With My Mom

My weekends have been with my mom, for the most part. I've been heading down there right after work on Saturday and tomorrow, Friday, I may go there and back again, depending on when they're planning on transferring her to Victoria. There's a long term acute care facility there, where she can be taken care of more...precisely...than at the nursing home in her home town. It's farther for me to travel and about 45 minutes away from anywhere the family lives, but she'll get better care there.. and we'll manage.

My sister is still readying her new house to live in. It was ... to be generous.. a "fixer upper". Once a showcase of the latest and greatest ...of the 1960's and 70's.. it's fallen on some hard times and a lot needs to be done. There's a reason she got it at a sale price. Still, she's fortunate in her friends. They're contractors and are working hard to get things livable. The yard needs a lot of work too, but I'm going to have to wait on that, to convince her that 1) there are, indeed, plants that even she can't kill and 2) it would be a good thing to have them in her yard.

Sigh.

Meanwhile, I'm getting together some things that I'll be traveling with to Victoria and back. I'm going to invest in something like an electric kettle (like this one) so that I won't be a bother to the staff late at night when a cup of tea, coffee or even some instant soup would be nice. I've got some good ice chests, so that I can bring my own food in, so that I'm not eating junk. I'll be eating cold..but it won't be junk. Well, okay, maybe a little junk. Stress eating is endemic in my family, and I've got it full blast.

I may be trying to take some time off from work, not that I can really afford to, so that I can be with my mom. Just about everyone else has small children at home (even my sister) and...well... I don't. No, I won't be there full time. I have tutoring clients that I can't leave, or I'll have no income at all except for my pension.. and that ain't much. 'Pup's job is steady and he's bringing home good money, but we have debts to pay, not the least of which are two car notes.

Garden blogging will be light-ish.. but I've got some ongoing projects which will be the subject of some future posts. I've just been offered a book to review (my first!) and I've a peach tree to report on, that's going great guns.

Oh, and today's Garden Blogger's Bloom Day.. next post!