Back from FIL's funeral and after party. Wife tells me she's almost finished the bottle of wine her nephew bought her. No kidding, honey? The family is letting the good spirits flow, if you catch my drift.
Graveside service was cool. Military send off, then we were able to put mementos inside the grave, next to the cremains box. I saw some of them...a small bag of cookies he liked, letters, flowers. My son dropped in the bottle opener ( (circa 1920) grandpa gave him inscribed with the name of a bar in this town I've never heard of. Given to him by his FIL long ago.
I dropped in a sanding block he made for one of our projects. Seems silly, but it was one-of-a-kind made by him.
He had a good life. RIP, Tom.