Yesterday was rather harrowing. Although we're not yet in a death-watch mode here, I thought it would be wise to start arranging a service. I went to the place my family has dealt with for 40 years. The owner grew up with my Uncle. We've had no fewer than 20 family members there, so I know them pretty well. They were very sweet to me, but I think I threw them quite a loop requesting a non-Catholic, no-nonsense service, with 2-3 hours start to finish and DONE ! As for me, well...I was doing okay...