Yay! Bruce Is Home!

November 2, 2025 Yesterday (November 1, Saturday), Bruce made it safely home around 7:30 in the evening. On the way from Augusta, GA, to Muscle Shoals, AL, he stopped in Woodstock, GA, to visit a college friend. Bruce spent four hours hanging out and catching up with his friend. They went out to lunch at […]

Visiting the Huntsville Botanical Garden

October 31, 2025 Happy Halloween! On Thursday (October 23), Bruce and I had a meeting in Huntsville, AL. After our meeting, we visited the Huntsville Botanical Garden. When we lived in the Huntsville area, over 30 years ago, the gardens had just started. They had big plans. It is thrilling to see how those plans […]

Father-in-Law Back to His Normal Mental Self

October 29, 2025 Yesterday (Tuesday, October 28), Bruce found out the doctors had already checked his dad for a brain bleed and other brain damage. There was none, thankfully. Bruce was told by the doctor that the anesthesia used was the same as before. Apparently having several procedures done so close together, can cause severe […]

Bruce Heading Out to Take Care of my Father-in-Law

October 27, 2025 Bruce headed out at 10:30 AM yesterday (Sunday) to Augusta, Georgia to be an advocate for his dad. Unfortunately, he didn’t beat the rain from the southwest. He got rained on the first part of the trip. He said that most of the way, he was in front of the rain […]

Bruce Heading to Augusta, GA This Weekend

October 24, 2025 Bruce is heading down to Augusta, GA this weekend to take over from his sister in helping his dad. Bruce will be gone for a week and one of his brothers will take over. Bruce’s dad is scheduled for another surgery on Monday. The surgery is to determine how treatment will proceed. […]

Father-in-Law Moved to Burn Unit

October 22, 2025 Yesterday, my father-in-law was transferred to a burn unit in Augusta, GA. We were told he would have an another surgery this morning. The surgery didn’t happen until this afternoon. They removed more dead skin. My father-in-law now has a constant flush drain installed to try to remove and prevent the staph […]

My Father-in-Law Surgery Went Well

October 20, 2025 My father-in-law’s surgery went well. He is in recovery right now. The surgeon had to remove more skin. The bones and structure of the knee look good. The infection is in his blood and he will need to be on intravenous antibiotics for at least three weeks. The doctor is saying they […]

Get Well Wishes for my Father-in-Law

October 19, 2025 My father-in-law’s right knee swelled up and was very painful. He went to an urgent care center, but they closed before he could be seen. He headed to the ER. They took a fluid sample, gave him some antibiotics, and sent him home. He saw his GP after the test results came […]

Moving Logs and Branches

September 28, 2025 Yesterday (Saturday, September 27), Bruce and I decided to do more work in the back pasture. Bruce hooked the cart to the lawnmower and drove to the back pasture. He loaded a few logs into the cart and drove them close to where we plan to put in a new garden bed. […]

Seeing New Friends and Longer Term Friends

September 28, 2025 On September 25 (Thursday), I had invited some new friends for lunch. I went out to the garden and the back pasture to pick some foliage and flowers for a flower arrangement. The purple basil (purple leaves and flowers), sweet potatoes vines (heart shaped leaves) with flowers (purple trumpet flowers), goldenrod (yellow […]