Arrrgh!!!

I started out to give you the blow-by-blow description of this past week, but I think I'll spare you. Elegante Mother is recuperating. I need to ride herd on her medications to be sure that she gets them on time, and in the proper amount, but as to the rest, we just need to wait it out. The doc says she will cough for about two more weeks, but that the cough is productive, and that's good!

Dear Husband must have finally passed a kidney stone. He seems to be feeling better. I've passed on to him all your good wishes. I think he's embarrassed that I've told the world he wasn't at his top form. It gives you a measure of the man that he continued to work while he was waiting for the stone to pass. What a Stoic!

I ran errands this morning. I planned my travels to minimize the miles. Hair cut, dry cleaning, returning clothing that didn't fit, dropping off goodies for Vacation Bible School, the bank, the post office, the grocery store and the pharmacy. I put things away when I got home, filled the bird feeders, and then dragged a hose around to water three of the gardens.

Either bunnies, or deer stripped an orangy-red lily of all it's leaves, and tested the leaves of the newly planted rudbeckia. I need to water what's left of them tomorrow, and put hardware cloth rings around them to save what's left. Darned livestock!

Ed, the mighty hunter, brought another bunny to the sidewalk this afternoon. This is his third junior bunny in a week or so, plus one chipmunk. I do not care for the mutilated body parts lying around on my doorstep! EYUCK!

I hope to have a quiet day tomorrow. I have the watering to do, but otherwise, I'd like to be inside, quilting. I'll squeeze in weeding and the last of the planting this week. Dear Husband suggested hamburgers for dinner, so that should be an easy fix.

The iris and peonies have finished blooming. Lilies are opening. I still have to move the dutch iris.

And so it goes......

I hope you're all having a good weekend!