Today I\u2019ll continue with the \u201clife happens while you are making plans\u201d theme.<\/p>\n
Nancy woke up long enough to take two pills and is now sleeping again.\u00a0 It is cold and windy outside and I need to feed horses and uncover my garden \u2013 that is, 4 tomato plants.\u00a0 I\u2019ve about given up growing veggies and things here but figured I could handle 4 plants.<\/p>\n
We had below freezing temperatures Friday and Saturday nights.\u00a0 The first week of the month it was so cold that all the main buds died on the walnut trees (both black and Carpathian).\u00a0 The black walnut trees are about 18 years old and the others about 10 years and all were producing.\u00a0 Just this week they were starting to push out new leaves from secondary buds.\u00a0 As neither are native to this area and frosts are common here at 2,200 feet elevation, I have to keep this in perspective.\u00a0 If they do not recover I can try something else or just photograph the naked trees and call it my contribution to folk art.<\/p>\n
Nancy\u2019s sore throat and sniffles are fading so won\u2019t threaten the implantation scheduled for June 1st<\/sup>, a week from Tuesday. Meanwhile she has gone through several boxes and sorted out a few keepers but most of the stuff will be recycled or go to the \u201ccovered\u201d transfer station \u2013 the place we take our garbage.\u00a0 Times change.\u00a0 Years ago the place where one took garbage was called a dump, was outside, and was home to rats and mice.\u00a0 My father (when young) and a friend would each get a nickel and buy a box of 22 ammo for a dime, go to the dump and practice shooting.\u00a0 After tiring of hitting cans and bottles and a few rats they would hold sticks out with their hands or with their teeth and try to hit what the other was holding.\u00a0 About the time I got big enough to try such things they closed the dump and Father and older brothers monitored shooting activities more closely.<\/p>\n Two months ago, when I thought I was monitoring our dogs closely by closing our \u201cin-season\u201d female into a bedroom \u2013 I goofed.\u00a0 She was in a different room.\u00a0 When I let the male in from the yard he ran down the hall and found her and we had a mating before I had the sliding-glass door closed.\u00a0 Oops!\u00a0 So as fast as Nancy could clear away a stack of boxes I replaced it with a new set as I made space for whelping quarters for our expectant mother (that would be \u201cb—h\u201d in dog language).\u00a0 Luckily the mother-to-be has gotten too wide to crawl under the bed so I have a chance to get her to accept the whelping pen (this has inside panels so she can\u2019t crush a puppy against the inner wall) as the preferred birthing place.\u00a0 She may attempt to carry them under the bed afterward (when she is thinner) but I\u2019ve seen that trick before and will be firm in refusing her intentions.<\/p>\n There are lots of other things going on this week so we do not need and did not want this puppy-thing.\u00a0 At least the births will happen a week before Nancy\u2019s ICD is implanted.\u00a0 That\u2019s good.\u00a0 I will have to contend with week-old puppies and their new mother while Nancy spends two days in the hospital in Yakima, 50 miles away.\u00a0 I\u2019m having a hard time finding the good in that.*\u00a0 It must be there so I\u2019ll keep searching.<\/p>\n ————————————<\/p>\n *To read \u201cThe Pony in the Dung Heap\u201d visit the link below and scroll down to the \u201cMichele W—- on December 30, 2009 at 3:48 pm\u201d entry.<\/p>\n http:\/\/goodvibeblog.com\/2009\/12\/qa-how-to-deal-with-multiple-difficulties\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I\u2019ll continue with the \u201clife happens while you are making plans\u201d theme. 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