Well, today was certainly a productive day outside!
I decided to see how much I could get done on the old kitchen garden today, and ended up finishing the job! So I’m happy. :-)
When I came out of the house, I startled cats in all directions, including that new grey ball of fluff. A few of them even hung around while I moved things around the garden to prepare.
It’s just one, so far; the tuxedo. My daughter tells me he let her pet him yesterday, too.
Progress!!! :-D
I was out for much of the morning, taking my mother to the hospital she will be going for surgery at, tomorrow, for her pre-op blood work. We took her car, since it’s easier to get in and out of for her. When we needed to replace our old van, I very specifically chose a vehicle that would meet my husband’s mobility needs, which are pretty much the opposite of my mothers. :-D The trip went really well, and we got back early enough that we could go to church together, too.
When I got home, I noticed branches in the yard, so after lunch I went out to pick them up.
I got distracted by a Beep Beep, who really wanted attention! So I sat on the side of the concrete landing at the door and started petting her. Her tuxedo kitten was out and, at first, he didn’t want to go near me. Then, much to my surprise, he came over to snuzzle his mom as I pet her – and let me pet him, too!
Then they both went behind my back and rolled around on the concrete. I reached around to pet Beep Beep, and a kitten head pushed itself under my hand! It was so awesome.
I tried reaching my phone over my shoulder to get some pictures of them behind my back and actually got a good one of the tuxedo. :-D
I’m hoping, as the other kittens see him enjoying human attention, they’ll relax and start letting us pet them, too.
The grey tabby, however, still won’t go near me. I moved to a chair we have by the sun room, and he wouldn’t even go past to get to the food bowls.
The teeny tabby used to come close and even let me touch, sometimes, but these days, he is acting more skittish for some reason. He will, at least, go past me to get to the food.
His big brother, on the other hand, almost did, but when he heard me shift on the chair, he ran off again.
He has such a lion-like appearance doesn’t he? :-D
I even caught a glimpse of one of the calicos, dashing away.
I’m so happy. I got some kitten therapy! :-D
The Re-Farmer
While tending the fire pit, burning away the rhizomes I’d pulled up earlier, I got to watch a lovely sunset.
The photo does not do it justice. It was as if the sky on the horizon was on fire!
I went over to the outer fence line (the cow fence. ;-) ) to get this shot, so there would be fewer trees blocking the sunset.
We had another hot and muggy day today, so I didn’t plan on doing any manual labour in the trees today. Which worked to be a good thing, since my husband was able to reschedule a medical appointment from next week to today, so he could get updated prescriptions, and then fill them. He was able to get an updated prescription for a CPAP as well. He’s been without for almost a week, now. Interestingly, after that first night without, he’s actually been breathing quite a bit in his sleep. Granted, the incline of the hospital bed helps, but it’s no where near as bad as it was before he finally got the sleep apnea diagnosis. Back then, he spent more time not breathing, than breathing, and had 0 REM sleep. His case was so extreme, the sleep researcher that had his file, who was also a university professor, asked permission to use the test results and video for his classes, and his data for future text books. In all his years as a sleep researcher, he’d never encountered a case as severe before! So any improvement is a good thing.
This province does things differently when it comes to CPAPs, which is covered by the medicare system with a deductible. We had to explain to the doctor that we were intending to just get a new one from cpap.com In the end, it’s cheaper that way. Even with the dollar difference and before insurance coverage (we have to pay in full ourselves, first, then submit the receipt). It’s amazing how incredibly more expensive the machines and supplies are, when purchasing them from Canadian suppliers! It makes no sense! So by doing it this way, we are not only saving money for ourselves, but for our insurance company, too. Also, since the machine we plan to get is an adjustable type, he doesn’t have to go through new testing to work out the settings, so it’ll probably be faster, too. In the long term, though, it would be good to get him tested again, and see if he would be eligible for a VPAP (variable pressure, rather than continuous pressure) instead. That is still covered by the system 100% here, too. That will be discussed with the doctor another time. The most important thing is getting a new machine quickly. Sleep apnea is not something to take lightly!
The Re-Farmer
Yesterday, after picking my daughter up from work, the girls and I went straight to visit my awesome, amazing older brother and his wife for the evening.
The storm warnings had returned, but the skies were clear at the time, if incredibly windy all day. The winds died down enough that we were able to eat outside, then have a fire going to toast marshmallows. It was so wonderful to just sit outside together, talking and enjoying each others’ company. I just wish my husband had been able to come out, too, but if he had, he would never have been able to handle the length of the visit.
Chronic pain really sucks.
While we were outside, we did see some pretty dramatic skies!
The clouds were moving fast, so we saw all sorts of interesting shapes passing by. When it first started to rain, though, the sky above us was clear! :-D After a while, though, it started to come down a bit harder, so we packed up and went in. By then it was late enough to start heading home, which was about an hour and a half’s drive.
While we were away, my husband sent us some updates to let us know it was coming down pretty hard at home. It was all done by the time we made the drive, but as soon as we turned off the highway onto the gravel road, we drove through a bit patch where the road was covered with twigs and branches from someone’s willow. Some smaller trees along the road were downed. (Interestingly, I later found out the my husband’s dead CPAP machine, which he has left plugged in, actually flickered to life during the storm. Just a flicker. Odd.)
When we got home, we decided to park in the yard by the house, instead of the garage. As I drove in, the first thing I saw in my headlights was a branch on the ground. So while the girls brought things into the house, I grabbed a flashlight and did a circuit around the house. Nothing major, but it was clear it was going to be another day needing a wheelbarrow to clear up everything that came down.
Then this morning, as I glance out the north facing bedroom window, I see this.
One of the apple trees had come down, too.
I don’t think this one was doing very well this year. It never really bloomed, and I couldn’t see any apples on it when I checked it out. Most of it had already been pruned away, before we moved out here. I’m not surprised that this one came down. I’m more surprised it was the only one.
Thanks to my brother, though, I have chain oil for my birthday gift – summer and winter oil, even, and enough to last a very long time! – so later today I will break it down and haul away the pieces. When making plans to visit, I’d asked about what stores were near their place, after entertaining them about why I needed more oil so quickly (see link above), and my brother was sweet enough to pick some up before we got out there. :-) That meant we didn’t have to rush to any stores before they closed, and could go straight to visiting.
I have awesome family!
Since it’s an apple tree, I will keep the pieces separate, so I can use the wood for crafting purposes. :-)
I will be sticking to just the necessary clean up for today, though, since I do try to keep Sunday as a day of rest, even if we haven’t found a church yet out here. There will be more than enough to catch up on, later! Things are supposed to cool down for the next week, so I’m hoping to be able to continue clearing out the rest of the maple grove and not risk heat stroke! :-D
The Re-Farmer
After dropping my daughter off at work this morning, I went by the beach and took a bit of a walk.
I was able to catch a whole lot of seagulls, just as they were taking off!
This morning, our power was hooked up to the garage and barn. Yay!
In order to detach the existing line from the old pole, the old pole had to be pushed down.
Despite being broken already, it was not easy to do! That core was still hanging on pretty hard.
That platform that broke off the top of the pole once held a bird house. My late brother built the birdhouse, then scrambled up the pole to install it, many years ago. We didn’t have a ladder tall enough to reach all the way, so he climbed the pole itself for the top few feet – somehow bringing the bird house and the tools he needed at the same time!
The new pole is even taller, so no normal vehicle going under there will ever get caught! And there’s almost no sag in the middle at all, either.
Then the power got hooked up to the barn, which meant new line from the main pole to a secondary pole, then to the barn.
So happy it’s finally done!
Unfortunately, there seems to have been an unexpected victim of the power being shut off twice while the work was done.
My husband’s CPAP no longer works.
It wasn’t on while the work was being done, but there is still power going to it. Perhaps a fuse got blown? No matter. It’s dead. And he just got replacement hose, nose piece and filters for it!
Thankfully, now that my husband is sleeping on a hospital bed, he can adjust it to sleep in an upright position; he should be able to breath that way until we can replace the CPAP. We do have insurance that covers most of the cost, but we’d have to buy it first, then send in a receipt. So that will have to wait a couple of weeks!
*sigh*
The Re-Farmer
We have ourselves another scorcher today. I had hoped to mow the inner yard today, but I don’t want to risk the riding mower’s motor overheating in these temperatures. So it will wait. I was also thinking of doing the last bit of the clean up I had started doing around the storage house yesterday, stopping when it got just too hot to be working outside, but nope. Not gonna happen in this heat!
Despite the heat, both cats are very cuddly. DaBoy spends his nights upstairs, taking over the bottom of one of the girls’ beds. You’d think, with his fur coat, the last thing he’d want to do is be in the hottest part of the house, snuggling up to warm feet, but he does.
At least his mom is doing it in the coolest room in the house; the master bedroom.
She was using my ankle and foot as a pillow.
Being the suck that I am, I was “trapped” for some time by the adorable fur ball.
My husband has been having a very bad pain day today, so he asked me to go into town to pick up something to help.
It’s a good thing he did. Otherwise, we would not have known until we were heading out for his medical appointment tomorrow, that we were locked in.
My younger daughter came along with me, and when the girls are along for the ride, they typically go ahead to the gate to unlock and open it while I get the van and drive through, then they lock it up again. This time, I drive up to the gate, and she’s still struggling with the gate.
The lock is a combination lock; the only thing we had handy at the time my mother asked us to start locking the gate. Of the 4 tumblers, three weren’t turning.
We tried using tools. We tried oiling it. Nothing. Those tumblers would not move.
Thankfully, we have another driveway, and that gate has a key lock on it.
This other driveway is not normally used. I’ve mowed a path to it, because we still need to rebuild the barbed wire gate and just haven’t gotten around to it. Right now, the lock and chain are the only thing keeping it upright and closed. It’s a rough drive to the gate, the the driveway itself is overgrown. I knew the path to the gate was clear, because I’d just mowed it, but we double checked the driveway itself to make sure there was nothing that would blow a tire on us or something. It was good.
So when we got to town, our first stop was at a hardware store. I picked up a new key lock, plus heavier duty bolt cutters. It was funny as we went to pay for them. The cashier joked about using the bolt cutters to cut a lock, then replacing it with a new one. We told her that yes, that’s exactly what we were doing! Then we explained that our lock was a combination lock, and the tumblers weren’t turning. I added in, “Either the weather got to it, or someone tampered with it.”
Her response was, someone probably tampered with it. When I commented that we live in the middle of nowhere, she just nodded and said, yeah; that’s where it’s most likely. Then she told us about her brother, who has a trailer out in the sticks, and someone had broken into his locked gate and stole a quad.
An unfortunately reality of living in the sticks. You’d think it would be safer, but people know that chances of getting caught are much lower, and the police are at least half and hour away.
I couldn’t see any sign of tampering on our lock, but unfortunately, I can’t rule it out. For it to suddenly stop working like this, it actually seems more likely to be the cause than weather.
After getting the new lock and bolt cutters, we finished our errands, then did a bit of quick Pokemon Go. We paused to battle a gym at the beach, sitting outside at a picnic table as we played. Oh, what a lovely breeze off the water!
The temperatures were 28C, with the humidex putting it at 32C, but the lake it still quite cool, and it made for such a pleasant time outside.
We didn’t stay for long, though. Once at home, we cut the broken lock off and put on the new one. I’m going to have to cut copies of the key, so we all have one, plus an extra in the house. I’ve kept the old lock and will see if I can find a way to open it up and see why it stopped working.
We did stop at the post office on the way home, and found a nice little surprise. We got our reimbursement for our vehicle registration in our previous province. It was enough to cover the cost of the bolt cutters, at least. :-)
For now, we keep cool inside. Looking around in the basement, I found an oscillating fan that actually works, though it needs a major cleaning. That’s what I’ll be working on, next.
While having lunch with my brother and his wife on the weekend, I found out about something I had been wondering. In the old part basement, at the window that we used to throw wood through, is a platform. I had no idea why it was there. It turns out my brother built it to hold a fan. There is a screen to replace the window that’s there now, and the fan was used for air circulation to help keep the house cool. The basement doors would be left open to help cool the house down, but we can’t do that until we’ve cleaned up the new part basement so it’s safe if the cats get down there. We talked about getting a cheap screen door in the short term, to keep the cats out until we can do that. The door is a standard size, so we could actually do that. Something to keep in mind!
My brother described the fan he had on the platform, and none of us could remember seeing it, so I went looking around today. Which is why I found the oscillating fan.
No sign of the fan he’d built the platform for. Like so many other things, it has gone missing. Another thing that came up in conversation, since I’d mentioned my search for a pitchfork in the past, is that there had been about 6 or 8 pitchforks stored in the barn. There is no sign of them, now.
It’s a good thing we are living here now. Too many things disappeared while this place was empty. :-(
The Re-Farmer
With today’s heat (we hit 32C today, and it stayed there for hours), I wasn’t able to get any work done in the trees and bushes until past 8pm! Even then, it was about 28C when I first started. As I write this, we’ve dropped to 25C, so it’s still quite warm.
I continued to work in the row of old lilacs I had been working on last, and I think I’m pretty much done now. By the time I stopped, it was too dark to take pictures. There is still clean up to do; the piles of what I cut and pulled away need to be cleared out of the yard, and the ground needs to be raked up of the many, many twigs and who knows what is in among the dead leaves. I wasn’t too surprised to find the odd piece of garbage at the based of trees. Things blow in from all over, and once caught, no one would have seen them to clear them out. The oddest thing I found, though, was the tray from a Hungry Man dinner. My dad loved his Hungry Man dinners! But how did a tray end up buried in leaves in the bushes? It’s not the first one I’ve found, either. I found one buried in the tall grass when I was mowing along the driveway. I can’t even suggest they came from the pile outside the yard that was being used as a garbage dump, because of how far it is, and the face that there are rows of trees and fences in between.
After this section, I will start working my way through the maple grove again. I’ll be getting into clearing some big stuff in there!
But not tomorrow.
Tomorrow, the girls and I are planning on a day trip to the city to see some movies, to celebrate my younger daughter’s birthday – and to be in air conditioning! Unfortunately, it’s going to be too long of a day for my husband to join us. :-( We considered using the time for him to visit his dad, but that would just make a long day for both of them!
When we lived in the area back in 2004, we didn’t think twice about hopping in the car and driving to the city just to see a movie. My husband used to commute to the city every weekday. Now, just getting outside is an accomplishment for him. I had hoped that living out here would help him with getting outside more, but the pain just isn’t in control enough for him to manage.
Which really sucks.
The Re-Farmer
Today was very much an outdoors day!
Thanks to the AWESOME riding mower my brother and his wife gave us, I was able to finish mowing the yard yesterday. Which means that one of the goals of the day was to get out the weed trimmer to clear areas the mower can’t get close to.
A loud and messy job, so I waited until after our afternoon appointment with someone from the home care department. This was a follow up on the last visit, with a different person. So while we waited for her to arrive, I started working on cleaning up the flower bed on the west side of the house.
At one end of the flower bed, there is an unusual variety of lilac; it’s bushier, has tiny leaves, and masses of sprays with tiny flower buds right now; it’s blooming period seems quite a bit later than the other lilacs, which are near the end of their blooming period.
One of the problems with it is that there is a maple tree growing out the middle of it.
Plus, lots of dead branches.
So I started cleaning away dead branches and cutting away the many suckers at the base, just to get at the maple. Where I found this.
This is the trunk of the maple tree (which would have been self-sown), bent around a lilac stem.
I had to cut away more of the lilac before I could take out the maple, which had to be done in sections, due to the size.
It was very awkward work. The lilac stems are surprisingly long and bendy, and many were wrapped around each other. So much so, I found myself wondering if someone hadn’t done it deliberately at some point; perhaps they were overhanging the space between the house and the flower bed or something.
Once the maple was out, I could see the damage it did to the lilac.
I’d already had to cut away a branch of that stem, and I’m not sure if I’ll have to cut the rest of it away. Without being regularly pruned, the stems are so long that, without the dead and dying branches (and the maple tree) holding them up, they’re just sort of… flopping.
It was while I was working on this, that the woman from home care arrived.
While she was here, she went over her form questions, double checking my husband’s mobility needs and what we’ve got around the house. She even took a look at our bathroom (higher toilet, bath chair, lots of arm bars in the tub/shower, and we made sure to bring the special hand held shower with us when we moved; you can shut the water off at the handle, rather than at the wall, and it has an extra long hose). She asked about how he finds raising his legs over the side of the tub, and brought up that, if he ever needs it, there is a transfer chair available. Which we already have, as my father needed one, and it’s still quite new.
She checked out the hospital bed as well, confirming that my husband is now able to get in and out of bed without losing his balance. He’s really enjoying that thing, and finding it very comfortable to sleep on, too.
She also went through her list, asking about cooking, shopping, laundry, etc. If the girls and I were not around to take care of this stuff, he would be able to get home care to come in to help. As things stand now, it isn’t needed.
Which brought us to the only thing that we are hoping to be able to get; a ramp, to make it easier for my husband to get in and out of the house with his wheeled walker. One of the things we learned is that, if we were to qualify for a ramp, we would need to get a contractor to give us a quote to pass on to them. Qualifying for funding is another issue. I had found out about the program online and read that there is an income cut off that can change, so they said to contact to find out what it is. I’d sent an email and finally got a response.
Based on that, my husband’s disability payments put him at too high of an income to qualify. :-/
She’s still going to see if there are other programs available, but if we can just get someone to assess the location for us, and give us the information we need, then we will have something to go on to get it done ourselves, at some point.
So that meeting went well.
After she left, I headed back out to work on the yard. I just cleaned up the trimmings I’d cut down earlier, then got out the weed trimmer – and the two 100 ft extension cords we’d been using to get power to the garage. With those, I can reach pretty much anywhere in the yard.
While I worked on that, the girls cleared out the large pile of branches I’d cleared away from the maple grove. The dead stuff went to the piles by the fire pit, but most of it was green. The green wood pile by the fire pit is already getting big, so they decided to add to the pile I’d started outside the yard, when I cleared the back of the garage.
I didn’t think to take photos before I started with the weed trimmer in some areas. After going around the house, I went around the east yard, including clearing a path to the Saskatoon bushes. When I started working on the south west yard, I was finally able to go around parts of the “spare” house in the yard (I have no idea what my mother has in mind for that building; I did ask her, but the only answer I got was that it’s for storage. !! It was originally intended to be moved to one of the other quarter sections, for one of my brothers to use as a home), and the south fence line. There had been a single mowed pathway leading to around the back of the other house. There are several curved rows of spindly trees, planted close together. I’d asked my mom about them, and she told me she planted them to be a “living fence.”
Personally, I’d like to get rid of them, as it’s really not a good place for trees. I don’t think she really thought about what they will be like, at full size.
And that doesn’t even include the two rows of fully grown trees immediately behind the other house.
Very little of the area is mowable, and no one has tried to clear in between the trees, at all. So I started clearing parts of it with the weed trimmer. There isn’t much I can do behind the other house, until we clear away the junk and fallen branches, and random cinder blocks. :-/ It’s a big job, and I wasn’t able to finish it today. Weather willing, I’ll continue tomorrow.
Once done the yard work for the day, I decided we needed to have another cookout. This time, though, I did baked potatoes.
I will post about those, separately. :-D
My husband was even able to come out and join us for a little while. Not long enough for the potatoes of finish, unfortunately, but even a little bit is good. :-)
After the fire was no longer needed to cook food, my younger daughter and I took advantage of it and started adding more from the clean up pile. Unfortunately, we seem to be adding to it much faster than we’ll be able to use it for fire pit fuel! :-D
Since we were tending the fire, anyway, we also took turns cutting down some of the logs to fire pit size lengths.
We’re going to be set for wood for a good, long time!
We’ll just have to find lots of reasons to get the fire pit going, I guess. :-D
The Re-Farmer
We had predictions for a series of thunderstorms throughout the day, starting at noon.
It didn’t quite work out that way. At least not in our area. The first rainfall (I won’t even call it a thunderstorm, though there was some thunder) didn’t start until late afternoon/early evening.
Which worked out well for us, since today was when one of my husband’s medical appointments was rescheduled to. We left early enough to have lunch in town. Ooooohhh… a date! His appointment was for an hour, though, so it did make things a lot longer than was probably good for him. Especially after pushing himself so much for the family dinner in the city on Sunday, which he would not have recovered from quite yet. The specialist he was seeing cut the appointment a bit short, which was a good thing. We still had to stop at the pharmacy, grocery store and post office on the way home, too. My husband stayed in the van, with the AC going, by that point. No sense in dragging the walker out for quick stops.
It’s been a hot and muggy day today; the main floor manages to stay pretty cool, but the upstairs gets really hot. Just like, in the winter, it got really cold! There isn’t even anything we could do about it. Even if we got, say, an air conditioner, there aren’t enough grounded outlets to plug it in.
When the rains did come, it swept through in short bursts, with one big downpour. We even lost our internet for a bit, which is something we can expect any time there’s more severe weather. At least until we can get about 14 feet cut from the tops of the trees in the south yard.
It’s pretty amazing, how different things are looking right now!
This was our west yard, a month ago.
This is what it looks like now.
So much green!
We needed this so much!
After taking the above photo, I had some issues coming back into the house.
Mom and son, with their noses at the bottom of the door, waiting for me to come back! :-D
The good thing is, when I open the door, they aren’t really all the interested in going outside. They just become a tripping hazard. ;-)
At about 10pm, we’re still at 21C, and its expected to cool down only a few degrees as we get more rain overnight. More thunderstorms are expected tomorrow evening.
I do wish I’d been able to mow the lawn before the rains returned.
Ah, well. At least the girls were able to get most of the eaves troughs cleaned.
My mother had mentioned to me that there was a hooked tool somewhere around that allowed for cleaning the eaves from ground level, though she said a hose was still needed to finish the cleaning. She told me where she thought it was, but the only things there are long handled pruning tools (that I look forward to making use of!). I mentioned it to my older brother and he knew exactly what she was talking about. He’d bought it for my parents! He said it was in the sun room.
So that’s what that thing was! I’d seen it, tucked into a corner, and was wondering.
Turns out that it’s a hose attachment. My brother had demonstrated to my parents how to use it, but he didn’t think they ever did. This was before my mom moved to the senior’s centre, so we’re talking quite a few years ago!
It came in very handy.
It couldn’t clean out the eaves troughs on its own, though. My younger daughter got up on the ladder with a stick to clear out some of the eaves troughs out, then got onto the new part roof through the 2nd floor window to clear the others, while my older daughter used the hose attachment to finish clearing everything away with water.
Thankfully, we do have some very long hose.
There’s still one corner on the north side of the house that needs to be done, but that will have to wait until we get another break in the weather.
With how much rain we’ve been having, I am sure the fire bans can finally be lifted, and I hope the fires around the province have been thoroughly rained on!
We’re basically getting the sort of weather we were expecting last month. Which I suppose makes sense, since the winter weather came in about a month behind, too.
As long as the shift keeps matching all year, it should work out for the farmers and gardeners.
The Re-Farmer
Early this morning, I saw a pair of deer coming into the feeding area. Unfortunately, because we haven’t had them coming by in the last while, I hadn’t put any feed out the night before, so there wasn’t much there for them. Still, I got a few pictures, even through the reflections in the window. :-)
They are both looking pretty rough around the edges! I do think they’ve been here before.
Notice the little antler buds on the deer in the foreground? :-)
The female has some nicks out of an ear, and it looks like some scarring on her snout, too.
Aside from the missing patches of fur on the male that can be seen in the first photo, he’s looking pretty thin, too!
Just before I went to put more feed out tonight, I spotted a single deer through our bedroom window, making its way through the maple grove to the feeding area. The noise of me going outside would have scared it off, though. I hope it comes back later. :-)
This morning, my husband’s hospital bed was supposed to be delivered between 10 and 11 pm. So this morning, we dismantled our king size bed, which has been resting on a pair of queen box springs until we could get a proper bed frame again. The mattress just got leaned on the wall at first, and the box springs went into the dining room at first. Then I went out to feed the cats.
Beep Beep stood up to say hello! :-D
Then, with the help of one of the girls, the box springs got moved outside, just to lean on a tree until they could be taken to the shed.
The outside cats were very curious about this!
Well, hello, again, Beep Beep!
I had to head out at 11:30. My mother registered her vehicle, effective this morning, so I drove her car out to meet my brother at her place, as a surprise. I was going to accompany them for a medical appointment in the city, which was also a surprise.
It turns out my mother doesn’t like surprises.
Ah, well.
It was a long and draining day for all, but we got the information we needed, then took the time to explain it again to my mother on the way back. My brother, sweetheart that he is, drove me home before driving the 1 1/2 hours back to his place. It was a VERY long day for him!
While I was gone, much to my surprise, someone from the electric company came out to check the power lines! I was told they’d have someone out within 2 weeks. I wasn’t expecting someone the very next day! :-D I will have to phone them again to find out what their assessment was, since not a lot of information was shared while the guy was here and my daughters were buy hauling box springs to the shed and cleaning up the yard.
As for the hospital bed, it did finally get delivered and set up, several hours later than expected. Once that was done, my daughters got the king size mattress out – I have no idea where we’re going to store that thing! – then set up the spare twin bed up for me. I had had other plans for it – plans that can’t be done with the king size bed – but… oh, well. Thankfully, the master bedroom is quite big, and there’s more than enough room. I hope it works out better for my husband. At least he won’t be losing his balance trying to get in and out of bed anymore, since he can adjust the height to exactly where he needs it.
All in all, I’m really happy about how quick things got followed through on, both for the bed, and with the electric company.
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 