What A Week!

It’s been a busy week.  We have had frost yesterday morning and a freeze this morning.  It is supposed to rain Friday night and Saturday.  I am not surprised about Saturday.  It seems it always rains on St. Patrick’s Day.  Our church which is St. Patrick’s Church is going to have a special Mass on Saturday.  We have a temporary priest because Father Jose is in Philadelphia in a hospital.  That is all we know.  No one has even told us what is wrong with him.  However, our temporary priest, Father Sherwin, has been doing a few things differently.  I really like him.  He is the one who agreed to the Stations of the Cross for Seniors.  It is held every Friday afternoon at 3:00.  I am thoroughly enjoying it.  It has much more meaning to me, and the other seniors agree.

I have been watering the magnolia tree and the new tulip poplar trees every other day.  They all seem to be doing just fine.  The Franklin trees that I started in containers last year seem to have survived the winter and are getting new growth.  I am really excited about that because we were told they were very hard to grow and probably wouldn’t survive.  It is still a touch and go situation, but there is hope.

Kevin and Renea’s new puppy, Shelby, is growing so fast.  Copper and her get along just fine.  They run all over the backyard.  In fact, Kevin moved his fence, with a little help from some friends, to make the backyard bigger.  The first time Copper came outside after the fence was moved, he ran up to the spot where the old fence was and stopped.  He looked around as if to say, what happened.  He didn’t stay there long.  As for Lola, she is just an old lady who doesn’t want to be bothered with a puppy.  Of course, Shelby still hasn’t learned that she needs to leave Lola alone.  Shelby has learned to sit.  She is especially good at this when she gets a treat and Copper is also sitting. 

I have stopped working on my genealogy for now.  I have kind of hit a road block so I decided to take a break.  I am back to working on my embroidery and plastic canvas.  I am also learning counted cross stitch.  A lot of ladies told me that it was hard and they wouldn’t touch it.  So, I watched a video on you tube, and decided that if I can do plastic canvas I can do counted cross stitch.  I’ll let you know how that turns out.  I bought a couple of easy projects, bookmarks and cards.  We will see how it goes.

I sure hope we get some rain soon.  We are still in a drought and I have been watering the new and transplanted trees.  If it doesn’t rain soon, I will have to get my mower, attach the cart and fill the sprinkling cans and start watering everything the hoses can’t reach.  I tried to get enough hoses to reach everything, but the hoses were then too heavy for me.  I sure hate getting old and not being able to do everything I want.  I am learning to adjust.

Just a quick update.  I have been sick the past week.  It seems I had the flu.  I am finally feeling better.  I have done absolutely nothing.  It’s been a rough week for Renea and Kevin also.  Renea’s dad died and they had the funeral and burial here in Alabama.  Her brother Mark and his wife came down along with a couple of other family members.  I felt really bad because I was so sick I couldn’t do anything to help them.

However, the past two days I have been packing.  Kevin is taking me to Cincinnati to stay with Jana.  We leave tomorrow morning.  She has to have surgery on both her eyes.  Both eyes have cataracts and one eye has a hole in the retina.  Recovery from the retina surgery will be quite lengthy and she will not be able to drive.  Not sure how long I will be there.