Aunt Lenny would be proud

This is what a pallet of mulch looks like. The kid loading it was not very good at operating a forklift.

The mulch still needs raked smooth. I was warned off by a nest of red wasps that live in the drainspout. They were none to pleased at me working around their home!

We edged around the house.

This is where Mom's Container Garden will be. There's and underlayment of cardboard. Ought to keep weeds to a minimum.

Tuesday afternoon! Almost done!

The path out to the bench. It will have stepping stones. 

The Container Garden has been started. A storm blew in, so we stopped for the night.

All 75 bags of mulch were used. We need about a dozen more.

But not today.  My arms are so tired, I can barely lift them.

 

It's been a couple of months...

 I stayed in East Texas as long as I could, going home the last day of March. Tom and I were back by the 22 of April, helping paint Dad and Kathie's house.

Days before we came down... I discovered a tick on my left shoulder. It already had been there a few days, apparently.  Our painting trip was cut short and we went back to Oklahoma.  I had developed a target rash from the tick bite.Classic Lymes symptom.  Normally, it's a ten day course of doxycycline.

My test came back negative... but positive for  an older case of Lymes. Looking up what that meant... the bacteria had taken hold in my body. The new bite was like gasoline on a fire. Back in March when I  thought my headache, stiff neck, and flu symptoms were an allergic reaction to food dye (skittles shared on the anniversary of Bill's death)... it was a classic  Lymes reaction. 

I had weeks of exhaustion.  I went to Texas right after our newest  grandblessing was born! Felicity Sage Coder born May 13, 2023!

I did ten days of hyperbaric treatments... twice a day when I could. Back at home... exhaustion  reigned. I  could barely function.  Gradually I  began to get better. I'm taking something like 20 herbal supplements and vitamins!

(Memorial weekend I went to the ER with what felt like a heart attack... I assume. It was diagnosed as stress). Follow up has a referral to get checked by a cardiologist... which hasn't been scheduled yet.  They're  supposed to call me. Eventually. 

So I took Nickole to  her Counselor In Training  summer camp at Christ for The Nations. She will be there until July 20th... staying with Tommy and Ruby in Dallas. I decided a few days at my Mom's and at Kathie's was a good call.

Nickole and I drove down Thursday.  Friday, Mom and I took Nickole to Dallas. Mom and I visited Ikea while we were there.

 Saturday, I  textured the hall bathroom for Kathie. The special texture  roller was NOT working for us. So I did the entire room with a car wash sponge... my shoulder muscles are still screaming!

Sunday... Mom and I drove down and had a wonderful  visit with Chris.  That's  an all day endeavor! But we got home in daylight.... and weeded the flowerbed. 

Today... Mom and I went over to Kathie's. She had a Doctor appointment.  Mom and I painted the newly textured  bathroom.  Then we went and got a pallet (75 bags!) of mulch... 6 compressed bags of potting soil, and a bale of peat moss. It's  eleventy  billion degrees in  Texas today. We parked the truck full of mulch and such.. and came inside. 

I  put together an Island we got  at Ikea on Friday. Once it cooled off, we started unloading and placing mulch until rain started about dusk.

Tomorrow... Tuesday... I  need to unload and place the rest of the mulch. Did I mention it was 75 bags? Seventy. Five. Bags.

I will be channeling my inner Aunt Lennie.

We need to bury Ralph's  cremains in the next couple of days. Then home again to Oklahoma. 

I hope your  day is  blessed!