as some of you may already know, our grandmother on our mother's side, Eleanor Shaffer, passed away around 6:00 AM on Tuesday, February 23rd... this comes almost a year after her husband passed away last March... she hadn't been well for a while and had been in the hospital for about 2 weeks with pneumonia and a blood infection... she held on for quite a while, but it all eventually wore down on her... so it's been quite hectic around here (thus, the lack of web page updates)... this just seems like a bad time for a lot of people, health-wise... these rapidly changing temperatures can really bring about some wicked illnesses... we're all just trying to get by now... death really makes you think... about everything... but my mind is at ease knowing that my grandmother and grandfather are reunited in a better place... r.i.p. Eleanor Shaffer (1920-1999)... we will miss you...