First, I want to thank you all for the kind comments. I managed to read through them this afternoon. I didn't try to respond to each comment but your words mean a lot to me. You may have noticed that there were a couple of people who were razzing me weekly about not showing pictures of Rita or talking about her and she felt like we weren't giving Rita enough attention. She was relentless. I ...
A New Start to Honor Rita
Thank you all for the comments. I haven't read them. Yesterday I was a wimp all day. I went over to a neighbor's yesterday evening to share some of my veggies I had started from seeds. She shares hers with me every year. It seems that the seeds I started this year either ALL germinated and grew like crazy or none of them ever sprouted. I had to buy bell pepper and jalapeno pepper plants but I had ...
Rita
This is a sad post but I feel like many of you have followed us on the journey with Rita and I wanted to share this. A couple of weeks ago, she started walking in circles . . for 15 or 20 minutes, almost spinning in circles. I would hold her and think maybe she had gotten herself dizzy and just didn't know how to "fix" it. She's never liked to be held and within a couple of minutes, if that ...
Weather
Dang . . my recent posts are entitled "lightning" and "weather". We watched the tornadoes cross Oklahoma tonight and I'm praying for my Oklahoma friends. If you're reading this, please check in when you can. My guess is that those of you in the worst hit areas probably don't have power or cell phone service but always know, wherever you are, if you're having a natural disaster and it's on the ...
Lightning
Last night, it was maybe 9 or 9:30 p.m. In the distance, we heard thunder. It wasn't loud. It didn't sound angry. Vince said "We'd better get the dogs out before it starts raining again." I took Oscar out. Then Vince took Rita out and I got Cooper's harness and was on my way out with him. Vince had just stepped back onto the patio and I was just stepping from the garage onto the patio and y'all . ...
Rain!
I had mentioned that it was going to rain yesterday, today, Friday, Saturday AND Sunday. Yesterday it started raining before I was ready . . bad Mother Nature! I ran out, in the rain, a added blood meal to the garlic and before I had even finished, the rain stopped. That was it for yesterday's rain. The sun came out and it was a beautiful day. We knew there was going to be a lot of rain today and ...