Back in Seattle

I am back in Seattle this week; returning to Chicago after the Labor Day holiday.

It was hard leaving my Dad, but also good to be back home for a spell. My brother is now visiting there so it will be nice for him to have some 1:1 time with Dad.

The hospice nurse today estimated it might be another 4-6 weeks, which actually is hard for me to believe given my Dad's current condition. But I have no previous experience with cancer end of life and of course the hospice has lots of experience, so they are probably in the ballpark.

At hospice's suggestion, we did some initial planning for the visitation and memorial service. I've been chipping away at what I want to say at the service, but I can only work on in small chunks. I want to do the right sort of thing to honor my Dad, so that keeps propelling me forward on it.

I am enjoy some small Seattle pleasures, including incredible wild huckleberries that my cousin Elise brought by. With them, I made a Huckleberry Crispler, which is what we are calling the topping from the cherry-rhubarb "cobbler" I made last month (which is really a cross between a crisp and a cobbler, thus "crispler").

Drake in particular has been enjoying the Huckleberry Crispler: