Lovebuch family happenings

Hello All, I wanted to share some additional information on opportunities to join us in remembering and celebrating Derek. And thanks to everyone who joined in the birthday Bingo fun, it was very touching and a nice reminder to me just how many other people out there are missing Derek and thinking of him. First of all, we do plan to have a "celebration of life" (in other words a party in Derek's honor) at a future point. We will probably try to schedule something for around next September with a contingency plan for COVID if that ends up being too soon. For that, I will do as much digging up of emails as possible and will also use the blog to help spread the word widely. One way or another, there will be rusty nails to drink communally in our future. In the meantime, on Saturday we are going to do a small tree planting for Derek at a spot that he had chosen in Seward Park. Because of his work, colleagues at the City and at Garden Cycles have been able to coordinate this t

October 8th would have been Derek's 34th birthday. I knew it would be difficult so we came up with a plan to stay busy. We spent the day hiking as a family, Alpen made it all the way up Little Si. It was the perfect hike, a little cloudy but enough to feel like exercise. With dinner from Island Soul, one of D's favorites, we had all had a rusy nail (scotch + drambouie) which was a D favorite as well. Funny enough, I recently found a video Derek recorded at the top of the bigger Mt. Si, nearly 8 years exactly before. He's musing about his summer spent in Seattle anticipating returning to Pt. Reyes for another season of gridding. I know many folks were thinking about D yesterday, and I wanted to share a birthday bingo that some of our friends here put together. If you'd like to participate too over the weekend, feel free to share any notes in the comments or photos with me and I can add them here. I thought this was a sweet and touching tribute that Derek would have reall