{"id":461,"date":"2008-06-09T08:08:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T12:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/life\/a-difficult-weekend-cleaning-out-memories.html"},"modified":"2008-06-09T08:08:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T12:08:18","slug":"a-difficult-weekend-cleaning-out-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/life\/a-difficult-weekend-cleaning-out-memories.html","title":{"rendered":"A Difficult Weekend Cleaning Out Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was a difficult one as Mason and I joined the entire Rzepkowski family cleaning out my grandparents house in Dunkirk. Grandpa is not doing well with Alzheimer&#8217;s and grandma is going to a St. Columban&#8217;s home &#8211; an assisted living facility. <a href=\"http:\/\/rzepkowski.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/rzepkowski-prayer-request.html\">Please pray for them as they make a very difficult transition<\/a>. Of the many thoughts swimming through my head this morning are the many Christmases spent at grandma&#8217;s and of the many bits of wisdom my grandpa imparted on me &#8211; especially when it comes to hunting and fishing. I&#8217;ll have much more to blog about in the future, but this morning I&#8217;m off to Cabonga Reservoir Canada to fish for a week with those same family members. We&#8217;ll probably use a lot of the grandpa-isms while we are there. We all need to clear our minds and share some laughs, and probably some tears. Here&#8217;s a couple of pictures of our weekend work:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kris_grandma.gif' title='Kris and Grandma'><img src='http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kris_grandma.thumbnail.gif' alt='Kris and Grandma' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">Kris and Grandma in front of the house<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dumpster_truck.gif' title='Dumpster and Truck'><img src='http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dumpster_truck.thumbnail.gif' alt='Dumpster and Truck' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">We filled a large dumpster with stuff and our backs know it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was a difficult one as Mason and I joined the entire Rzepkowski family cleaning out my grandparents house in Dunkirk. Grandpa is not doing well with Alzheimer&#8217;s and grandma is going to a St. Columban&#8217;s home &#8211; an assisted living facility. Please pray for them as they make a very difficult transition. Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-and-friends","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}