After RoseBud died and before we got Lily we had a window of opportunity where we were dogless and we could all go away without worrying about taking care of a pup. The Dad was/is always the dog sitter. It was (his brother) Anthony's 69th birthday and his boys were going down for the surprise party.
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The Dad, Dave and I decided to go as well. We rented this nice house in The Villages and actually looked around at some property with the possibility of moving down there when DCD was thinking about working in Florida. Hmmm. now that I think about it, I can probably get a lot of jobs down there in activities. ;-) It was a fun trip - we and the boys were escorted into the party by Uncle Anthony's church friends like we were celebrities and the surprise went off well. We got ice cream and drove to walmart in the golf carts, went to a polo match, got up close and personal with a buffalo...
Later, when we were seriously thinking of moving to florida and got a real estate agent I came up with this business plan. I found it on my computer the other day. Uncle Anthony said they didn't have any good Italian stores down there so I came up with a plan for them to open one… Open shelving, family pics, Pittsburgh stuff… Everything was tied around this pic…
Obviously, that never came to be. I still think it would have been a good idea. I kind of wish we would have just moved down there then. I really think things would have been different. Maybe. I don't know.
We all got married around the same time - me, my cousins Barbie and Greg, and Robbie... Uncle Anthony was actually Robbie's best man! I always see him dancing some funky dance or horsing around with my dad. We all kind of said our goodbyes to him when Alexis and Auggie got married in the summer - I think everyone knew what was to come next.
I got the call at work the other day from my cousin's wife. She wanted me to let everyone know it could be a month or so - then it turned into a week - ended up being a couple days...
Rest in peace, Uncle Anthony. I hope they have good meatballs where you are.
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