Visit With My Mom

We are just fine, my mom is here visiting so am busy with her and family.

We have been busy picking cherries and raspberries.

Mom is putting on the binding for me on a stack of quilts that need finishing. 

Bruce was able to stand by himself with no help on the fifth try today! Yea!

We are going out to eat tonight.

Life is good.

Father's Day

Summer time and the living is easy

I picked raspberries and ate them. Bruce says I need to pick more. I'll be glad when he can do it himself. He says he can pick half a gallon a day.

I feel like I've just been helping Newt all week. The back yard is beginning to look nice.

He wants to clean up the garage for Bruce so that will be the next project. That's fine with me if Bruce helps him. 

I mixed up some lemon poppyseed muffins for breakfast and forgot to put the oil in. So had to dump the mix back into the pan, throw away the gooey liners and then refill new ones. They tasted just fine, warm, sweet and tangy.

Will have to plant my sunflowers when the rain lets up.

Must go grocery shopping and walk the dog.

Fathers Day - Didn't do much for Bruce today. I bought him a nice short sleeve shirt and he ordered himself some new pants with zippers. The Velcro pops open when he is in therapy. So hopefully they will work and we will order him a couple more pairs. 

I did cook a roast, smashed some taters and a simple green salad. The men like the meat and taters. Trying not to do desserts.

The netting is up and we bought bark mulch for the re psycho center. (Recycle) Newt brought over plants, maters and peppers from his hothouse and we have a pot of onions. Ready for salsa!

A Garden for Bruce

   Our friend Newt came over and is going to build a net cage for Bruce's blueberries and a two foot tall raised bed for strawberries and he will put down paver stones so Bruce can get in the garden area and putter around all year. He said we could use his pickup to get the wood and supplies. 

  Ryan is coming over on Friday and will remove the shorter posts, then they will just build a two by four frame for the top and drape the net. He has some kind of removable tie clip so Bruce can open the net and and pick or trim. 

Our cleaning friend, Jessee came this morning and limped around and sat with ice for awhile but she got the job done. She has broken her foot.

  I finished my demo blocks for Thursday, a ha stag and an asterisk and a string top. I'll have to remove the paper from the back this evening. 

 

 I gave all three males a haircut last night. They are looking shaven and shorn.

 Today was the last day for one of our home health helpers. She is moving to Tennessee. We will miss her and her spontaneous helpful personality. She would see something needed to be done and she would do it.

 The new gal will get more hours and the other helper will switch her time around so she has weekends for grandchildren. 

   Got to go to a potluck picnic in the park on Wednesday. The younger moms sat with the girls their age and us older ladies stayed together. Three of our quilting friends came. It was fun to talk to them.

I gave away some of my hats. I hope the children will play with them. 

  Bruce was able to do water angels in the pool on Wednesday. Like we make snow angels in the snow in winter.

   Saturday we will go buy wood to build a cage for the blueberries. The birds are eating them. It is wood and netting, we are hiring a friend to do the work, he is unemployed. His garden is gorgeous. They will put paving stones down for Bruces wheelchair and make a raised bed 2 feet high so Bruce can reach it. When he stands we will make it taller. 

  Ryan came over and trimmed the ever growing blackberries from the plum tree, he removed the short 4x4 posts and got two of the holes dug deeper. Bruce wants them in 2 feet deep.

  They have gripper bars in the women's shower room at the hospital. Bruce uses those and pulls himself out of the chair. He is able to stand for a couple of minutes. This week they upped the regime for him. They added a walker. Bruce was able to pull himself up and then he had to leer his hands to grip the walker. He said he was only able to stand for 30 min. He did it three times. He said he was exhausted, like he had just finished a race.

   

Hot, Tired, Feeling Grumpy and Weary

   Feeling much better today, headache gone, walked the dog, hung shiny ribbon on the cherry trees and blueberries to keep the birds out. 

  Bruce is back to bossing us around about watering his garden so he is feeling better. He wants the boys to spray the cherry trees so at noon thirty when they get up, I'm sure they will be excited to help.

  Duncan was up and took a hot shower so his back is better at least he was standing straighter.

  I got some big pots, half off at Rite aide and another cheaper looking one at Bi Mart. I put empty milk jugs in the bottom so wouldn't have to pay for a lot of dirt. I want to get a pretty rose for one and try to find garlic chives for the other. My attempt at an herb garden. Bruce can have the taller ones when Newt has them ready.

   We are grateful the Jensen twins, David and Daniel dug a couple of holes and planted Bruce's newest project. He got male and female elderberry bushes. I hope he doesn't think I'm going to be picking them...

 We hung shiny ribbons in the cherry trees to keep the birds out. Our dog stays out if we stay out. 

  Bruce is headed to swimming this morning so will sew. 

  I have my Pooh Bear blocks ready to stitch together and I am still plugging away at my strip quilt. 

  

  I bought two colorful tomato cages. I gave all ours away to the free market last year. I found them at Wal Mart.

Duncan is doing s membership at Mt Valley therapy. It is seven days free and then $45 a month, including a nutrition plan. He will go MWF when he takes Bruce. It will be good for him instead of sitting and playing a game during that time.

  They were launching rockets at Greenwood field when I walked by this morning. Saw Amy H. She and Lucy were going to ride bikes to Ace. Such energy

   I planted two tomato plants, three cucumbers, some celery and the lettuce is dead already.  I did find a purple rose with a fragrance to plant. That will nice. 

Must go change the sheets, get my heart rate up so I can make brownies.

   I get tired of taking caring of Bruce. I am grumpy. I keep thinking there are people worse off and it doesn't seem to help. Some days I just feel numb and Bruce is so happy it doesn't help. 

Carma took me yard saying on Saturday. It was hot and fun. I found a nice picnic basket, a lovely tin with flowers, a cobalt blue vase I don't know what I will do with it, it was just pretty and some vintage earrings. We went to Mc D's and got smoothies.

No ER visits this week.