saturday. Rain in he morning. Me late yesterday afternoon after the rain stopped and the sun came out. Overcast in the afternoon.The sun finally made an appearance in the later...
View ArticleSecond Week Without Bill
July 1979 - me and Bill on the rooftop of our Philadelphia center city townhouse. That townhouse is worth almost a million dollars now. We couldn't afford to live there today. The eleven years we lived...
View ArticleAnother Early Morning
This morning I was up again at 4:30 AM and couldn't get back to sleep. My normal sleep pattern is going to bed around midnight (or later) and getting up to start the new day at around seven or eight...
View ArticleLife Goes On
Slowly but gradually I'm getting back into my regular routine. Bill is still heavily on my mind and probably always will be to some extent, but life does go on.This morning I had to go to my local lab...
View ArticleMoving On
Bill and I during his last days at the hospice center. So grateful I was able to be with him at the end of his life. This morning my X-10 remote controls stopped working. Whatever I did, they didn't...
View ArticleRoad Trip
Pat arrives here at Casa Tipton-Kelly on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th for a five day stay. The photo above was taken four years ago (February 2020) during our last trip to Palm Springs for Modernism...
View ArticleI Can See Clearly Now
Bill in Pennsauken New Jersey, 1966 - our first "home."Each day is better than the previous day. Sure, I still miss Bill. I miss him a lot and I guess I always will for the rest of my life. But I feel...
View ArticleLife Continue To Go On
Bill with "Joshua", a friend's son. Little kids loved Bill. He should have been a dad. Two weeks now since bill's passing and I think I'm going to make it. To be totally open, I had my doubts there for...
View ArticleRon's Health Check Update
Bill's shelf in our refrigerator. He only drank apple cider, loved whipped cream and chocolate milk. What do I do with these items now? Reminders of Bill all around Casa Tipton-Kelly Today I completed...
View ArticleStill Struggling
Just when I thought I was ready to move on the reality of the rest of my life without Bill hits me square in the face.Yesterday, while cleaning out our garage I happened to see his outside crocs near...
View ArticleCompany Is Coming!
Casa Tipton-Kelly is getting company.Pat is driving down from his home in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada this Sunday to visit yours truly.I tell you I could use some company. This old house has been much...
View ArticlePat Has Arrived!
Pat and me at the Purple Parrot in Rehoboth Beach Sunday eveningOh my goodness folks, Pat has arrived. He arrived late Sunday afternoon, just as dusk was falling. His trip was a little over nine...
View ArticleEntering Canada March 22, 2024
Good Friday folks!I'm back! This time last week Pat and I made the six plus hour journey from Philadelphia to Canada.So much has happened since Pat came down to Delaware to visit me here at Casa...
View ArticleStill Missing Bill
It's been over a month since Bill died (February 24th). I'm still missing him.I knew I would miss him but never imagined I would miss him this much.Sometimes I feel guilty that I miss him this much....
View ArticleAdjusting To Life Without Bill
Case of Ensure supplied by the VA for BillToday I stopped at the local Cheers Senior Center and asked them if they could use some of the several cases of Ensure that the VA supplied Bill. They were...
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