Today is the 43rd anniversary of our wedding. It’s also the 6th anniversary of Mrs. Hoge’s death on Thanksgiving Day, 2016. I’m thankful for those 37 years with such a beautiful, talented, and courageous lady.
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Ten and Forty-Two
Today is the the 10th anniversary of the first post here at Hogewash!
It’s also the 42nd anniversary of the day Connie Potter accepted my proposal that she should become Mrs. Hoge.
Anniversaries
Today is the 41st anniversary of my marriage to Mrs. Hoge, and it is the 4th anniversary of her death.
During the last week of 2014, Connie went to an orthopedist complaining of back pain. It turned out that the cause was cancer in her spine, and the cancer turned out to be stage four metastatic breast cancer with no evidence of any tumor in her breasts. After back surgery in early 2015, she began chemotherapy, and when she began to lose her hair, she had her head shaved. She didn’t want to wear a wig, so she had an artist draw a henna tattoo on her head—a creative response showing her determination not to be overwhelmed by the disease.
The picture on the left was taken a few months before her diagnosis.
I’m thankful for those 37 years.
I miss her, but as I’ve written before, our separation is temporary. One of the things we share is a firm belief that
this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
I’ll just have to wait.
UPDATE—My son is working in the basement this morning. He’s going through boxes that have been in storage for years, culling them so that we can make room to store other stuff that needs to make way for some recording equipment upstairs. He brought me a box of old paperwork to go through. It was one of those boxes of “important” papers that is no longer all that important—mostly. It contained mortgage papers, deeds, etc., on houses Connie and I had owned in Tennessee and California. Nothing related to any real estate we’ve owned in the past thirty years. However, there was also a small pack of photographs that included prints and slides of our honeymoon. I rescued the photos and sent the rest to the shredder and dumpster. That find was an interesting gift for today!
Anniversaries
It was forty years ago today that Mrs. Hoge and I were married, and it was three years ago today that I lost her to cancer.
A Couple of Anniversaries
It was seven years ago today that I received a SWATting threat after a publishing a post about the Executive Director of Justice Through Music Project.
It was forty-two years ago today that I first met with Mrs. Hoge.
Some memories are more pleasant than others.
A Dual Anniversary
This blog’s first post was on 24 July, 2011.
Mrs. Hoge said, “Yes,” and accepted my proposal of marriage on 24 July, 1979.
This and That
It’s a busy day in the lab today doing some critical testing on a power supply for a subsystem of the instrument we’re building for the next Landsat mission. That Real World activity will prevent me from completing the new Johnny Atsign episode.
But before I disappear into the lab, I want to take note of a couple of anniversaries. Five years ago yesterday, I received a SWATting threat. One of the statutes of limitation on that crime has now run out.
One a happier note, my first date with Mrs. Hoge was forty years ago today.
A Dual Anniversary
This blog’s first post was on 24 July, 2011.
Mrs. Hoge said, “Yes,” and accepted my proposal of marriage on 24 July, 1979.