Josh's tractor

Yesterday, Josh brought his lawn tractor over and mowed the lawn. It's a pretty good sized tractor and made short work of it, but the trees made the job a little hazardous. He nearly clothes-lined himself on the Spruce out front.
Ashlynn was impressed that the potatoes she planted were growing. She had to make sure daddy saw them before he left.

Naps

In the past I never took naps. In camp, when other people were napping it was my chance to escape and explore on my own. It's amazing how much more you see when you're alone instead of in the company of a gaggle of people stomping along, chattering to one another.
Now days, naps are part of every activity. Make a quick trip to the store, take a nap. Go for a walk, take a nap. Putter in the garden for a few minutes, take a nap. At least it makes the day go faster and making the days go faster until this is over is a good thing.

The garden

A few warm days followed by a little rain has been good for the garden. Lots of stuff sprouting out there. Some of it may even be things we planted.

Mom

Our sweet Marge has volunteered to take Mom to her house for a few weeks while Roger has a chance to get through these last few treatments and recover for awhile.

This morning Mom said to me, "I bet you'll be glad when I go home."
I said, "Why would you say that?"
She said, "To get me out of your hair."
I told her, "No, I will miss you very much."

And I will.
I will miss her crazy wit.
I will miss her songs & poems.
I will miss her stories.
I will miss her giggles.
And in a way, I will miss her "mothering".
Most of all I will miss the opportunities I have had to
give her small acts of service and to hear her heart felt
"thank you"s.

And I will be glad when things are more normal here and she can come home.

Lawn mowing

Richard drove over from Maupin to mow the lawns. Good thing, I don't know how long it would take me. Mow for 15 minutes, rest for 30- 40.

Out of gas

Only worked until 9:30 yesterday and stayed home today. I'm going to get the forms filled out to go on disability. Just out of gas.

Garden time

We planted a little more garden yesterday. As usual, I'm trying a few new varieties. For the past few years, I've planted Precocious for early corn. It is early and we're happy to have it, but its not great corn. This year we planted Quickie. The write-up makes it sound really good. We'll see. Of course, my main season corn is still Bodacious.
For cherry tomatoes, I've been using Sweet Million. It's well named -tons of cherry tomatoes, but splits badly. This year I'm trying Bambino. It's supposed to resist splitting.
I also found a cabbage (Gonzales) that's only softball sized. The regular sized ones are really too much for us.
We took it pretty easy and there's more to plant. I may get some more in today. This time I'll wear my straw hat instead of the baseball cap. The back of my bald head got a little pink yesterday.

Thursday, May 6

4 down, 2 to go.
Richard mowed the lawn yesterday and cleaned his room and made his bed before leaving for Maupin!! The lawn mowing didn't surprise me.
I hope to get some more garden planted this weekend. We'll see how that goes.

Apr 26 thru 29

Not much different this week. As I think I mentioned, the fatigue gets a little worse with each treatment. I'm not sure if I'll be able to work thru the whole process. We'll see.
Every thing I've ordered on-line came in this week. Ammunition, speed loaders, and tomato plants. The plants are in tiny pots, so I'll re-pot them today and put them in the garden when they get a little bigger.
4th treatment Thursday. I can hardly wait. Oh well, it'll be that much closer to being over.