This is my neighbor's garden. Mine never looks remotely this good. He does not experiment. Same veggies, planted the same time, and the same very good results. he simply does not allow weeds
sweet garden. with all the rain that we have gotten in the past month and a half..mine drowned. It was growing and growing and then it drowned so I will start over with it hopefully over the weekend. I need to pick blueberries and blackberries to make pies and to make jellies and jams. So hopefully I can get everything done this weekend. Not to mention, David has started another project and it has taken up the last month of his time and it is still not completed. He built a 16f x 16 foot deck and then put a drop deck next to it that is 8 x 16 foot deck so that he will have a place to put his grill and his mini bar. And now he is wanting to put a roof on it. So that has been a booger to complete. Take care of you and Ms. Miriam.
You get a lot harder rain than we do. This rain has delighted the garden. If the farmers got their crops in and I think most did, they are pretty happy. Corn, however, likes heat, and we grow a LOT of seed corn around here.
This blog began as a spot to vent about my life with Miriam and her time with Alzheimer's disease.
She was diagnosed in '99 and her decline has been quite slow. In fact some of our best years of our long marriage have been these recent years.
Alzherimer's, at least her version is a disease of waiting. One shoe drops and it can be a very long time before the other one drops.
So life goes on.
At the beginning of this blog I told the story of our courtship and marriage, about out family and our personal journey with this disease. The part that scares the most is the anticipation as the disease slowly progresses.
So, I will touch on that subject from time to time, but the entries will tend toward comments on life. I'll leave politics and religion for others to worry about, not that I don't have strong opinions!
I have my hands full just looking after my wonderful Miriam.
We met when we were 6, began dating at 15 and have been together since. We will have our 56th anniversary this June.
We have four wonderful daughters. Smart, independent, awesome. They have given us 7 grandsons and 4 granddaughters. None of them are little any more. The oldest is 28 and married, the youngest is 14.
Until this last fall we lived in a hosue I designed and built in the '70's and it is pretty weird and wild, but very comfortable. Last summer the girls came to the conclusion that I really did need help dealing with Miriam. Now we live on a couple acres with daughter 1.
Life has been good. There is not much I would do different even if I could. We are rich beyond belief but chronically short of cash!
And, unless stated otherwise all the photographs are mine.
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sweet garden. with all the rain that we have gotten in the past month and a half..mine drowned. It was growing and growing and then it drowned so I will start over with it hopefully over the weekend. I need to pick blueberries and blackberries to make pies and to make jellies and jams. So hopefully I can get everything done this weekend. Not to mention, David has started another project and it has taken up the last month of his time and it is still not completed. He built a 16f x 16 foot deck and then put a drop deck next to it that is 8 x 16 foot deck so that he will have a place to put his grill and his mini bar. And now he is wanting to put a roof on it. So that has been a booger to complete. Take care of you and Ms. Miriam.
You get a lot harder rain than we do. This rain has delighted the garden. If the farmers got their crops in and I think most did, they are pretty happy. Corn, however, likes heat, and we grow a LOT of seed corn around here.
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