Happy Birthday, Dianne.

.....Today was Dianne Monreal's (THL Serena Eame) 59th birthday. I find that hard to believe. Time goes by so fast. If things had been otherwise we would have had a Bar-B-Que today and teased her incessantly about her advanced age. To which she would have smiled and then gotten her revenge later in some clever fashion.

.....I stopped briefly at the grave site in Bremerton. The area where she is buried is starting to fill up around her. But it still has that nice view of the bay and Rocky Point. The sun was out, but the afternoon was humid. I stood for a little bit and remembered her and her passing.

.....September Crown, 2000. Caitlin Spenser autocratted. Another who passed on entirely too early.

.....It was a weekend profound in many ways. Duke Jade from the West was in attendance and made that otherworldly announcement of fighting all in the Crown lists in honour of Dianne. A Lady whom he had never met in person before that weekend. I remember being in the hospital room when he arrived and watching him as he stood gazing at Dianne as she labored with each breath.

.....Everything about that weekend was surreal. The letter written by Caitlin in remembrance of that weekend was put into the Dragon's Laire pages of the 40th Year Domesday Boke for An Tir, for which I am grateful. It is a beautifully written letter.

.....Next year we get to relive September Crown as hosted again by Dragon's Laire. I hope that she will be watching, wherever she is, and live it vicariously in a way she couldn't last time.

.....Happy Birthday, Dianne.

.....Aaron / Arontius.