Of Lateness and Sadness

Whelp, here I am again with a couple of late posts to catch up on. I actually had ten days off in the last two weeks, with plans to just relax and get caught up on everything, but thins went sideways really fast. My grandpa, who just turned 90 this summer and was keeping in high spirits, despite his various ailments, saw his health take a nosedive over the last weeks, and finally succumbed to acute kidney failure, septic shock, and what we assume was pneumonia early last Sunday. He's been like a father for me for most of my life, so I'm stuck between immense sadness and disbelieving on one side, but also great relief that he could go relatively peacefully, without pain, and didn't have to go through the lengthy and potentially painful procedures that were supposed to start this week, and which might still have left him completely dependent on external help or even forced our hands to put him into a nursing home, where he never wanted to end up.
So naturally, my days and hands are full of funeral planning, cleaning his stuff out, crying, and being there for my grandma (who, at 87, is still going strong and taking it like a champ, but we don't want her to be alone too much, obviously). I'm trying to keep up with my crafting and blogging and general online socializing for my own sanity, but I'll have to ask you to bear with my posts being sparse and late for a while.
I'm also thinking about doing some special project in memory of my grandpa next year, but haven't found the right one yet. I'm sure inspiration will strike when I need it the most...