YellowTansy of Bliss

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It was a beautiful day--sunny and 80 degrees. It was like the first day of summer. I spent another hour or so working in the yard before it got too hot. I got really tired again, but I had taken some water out with me, and I tried to stay out of the sun. I cut up and bagged all the thorny sticks that the Sparrowhawk pruned off the rose bushes, and I stripped off the ivy that was trying to climb up the two Japanese pine trees. I also ripped up some more ivy and dug up some thistles. Thistles and ivy are my bane at the moment. In the afternoon, we went and sat by the lake. I think it was the first time this year. The tiny leaves of the river birch where I like to sit had grown enough to provide a pleasant shade, and the lake was beautiful. An old Labrador waded around and around in the water, wagging his tail the whole time. He was a happy dog.

This was the big day for my mother to go to the Wound Care clinic with the Duchess. When I called her tonight, she said they had just gotten back to her place--at 7:30! It seems that she still didn't get the day right, so when the Duchess arrived, she wasn't ready and they were late for their appointment. She is supposed to elevate her leg for one hour, twice a day! I really wonder if they'll be able to make that one stick. But it must be very important for healing, or they wouldn't have given those directions. Other than those bits of information, I could not communicate. She wasn't making any sense, and she couldn't hear what I said. I think she was trying to eat her dinner at the same time, and I could hear the Duchess still there in the background, instructing the staff. So I said goodnight. It's kind of an anticlimax to something I was very anxious about, but I'm sure the Duchess will tell me about it later.

Comments

[siriosa]

hugs to you, dear one. this moment here. you can handle just this one, and it's the only one you need to.

this is hard. you're doing fine. please be kind and gentle with yourself.