Then I decided to stop by and check on my Dad and to ask him if wanted to come outside on this warm day...Instead I found he had been hallucinating and wasn’t sure where he was and he needed to use the toilet but wasn’t sure where to find it. I called Hubby in and asked him to help get him on the toilet while I went in and made his afternoon protein shake.
He did come outside and sat and read his book until Mom and granddaughter came home.
I am not sure why the hallucinations. Dad has had them off and on for several years now and if it was not a wee bit concerning they can be quite fascinating. Rarely if ever are they scary to him and he even recognizes that he has them. You can tell him he is hallucinating and he will accept it and often even agrees…I suspect that he may be a bit dehydrated. It is so hard to get enough fluid into him.
Other than that Dad is doing okay. He almost got himself complete up this morning but he lost his confidence making the bed to chair transfer and called for help. That is fine. When he is ready he will make the transfer by himself. We’ve been through this before.
One of the chores today was to get some of the wood mess cleaned up from where the firewood was cut last winter. Here it is July and we are just now doing spring chores. So much rain and then Hubby was gone for longer than we had intended. There is still some more cleaning but if we get some dry days we will get it done. We decided to not waste the old wood and the woodchips…so we made two hugelkulture beds. I wish I would have known about this concept back when we lived in the sandhills of NC!
I mowed a large section of the garden today. It is so sad, these wee little plants that have no hope of producing anything. Too much rain. The other day, the onion row at the top of the hill was standing in water!! I am just shocked that there are still so many plants still alive and not rotted off in the ground. But at this point, they have been through so much water stress that I have almost no hope of any produce. The lower end of the garden area is still standing in water.
The good news is that the row crops are beginning to look like they are beginning to grow. As late as last week, I was beginning to wonder if we would even have a crop this year. There are large areas of washed out soybeans but they have finally begun to put on a bit of height. This has been the worst I have ever seen it, it has been weeks of watching fields struggle to fight the water saturated soil.
Hubby just harvested another Bunny…I will be planting my fall cabbages in a few weeks and a thinned out rabbit population means more cabbages for us!! Or at least I can be hopeful the ground will dry out by then.....