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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Memorial Day Weekend

Its been a VERY crazy couple of weeks. We've had a bit of a scare with Dad - initially thinking his collapse at work was a stroke, only to discover it was not - however - his spinal cord had nearly been severed due to a disc and bone spurs at T7/8. This was something the doctors rarely see, so it took a few days to nail down the problem.

Dad had major surgery on Thursday (May 26th) to, hopefully, make this better. The last few post-surgery days have not been great for him, he is in a lot of pain, with two tubes in his chest helping to drain fluid. The surgery went in from the front and cut around toward his back, they had to separate ribs and do a lot of moving around of his insides. It looks like he may be a while in the hospital, life is never dull is it?

We went to the cemetery today to put flowers on McBride's and Baumgart's graves


It seems strange to only go to one cemetery after so many years of going to 6 or 7, when we would go to Idaho. Oh, we had a funny moment (which wasn't so funny AT the moment). Josh, wanting to get in the car pulled the lock open while he was standing on the outside - the alarm went off. We dont have a key fob for the Jeep and Gary starting the car didn't stop the alarm. We had to get under the hood and start pulling fuses to get it stopped. Then, it wouldn't let us start the car. I got on my phone and looked up how to disarm the alarm via google. Sadly it took us 45 minutes to do it!! HA!

I've started working on the stencil in our room.....


I've never done a stencil that has overlays - Its going to take a number of days to do, but thats ok, it will keep me busy when school gets out this week. I guess that is all for now!! Enjoy your weekend!

Monday, May 9, 2011

Gardening

Oh my goodness....we spent all weekend building square foot garden boxes and filling them. Everything hurts! Gary got an entire truck load of compost -we shoveled till we were blue!

 Dont they look cool!!




The compost we didnt use in the garden beds went up behind the pond - I don't know that I've ever moved that much dirt in my life! But the yard sure looks good - now I just have to hope that nothing freezes in the next couple of nights :)