fritz sunning in the livingroom,fritz snoozing on the bed, with Mom this morning on the couch and fritz with his Monkey on ther couch.It was a long and tiring day yesterday.A lot of family and friends came out both in the afternoon and evening to pay their respects,even some people we had cut lawns for.Dad looked good in his Gray suit and I lost it when when I sawe him and there were pictures all around the room,one from my 46th birthday with Fritz in my lap and dad there,Marlene with Taffy and Dad with Fritz,Dad with fritz while dad was reading a paper and the one where dad had put the neck collar on him and he seen smiling at fritz.2 pictures,one from when dad and mom were married and from their 5oth Anniversay, a picture of all of us at dad's 8oth birthday last may and a collage of pictures that Shannon had done for the 50th Anniversary with a few new one,on eof Fritz that was taken at the groomers before christmas right next to one of me and Ruffles,of dad and his brother Elwood at his 75th at my sisters and one with Marlene and Larry.Also a picture we had blown up of dad 3 years ago on his tractor after doing leaves at a house.We had lovely flowers,roses and others i can't remember,people made donations to ALS(Lou Gehrig's),our church and the Canadian National institue for the Blind,one of Mom 's friends has a husband that is nearly blind.I lost it when i saw all the pictures of fritz and , and the 8oth birthday,every one of them in fact.Mom did a pretty good job of holding up,she let it out a bit not like me,she tends to hold it in.Marlene is like me,she let it all out.Jason and shannon were there both times then Jason's wife Barb and Shannon's husband Brian came in the evening.Good to see that Brian talked to Marlene,disappointed that Larry would not go near them,he stayed his distance except in the receiving line,nver said nothing to them .My cousin Sharon and her Husband Norm St.Onge came all the way from Windsor ,Ontario,5 hours away,they stayed overnight at a hotel.After the first visitation we went to supper with some of Larry's relatives to a Greek restaurant.After last night,we went to my sister's along with Sharon and Norm and Larry's brother Frank to the house for Sandwiches.Fritz's Aunties are coming after moving to their new apartment yesterday and my Aunt Maxcine and Dad's brother Elwood and my one cousin Dennis who is driving them down.Mom never told dad that my other cousin Terry had been home to visit and was taking some course in Toronto,he works for FedEx in British Columbia and he drove by on the 401 highway not that far from here and never came near.At least 2 are coming,others have some flimsy excuse.it is goin to be a another tough day,funeral at 11,then here is a luncheon at our church a short walk away.i hope i can get through this, i have been very emotional the last 3 days,not easy losing him and i an sure to do it today and for awhile.It was dad's wish to be cremated,We still have to pick out a plot for him ,next week i think.If i am up to it,I will be back today to tgell you what happened today.