Last Saturday, did not go as smoothly or as productively as I had intended. Several different factors involved with that. But I suspect it was mostly due to my changing Lyme killers and feeling a bit distracted from the tasks at hand. With the other distracting factors going on I only managed to get about less than half of what I intended done.
What I did accomplish was wonderful!! I cleaned the dining room shelves off and pushed more stuff out the door and got the floors cleaned…and the pathways got wider. So things felt cleaner and wider when I went to bed.
I went to bed though on Saturday night with some concern over my dad. The long and the short of that story is that he is back in the hospital as I type. A couple of complications…first and foremost he was again dehydrated. This makes twice inside of three months so we are going to have to start being proactive with the fluids…i.e. actively monitoring his fluid intake and I think probably we need to again start actively working at making sure he gets fed more regularly. For over two years, we delivered him a lunch every day, until sometime this past year he stopped eating lunch, for some reason or other, and so we stopped delivering the lunch. (Mom, does not eat lunch and doesn’t understand why other people do…but then often Mom does not eat breakfast until very late in the day.)
On Sunday we basically woke up to “we are taking Grandpa to the ER” thinking he might be having renal failure.…Not knowing if we needed to load up and head north, we decided that we needed to have a “get the ox out of the ditch day” and instead of resting on the Lord’s Day, we spent some time organizing our lives a bit here, in the event that we had to leave at the drop of a hat. By the end of the day, it appeared that Dad was probably going to be okay….
So here it is Monday morning, we are feeling tired but have a plan of action before us. The temperatures are going to warm up again this week…to almost unpleasant, the oaks are in bloom, the oranges blossoms are almost to that putrid smell, and anything at all that you leave sitting out, i.e. vehicle, will be covered with bee poop due to being parked next to an orange grove.
After seeing almost NO bees last summer in our region up north, I am not complaining about the bees. I rejoice at seeing them. The bee reduction in this country is frightening. I believe one reason I had such a horrible gardening year last season was partly due to a lack of pollinators. The ecology of food is not that they make it at the grocery store. Bees are essential to food production and we are already at the point where everyone needs to be considering a small colony in order to try and bring the overall world population of bees back up. I was fascinated last year doing some research on bees…to learn that roof top hives in NYC are not uncommon.
Speaking of bee hives. We have a colony that lives in a crack at the end of our pool house. No fear that we are going to go in and steal their honey.
Well, that was far afield and so I must hurry and be as well…I have a good deal to accomplish today, I got a good night’s sleep and I think I feel well enough to accomplish most of what is in front of me this day.