My heart is heavy

Terry received an e-mail this morning that a friend and fellow tennis player from Naples died suddenly yesterday.  Bruce was from Massachusetts and lived there with his wife Linda during the summer.  Last summer Bruce started experiencing shortness of breathe and had to stop playing tennis about the end of April.  It was confirmed that there was a heart problem but not to the point that death was near.  Bruce did so so much for his wife Linda and I am not sure what she will do without him.  I am thinking that she will stay up north with family.  We have known way too many people who have had serious health problems or died.  Our neighbor, Diane, who is from Toronto Canada had a serious brain tumor this summer and we are not sure how she is doing.  Our friend Ben, who is from Ohio, had a stroke and is doing better.  Will he play tennis again, it is difficult to know.  These are friends who are in their 70's, and Terry and I will be 70 in 2017, yiks!  It is so difficult for me to hear of these situations and it almost breaks my heart.
On the positive side I did make strides in our projects around here today.  I was awake at 4:00, up by 5:00 and in the wood shop working  before 6:00.  I finally had to call it a day about 3:30 but not before I did some sanding on the ceiling and walls, some mudding on the walls and getting 4 more panels of drywall in place.  I also got some painting done for some windows.  We picked up some art glass for windows in the bath and sunroom and Terry is so excited about it.  I am a long way along in redoing 5 windows and that will be nice when they are finished.  When the bath is finished, that will be a 10+ day!
We ordered tires for our car.  I had thought that the last set of tires would be the last on this car but really the Honda has been so so good there is no reason to trade it for a new car.  I am hoping it will go for many many more miles.
I think the rain is over for a while and the lawn is looking very nice.  Is it not where I would like it, but it is so much nicer than it has ever been and that is exciting.
Terry and I accomplished a lot yesterday.  In the morning we drove to Hudson WI and got some glass and the mirror, then we drove to Savage and got red birch for the mirror trim, we dropped of some legal papers that were important and then used a BOGO at a local cafe before we returned home.  It was a good day.  I also managed to get some work done in the bath.
The time is short before we head to Naples so each day is important.  Well after hearing of Bruce's death I would say, more than ever, each day is important.