5:15 am The hummingbirds are on their way! A male sighting was reported yesterday in Blue Ridge, GA about 40 minutes from here. I placed two feeders out a week ago, one at the kitchen window and one in Cliff's view on the back porch. This morning I'll hang another where we can view it from the dining room table. Yesterday after finally arriving home from dropping Cliff's truck off for service at Kia and another doctor consult in Blue Ridge about his port implant this coming Friday morning, I got down to the garden. Bought a new four-tine ash handle cultivator to work the soil and loosen weeds, mostly chickweeds. Planted a patch of lettuce before this morning's rain. Gently patted the soil over the area in hopes that the line of heavy rain that's suppose to arrive later doesn't wash the seeds into the woods. If it does I'll be foraging our salad makings between trees. 7:45 am Did forty minutes of yoga with Hannah live online to keep the joints and
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Cliff had a good day yesterday, Sunday. He was more alert with more energy than I've seen in months. His color looks better, not as yellow. Today, Monday is about the same. Good sign. Shows the stent is working and the toxins are leaving his body slowly. He vacuumed the house this morning while I ran out to Ingles for kale. Just kidding! I did go for fresh greens but not kale. Some of the greens looked worse than he did on his bad days. Made him shrimp, rice with peas for his lunch. One positive note is that he has not lost his appetite through this whole trial. That's one of the questions the PA's and doctors ask at every exam. This week we're waiting for a call from the doctor in Blairsville, GA about his chemo and Dr. Page's office in Atlanta after he presents Cliff's case to the conference Friday morning. Now if I can just get a full restful night's sleep. I feel as if I'm coping and handling this but my sleep pattern tells me othe
Boy, talk about your world being turned upside down in an instant............... About three weeks ago on a Monday night our internist called with the first CT scan results and it was like being hid head-on by a semi. Although neither one of us knows what that feels like, it can't be pleasant. We can't ever recall having to absorb such devastating information. Cliff just put is head down on the bed and sobbed. His worst fear for the years I've been married to him is CANCER. Every twitch, each pain or change in his body spelled cancer to him. It's always been a real fear. Since that night, things moved along quickly. The shock has been absorbed and with love and support from family and dear friends, we are adjusting day-by-day as new information and more test results come to us. Cliff is weary, tires easily, and gets frustrated with the new emotional and physical feelings that he deals with each day. Watching my strong husband lose muscle strength, walk with a f
Brrr!! Nineteen degrees with humidity of only 26% this morning at 6. There is special weather statement for East Tennessee and our area due to the very dry air mass which is dropping the afternoon humidity values to 20% increasing forest fire danger. Yesterday afternoon I put on garden wrist supports and gloves, emptied two bags of mushroom compost and a bag of cow manure where I'll plant lettuce seeds by the end of March. With the garden fork I turned over the soil and mixed the three bags in. We'll get more bags this week and I'll tackle another section. Usually Cliff tills the compost and manure in for me but we need to get him back on his feet first. The temperature was 54 yesterday with a brisk dry breeze. Sitting the sun felt good to him. He's gets cold easily. The Carolina wrens began building their next the third week of February! They're still adding to it. They had better include some insulation in their deep tunnel. Nights are still cold.