Ryan McFarland

Last night my grandmother on my mom’s side passed away. It is tough being thousands of miles away from family. I only get home once every year or two. I feel like i should go home - at least to see my relatives. This short of a notice a flight to Rochester is $1,300. There are some meetings i can’t work around right now also. I guess I’ll just have to make the trip back late summer or in the fall as i had planned. Her death was not a surprise. Sunday my mom called to let me know that her condition had grown considerably worse. Last night my brother left me a message that my sister had sent our grandmother a nice email and he thought i might want to do the same. I did. I wrote up an email thanking her and my grandfather for the three loans they have made to me. I thanked them for helping me get to the world jamboree in South Korea in 1991. I told her that on Sunday i went to the store and bought one bag of peas and six shrubs and that as i ate the peas i thought of the peas from their garden.