Happy Happy Spring
This week is supposed to be warmer but that means more melting snow and more muddy muddy yard. I used to like spring but I can honestly say that it's my least favorite season now adays. Spring is just a horrible, dirty, messy season up here but when we make it through it'll be great. I look forward to summer and no more chemo and helping Dennis build that second garage which is still standing as only three walls currently. I want to have a garden this year too and with any luck we'll be able to build the deck and patio area and do some landscaping. Dennis keeps thumbing through plant catalogues, looking for what will survive up here.
Yesterday, Khristiaan helped me straighten the garage a bit so we can fit the SUV in it. There's still so many things in there to finish the house now if I can get the strength to help Dennis do it. While we were doing that Dennis changed the spark plugs in Khris' car and tried to get it unstuck. See Khris just has his permit right now and hasn't driven all winter and the car has sat next to the driveway. Well the snow had the tires frozen to the ground the first time we tried to move it, then we had a little thaw and only succeeded in burying the tires in mud. Today Dennis was successful in getting it out. Woo hoo!
I'm on the chemo countdown, Thursday just seems way to soon and I'm trying to make each day count while I feel ok. So today I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned and organized and feel pretty good about all I accomplished. It needed done but you know. Anyway, it felt good to do it and I feel I contributed to the family. :) Two more days to try to accomplish things until the icky stuff begins again. I think this is part of my sleepless nights. When I start feeling good I can still get to feeling bad and while I feel good I don't want to sleep I want to stay awake and feel good. :) The most frustrating thing about it is when I start feeling good mentally my body doesn't want to keep up. So while all these things are rushing through my brain that I want to do my body is saying no and it makes me end up tearful. But we'll talk about all that later today was a good day and I don't want to bring myself down so we'll just think about the plants starting to wake up. Wish I had some tulips. I love them but didn't get any into the ground last fall. If anyone has some in their yard snap a photo for me. :)
I really really want to get my sewing area up and functional. It's another frustration that on my good days I can't get away from the cancer by doing something I enjoy. All my stuff is still in boxes and the nitch that will be my messy sewing sanctuary is drywalled and waiting for mud and paint then shelving and when will I get that done? Maybe tomorrow. :) Yes that's a joke but my goal for tomorrow is to get down to the lowest level and clean and who knows maybe I will slap some mud on those walls.
Hey Lisa, my tulips are up but have not bloomed yet. Just another week or
two and the front of my house will be so colorful. I have some beautiful
red ones that my neighbors envy. The daffodils are up and blooming
everywhere and we have even had to mow the lawn. I always cheer for the
first daffodils and the first mow. Makes me excited for the warm weather
ahead. My speciality is dahlias and I have a wonderful secton in my
backyard with some great plants. Still too soon to see any growth but by
July the flower bed in a rainbow of colors. Maddie likes to dig up bulbs
so sometimes I find a hole where I know there was something there at one
time. When the tulips bloom I post a picture. We're heading to Hawaii this
week. I'm taking my laptop but Mike's gentle reminder that this is a
vacation makes me think I won't be on the computer too much until we get
back. Take care. Hope this next round goes ok and that you feel better
rather quickly after the treatment. You are on the other side now so only
look forward to the finish line. Kathy
Lisa,
Spring has sprung here, too, but it's not warm and it's still icky. The
angle of the sun is higher and the sun is warmer, but it's still cold. We
have a lovely front, side and back yard of shale and mud. Just lovely. I
had tulips, daffodils and crocuses at my old house. I miss them terribly,
however, the guy who bought our house gives us reports on them and is
willing to share them and all the rest of the stuff we planted, like day
lilies and such. Today the new neighbors are getting ready to break
ground. Looks like they are scraping the topsoil off and getting ready to
dig the foundation. We haven't met them yet. Their house will be blocking
part of our view of the mountains. Bummer, what what can you do? Also,
I'm pretty certain that my entire summer will be punctuated by sounds of
building, ALL DAY LONG!! Well, since I have to be home all day and hear
that, at least I hope the workmen are cute. I'm a sucker for cut-off
shorts and workboots. A tan is nice, too. :-0!!!!!!
