I’ve been pulling weeds in my yard for the last few weeks, and the task is never ending. I have bind weed, stinging nettles, milk week, prickly pear, wandering ivy and a whole mess of other stuff I have yet to put a name to. My hope is to get most of them before they seed even more, but I’m afraid I’m failing. Every weekend we talk about spraying, and every payday we put it off for another week.
We expanded the garden this year, and since we now have Duke, who pays no attention to what he is running over and digging up, we needed a fence. Thankfully our neighbor, David, donated some posts to our cause, and we picked up a few cattle panels on sale. George worked Saturday evening digging post holes and setting posts in an attempt to get it done before the rain. Now if the weather cooperates we can till one last time and get the veggies in the ground.
I planted flowers this year, I haven’t done that in a long time. I had purchased hanging baskets for the front porch a few years ago thinking I would set them out, but they sat forgotten in the garage all this time. I’m so glad I found them and went ahead and purchased flowers for them because they look so nice and make me smile every time I see them. I also cleaned up the clutter on the patio and hung our shades. One of our chairs broke this spring. They had belonged to my dad, and when he and Pat got a new set, they gave them to me. I’m guessing they are about 20 years old now. I had painted them and purchased new cushions for them when we lived in Oak, so more than 10 years ago. I briefly debated on purchasing a new set, holy cow are they expensive. We will just make due with three chairs for now. I found cushions for them and I may even spray a new coat of paint on them.
The son flies out early tomorrow, (Wednesday). Two weeks was just not enough. If he wasn’t so far away, it wouldn’t pull on my heart so bad. With Robert, I can just get in the car and drive a few hours, but Jacob is so farrr away! Maybe someday I will get better at this military mom thing, but I doubt it! Robert is hoping to go to Germany for his next duty station. That’s awesome…for him! What about me! LOL! This new chapter of motherhood is rough, no worries though. I’ll get over it, or I won’t! It is what it is! X’s & O’s.
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