Daniel is shoveling snow into the cockpit of Dad's boat, filling it up, and I am alarmed that Dad, who is some distance away walking towards us with a little boy at his side, will be upset. With the cockpit full of snow, the boat is moved into a shed made of galvanized sheeting. The shed is falling apart and is too small for the boat anyhow.

I am walking in my loafers across a muddy area and get mud in the loafers. I try to rinse them out in some muddy water but I see that some of the mud remains inside. Instead of the loafer, I am holding a Rufous Hummingbird in my hand with its open beak pointing upward. I dip the hummingbird in the muddy water as if I were filling a tiny water bottle, then tip the hummingbird upside down to let it drain. As I hold the hummingbird in my open palm, it becomes a dragonfly and its wings fall off. They were attached to its body by some intricate mechanism. With another Rufous Hummingbird I repeat the process but the hummingbird is stiff and dead even before I drain it out.

I am either with Darchelle or waiting for her in a guitar store.

In the first scene it may be me and not Daniel who is shoveling snow into the boat but filling the boat with snow feels aggressive, which feels characteristic of Daniel. It is the aggression which alarms me. I associate the boat with one Dad owned in Sop's Arm the year I lived there with him after high school. For those nine months I felt as though I had a father, though I later wished that I had not felt so much like a little boy when I was with him. It was as if I was trying to make up for the years when I was a little boy but felt as though I had no father, at least not a loving one. When I left, I was as sad as if I had lost him again, without having had a chance to grow up. Filling the boat with snow feels like an effort to bury that sadness, to cover it up, to chill it out. It may be me attempting to cope with the sadness of losing my father or it may represent Daniel doing likewise, or both.
The shed reminds me of my "workshop" in Auburn, a place are used for storage of souvenirs from the past (college, for the most part) as well as toys (camping gear, canoe, rock cutting and polishing equipment) from adulthood. In the dream it may represent memory, or capacity to hold that sadness.
Taken as a whole, the first scene seems to reflect my view of how Daniel will deal with my death, which in the dream I imagine as being proactive to chill the sadness, expressing some anger but mostly keeping it in his head.

The second scene appears to express something about coping with grief, represented in the dream by mud, I think. It gets inside you and sticks and you can't rinse it out. The loafers I wore on my wedding day with Darchelle and so may represent our life together, moving forward but tainted with sadness. We try to cope but cannot entirely eliminate the grief.
I clearly associate Rufous Hummingbirds with David. They are stiff and unresponsive, suggesting that David's response to losing me may be denial, simply not acknowledging the loss. The dragonfly losing its wings suggests that response may have unintended adverse consequences.

The guitar store reminds me of the place where Darchelle bought her dulcimer, which she used to play before we were married. The scene raises the question of whether Darchelle will be able to return to her former life and faith after I die, but leaves the question unanswered.