Mom is having a hard time finding seeds and plants for the garden. She got 3 tomato plants and 2 cucumber plants. She did find a pack of squash seeds. She said that if we put the ones we don’t use this year in the freezer, they’ll still be good for next year. I hope so. She planted 2 rows of green beans. We should have plenty of them. She wanted some egg plant plants but she can’t find any of the Black Beauty type. All they had was some kind of long skinny egg plant from Japan or somewhere like that.
Oh well, hopefully we’ll find more plants or seeds. Mom always home cans anything she gets from friends or family when they give us fresh vegetables. It really makes a difference in our food bill too. Have you seen how high everything has gotten at the grocery store? That’s one thing you have to have is food and it’s getting hard to feed the three of us very cheap. Christian will bring pizza’s for everyone sometimes and that’s a treat for us because we don’t order out much. I told you he was a sweetie!
I know I haven’t talked much about Christian but we are still seeing each other. He’s such a wonderful person. He does things around here that he knows Mom can’t do like mowing the yard and weed eating. He even brought over a tiller he borrowed from a friend and tilled up a garden for us. He worked on that all last weekend and just about every evening this week.
My sister, brother and I built a scarecrow for the garden too. Christian put the wooden pieces together and we got some of Mom’s old pants and an old flannel shirt she had for the clothes. We put a pillow case stuffed with old rags and drew a face on him and attached that to the top. Then the final touch was an old Halloween wig we had around here and a straw hat. He looks more like a biker than a farmer but hopefully it will keep the critters out of the garden.
Mom has gone out now to find seeds and plants and we’re going to plant the garden and then Christian and I are going to go for a ride on his bike. Sounds like just what I need too.
Mom, my sister and I don’t miss Dancing with the stars. My brother goes into his room because he doesn’t want to watch that girly stuff as he calls it. I think it’s funny because he has no idea just how athletic these guys have to be to be able to do all of those lifts. Oh well, to each his own.
Boy has this been a tough year to figure out who’s next to be off of the show or what. It was easy in the beginning because some of them couldn’t dance if their lives depended on it but that’s okay. Not everyone can dance. I tell you who is blowing me away and that’s the cowboy, Ty. He is really doing great but I bet he’ll be the one that gets eliminated next because the others are so much better. Lil Kim can shake her booty can’t she. Shawn is great, Melissa is doing really good too, but Gilles……………….he’s hot. Mom even said so and I was totally shocked because I have never heard her say anything like that before.
It’s one of those kind of days, you know when you just don’t seem to have any energy to do anything. Nothing but lay around the house all day that is. I guess it’s because of all the rain we have gotten lately. We really need it but boy has it drained me for some reason. I guess it might have something to do with overload. It’s been a tough year and spring break is just starting. I need to recharge a bit so I’m just going to be lazy today.
16 Mar 2009 /
family, health, life
Maybe it’s the spring coming but what ever it is, I’m happy to report that my mother is doing pretty good lately. She had a rough time over the winter months but the warming seems to be helping her. They say that a parents job is to worry about their children, well a mothers job anyway in my case, but what parents don’t realize is that their children worry about them too.
I can’t imagine my life without my mother and don’t care to either. That’s got to be the worst thing to happen to any child no matter what their age, to lose their mother. Well hopefully I won’t have to learn that anytime soon. It’s nice to see her smile more and not walking around like an old person. Spring is good!!!!
