Busy Update

June 7th - Tuesday Sunny and warm 85 degrees

After several long distant phone calls from family and friends to check on us Lou and I thought we had better get a post to the blog. We are indeed alright, just busy.

We have had four days in a row without rain and we have taken full advantage of those four days. Prior to those days, we have worked outside between the showers. We have had tornadoes very close to us, in fact, one evening, I grabbed Lou's hand and said we are going to Krista's house and going to her cellar, and he thought I was being a little over cautious; however, I have been through three tornadoes and have a great deal of respect for them, so he humored me and we took Estee and we were off. We were safe at that point, the storm has passed over us and we just experienced an evening without power and gave thanks that we did not experience the damage that many of our neighbors had.

Lou's daughter that lives in Owego has extensive damage to her home and her daughter lost her car from fallen trees. Thankfully no one was injured.

The pictures that I have posted shows some of the things that we have been up to since our return from Florida. We have had to make repairs to our fence and in fact we took part of it down, to make mowing much easier for all of us. We have our herb garden planted and finally were able to get the rest of our garden planted and our plants set out. We are still trying to get our yard back into shape and that is going to take several more cuttings before it will look good again. We still need to thatch and roll it, and we have the men scheduled to to the edging and mulching in mid-June and then things should look as they should.

The first rose bloomed today and I still don't have all of them fertilized, so guess I will wait now until after they bloom. The Japanese Iris are just beginning to bloom and are very full and beautiful. I was able to get the sidewalks and both decks stained before it started to rain again.

Lou and I attended a birthday party for his sister, Lenore that turned 80 on Saturday, all of her children were able to be there with the exception of one son, I had to leave early to attend Krista's baby shower of which was also attended well. She received so many lovely presents and we all had a good time.

Yesterday Lou and I spent the afternoon at our friends Lew and Joanne's house helping them restore order to their blueberry house. Lew has COPD and has difficulty doing things of that nature and my Lou was delighted to be able to help him, as Lew had helped him with so many things when he was caring for his wife prior to her death. A great way to repay favors. After the work was done we sat and had refreshments and chatted away the rest of the afternoon.

The next two weeks promise to be very busy as we have many appointments lined up and our square dance group has many things planned, busy with church groups and several family things and also we are expecting that new grandchild any day now.