I took my daughter, her husband, my stepson and his wife to show them all a place they had never seen but heard about often. A place very special to their father and me. A place, that although Don and I had never discussed what to do with his ashes, I just knew instantly in my heart was the right place to go. I packed hot chocolate drinks, and hot coffee, and the best red wine I could buy, and crystal wine glasses, and plenty of snacks and treats, and we had our own private family ceremony. We buried his ashes at this sign and made a little mound of rocks above it, then padlocked the identity ring that came with the ashes onto the back of the sign. It is good to look back on this and be grateful that the children did this for me. I think they were also glad they had been to see something special to their Dad that they had never seen before, and would never have found if I hadn't taken them there.
@anniesue Thank you. It was freezing cold and very wet with thick mist ... but then it was mid winter - one day after the winter solstice. I was kind of hoping it might snow as it often does up there, but also realised the roads might then be too treacherous and closed
@ludwigsdiana Thanks Diana. Yes it is hard to believe it was a year ago. In some ways Don is still very much alive in my memory so it seems like only just the other day he was here in the house.
