Thursday, June 11

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

An absolutely stunning sunrise.

Not raining today. We have had a LOT of rain in the last couple of weeks, and we could really use some sunshine to dry things out a bit.

My family seems to be trying to do more to sort things out with my Mom. They got her to agree to having Homecare come to help her take her medication correctly, and Meals on Wheels a few times a week so she has a hot supper. I think it's good to have people checking in her each day, because family can't always do it.

A good phone conversation with Mom. She seemed more awake, and I bet it's because they've stopped letting her take her own drugs. For the last week or so, she's been back home, and insisted on taking her own medication, but she can't keep it straight, and was taking them at the wrong time, and taking too many. I'm sure that's why she was more tired, etc. and it wasn't helping with pain. Today she seemed in reasonably good spirits.

A good phone call with my trainwreck sister, and it's kind of sad. She likely won't be able to keep living where she is, but she is also refusing to plan for that eventuality. She's actually planting a bunch of perennials that someone is giving away, as if she's even going to be there this time next year. She SHOULD be trying to empty out the shop and see if she can sell it, and see if there's a small house or apartment she can afford either in the town where most of my family lives, or the small city where her kids live, but she's just refusing to look at the situation. At some point, she'll have either the furnace break down, or her power cut off, or something like that, and it'll be the last straw, and then she'll be forced to do something, but it will be rushed and stressed and anguished instead of planned and deliberate. It will be when she's absolutely out of options, time, and money, likely in the middle of winter, and she'll end up forcing herself on my Mom, or her kids. Or she'll go live with one of the alcoholic old losers that she always seems to find when things get really bad.

I got some work done in the yard today. I drilled some holes in the one half-barrel planter that for whatever reason wasn't draining. I planted most of the bedding plants in the half-barrel planters. I cleaned some grass out of one little strip of perennials, and pulled grass at the edge of the vegetable garden. I hauled a few pails of clay dirt to fill in a bit more where our old septic tank is. We filled it with dirt last autumn, but it keeps settling, so we keep adding more dirt, and at some point it will be filled.

I called back the guy who hauls stuff away, to remind him to come and look at our pile of concrete and give us an estimate of what it would cost to move it. He says he can likely come Monday and look at it.

Having a nice bath.