Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Sad News

I just got news today that my Uncle Jim died unexpectedly last night. I guess he is actually my great uncle. He is my dad's uncle. I have tons of memories of him from my childhood. He and his wife (my grandma's youngest sister) Wilma have a ranch in Delhi, CA, and we used to go visit there quite a bit. There were grape orchards (is it an orchard of grapes?), walnut groves, and a river to play in. He always took us to the river to go fishing, and funny enough he always saw the big fish with our name on it just the day before! When I was really little he smoked cigars (it might have been a pipe, I don't really remember now), but I always like how the smoke smelled. He had a great laugh, and was always fun to be around. I will be unable to fly back to California for his funeral, which makes me a bit sad, but I hope I will be able to see him again someday! Uncle Jim, you will be missed!
Jon just told me that it is a grape vineyard (duh, don't know why I didn't remember that), and that it might be walnut orchards not groves. Anyone know?

1 comment:

Heidi said...

Sorry to hear about your uncle. Sounds like you have good memories of him!